SEMANTIC FOCUS AND SENTENCE COMPREHENSION
SEMANTIC FOCUS AND SENTENCE COMPREHENSION
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DOI：
10.1016/0010-0277(79)90010-6
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发表时间：
1979-01-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
FODOR, JA
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作者：
CUTLER, A;FODOR, JA
反应时间，以检测一个音素的目标在一个句子中被发现是更快的词时，其中发生的目标形成的句子的语义焦点的一部分。焦点是通过在句子之前提出一个问题来确定的;句子中包含句子答案的部分被认为是焦点。这个过程使得在保持句子本身的所有声学方面不变的同时，可以改变句子中的焦点位置。有人认为，句子的理解是促进快速识别的重点信息。由于焦点词通常是重音，它进一步认为，主动搜索重音词在以前的研究中表现出应被解释为搜索语义焦点。
Reaction time to detect a phoneme target in a sentence was found to be faster when the word in which the target occurred formed part of the semantic focus of the sentence. Focus was determined by asking a question before the sentence; that part of the sentence which comprised the answer to the sentence was assumed to be focussed. This procedure made it possible to vary position of focus within the sentence while holding all acoustic aspects of the sentence itself constant. It is argued that sentence understanding is facilitated by rapid identification of focussed information. Since focussed words are usually accented, it is further argued that the active search for accented words demonstrated in previous research should be interpreted as a search for semantic focus.