Panizza Daniele, Onea Edgar, Mani Nivedita
Department of English Studies, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Courant Research Centre "Text Structures", University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2021 Sep 10;12:657408. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.657408. eCollection 2021.
How quickly do children and adults interpret scalar lexical items in speech processing? The current study examined interpretation of the scalar terms vs. in contexts where either the stronger ( = ) or the weaker interpretation was permissible ( allows ). Children and adults showed increased negative deflections in brain activity following the word in -infelicitous versus -felicitous contexts. This effect was found as early as 100 ms across central electrode sites (in children), and 300-500 ms across left frontal, fronto-central, and centro-parietal electrode sites (in children and adults). These results strongly suggest that young children (aged between 3 and 4 years) as well as adults quickly have access to the contextually appropriate interpretation of scalar terms.
儿童和成人在言语处理中对量级词汇项的解释速度有多快？当前的研究考察了在允许更强（=）或更弱解释（允许）的语境中量级词“vs.”的解释情况。在“-不合适”与“-合适”的语境中听到“”这个词后，儿童和成人的大脑活动都表现出增强的负向偏转。早在100毫秒时在中央电极部位（儿童）就发现了这种效应，在300 - 500毫秒时在左额叶、额中央和中央顶叶电极部位（儿童和成人）发现了这种效应。这些结果有力地表明，幼儿（3至4岁）以及成人能够迅速获得量级词在语境中合适的解释。
