The Influence of Discourse-Level Information on the Processing of Upcoming Words

在过去的几年里，简单的单词和句子 语境影响对即将出现的单词的处理， 阅读越来越容易被理解。 但更多 需要了解这些相当本地化的 情境效应是相互关联的，并与其他 段落的信息。 这项研究旨在 阐明读者如何将联合收割机遥远的段落信息与 阅读文本中即将出现的单词的局部句子信息。 具体来说，这项研究将研究潜在的变化， 可能发生在单词阅读时，对特定单词的期望 基于局部句子信息导出的 与嵌入更远的信息相矛盾， 段. 该研究将解决几个问题：首先，它 将澄清段落信息是否连续 结合本地信息或是否来自遥远的影响， 源独立于本地源运行， 处理文本中即将出现的单词。 第二，研究将 检查当地的可预测性程度 信息会影响远程信息的使用方式， 阅读单词。 最后，研究将评估这是否 遥远的信息在一个点上有它的影响， 即将到来的单词被识别，或者仅在稍后当 词与文本的意义是一体的。 的信息 从这项工作中获得的将是有益的发展， 设计高可读性文本的指南。

In the past few years, the way in which simple word and sentence contexts influence the processing of upcoming words during reading has come increasingly to be understood. However, more needs to be understood about the way in which these fairly local context effects are interrelated and combined with other information from paragraphs. This research is designed to elucidate how readers combine distant paragraph information with local sentence information in reading upcoming words in text. Specifically, the research will examine potential changes that may occur in word reading when expectations for particular words derived on the basis of local sentence information are contradicted by information embedded more distantly in the paragraph. The research will address several points: First, it will clarify whether paragraph information is continuallly combined with local information or whether effects from distant sources operate independently from local sources in the processing of upcoming words in text. Second, the research will examine the degree to which the predictability of local information affects how that distant information is used in reading words. Last, the research will assess whether this distant information has its influence at the point at which the upcoming word is recognized or only later when the meaning of the word is integrated with the meaning of the text. The information gained from this work will be useful in the development of guidelines for designing highly readable texts.