Pupillometric Indices of Visual and Prosodic Information on Spoken Language Comprehension
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Two experiments investigated the effects of prosody and visual context on syntactic ambiguity resolution. The results from the first experiment showed increased processing difficulty when prosodic structure conflicted with syntactic structure, consistent with previous reports. In the second, both prosody and visual context were manipulated. The results showed that conflicting visual context cancelled the effects of cooperative prosody, suggesting that visual context has a greater effect on ambiguity resolution than does prosody. These results are consistent with models of sentence processing, which assume that both topdown and bottom-up information can affect online processing.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007