Does Social Information Influence Sentence Processing?
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Does knowledge of sociolinguistic variation influence how we perceive and understand speech coming from different kinds of people? A series of experiments investigated whether listeners have knowledge about t/d deletion, a sociolinguistic variable, and, if so, whether this knowledge influences their language comprehension. Experiment 1 investigated listeners’ knowledge of the social correlates of t/d deletion. Experiment 2 investigated whether social information listeners gather from the non-linguistic context is used in formulating expectations about sentence meanings. Results indicate that listeners have implicit knowledge about t/d deletion, and they use this information in resolving ambiguity, suggesting that social information is a part of language understanding, and should be included in models of language processing.
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