| Presentation | 2012-07-22 What is in contrast? : The role of prosodic prominence in ambiguity resolution Yuki HIROSE, Manabu ARAI, Kiwako ITO, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Two eye-tracking visual world experiments investigate the interaction between the contrast-marking prosody and contextually elicited contrast for the comprehension of an ambiguous branching structure (left-branching or right-branching) in Japanese such as bum 'u-no ne'ko-no ka'sa 'blue cat-Gen umbrella'. The presence/absence of pitch expansion on Word 2 (N1, e.g., ne'ko-no, denoting the pattern/design of the object denoted by N2) was manipulated to examine the effect of the contrast-marking and the structure-marking prosody. The contextually-elicited contrast was also manipulated by controlling the prime and the target sequence, either standing in a color-contrast or in a pattern/design contrast. Our results demonstrate that the priming effect is subjected to inhibition when the accompanying prosody and the visual context is in a dissonance. The structurally less-preferred right-branching interpretation can be elicited only when both prosody and context support it. |
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| Keyword(in English) | prosody / pitch expansion / syntactic priming / branching ambiguity |
| Paper # | TL2012-21 |
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| Conference Date | 2012/7/14(1days) |
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| Language | ENG |
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| Title (in English) | What is in contrast? : The role of prosodic prominence in ambiguity resolution |
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| Keyword(1) | prosody |
| Keyword(2) | pitch expansion |
| Keyword(3) | syntactic priming |
| Keyword(4) | branching ambiguity |
| 1st Author's Name | Yuki HIROSE |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Manabu ARAI |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | JSPS:The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
| 3rd Author's Name | Kiwako ITO |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University |
| Date | 2012-07-22 |
| Paper # | TL2012-21 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.112 |
| Number (no) | 145 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 4 |
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