Phrasal prosody disambiguates syntax
Phrasal prosody disambiguates syntax
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10.1080/01690960701205286
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2007-01-01
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Christophe, Anne
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Millotte, Severine;Wales, Roger;Christophe, Anne
两项实验测试了由天真的说话者产生的语音短语边界线索是否限制了法语的句法分析。属于不同句法类别（动词和形容词）的同音词对被插入到韵律结构不同的局部歧义句子中（例如，[les pommes dures]... - 硬苹果... - 与 [les pommes] [durent...] - apples last... - 其中括号表示语音短语边界）。在实验 1 中，六名说话者在没有意识到其中的歧义的情况下记录了这些句子。声学分析表明，它们都产生了可靠的韵律线索（乐句最终延长和音调上升）。实验 2 测试了听众是否利用这些韵律线索来限制句法分析。他们听句子开头（在歧义词后切掉）并以书面形式完成。他们将目标词分配到正确的句法类别比偶然更好。我们根据关于不知道歧义的说话者如何制作消歧韵律的持续争论来讨论这些结果。
Two experiments tested whether phonological phrase boundary cues, as produced by naive speakers, constrain syntactic analysis in French. Pairs of homophones belonging to different syntactic categories ( verb and adjective) were inserted within locally ambiguous sentences that differed in their prosodic structure ( e. g., [les pommes dures]... - hard apples... - versus [les pommes] [durent...] - apples last... -where brackets indicate phonological phrase boundaries). In Experiment 1 six speakers, unaware of the ambiguities, recorded the sentences. Acoustical analyses showed that they all produced reliable prosodic cues (phrase-final lengthening and pitch rise). Experiment 2 tested whether listeners exploited these prosodic cues to constrain syntactic analysis. They listened to the sentences beginnings ( cut after the ambiguous word) and completed them in writing. Their assignments of the target words to their correct syntactic categories were better than chance. We discuss these results in light of the on-going debate about the production of disambiguating prosody by speakers who are unaware of the ambiguities.