Speaker-specific processing of anomalous utterances.
Existing work shows that readers often interpret grammatical errors (e.g., The key to the cabinets *were shiny) and sentence-level blends ("without-blend": Claudia left without her headphones *off) in a non-literal fashion, inferring that a more frequent or more canonical utterance was intended inst...
| Publicado en: | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Vol. 72; no. 4; pp. 764 - 779 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=135522086&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 135522086 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 17470218 1US5 jtl: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology issn: 17470218 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Apr2019 vid: 72 iid: 4 pid: 344 pub: Sage Publications Inc. artinfo: ui: 135522086 10.1177/1747021818765547 ppf: 764 ppct: 15 formats: tig: atl: Speaker-specific processing of anomalous utterances. aug: au: Brehm, Laurel Jackson, Carrie N. Miller, Karen L. affil: Center for Language Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA su: Dialects Computer adaptive testing British Americans Cognitive bias Agreement (Grammar) sug: subj: Dialects Computer adaptive testing British Americans Cognitive bias Agreement (Grammar) keyword: good-enough processing implicit negation noisy channel sentence blends Sentence processing subject–verb agreement good-enough processing implicit negation noisy channel sentence blends Sentence processing subject–verb agreement ab: Existing work shows that readers often interpret grammatical errors (e.g., The key to the cabinets *were shiny) and sentence-level blends ("without-blend": Claudia left without her headphones *off) in a non-literal fashion, inferring that a more frequent or more canonical utterance was intended instead. This work examines how interlocutor identity affects the processing and interpretation of anomalous sentences. We presented anomalies in the context of "emails" attributed to various writers in a self-paced reading paradigm and used comprehension questions to probe how sentence interpretation changed based upon properties of the item and properties of the "speaker." Experiment 1 compared standardised American English speakers to L2 English speakers; Experiment 2 compared the same standardised English speakers to speakers of a non-Standardised American English dialect. Agreement errors and without-blends both led to more non-literal responses than comparable canonical items. For agreement errors, more non-literal interpretations also occurred when sentences were attributed to speakers of Standardised American English than either non-Standardised group. These data suggest that understanding sentences relies on expectations and heuristics about which utterances are likely. These are based upon experience with language, with speaker-specific differences, and upon more general cognitive biases. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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