Misono Y, Mazuka R, Kondo T, Kiritani S
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan.
J Psycholinguist Res. 1997 Mar;26(2):229-45. doi: 10.1023/a:1025065700451.
This paper examined the effects of prosody on the syntactic ambiguity resolution of Japanese sentences, especially with reference to the interaction with semantic bias. Syntactically ambiguous sentences with different types of semantic bias were constructed. The degree of bias in each sentence was evaluated through visual presentation experiments. Three types of sentences were selected based on the results of visual presentation experiments, were recorded with prosody maximally favoring each possible interpretation of the sentences, and were used as the stimuli for the auditory presentation experiments. The results showed that prosodic cues can influence the interpretation of a sentence even when the sentence is strongly semantically biased. The results also showed a limitation to prosodic cues. The prosodic biases alone were not sufficient to fully determine the interpretation of the sentences even when the sentences were neutrally biased semantically.
本文研究了韵律对日语句子句法歧义消解的影响，特别是关于其与语义偏向的相互作用。构建了具有不同类型语义偏向的句法歧义句子。通过视觉呈现实验评估每个句子的偏向程度。根据视觉呈现实验的结果选择了三种类型的句子，以最大程度地有利于句子每种可能解释的韵律进行录制，并用作听觉呈现实验的刺激材料。结果表明，即使句子存在强烈的语义偏向，韵律线索也会影响句子的解释。结果还显示了韵律线索的局限性。即使句子在语义上是中性偏向的，仅靠韵律偏向也不足以完全确定句子的解释。
