Synthesizing meaning and processing approaches to prosody: performance matters [0.03%]
合成人声语调的处理方法：表现很重要
Jennifer E Arnold,Duane G Watson
Jennifer E Arnold
Words vary in acoustic prominence; for example repeated words tend to be reduced, while focused elements tend to be acoustically prominent. We discuss two approaches to this phenomenon. On the message-based view, acoustic choices signal the...
Involvement of prefrontal cortex in scalar implicatures: evidence from magnetoencephalography [0.03%]
磁光脑电图证据表明前额叶皮层参与数量含意理解
Stephen Politzer-Ahles,Laura Gwilliams
Stephen Politzer-Ahles
The present study investigated the neural correlates of the realisation of scalar inferences, i.e., the interpretation of some as meaning some but not all. We used magnetoencephalography, which has high temporal resolution, to measure neura...
Jennifer E Arnold,Shin-Yi C Lao
Jennifer E Arnold
Pronoun comprehension is facilitated for referents that are focused in the discourse context. Discourse focus has been described as a function of attention, especially shared attention, but few studies have explicitly tested this idea. Two ...
Joshua K Hartshorne,Timothy J O&#x;Donnell,Joshua B Tenenbaum
Joshua K Hartshorne
Interpretation of a pronoun in one clause can be systematically affected by the verb in the previous clause. Compare Archibald angered Bartholomew because he… (he=Archibald) with Archibald criticized Bartholomew because he… (he=Bartholome...
Without his shirt off he saved the child from almost drowning: interpreting an uncertain input [0.03%]
他未脱衬衫就救下几乎溺水的孩子：解读一个不确定的输入
Lyn Frazier,Charles Clifton Jr
Lyn Frazier
Unedited speech and writing often contains errors, e.g., the blending of alternative ways of expressing a message. As a result comprehenders are faced with decisions about what the speaker may have intended, which may not be the same as the...
Contextual learning of L2 word meanings: Second language proficiency modulates behavioural and ERP indicators of learning [0.03%]
二语水平调节学习过程中的行为和ERP表现：二语词汇意义的上下文学习
Irina Elgort,Charles A Perfetti,Ben Rickles et al.
Irina Elgort et al.
New word learning occurs incidentally through exposure to language. Hypothesizing that effectiveness of contextual word learning in a second language (L2) depends on the quality of existing lexical semantic knowledge, we tested more and les...
Ming Xiang,Gina Kuperberg
Ming Xiang
In two ERP experiments, we asked whether comprehenders used the concessive connective, even so, to predict upcoming events. Participants read coherent and incoherent scenarios, with and without even so, e.g. "Elizabeth had a history exam on...
Joshua K Hartshorne,Jesse Snedeker,Stephanie Yen-Mun Liem Azar et al.
Joshua K Hartshorne et al.
Language comprehension involves not only constructing the literal meaning of a sentence but also going beyond the literal meaning to infer what was meant but not said. One widely-studied test case is scalar implicature: The inference that, ...
Bradford Z Mahon
Bradford Z Mahon
It is currently debated whether the meanings of words and objects are represented, in whole or in part, in a modality-specific format-the embodied cognition hypothesis. I argue that the embodied/disembodied cognition debate is either largel...
Towards a computational(ist) neurobiology of language: Correlational, integrated, and explanatory neurolinguistics [0.03%]
迈向计算神经语言学：关联性、整合性和解释性的神经语言学
David Embick,David Poeppel
David Embick
We outline what an integrated approach to language research that connects experimental, theoretical, and neurobiological domains of inquiry would look like, and ask to what extent unification is possible across domains. At the center of the...