Integrating prosody in anticipatory language processing: how listeners adapt to unconventional prosodic cues
Integrating prosody in anticipatory language processing: how listeners adapt to unconventional prosodic cues
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将韵律融入预期语言处理：听众如何适应非常规韵律线索
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10.1080/23273798.2021.2010778
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2021
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Jun Sun-Ah
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Nakamura Chie;Harris Jesse A.;Jun Sun-Ah
越来越多的研究表明，语言使用者在加工过程中整合了不同的信息来源，并在多个层面上适应了语言的多样性。在两个视觉世界范式研究中，我们探索了听者是否使用韵律来预测结构的分辨率，其中PP在修饰语和乐器解释之间结构上是模糊的。第一项研究表明，听者预测一个与韵律边界位置最相容的参照物，甚至在一个消除歧义的单词开始之前就把预期的目光投向适当的对象。第二项研究表明，当非实验填充项的韵律不是常规时，即使实验项与第一项研究相同，听者也无法预测乐器的分辨率。结果表明，听者根据说话者是否可靠地遵循韵律的常规使用，调整他们的预测加工以适应韵律信息的效用。
A growing body of research suggests that language users integrate diverse sources of information in processing and adapt to the variability of language at multiple levels. In two visual-world paradigm studies, we explored whether listeners use prosody to predict a resolution to structures with a PP that is structurally ambiguous between a modifier and an instrument interpretation. The first study revealed that listeners predict a referent that is most compatible with the location of a prosodic boundary, casting anticipatory looks to the appropriate object even before the onset of a disambiguating word. The second study indicated that listeners failed to anticipate instrument resolutions when the prosody of non-experimental filler items was unconventional, even though experimental items remained identical to the first study. The results suggest that listeners adjust their predictive processing to the utility of prosodic information according to whether a speaker reliably conforms to the conventional use of prosody.