Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers: Insight into the semantics-pragmatics interface
Online interpretation of scalar quantifiers: Insight into the semantics-pragmatics interface
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cogpsych.2008.09.001
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Snedeker, Jesse
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作者：
Huang, Yi Ting;Snedeker, Jesse
等级含义是研究语言理解过程中语义过程和语用过程之间关系的一个测试案例。大多数研究使用反应时间方法，结果是可变的。在这些研究中，我们使用视觉世界范式来研究含义。我们记录了参与者在命令中的眼球运动，比如“指向有一些袜子的女孩”，其中一个女孩有四只袜子中的两只，另一个有三个足球。这些话语包含了一个模糊的初始阶段，其中一些语义与两个字符兼容。这种歧义可以立即解决的语用含义，将限制一些到一个适当的子集。相反，在实验I和2中，我们发现参与者被大大延迟，这表明语义和语用处理之间的滞后。在实验3中，我们研究了一些竞争对手的语义不一致时的解释（女孩与袜子与女孩没有袜子）。我们发现目标的快速解决方案，这表明以前的延迟与务实的分析特别相关。(C)2008年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Scalar implicature has served as a test case for exploring the relations between semantic and pragmatic processes during language comprehension. Most studies have used reaction time methods and the results have been variable. In these studies, we use the visual-world paradigm to investigate implicature. We recorded participants' eye movements during commands like "Point to the girl that has some of the socks" in the presence of a display in which one girl had two of four socks and another had three of three soccer balls. These utterances contained an initial period of ambiguity in which the semantics of some was compatible with both characters. This ambiguity could be immediately resolved by a pragmatic implicature which would restrict some to a proper subset. Instead in Experiments I and 2, we found that participants were substantially delayed, suggesting a lag between semantic and pragmatic processing. In Experiment 3, we examined interpretations of some when competitors were inconsistent with the semantics (girl with socks vs. girl with no socks). We found quick resolution of the target, suggesting that previous delays were specifically linked to pragmatic analysis. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.