Kimball Amelia E, Yiu Loretta K, Watson Duane G
Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Diderot.
Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington.
Lang Cogn Neurosci. 2020;35(3):383-392. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2019.1665190. Epub 2019 Sep 20.
It has been claimed that English has a metrical structure, or rhythm, in which stressed and unstressed syllables alternate. In previous research regular, alternating patterns have been shown to facilitate online language comprehension. Expanding these findings to downstream processing would lead to the prediction that metrical regularity enhances memory. Research from the memory literature, however, indicates that regular patterns are less salient and therefore less well remembered, and also that strings of similar sounds are harder to remember. This work suggests that, like lists of words with similar sounds, lists of words with similar metrical patterns are accurately remembered than comparable metrically irregular patterns. The present study tests these conflicting predictions by examining the effects of metrical regularity in a recall task. We find that words are better recalled when they do not match their metrical context, suggesting that a regular metrical structure may not be beneficial in all contexts.
有人声称英语具有一种韵律结构或节奏，其中重读音节和非重读音节交替出现。在先前的研究中，规则的交替模式已被证明有助于在线语言理解。将这些发现扩展到下游加工过程，会得出韵律规则性增强记忆的预测。然而，记忆文献的研究表明，规则模式不太突出，因此记忆效果较差，而且相似声音的序列也更难记忆。这项研究表明，与具有相似韵律模式的单词列表一样，与可比的韵律不规则模式相比，具有相似韵律模式的单词列表被准确记忆的程度较低。本研究通过在回忆任务中检验韵律规则性的影响来测试这些相互矛盾的预测。我们发现，当单词与它们的韵律语境不匹配时，它们的回忆效果更好，这表明规则的韵律结构可能并非在所有语境中都有益。
