Linguistic experience affects pronoun interpretation
Linguistic experience affects pronoun interpretation
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jml.2018.05.002
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发表时间：
2018-10-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Nappa, Rebecca
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作者：
Arnold, Jennifer E.;Strangmann, Iris M.;Nappa, Rebecca
我们测试的假设，语言经验影响的认知机制，用于解释歧义代词，如他或她，这需要的解释上下文。代词的解释既受语言语境的影响（例如，代词倾向于与前一句的主语共指）和社会线索（例如，凝视可以表示代词的所指）。我们测试代词理解偏差是否与个人的语言接触。鉴于阅读经验差异很大，我们专注于书面语言经验作为语言暴露的度量标准，并且可以用作者识别任务（ART）进行探索。在三个实验中，ART分数较高的人更一致地将代词分配给语法主题。ART分数与一些技能的措施，但代词的理解是不能解释的工作记忆，心理理论，或社会经济地位。我们的研究结果表明，语言暴露影响语篇水平的语言理解。
We test the hypothesis that language experience influences the cognitive mechanisms used to interpret ambiguous pronouns like he or she, which require the context for interpretation. Pronoun interpretation is influenced by both the linguistic context (e.g., pronouns tend to corefer with the subject of the previous sentence) and social cues (e.g., gaze can signal the pronoun's referent). We test whether pronoun comprehension biases are related to the individual's linguistic exposure. We focus on written language experience as a metric of linguistic exposure, given that reading experience varies widely, and can be probed with the Author Recognition Task (ART). In three experiments, people with higher ART scores assigned pronouns to the grammatical subject more consistently. ART scores correlated with some skill measures, but pronoun comprehension was not explained by working memory, theory of mind, or socioeconomic status. Our results suggest that language exposure affects language comprehension at the discourse level.