作者: Kiwako Ito , Shari R. Speer
DOI: 10.1016/J.JML.2007.06.013
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摘要: Three eye-tracking experiments investigated the role of pitch accents during online discourse comprehension. Participants faced a grid with ornaments, and followed pre-recorded instructions such as "Next, hang blue ball" to decorate holiday trees. Experiment 1 demonstrated processing advantage for felicitous compared infelicitous uses L+H* on adjective noun pair (e.g. ball by GREEN vs. green BALL). 2 confirmed that contrastive led 'anticipatory' fixations, "garden path" effect in sequences no contrast angel resulted erroneous fixations cell angels). 3 examined listeners' sensitivity coherence between assigned markers 'And then,' those target object phrase.