Nagel H N, Shapiro L P, Nawy R
Center for Human Information Processing, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
J Psycholinguist Res. 1994 Nov;23(6):473-85. doi: 10.1007/BF02146686.
This study was designed to explore the effects of linguistic prosody on the processing of "filler-gap" sentences. We designed two experiments to determine first whether the sentence processor uses information contained in the prosodic contour of an utterance during on-line processing, and second the form that information may take. In Experiment 1, we found that prosody apparently influences when listeners posit gaps on-line. In Experiment 2, we obtained acoustic evidence that gaps are represented in the prosodic contour of an utterance. The results of this study support a view in which prosody contributes very early to on-line structure building mechanisms during sentence processing.
本研究旨在探讨语言韵律对“填充语-空位”句子加工的影响。我们设计了两个实验，首先确定句子加工器在在线加工过程中是否会使用话语韵律轮廓中包含的信息，其次确定该信息可能呈现的形式。在实验1中，我们发现韵律显然会影响听众在线上确定空位的时间。在实验2中，我们获得了声学证据，表明空位在话语的韵律轮廓中有所体现。本研究结果支持了这样一种观点，即韵律在句子加工过程中对在线结构构建机制的贡献非常早。
