Institut des Sciences Logopédiques, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences - Bâtiment Géopolis, 5th Floor Reception Desk, 1050, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Cogn Process. 2022 Aug;23(3):479-502. doi: 10.1007/s10339-022-01088-z. Epub 2022 Apr 20.
The present study investigates the processing of presuppositions across the life span and extends the findings of the only available study on presupposition processing and typical aging by Domaneschi and Di Paola (J Pragmat 140:70-87, 2019). In an online and offline task, we investigate the impact of cognitive load during the processing and recovery of two presupposition triggers-definite descriptions and change-of-state verbs-comparing a group of younger adults with a group of older adults. The collected experimental data show that (1) presupposition recovery declines during normal aging, (2) presupposition recovery of change-of-state verbs is more cognitively demanding for older adults than the recovery of definite descriptions, and lastly (3) presupposition recovery for the change-of-state verb begin is more demanding than the change-of-state verb stop. As of today, few works have directly investigated presupposition processing across the life span. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work revealing that cognitive load directly impacts the recovery of presuppositions across the life span, which in turn suggests an involvement of verbal working memory.
本研究考察了整个生命周期中预设的处理过程，并扩展了 Domaneschi 和 Di Paola（J Pragmat 140:70-87, 2019）关于预设处理和典型衰老的唯一可用研究的发现。在在线和离线任务中，我们通过比较年轻组和老年组，研究了在处理和恢复两个预设触发器（限定描述和状态变化动词）时认知负荷对预设触发的影响。收集的实验数据表明：（1）在正常衰老过程中，预设恢复能力下降；（2）对于老年人来说，状态变化动词的预设恢复比限定描述的预设恢复要求更高的认知能力；最后（3）状态变化动词 begin 的预设恢复比状态变化动词 stop 的要求更高。到目前为止，很少有研究直接研究整个生命周期中的预设处理。据我们所知，这是第一项揭示认知负荷直接影响整个生命周期中预设恢复的工作，这反过来表明语言工作记忆的参与。
