Continuous Mapping From Sound to Meaning in Spoken-Language Comprehension: Immediate Effects of Verb-Based Thematic Constraints

@article{citeulike:2139239, abstract = {The authors used 2 "visual-world" eye-tracking experiments to examine lexical access using Dutch constructions in which the verb did or did not place semantic constraints on its subsequent subject noun phrase. In Experiment 1, fixations to the picture of a cohort competitor (overlapping with the onset of the referent's name, the subject) did not differ from fixations to a distractor in the constraining-verb condition. In Experiment 2, cross-splicing introduced phonetic information that temporarily biased the input toward the cohort competitor. Fixations to the cohort competitor temporarily increased in both the neutral and constraining conditions. These results favor models in which mapping from the input onto meaning is continuous over models in which contextual effects follow access of an initial form-based competitor set.}, author = {Dahan, Delphine and Tanenhaus, Michael K. }, citeulike-article-id = {2139239}, journal = {Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition}, keywords = {eye-movements, visual-world-paradigm}, month = {March}, number = {2}, pages = {498--513}, posted-at = {2007-12-18 03:11:08}, priority = {1}, title = {Continuous Mapping From Sound to Meaning in Spoken-Language Comprehension: Immediate Effects of Verb-Based Thematic Constraints}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6X09-4BW0SK8-J/2/17e5a305307060b048e80228d9b1b064}, volume = {30}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2139239 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2139239 TI - Continuous Mapping From Sound to Meaning in Spoken-Language Comprehension: Immediate Effects of Verb-Based Thematic Constraints JF - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition VL - 30 IS - 2 SP - 498 EP - 513 N2 - The authors used 2 "visual-world" eye-tracking experiments to examine lexical access using Dutch constructions in which the verb did or did not place semantic constraints on its subsequent subject noun phrase. In Experiment 1, fixations to the picture of a cohort competitor (overlapping with the onset of the referent's name, the subject) did not differ from fixations to a distractor in the constraining-verb condition. In Experiment 2, cross-splicing introduced phonetic information that temporarily biased the input toward the cohort competitor. Fixations to the cohort competitor temporarily increased in both the neutral and constraining conditions. These results favor models in which mapping from the input onto meaning is continuous over models in which contextual effects follow access of an initial form-based competitor set. KW - eye-movements KW - visual-world-paradigm AU - Dahan, Delphine AU - Tanenhaus, Michael PY - 2004/03// UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6X09-4BW0SK8-J/2/17e5a305307060b048e80228d9b1b064 ER -