The effect of context on noisy-channel sentence comprehension
The effect of context on noisy-channel sentence comprehension
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上下文对噪声通道句子理解的影响
DOI:
10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105503
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发表时间:
2023
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影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Gibson, Edward
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作者:
Chen, Sihan;Nathaniel, Sarah;Ryskin, Rachel;Gibson, Edward
The process of sentence comprehension must allow for the possibility of noise in the input, e.g., from speaker error, listener mishearing, or environmental noise. Consequently, semantically implausible sentences such asThe girl tossed the apple the boyare often interpreted as a semantically plausible alternative (e.g.,The girl tossed the apple to the boy). Previous investigations of noisy-channel comprehension have relied exclusively on paradigms with isolated sentences. Because supportive contexts alter the expectations of possible interpretations, the noisy channel framework predicts that context should encourage more inference in interpreting implausible sentences, relative to null contexts (i.e. a lack of context) or unsupportive contexts. In the present work, we tested this prediction in four types of sentence constructions: two where inference is relatively frequent (double object - prepositional object), and two where inference is rare (active-passive). We found evidence that in the two sentence types that commonly elicit inference, supportive contexts encourage noisy-channel inferences about the intended meaning of implausible sentences more than non-supportive contexts or null contexts. These results suggest that noisy-channel inference may be more pervasive in everyday language processing than previously assumed based on work with isolated sentences.
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影响因子:
4.1
作者:
HESS, DJ;FOSS, DJ;CARROLL, P
通讯作者:
CARROLL, P
影响因子:
2.6
作者:
Rachel Ryskin;Laura Stearns;Leon Bergen;Marianna D. Eddy;Evelina Fedorenko;E. Gibson
通讯作者:
E. Gibson
影响因子:
4.3
作者:
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通讯作者:
Swaab, Tamara Y.
DOI:
10.31234/osf.io/cnzxq
发表时间:
2021
期刊:
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影响因子:
--
作者:
Cai Z
通讯作者:
Cai Z
影响因子:
3.4
作者:
Huang, Kuan-Jung;Staub, Adrian
通讯作者:
Staub, Adrian