Does narrow focus activate alternative referents?

Braun, Bettina; Weber, Andrea; Crocker, Matthew

Does narrow focus activate alternative referents?

Dateien

braun_interspeech2005.pdf(381.87 KB)

Datum

2005

Autor:innen

Braun, Bettina

Weber, Andrea

Crocker, Matthew

Publikationstyp

Beitrag zu einem Konferenzband

Erschienen in

Interspeech [and] Eurospeech, 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisboa, September 4 - 8, 2005 / International Speech Communication Association et al. (Hrsg.). - Lisboa, 2005. - S. 1709-1712

Zusammenfassung

Narrow focus refers to accent placement that forces one interpretation of a sentence, which is then often perceived contrastively. Narrow focus is formalised in terms of alternative sets, i.e. contextually or situationally salient alternatives. In this paper, we investigate whether this model is valid also in human utterance processing. We present an eye-tracking experiment to study listeners’ expectations (i.e. eye-movements) with respect to upcoming referents. Some of the objects contrast in colour with objects that were previously referred to, others do not; the objects are referred to with either a narrow focus on the colour adjective or with broad focus on the noun. Results show that narrow focus on the adjective increases early ﬁxations to contrastive referents. Narrow focus hence activates alternative referents in human utterance processing.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik

Konferenz

International Speech Communication, 4. Sep. 2005 - 8. Sep. 2005, Lisboa

Zitieren

ISO 690

BRAUN, Bettina, Andrea WEBER, Matthew CROCKER, 2005. Does narrow focus activate alternative referents?. International Speech Communication. Lisboa, 4. Sep. 2005 - 8. Sep. 2005. In: INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION, , ed. and others. Interspeech [and] Eurospeech, 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisboa, September 4 - 8, 2005. Lisboa, pp. 1709-1712

BibTex

@inproceedings{Braun2005narro-15362,
  year={2005},
  title={Does narrow focus activate alternative referents?},
  address={Lisboa},
  booktitle={Interspeech [and] Eurospeech, 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Lisboa, September 4 - 8, 2005},
  pages={1709--1712},
  editor={International Speech Communication Association},
  author={Braun, Bettina and Weber, Andrea and Crocker, Matthew}
}

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