Debreslioska Sandra, van de Weijer Joost, Gullberg Marianne
Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Lund University Humanities Lab, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Front Psychol. 2019 Aug 13;10:1775. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01775. eCollection 2019.
Production studies show that anaphoric reference is bimodal. Speakers can introduce a referent in speech by also using a localizing gesture, assigning a specific locus in space to it. Referring back to that referent, speakers then often accompany a spoken anaphor with a localizing anaphoric gesture (i.e., indicating the same locus). Speakers thus create visual anaphoricity in parallel to the anaphoric process in speech. In the current perception study, we examine whether addressees are sensitive to localizing anaphoric gestures and specifically to the (mis)match between recurrent use of space and spoken anaphora. The results of two reaction time experiments show that, when a single referent is gesturally tracked, addressees are sensitive to the presence of localizing gestures, but not to their spatial congruence. Addressees thus seem to integrate gestural information when processing bimodal anaphora, but their use of locational information in gestures is not obligatory in every discourse context.
生产研究表明，回指参照是双峰式的。说话者可以通过使用定位手势在言语中引入一个指称对象，为其在空间中指定一个特定的位置。在回指该指称对象时，说话者随后通常会用一个定位回指手势（即指向相同的位置）来伴随言语中的回指。因此，说话者在言语中的回指过程的同时创造了视觉回指性。在当前的感知研究中，我们研究听众是否对定位回指手势敏感，特别是对空间的重复使用与言语回指之间的（不）匹配敏感。两个反应时实验的结果表明，当通过手势跟踪单个指称对象时，听众对定位手势的存在敏感，但对其空间一致性不敏感。因此，听众在处理双峰式回指时似乎会整合手势信息，但在每个话语语境中，他们对手势中位置信息的使用并非是必须的。
