Accent and reference resolution in spoken-language comprehension
Accent and reference resolution in spoken-language comprehension
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DOI：
10.1016/s0749-596x(02)00001-3
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发表时间：
2002-08-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Chambers, CG
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作者：
Dahan, D;Tanenhaus, MK;Chambers, CG
通过监测眼睛对词汇竞争对手的注视（例如，糖果和蜡烛），参与者按照预先录制的指令，使用电脑鼠标将物体移动到固定几何形状的上方或下方。在实验1中，第一个话语指示参与者将一个物体移动到一个形状的上方或下方（例如，“Put the candle/candy below the triangle”），第二个话语包含一个重音或去重音的定名词短语，它指的是同一个对象或引入了一个新的实体（例如，“Now put the CANDLE above the square”（现在把蜡烛放在正方形上方）对竞争对手的关注（例如，candy）表现出将非重读名词解释为回指而将重读名词解释为非回指的倾向。实验2在第二条指令中只使用重音名词，改变第二条指令的所指对象是否是第一条指令的主题（例如，“把蜡烛放在三角形下面”）或第一个指令的目标（例如，“把项链放在蜡烛下面”）。参与者更愿意将带重音的名词短语解释为指的是先前提到的非重点实体（目标），而不是引入一个新的未提及的实体。(C)2002 Elsevier Science（美国）。All rights reserved.
The role of accent in reference resolution was investigated by monitoring eye fixations to lexical competitors (e.g., candy and candle) as participants followed prerecorded instructions to move objects above or below fixed geometric shapes using a computer mouse. In Experiment 1, the first utterance instructed participants to move one object above or below a shape (e.g., "Put the candle/candy below the triangle") and the second utterance contained an accented or deaccented definite noun phrase which referred to the same object or introduced a new entity (e.g., "Now put the CANDLE above the square" vs. "Now put the candle ABOVE THE SQUARE"). Fixations to the competitor (e.g., candy) demonstrated a bias to interpret deaccented nouns as anaphoric and accented nouns as nonanaphoric. Experiment 2 used only accented nouns in the second instruction, varying whether the referent of this second instruction was the Theme of the first instruction (e.g., "Put the candle below the triangle") or the Goal of the first instruction (e.g., "Put the necklace below the candle"). Participants preferred to interpret accented noun phrases as referring to a previously mentioned nonfocused entity (the Goal) rather than as introducing a new unmentioned entity. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.