Fill the Gap! Combining Pragmatic and Prosodic Information to Make Gapping Easy  

Oleh:

Hoeks, John C. J. ; Redeker, Gisela ; Hendriks, Petra

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Psycholinguistics Research =>ada di SpringerLink 1972(vol.1) - Mutakhir; PROQUEST vol. 38 no. 3 (Jun. 2009), page 221-235.
Topik: Gapping · Pragmatic context · Prosody · Spoken language processing
Fulltext: vol. 38 issue 3 June 2009. p. 221 - 235.pdf (232.87KB)

Isi artikel

Two studies investigated the effects of prosody and pragmatic context on off-line and on-line processing of sentences like John greeted Paul yesterday and Ben today. Such sentences are ambiguous between the so-called ‘nongapping’ reading, where John greeted Ben, and the highly unpreferred ‘gapping’ reading, where Ben greeted Paul. In the first experiment, participants listened to dialogues and gave a speeded response as to which reading of an ambiguous target sentence first comes to mind. In the second experiment, they also responded to a visual probe that was presented during the presentation of the ambiguous target. The results show that context and prosody have independent and strong effects on both on-line processing and off-line interpretation of gapping; in the right combination they can make gapping as easy as the normally preferred nongapping reading.

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