Integration and Prediction in Language Processing: A Synthesis of Old and New
Integration and Prediction in Language Processing: A Synthesis of Old and New
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DOI：
10.1177/0963721418794491
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发表时间：
2018-12-01
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Chantavarin, Suphasiree
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作者：
Ferreira, Fernanda;Chantavarin, Suphasiree
当前的语言处理理论强调预测是一种促进理解的机制，这与几十年前该领域的状况形成鲜明对比，当时预测很少被提及。我们认为，心理语言学领域将受益于重新审视这些早期的理解理论，这些理论试图解释整合和形成语言输入的丰富表征的过程，并强调信息的新颖性而不是冗余。我们进一步建议，整合和预期可能是互补机制，作用于精心设计的、连贯的话语表征，支持增强的理解和记忆。此外，传统上强调语言作为交流工具，这意味着许多语言内容将是非冗余的。此外，预期的目的可能不是允许预测精确的词汇或句法形式，而是诱导一种准备状态，使理解者能够接受新信息，从而促进其处理。
Current theories of language processing emphasize prediction as a mechanism to facilitate comprehension, which contrasts with the state of the field a few decades ago, when prediction was rarely mentioned. We argue that the field of psycholinguistics would benefit from revisiting these earlier theories of comprehension that attempted to explain integration and the processes underlying the formation of rich representations of linguistic input and that emphasized informational newness over redundancy. We suggest further that integration and anticipation may be complementary mechanisms that operate on elaborated, coherent discourse representations, supporting enhanced comprehension and memory. In addition, the traditional emphasis on language as a tool for communication implies that much linguistic content will be nonredundant; moreover, the purpose of anticipation is probably not to permit the prediction of exact lexical or syntactic forms but instead to induce a state of preparedness that allows the comprehender to be receptive to new information, thus facilitating its processing.