Effects of Length and Syntactic Complexity on Initiation Times for Prepared Utterances  

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Ferreira, Fernanda

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Memory and Language (Full Text) vol. 30 no. 2 (Apr. 1991), page 210-233.
Fulltext: 30_02_Ferreira.pdf (2.15MB)

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In three experiments, I examined initiation times for memorized utterances. Sentences varied in phonological word length, syntactic complexity, or semantic plausibility. The experiments demonstrated that number of phonological words and syntactic complexity (as measured by the number of nodes in a phrase structure tree) affected the time it took subjects to initiate the utterance. If a sentence had a syntactically complex subject and a syntactically complex object, speakers tended to pause at the subject-verb phrase boundary, and pause duration increased with upcoming complexity, just like initiation times. Semantic plausibility had no measurable effect. I argue that these results reflect the process of translating a semantic/syntactic representation of a sentence into a sound-based structure ultimately useable by the speech apparatus. For long and complex sentences, these resource-intensive processes cannot occur over the domain of the entire sentence, and so the production system must divide the sentence into two performance units, with the boundary between them occurring at a syntactically prominent location.

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