THE BACON not the bacon:: How children and adults understand accented and unaccented noun phrases
THE BACON not the bacon:: How children and adults understand accented and unaccented noun phrases
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cognition.2008.01.001
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发表时间：
2008-07-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Arnold, Jennifer E.
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作者：
Arnold, Jennifer E.
两个眼动追踪实验研究了成年人和4岁和5岁的儿童是否使用重音的存在或不存在来指导他们对名词短语的解释（例如，（1）关于语境。无重音的名词倾向于指上下文可访问的指示物，而重音的变体倾向于用于较难访问的实体。实验一证实，重音是信息的成年人，谁表现出对前面提到的对象的偏见开始后300毫秒的无重音的名词和代词的发病。但与文献中的发现相反，重音词没有产生明显的偏见。在实验2中，4岁和5奥尔兹也偏向于前面提到的对象与无重音的名词和代词。这建立在儿童在线参考理解的限制的发现上[Arnold，J.E.，Brown-Schmidt，S.，& Trueswell，J. C.（2007年）。儿童在代词理解中对性别和提及顺序的使用。语言和认知过程]，表明儿童对非重读名词和代词的解释受到一个高度可及对象的上下文的限制。(C)2008 Elsevier B. V.保留所有权利。
Two eye-tracking experiments examine whether adults and 4- and 5-year-old children use the presence or absence of accenting to guide their interpretation of noun phrases (e.g., the bacon) with respect to the discourse context. Unaccented nouns tend to refer to contextually accessible referents, while accented variants tend to be used for less accessible entities. Experiment I confirms that accenting is informative for adults, who show a bias toward previously-mentioned objects beginning 300 ms after the onset of unaccented nouns and pronouns. But contrary to findings in the literature, accented words produced no observable bias. In Experiment 2, 4 and 5 year olds were also biased toward previously-mentioned objects with unaccented nouns and pronouns. This builds on findings of limits on children's on-line reference comprehension [Arnold, J. E., Brown-Schmidt, S., & Trueswell, J. C. (2007). Children's useof gender and order-of-mention during pronoun comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes], showing that children's interpretation of unaccented nouns and pronouns is constrained in contexts with one single highly accessible object. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.