Bridging Linguistic Fieldwork and Psycholinguistics to Investigate Reflexive Processing

连接语言田野工作和心理语言学来研究反射加工

• 批准号: 2204112
• 负责人: Jed Sam Guevara
• 金额: $ 14.8万
• 依托单位: Guevara, Jed Sam Pizarro
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2204112&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bridging; Linguistic; Fieldwork; Psycholinguistics; Investigate

This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program and SBE's Linguistics program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Brian Dillon at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating how speakers understand pronouns in real-time. The goal of this project is to better understand the complex mental processes that make language comprehension seem effortless for many adults in their native language. This project will focus on how unique grammatical features, such as word order and complex voice system, shape the real-time comprehension of pronouns. More broadly, the goal of this project is to help us better understand the relative contributions of sentence structure (syntax) and sentence meaning (semantics) in real-time language comprehension. A better understanding of how humans use linguistic information to understand language can in turn help in the development of natural language processing systems to allow computers to better approximate human language use.The project investigates these questions by exploring how comprehenders process reflexives in real-time. Reflexive pronouns are pronouns that are subject to strict syntactic and semantic licensing requirements, and can be used to understand how rapidly these sources of information are used to constrain comprehension. To examine the relative contributions of structural information (e.g., c-command and syntactic locality) and semantic information (e.g., thematic roles), the researcher will deploy a series of experiments using the Visual World paradigm. The experiments in this project will measure the extent to which comprehenders attend to different referents over time to better understand how quickly and accurately comprehenders identify the antecedent of a reflexive. The project will yield the first comprehensive set of linguistic and psycholinguistic data on the comprehension of reflexives. The project's results will also help establish the methodological validity of using the visual world paradigm to study retrieval interference; and directly address the lack of linguistic diversity in the psycholinguistics literature.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.

该奖项是作为NSF社会、行为和经济科学(SBE)博士后研究奖学金(SPRF)计划和SBE语言学计划的一部分提供的。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界、工业界或私营部门和政府的科学职业生涯培养有前途的、早期职业博士水平的科学家。SPRF奖项包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。国家科学基金会致力于促进科学界所有阶层的科学家参与其研究方案和活动，包括那些来自代表性不足的群体的科学家；博士后阶段被认为是实现这一目标的专业发展的一个重要水平。每个博士后研究员都必须解决推动各自学科领域向前发展的重要科学问题。在马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校布莱恩·狄龙博士的赞助下，这一博士后奖学金奖项支持一位研究演讲者如何实时理解代词的早期职业科学家。这个项目的目标是更好地理解复杂的心理过程，使许多成年人在他们的母语中理解语言似乎毫不费力。这个项目将关注独特的语法特征，如词序和复杂的语音系统，如何塑造对代词的实时理解。更广泛地说，这个项目的目标是帮助我们更好地理解句子结构(句法)和句子意义(语义)在实时语言理解中的相对贡献。更好地理解人类如何使用语言信息来理解语言，反过来可以帮助开发自然语言处理系统，使计算机能够更好地近似人类语言的使用。该项目通过探索理解者如何实时处理反射来研究这些问题。反身代词是遵守严格的句法和语义许可要求的代词，可以用来理解这些信息来源被用来限制理解的速度有多快。为了考察结构信息(如c-命令和句法位置)和语义信息(如主位角色)的相对贡献，研究人员将使用视觉世界范式进行一系列实验。这个项目中的实验将测量理解者随着时间的推移对不同指称的关注程度，以更好地理解理解者如何快速和准确地识别反身代词的先行词。该项目将产生关于反身代词理解的第一套全面的语言学和心理语言学数据。该项目的结果还将有助于建立使用视觉世界范式来研究提取干扰的方法论有效性；并直接解决心理语言学文献中缺乏语言多样性的问题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。