Presentation 2017-07-22
Effects of language production on prediction: Word vs. picture visual world study.
Aine Ito, Max S. Dunn iii, Martin J. Pickering,
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Abstract(in English) Under production-based models of language prediction, people use their production system for prediction, and an enhanced use of the production system will facilitate prediction. We tested this hypothesis by comparing people?s predictive eye movements when they did or did not shadow sentences. The models predict shadowing should facilitate prediction but interfere with integration, because prediction and production are assumed to share mechanisms while integration and production are not. Native British English speakers listened to sentences containing a highly predictable word, while viewing words or objects representing the predictable target (bee), its phonological competitor (bean), or an unrelated distractor (cat). We presented words in the first experiment, and objects in the second experiment. One half of the experiment involved the shadow task. Predictive eye movements to the target occurred earlier in the shadow task than in the listen task in the first experiment, while this time-course was similar in both tasks in the second experiment. Predictive eye movements to the competitor occurred earlier in the shadow task than in the listen task in the second experiment, while the competitor effect did not occur in either task in the first experiment. Earlier predictive eye movements in the shadow vs. listen task support prediction by production. Thus, production can facilitate prediction, but it may be affected by the type of context in which comprehension takes place.
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Keyword(in English) Prediction / Production / Shadowing / Eye-tracking / Visual world paradigm
Paper # TL2017-19
Date of Issue 2017-07-15 (TL)

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Committee TL
Conference Date 2017/7/22(2days)
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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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Title (in English) Effects of language production on prediction: Word vs. picture visual world study.
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Prediction
Keyword(2) Production
Keyword(3) Shadowing
Keyword(4) Eye-tracking
Keyword(5) Visual world paradigm
1st Author's Name Aine Ito
1st Author's Affiliation University of Oxford(Univ. of Oxford)
2nd Author's Name Max S. Dunn iii
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Edinburgh(Univ. of Edinburgh)
3rd Author's Name Martin J. Pickering
3rd Author's Affiliation University of Edinburgh(Univ. of Edinburgh)
Date 2017-07-22
Paper # TL2017-19
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) TL-149
Page pp.pp.31-36(TL),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-07-15 (TL)