Doctoral Dissertation Research: Resolution in context: Identity and nonidentity in anaphora resolution

博士论文研究：上下文中的解析：照应解析中的同一性和非同一性

• 批准号: 1827404
• 负责人: Ming Xiang
• 金额: $ 1.18万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827404&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Resolution; context

The goal of this dissertation research is to enhance the scientific understanding of sentence production and comprehension by examining the relationship between two types of linguistic construction and the surrounding linguistic and nonlinguistic context. Linguists have long been aware that speakers' awareness of what information is available in the broad context of utterance affects how they use and interpret language, but the exact effects of this knowledge on certain parts of the linguistic system have not been fully identified. The constructions under investigation in this dissertation are verb phrase ellipsis, in which a silent "gap" after an auxiliary verb is interpreted as containing full verbal content, and deaccenting, in which the pronunciation of a sentential constituent is de-emphasized to indicate that it is redundant. Previous analyses have suggested that both phenomena are licit only when they can be construed as identical to an overt antecedent that appears earlier in the linguistic discourse. This dissertation investigates evidence that previous formulations of identity for these phenomena have been too strict, and that they can be licensed and interpreted with respect to a broader range of linguistic antecedents, as well as with respect to information available in the nonlinguistic context. In addition to advancing the scientific understanding of these phenomena, this research may have technological and clinical applications. A more complete understanding of how listeners integrate linguistic and nonlinguistic information to interpret these constructions may lead to the development of artificial language systems that produce and interpret language more similarly to human speakers, as well as diagnosis and treatment strategies for speakers whose use of these constructions is impaired. The dissertation project focuses on three main research questions: (1) Is salient information from the nonlinguistic context considered during the interpretation of verb phrase ellipsis when there is a linguistic antecedent that could provide a reasonable interpretation? (2) Can deaccenting of a particular constituent be licensed by linguistic relations other than repetition, i.e., entailment, bridging, or world knowledge inferences? (3) Can deaccenting be licensed, in whole or in part, by information made salient in the nonlinguistic context? The two phenomena will be investigated using production, perception, and eye-tracking methodologies that examine the use and interpretation of verb phrase ellipsis and deaccenting both offline and in real time. The results will enhance models of how these constructions are licensed and interpreted in a more comprehensive discourse context than has previously been considered, by taking into account linguistically evoked information, inferrable information, and salient nonlinguistic information.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

本论文的研究目标是通过考察两种语言结构与周围的语言和非语言语境之间的关系，提高对句子产生和理解的科学理解。语言学家早就意识到，说话人对话语的广泛语境中信息的意识会影响他们如何使用和解释语言，但这种知识对语言系统某些部分的确切影响尚未完全确定。本文所研究的结构是动词短语省略和去重音结构，前者是指助动词后面的一个无声的“间隙”被解释为包含了完整的动词内容，后者是指一个非重读成分的发音被去强调，以表明它是多余的。以前的分析表明，这两种现象是合法的，只有当他们可以被解释为相同的一个明显的先行词，出现在语言话语。本文调查的证据表明，以前的配方的身份，这些现象已经过于严格，他们可以被授权和解释方面更广泛的语言的前提，以及在非语言环境中提供的信息。除了推进对这些现象的科学理解外，这项研究还可能具有技术和临床应用。更全面地了解听众如何整合语言和非语言信息来解释这些结构，可能会导致人工语言系统的发展，这些系统产生和解释语言更类似于人类说话者，以及对使用这些结构受损的说话者的诊断和治疗策略。本论文主要研究以下三个问题：（1）当动词短语省略有一个先行语可以提供合理解释时，是否考虑了非语言语境中的显著信息？(2)一个特定成分的去重音是否可以通过语言关系而不是重复来许可，即，蕴涵、桥接还是世界知识推理？(3)在非语言语境中突出的信息是否可以全部或部分地允许去重音？这两种现象将使用生产，感知和眼动跟踪方法，检查使用和解释动词短语省略和deaccenting离线和真实的时间进行调查。研究结果将增强这些结构是如何被授权和解释在一个更全面的话语背景下比以前被认为是，通过考虑到语言诱发的信息，推断的信息，和显着的非语言信息的模型。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

项目成果

Production of deaccenting under repetition, entailment, and bridging: Phonetic and perceptual comparisons

重复、蕴涵和桥接下的去口音产生：语音和感知比较

• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
• 作者: Geiger, Jeffrey;Xiang, Ming
• 通讯作者: Xiang, Ming

Toward an accommodation account of deaccenting under nonidentity

走向非同一性下的口音通融账户

• DOI: 10.3765/elm.1.4875
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Experiments in Linguistic Meaning
• 作者: Geiger, Jeffrey;Xiang, Ming
• 通讯作者: Xiang, Ming

At the syntax-discourse interface: Verb phrase ellipsis interpretation in context

在语法-语篇界面：动词短语省略语境解释

• DOI: 10.1353/lan.2021.0010
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Language
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Geiger, Jeffrey;Xiang, Ming
• 通讯作者: Xiang, Ming