Actions and affordances in syntactic ambiguity resolution
Actions and affordances in syntactic ambiguity resolution
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DOI：
10.1037/0278-7393.30.3.687
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发表时间：
2004-05-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Magnuson, JS
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作者：
Chambers, CG;Tanenhaus, MK;Magnuson, JS
在两个实验中，当参与者遵循包含临时句法歧义的指令时，眼球运动被监测(例如。“把鸡蛋倒在碗里的面粉上”)。作者根据指令所要求的动作，改变了任务相关物体的承受能力(例如，可视工作空间中的一个鸡蛋或两个鸡蛋是液态的，允许倒入)。能够承担该动作的候选对象的数量被用来确定听众最初是否将模棱两可的短语(“在碗中”)误解为指定位置。研究结果表明，句法决定是由听话者对如何实现话语行为目标的特定情境的评价来指导的。
In 2 experiments, eye movements were monitored as participants followed instructions containing temporary syntactic ambiguities (e.g.. "Pour the egg in the bowl over the flour"). The authors varied the affordances of task-relevant objects with respect to the action required by the instruction (e.g., whether 1 or both eggs in the visual workspace were in liquid form, allowing them to be poured). The number of candidate objects that could afford the action was found to determine whether listeners initially misinterpreted the ambiguous phrase ("in the bowl") as specifying a location. The findings indicate that syntactic decisions are guided by the listener's situation-specific evaluation of how to achieve the behavioral goal of an utterance.