Contrast Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Infelicitous Beat Gesture Increases Cognitive Load during Online Spoken Discourse Comprehension

Autor/inn/en	Morett, Laura M.; Roche, Jennifer M.; Fraundorf, Scott H.; McPartland, James C.
Titel	Contrast Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Infelicitous Beat Gesture Increases Cognitive Load during Online Spoken Discourse Comprehension
Quelle	In: Cognitive Science, 44 (2020) 10, (46 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Morett, Laura M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-6709
DOI	10.1111/cogs.12912
Schlagwörter	Nonverbal Communication; Suprasegmentals; Cues; Cognitive Processes; Difficulty Level; Comprehension; Speech; Eye Movements + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Stichwort; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Verstehen; Verständnis; Speaking; Sprechen; Augenbewegung
Abstract	We investigated how two cues to contrast--beat gesture and contrastive pitch accenting--affect comprehenders' cognitive load during processing of spoken referring expressions. In two visual-world experiments, we orthogonally manipulated the presence of these cues and their felicity, or fit, with the local (sentence-level) referential context in critical referring expressions while comprehenders' task-evoked pupillary responses (TEPRs) were examined. In Experiment 1, beat gesture and contrastive accenting always matched the referential context of filler referring expressions and were therefore relatively felicitous on the global (experiment) level, whereas in Experiment 2, beat gesture and contrastive accenting never fit the referential context of filler referring expressions and were therefore infelicitous on the global level. The results revealed that both beat gesture and contrastive accenting increased comprehenders' cognitive load. For beat gesture, this increase in cognitive load was driven by both local and global infelicity. For contrastive accenting, this increase in cognitive load was unaffected when cues were globally felicitous but exacerbated when cues were globally infelicitous. Together, these results suggest that comprehenders' cognitive resources are taxed by processing infelicitous use of beat gesture and contrastive accenting to convey contrast on both the local and global levels. (As Provided).
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