This study presents the first two ER Preading studies of comma - induced effects of covert (implicit) prosody on syntactic parsing decisions in English. The first experiment used ab alanced 2×2 design in which the presence/absence of commas determined plausibility (e.g.,John,said Mary,was the nicest boy at the party vs. John said Mary was the nicest boy at the party). The second reading experiment replicated a previous auditory study investigating the role of overt prosodic boundaries in closure ambiguities (Paukeretal.,2011). In both experiments, commas reliably elicited CPS components and generally played a dominant role in determining parsing decisions in the face of input ambiguity. The combined set of findings provides further evidence supporting the claim that mechanisms subserving speech processing play an active role during silent reading.
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机译:本研究介绍了英文的前两次ER Preading研究,这些研究是逗号引起的隐式(隐式)韵律对句法分析决策的影响。第一个实验使用了2 x 2的抽象设计,其中逗号的存在与否决定了合理性(例如,约翰说玛丽是聚会上最好的男孩,而约翰说玛丽是聚会上最好的男孩)。二读实验重复了先前的听觉研究,该研究调查了明显的韵律边界在封闭歧义中的作用(Paukeretal。,2011)。在两个实验中,逗号都可靠地引发了CPS组件,并且在面对输入歧义的情况下通常在确定解析决策中起主导作用。研究结果的组合提供了进一步的证据,证明了支持语音处理的机制在静默阅读过程中起着积极作用。
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