PostDoctoral Research Fellowship

博士后研究奖学金

• 批准号: 0208484
• 负责人: Duane Watson
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Watson Duane G
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-01 至 2004-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0208484&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PostDoctoral; Research; Fellowship

This Social and Behavioral Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellowship research program focuses on the relationship between information structure and prosodic structure in language. This work has two objectives. The first is to understand how the information status of words (e.g. their newness, oldness, or focus status) influences intonational phrasing in language production. The second goal is to understand how listeners interpret intonational phrase boundaries and pitch accents in on-line language comprehension. This research program also has two primarily methodological goals. The first goal is to test a new paradigm for eliciting spontaneous speech from participants in the lab. The second goal is to use an eye-tracking paradigm to explore the interpretation of prosodic information in language comprehension. The researcher will pursue a set of experiments will explore the relationship between information structure and prosodic structure. The experiments are as follows: Production Experiments: the first set of experiments explores the effects of discourse status on intonational boundary placement in reading. The second set of experiments explores the affects of discourse status on intonational boundary placement in spontaneous speech. Comprehension Experiments: the third set of experiments investigates the points at which intonational boundary information is used in the interpretation of an utterance. The fourth set of experiments use the eye-tracking paradigm to determine the point at which pitch accents are interpreted. Differences in the semantic interpretation of pitch accents are also investigated. The PI, Dr. Duane Watson, will be under the mentorship of Dr. Michael K. Tanenhaus at the University of Rochester Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

该社会和行为科学博士后研究项目重点研究语言信息结构和韵律结构之间的关系。这项工作有两个目标。首先是了解单词的信息状态（例如它们的新旧程度或焦点状态）如何影响语言产生中的语调措辞。第二个目标是了解听众如何在在线语言理解中理解国家短语边界和音调重音。该研究计划还有两个主要的方法目标。第一个目标是测试一种引发实验室参与者自发演讲的新范例。第二个目标是使用眼球追踪范式来探索语言理解中韵律信息的解释。研究人员将进行一系列实验来探索信息结构和韵律结构之间的关系。实验如下： 生产实验：第一组实验探讨语篇状态对阅读中语调边界位置的影响。第二组实验探讨了话语状态对自发言语中语调边界位置的影响。理解实验：第三组实验研究语调边界信息在话语解释中的使用点。第四组实验使用眼动追踪范式来确定解释音调重音的点。还研究了音高重音语义解释的差异。 PI Duane Watson 博士将接受罗彻斯特大学脑与认知科学系 Michael K. Tanenhaus 博士的指导。