Dede Gayle
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona, 1131 E. Second Street, P.O. Box 210071, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2010 Aug;39(4):345-74. doi: 10.1007/s10936-009-9139-x.
Two self paced listening experiments examined the role of prosodic phrasing in syntactic ambiguity resolution. In Experiment 1, the stimuli consisted of early closure sentences (e.g., "While the parents watched, the child sang a song.") containing transitive-biased subordinate verbs paired with plausible direct objects or intransitive-biased subordinate verbs paired with implausible direct objects. Experiment 2 also contained early closure sentences with transitively and intransitive-biased subordinate verbs, but the subordinate verbs were always followed by plausible direct objects. In both experiments, there were two prosodic conditions. In the subject-biased prosodic condition, an intonational phrase boundary marked the clausal boundary following the subordinate verb. In the object-biased prosodic condition, the clause boundary was unmarked. The results indicate that lexical and prosodic cues interact at the subordinate verb and plausibility further affects processing at the ambiguous noun. Results are discussed with respect to models of the role of prosody in sentence comprehension.
两项自主节奏听力实验研究了韵律短语划分在句法歧义消解中的作用。在实验1中，刺激材料由早期闭合句（例如，“当父母观看时，孩子唱了一首歌。”）组成，这些句子包含与合理直接宾语搭配的及物偏向从属动词或与不合理直接宾语搭配的不及物偏向从属动词。实验2也包含带有及物和不及物偏向从属动词的早期闭合句，但从属动词之后总是跟有合理的直接宾语。在两个实验中，都有两种韵律条件。在主语偏向韵律条件下，一个语调短语边界标记了从属动词之后的小句边界。在宾语偏向韵律条件下，小句边界没有标记。结果表明，词汇和韵律线索在从属动词处相互作用，合理性进一步影响歧义名词处的加工。结合韵律在句子理解中作用的模型对结果进行了讨论
