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
Gibson, Edward
中科院分区:
心理学2区
文献类型:
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作者:
Chen, Sihan;Nathaniel, Sarah;Ryskin, Rachel;Gibson, Edward

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句子理解的过程必须考虑到输入中存在噪声的可能性,例如,从扬声器错误,听者误听,或环境噪声。因此,语义上不可信的句子,如The girl throwed the apple the boy,通常被解释为语义上可信的替代方案(例如,女孩把苹果扔给男孩。以往的噪音通道理解的调查完全依赖于孤立的句子范例。由于支持性语境改变了对可能解释的预期,噪声通道框架预测,相对于空语境(即缺乏语境)或不支持性语境,语境应该鼓励更多的推理来解释不可信的句子。在目前的工作中,我们测试了这一预测在四种类型的句子结构:两个推理是相对频繁的(双宾语-介词宾语),和两个推理是罕见的(主动-被动)。我们发现的证据表明,在两种类型的句子,通常会引起推理,支持性的上下文鼓励噪音通道的推断,比非支持性的上下文或空的情况下,不可信的句子的意图。这些结果表明,噪声通道推断可能是更普遍的日常语言处理比以前假设的基础上工作与孤立的句子。
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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