| Presentation | 2017-07-22 How robust are effects of semantic and phonological prediction during language comprehension? A visual world eye-tracking study. Aine Ito, E. Matthew Husband, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Prediction is often assumed to play a crucial role during language comprehension. While some theories propose that prediction robustly affects at all levels of linguistic representation, empirical evidence suggests that the circumstances under which linguistic predictions occur appear to be limited, particularly when comparing prediction of phonological information to semantic information. To more directly explore these limits, we compared effects of semantic and phonological prediction in a visual world eye-tracking study. Participants heard sentences where the target word was either predictable (e.g., ?That dog looks so happy, wagging its tail ??) or unpredictable (?If there is one, click on the picture of the tail.?), while viewing objects that corresponded to either the target word (tail), a semantic competitor word (paw), a phonological competitor word (table), or an unrelated word (daisy). Target and semantic competitor objects attracted more fixations than unrelated objects well before the target word onset in predictable sentences and not in unpredictable sentences, suggesting that participants predicted semantic information. However, there were no predictive eye movements for phonological competitor objects. The results suggest that phonological prediction is not as robust as semantic prediction. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Prediction / Comprehension / Eye-tracking / Visual world paradigm |
| Paper # | TL2017-13 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-07-15 (TL) |
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| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2017/7/22(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | NINJAL |
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| Topics (in English) | Human Language Processing and Learning |
| Chair | Masami Suzuki(KDDI Research) |
| Vice Chair | Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) / Chiaki Kubomura(Yamano College of Aesthetics) |
| Secretary | Tadahisa Kondo(Kobe Gakuin Univ.) / Chiaki Kubomura(Kyoto Univ.) |
| Assistant | Nobuyuki Jincho(Waseda Univ.) / Noriaki Takada(Ferris Univ.) |
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| Registration To | Technical Committee on Thought and Language |
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| Language | ENG |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | How robust are effects of semantic and phonological prediction during language comprehension? A visual world eye-tracking study. |
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| Keyword(1) | Prediction |
| Keyword(2) | Comprehension |
| Keyword(3) | Eye-tracking |
| Keyword(4) | Visual world paradigm |
| 1st Author's Name | Aine Ito |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | University of Oxford(Univ. of Oxford) |
| 2nd Author's Name | E. Matthew Husband |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | University of Oxford(Univ. of Oxford) |
| Date | 2017-07-22 |
| Paper # | TL2017-13 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.117 |
| Number (no) | TL-149 |
| Page | pp.pp.1-6(TL), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2017-07-15 (TL) |