动词开头的玛雅语言中的预期处理：Tseltal 句子理解过程中的眼动追踪证据,Cognitive Science

当前位置： X-MOL 学术 › Cognitive Science › 论文详情

Our official English website, www.x-mol.net, welcomes your feedback! (Note: you will need to create a separate account there.)

动词开头的玛雅语言中的预期处理：Tseltal 句子理解过程中的眼动追踪证据
Cognitive Science ( IF 2.3 ) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 , DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13219
Gabriela Garrido Rodriguez _{1,

2,

3,

4} , Elisabeth Norcliffe ₅ , Penelope Brown ₂ , Falk Huettig _{6,

7,

8} , Stephen C Levinson _{1,

7}

Affiliation

我们提出了一项关于 Tseltal（一种玛雅语言）的视觉世界眼动追踪研究，并调查是否可以使用口头信息来预测即将到来的指称。Tseltal 中及物句的基本词序是动词-宾语-主语 (VOS)。通常首先遇到动词，使论点结构和句法信息在一开始就可用，这应该有助于预测动词后的论点。说 Tseltal 语的人听动词开头的句子带有宾语预测动词（例如，“吃”）或一般动词（例如，“寻找”）（例如，“Ya slo'/sle ta stukel on te kereme，”男孩正在吃/正在寻找（寻找）鳄梨/“男孩自己正在吃/正在寻找（寻找）鳄梨”），同时看到一个视觉显示显示一个潜在的指示物（例如，鳄梨）和三个干扰物（例如，袋子、玩具车、咖啡研磨机）。我们操纵动词类型（预测与一般）并记录参与者在聆听和检查视觉场景时的眼球运动。使用多级逻辑回归模型分析参与者对目标参照物的注视。在听到预测动词后不久，参与者在提到目标对象之前就注视了它。相比之下，当动词是笼统的时，只有在听到对象后，对目标的注视才会开始增加。我们的结果表明，Tseltal 听者在其语言表达之前预先激活语法对象的语义特征。这为在线增量语义解释和语言理解过程中的预期处理提供了动词初始语言的证据。这些过程与主题初始语言中确定的过程相当，这与不同语言遵循相似的通用处理原则的概念是一致的。

"点击查看英文标题和摘要"

Anticipatory Processing in a Verb-Initial Mayan Language: Eye-Tracking Evidence During Sentence Comprehension in Tseltal

We present a visual world eye-tracking study on Tseltal (a Mayan language) and investigate whether verbal information can be used to anticipate an upcoming referent. Basic word order in transitive sentences in Tseltal is Verb–Object–Subject (VOS). The verb is usually encountered first, making argument structure and syntactic information available at the outset, which should facilitate anticipation of the post-verbal arguments. Tseltal speakers listened to verb-initial sentences with either an object-predictive verb (e.g., “eat”) or a general verb (e.g., “look for”) (e.g., “Ya slo’/sle ta stukel on te kereme,” Is eating/is looking (for) by himself the avocado the boy/ “The boy is eating/is looking (for) an avocado by himself”) while seeing a visual display showing one potential referent (e.g., avocado) and three distractors (e.g., bag, toy car, coffee grinder). We manipulated verb type (predictive vs. general) and recorded participants' eye movements while they listened and inspected the visual scene. Participants’ fixations to the target referent were analyzed using multilevel logistic regression models. Shortly after hearing the predictive verb, participants fixated the target object before it was mentioned. In contrast, when the verb was general, fixations to the target only started to increase once the object was heard. Our results suggest that Tseltal hearers pre-activate semantic features of the grammatical object prior to its linguistic expression. This provides evidence from a verb-initial language for online incremental semantic interpretation and anticipatory processing during language comprehension. These processes are comparable to the ones identified in subject-initial languages, which is consistent with the notion that different languages follow similar universal processing principles.

更新日期：2023-01-19

点击分享查看原文

点击收藏

公开下载

阅读更多本刊新发论文