SGER: Organization of Complex Narrative Event

摘要 这个项目试图进入认知结构 潜在的语言表达。 领域内的新技术 多媒体呈现的方式可能会让当代理论 语义学和语篇分析进行实证检验。 要研究的假设是，受试者使用 在感知和解释一个复杂的过程中的还原过程 叙事事件，将事件组织成一个层次结构， 以及不太重要的子事件。 研究人员将开发和 采用一种基于记录复杂刺激的新方法， 事件，然后操纵 以各种方式向受试者介绍事件， 将允许分析受试者的反应。 如果调查成功，将有可能 对非语言叙事事件结构进行了新的分析 精确度和洞察力，并达到一个更详细， 全面了解A与B之间的关系 感知的非语言事件和语言表达 这个事件。

ABSTRACT This project seeks to gain access to the cognitive structure underlying linguistic expression. New technology in the domain of multi-media presentation may allow contemporary theories in semantics and discourse analysis to be tested empirically. The hypothesis to be investigated is that a subject employs a process of reduction in perceiving and interpreting a complex narrative event, organizing the event into a hierarchy of more and less important subevents. The investigator will develop and employ a novel methodology based on recording a complex stimulus event on a video laser disc, and then manipulating the presentation of the event to subjects in a variety of ways which will permit analysis of the subjects' responses. If the investigation is successful, it will become possible to analyze nonlinguistic narrative event structure with a new degree of precision and insight, and to arrive at a more detailed and comprehensive understanding of the relationship between a perceived nonlinguistic event and the linguistic expression of that event.