Buxó-Lugo Andrés, Watson Duane G
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
J Mem Lang. 2016 Oct;90:1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2016.03.001. Epub 2016 Mar 28.
We investigate whether expectations based on syntactic position influence the processing of intonational boundaries. In a boundary detection task, we manipulated a) the strength of cues to the presence of a boundary and b) whether or not a location in the sentence was a plausible location for an intonational boundary to occur given the syntactic structure. Listeners consistently reported hearing more boundaries at syntactically licensed locations than at syntactically unlicensed locations, even when the acoustic evidence for an intonational boundary was controlled. This suggests that the processing of an intonational boundary is a product of both acoustic cues and listener expectations.
我们研究基于句法位置的预期是否会影响语调边界的处理。在一个边界检测任务中，我们操纵了：a）边界存在线索的强度；b）给定句法结构时，句子中的某个位置是否是语调边界出现的合理位置。即使在语调边界的声学证据得到控制的情况下，听众一致报告称，在句法许可的位置比在句法不许可的位置听到更多的边界。这表明语调边界的处理是声学线索和听众预期两者的产物。
