Immediate Use of Prosody and Context in Predicting a Syntactic Structure

Autor/inn/en	Nakamura, Chie; Arai, Manabu; Mazuka, Reiko
Titel	Immediate Use of Prosody and Context in Predicting a Syntactic Structure
Quelle	In: Cognition, 125 (2012) 2, S.317-323 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.016
Schlagwörter	Evidence; Prediction; Syntax; Stimuli; Sentences; Suprasegmentals; Eye Movements; Language Processing; Japanese; Cues; Correlation; Context Effect + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Vorhersage; Anreizsystem; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Augenbewegung; Sprachverarbeitung; Japaner; Japanisch; Stichwort; Korrelation
Abstract	Numerous studies have reported an effect of prosodic information on parsing but whether prosody can impact even the initial parsing decision is still not evident. In a visual world eye-tracking experiment, we investigated the influence of contrastive intonation and visual context on processing temporarily ambiguous relative clause sentences in Japanese. Our results showed that listeners used the prosodic cue to make a structural prediction before hearing disambiguating information. Importantly, the effect was limited to cases where the visual scene provided an appropriate context for the prosodic cue, thus eliminating the explanation that listeners have simply associated marked prosodic information with a less frequent structure. Furthermore, the influence of the prosodic information was also evident following disambiguating information, in a way that reflected the initial analysis. The current study demonstrates that prosody, when provided with an appropriate context, influences the initial syntactic analysis and also the subsequent cost at disambiguating information. The results also provide first evidence for pre-head structural prediction driven by prosodic and contextual information with a head-final construction. (Contains 2 tables and 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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