Learning speech-internal cues to pronoun interpretation from co-speech gesture: a training study.
Learning speech-internal cues to pronoun interpretation from co-speech gesture: a training study.
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从共同语音手势中学习语音内部线索来解释代词:一项训练研究。
DOI:
10.1017/s0305000918000557
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
HudsonKam,CarlaL
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作者:
GoodrichSmith,Whitney;Black,AlexisK;HudsonKam,CarlaL
This study explores whether children can learn a structural processing bias relevant to pronoun interpretation from brief training. Over three days, 42 five-year-olds were exposed to narratives exhibiting a first-mentioned tendency. Two characters were introduced, and the first-mentioned was later described engaging in a solo activity. In our primary condition of interest, the Gesture Training condition, the solo-activity sentence contained an ambiguous pronoun, but co-speech gesture clarified the referent. There were two comparison conditions. In the Gender Training condition the characters were different genders, thereby avoiding ambiguity. In the Name Training condition, the first-mentioned name was simply repeated. Ambiguous pronoun interpretation was tested pre- and post-training. Children in the Gesture condition were significantly more likely to interpret ambiguous pronouns as the first-mentioned character after training. Results from the comparison conditions were ambiguous: there was a small but non-significant effect of training, but also no significant differences between conditions.