Ambiguity Resolution in Spanish-English Bilinguals

西班牙语-英语双语者的歧义解决

• 批准号: 6962563
• 负责人: PAOLA (GIULI) E DUSSIAS
• 金额: $ 7.25万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-06-10 至 2007-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6962563
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; experience; eye movements; human subject; language translation; learning; multilingualism; neural information processing

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of the planned studies is to employ bilingual sentence parsing research to inform the recent debates about the properties of the human sentence processing mechanism. Two eye-tracking studies involving Spanish-English bilinguals have been proposed, which have the following specific aims. First, to examine the extent to which length of exposure to the L2 affects parsing in the bilingual's L1. Second, to study the effect of L1 verb-bias information on the processing of an L2, in cases where the bias associated with a particular verb in the L1 is at odds with the bias of the L2 translation equivalent. The planned studies have the following long-term objectives. First, to employ bilingual sentence parsing to illuminate current debates about the architecture of the human sentence processing mechanism, and about the types of information initially available to the parser. Second, to inform L2 research devoted to the investigation of how language is understood and used in communicative contexts. Third, to fill a vacuum in the field of bilingual language processing, given that the vast majority of the studies in this area have focus principally on lexical representations in bilinguals. In this respect, the proposed project is significant in that it lays the groundwork for subsequent investigations in the area of L2 parsing. From a broader perspective, by studying the processes that guide parse and misparse in an L2, the project has significant implications for the understanding of successful cross-cultural communication. Second, by studying the effect that learning a second language has on first language processing, the proposed research can make a new contribution to the knowledge of the factors affecting first language loss. Third, the planned studies incorporate the participation of Spanish heritage graduate students for education and research collaborations, thereby promoting the involvement of underrepresented groups. Lastly, the project will increase the diversity of the pool of trained language researchers.

描述（由申请人提供）：计划研究的主要目标是采用双语句子解析研究，以告知最近关于人类句子处理机制属性的辩论。已经提出了两项涉及西班牙语-英语双语者的眼动追踪研究，其具体目标如下。第一，考察接触第二语言的时间长短对双语者第一语言句法分析的影响程度。第二，研究当母语中动词的偏向与二语翻译对等词的偏向不一致时，母语动词偏向信息对二语加工的影响。计划的研究有以下长期目标。首先，采用双语句子解析来阐明当前关于人类句子处理机制的架构以及解析器最初可用的信息类型的争论。第二，为致力于研究语言在交际语境中如何理解和使用的第二语言研究提供信息。第三，填补双语语言处理领域的空白，因为这一领域的绝大多数研究主要集中在双语者的词汇表征上。在这方面，拟议的项目是重要的，因为它奠定了基础，在该领域的L2解析的后续调查。从更广泛的角度来看，通过研究引导第二语言中的解析和错误解析的过程，该项目对理解成功的跨文化交际具有重要意义。其次，通过研究第二语言学习对第一语言处理的影响，该研究可以为影响第一语言损失的因素的知识做出新的贡献。第三，计划中的研究吸收西班牙遗产研究生参与教育和研究合作，从而促进代表性不足的群体的参与。最后，该项目将增加训练有素的语言研究人员队伍的多样性。