Empathy influences how listeners interpret intonation and meaning when words are ambiguous.
This study examines how individual pragmatic skills, and more specifically, empathy, influences language processing when a temporary lexical ambiguity can be resolved via intonation. We designed a visual-world eye-tracking experiment in which participants could anticipate a referent before disambigu...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 566 - 581 |
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Springer Nature
May2020
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