SGER: Organization of Complex Narrative Event

本项目旨在了解语言表达背后的认知结构。多媒体呈现领域的新技术可能使语义学和话语分析的当代理论得到实证检验。要研究的假设是，一个主体在感知和解释一个复杂的叙事事件时，采用了一个简化的过程，将事件组织成一个或多或少重要的子事件的层次结构。研究者将开发并采用一种新的方法，该方法基于在视频激光光盘上记录复杂的刺激事件，然后以各种方式操纵事件的呈现给受试者，从而允许对受试者的反应进行分析。如果调查成功，就有可能以新的精度和洞察力分析非语言叙事事件结构，并对感知到的非语言事件与该事件的语言表达之间的关系进行更详细和全面的理解。

ABSTRACT This project seeks to gain access to the cognitive structure underlying linguistic expression. New technology in the domain of multi-media presentation may allow contemporary theories in semantics and discourse analysis to be tested empirically. The hypothesis to be investigated is that a subject employs a process of reduction in perceiving and interpreting a complex narrative event, organizing the event into a hierarchy of more and less important subevents. The investigator will develop and employ a novel methodology based on recording a complex stimulus event on a video laser disc, and then manipulating the presentation of the event to subjects in a variety of ways which will permit analysis of the subjects' responses. If the investigation is successful, it will become possible to analyze nonlinguistic narrative event structure with a new degree of precision and insight, and to arrive at a more detailed and comprehensive understanding of the relationship between a perceived nonlinguistic event and the linguistic expression of that event.