Brilmayer Ingmar, Schumacher Petra B
Department of German Language and Literature I-Linguistics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2021 Aug 19;12:623648. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.623648. eCollection 2021.
In discourse pragmatics, different referential forms are claimed to be indicative of the cognitive status of a referent in the current discourse. Referential expressions thereby possess a double function: They point back to an (existing) referent (form-to-function mapping), and they are used to derive predictions about a referent's subsequent recurrence in discourse. Existing event-related potential (ERP) research has mainly focused on the form-to-function mapping of referential expression. In the present ERP study, we explore the relationship of form-to-function mapping and prediction derived from the antecedent of referential expressions in naturalistic auditory language comprehension. Specifically, the study investigates the relationship between the form of a referential expression (pronoun vs. noun) and the form of its antecedent (pronoun vs. noun); i.e., it examines the influence of the interplay of predictions derived from an antecedent (forward-looking function) and the form-to-function mapping of an anaphor (backward-looking function) on the ERPs time-locked to anaphoric expressions. The results in the time range of the P300 and N400 allow for a dissociation of these two functions during online language comprehension.
在话语语用学中，不同的指称形式被认为能够表明所指对象在当前话语中的认知状态。指称表达式因此具有双重功能：它们回溯到一个（已存在的）所指对象（形式到功能的映射），并且它们被用于推导关于所指对象在话语中后续重现的预测。现有的事件相关电位（ERP）研究主要集中在指称表达式的形式到功能的映射上。在本ERP研究中,我们探讨在自然听觉语言理解中，指称表达式的形式到功能的映射与从前指推导而来的预测之间的关系。具体而言，该研究调查指称表达式的形式（代词与名词）与其前指的形式（代词与名词）之间的关系；也就是说，它考察从前指推导而来的预测（前瞻性功能）与指代语的形式到功能的映射（回顾性功能）之间的相互作用对与指代语表达式锁时的ERP的影响。P300和N400时间范围内的结果使得在在线语言理解过程中能够区分这两种功能。
