The What and When of Processing Projective Content

处理投射内容的内容和时间

• 批准号: 254937179
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Anke Holler
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Seminar für Deutsche Philologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2013-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/254937179?language=en
• 关键词: What; When; Processing; Projective; Content

The investigation of projective content (PC) has mostly relied on introspective and off-line methods like the Family-of-sentences-test and the 'Hey, wait a minute'-test. These methods have been very fruitful in delineating the different classes of PC, and have been applied to a variety of languages. In the past ten years, these results have been backed up by a number of on-line studies investigating the absolute timing of processing steps driven by different types of PC. However, what still seems to be lacking is a precise picture of the relative timing of the procedural steps involved in the interpretation of expressions that are classified as projective in the literature.In this project, we aim at laying a foundation for the experimental study of the relative timing of interpretive steps involved in the processing of different types of PC relative to that of other types of linguistic information (morphological, syntactic, lexical). The project will be concerned with three types of PC: uniqueness presuppositions, expressives, and additivity/exclusivity presuppositions/implica-tures. All three branches of investigation will be based on the assumption that PCs exert contextual felicity conditions; hence, we will manipulate the contextual properties of target sentences containing triggers for PC by providing them with different types of context. Moreover, all three branches use the time-course of the processing of a (non-PC) expression in the target sentence as an anchor point relative to which the timing of the effects of PC will be measured. That is, we will use the well-established effects of a number of morphosyntactic and lexical manipulations (attachment preferences, effects of implicit causality, etc.) as a benchmark relative to which the onset and the unfolding of interpretive steps affected by PC can be measured. In a parallel part of the project, we plan to use down-sized versions of our materials for testing children to learn more about the acquisition of PC processing.We will employ a combination of off-line and on-line methods, among them felicity ratings, 2AFC tasks with and without mouse tracking. Most importantly, we will use eye tracking in reading to pinpoint the exact timing of interpretive steps.The contribution this project will make to the overall priority programme XPRAG.de is two-fold: on the one hand, we hope to further our understanding of the psycholinguistics of processing PC, i.e. of the representations and processes underlying its processing, and its acquisition; in addition, our results will contribute to the methodological options available for the experimental study of PC. On the other hand, our results on the time-course of processing different types of PC will contribute to the discussion of the heterogeneity of PC, and ultimately may lead to a more fine-grained distinction of types of PC based on their processing behaviour.

对投射内容（PC）的调查主要依赖于内省和离线方法，例如验证阶段测试和“嘿，请等待一分钟”测试。这些方法在描述不同类别的PC方面非常富有成果，并已应用于各种语言。在过去的十年中，这些结果得到了许多在线研究的支持，这些研究调查了由不同类型的PC驱动的处理步骤的绝对时机。 However, what still seems to be lacking is a precise picture of the relative timing of the procedural steps involved in the interpretation of expressions that are classified as projective in the literature.In this project, we aim at laying a foundation for the experimental study of the relative timing of interpretive steps involved in the processing of different types of PC relative to that of other types of linguistic information (morphological, syntactic, lexical).该项目将与三种类型的PC有关：独特的预设，表达和添加性/排他性预设/含义。所有三个调查分支都将基于以下假设：PC会发挥上下文的效率条件。因此，我们将通过向其提供不同类型的上下文来操纵包含PC触发器的目标句子的上下文属性。此外，所有三个分支都使用目标句子中（非PC）表达处理的时间顺序作为锚点，相对于PC效应的时机将被测量。也就是说，我们将使用许多形态句法和词汇操纵（依恋偏好，隐式因果关系的影响等）的良好效果作为基准，可以测量发作和受PC影响的解释性步骤的展开。在项目的平行部分中，我们计划使用材料的尺寸尺寸的版本来测试儿童，以了解有关PC处理的更多信息。我们将采用离线和在线方法的组合，其中包括Felicity等级，2AFC任务，带有和不带鼠标跟踪。最重要的是，我们将在阅读中使用眼神跟踪来查明解释性步骤的确切时机。该项目将对整个优先级计划xprag.de做出贡献：一方面，我们希望能够进一步了解处理PC的心理语言学，即对其处理以及其处理以及其收购和其收购的陈述和过程的理解；此外，我们的结果将有助于用于PC实验研究的方法论选择。另一方面，我们在处理不同类型的PC的时间过程中的结果将有助于讨论PC的异质性，最终可能会根据其处理行为导致PC类型的更细粒度区分。