Informative prosodic boundaries
Informative prosodic boundaries
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DOI：
10.1177/00238309020450020101
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发表时间：
2002-06-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Frazier, L
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作者：
Clifton, C;Carlson, K;Frazier, L
原则上，话语中的韵律边界可能会以局部的、与上下文无关的方式影响其解释。在像英语这样的右分支语言中，大韵律边界的存在可能标志着当前组成部分的结束，需要将下一个组成部分附加在句法树的较高位置。我们提出了三个听力实验来测试Carlson、Clifton和Frazier（2001）提出的“信息边界”假说。这一假说认为，韵律边界的解释不是由它的绝对大小决定的，而是由它相对于某些相关的其他边界的大小决定的。实验1证实了这一假设的预测，比如有很大房子的老男人和老女人，操纵“之前”和“与”的界限。实验2考察了歧义成分在不同句法结构、不同句法类别和不同句法状态（头部和非头部）下的影响。除了“-ly”副词在方式解释和说话人评价解释之间模棱两可之外，它在每个测试结构中都证实了信息边界假设的预测。实验3表明，句子解释受后期边界相对于相关早期边界大小的影响，但不受预测不相关的早期边界大小的影响。
In principle, a prosodic boundary in an utterance might affect its interpretation in a local, context-independent fashion. In a right-branching language like English, the presence of a large prosodic boundary might signal the end of the current constituent, requiring the following constituent to be attached high in the syntactic tree. We present three listening experiments that test an alternative position suggested in Carlson, Clifton, and Frazier (2001) as the "informative boundary" hypothesis. This hypothesis claims that the interpretation of a prosodic boundary is determined not by its absolute size but by its size relative to relevant certain other boundaries. Experiment 1 confirmed the predictions of this hypothesis in phrases like the old men and women with very large houses, manipulating the boundaries before and and with. Experiment 2 investigated the effect in a variety of diverse syntactic structures, varying syntactic category and status (head vs. nonhead) of the ambiguous constituent. It confirmed the predictions of the informative boundary hypothesis in every structure tested except for '-ly' adverbs that are ambiguous between a manner interpretation and a speaker-evaluation interpretation. Experiment 3 demonstrated that sentence interpretation was affected by the size of the late boundary relative to a relevant early boundary, but not relative to an early boundary that was predicted to be irrelevant.