【明日】第51回 関西心理言語学研究会(KCP)ミーティング

[Ken Nakatani]

MLの皆様

Last minute noticeですみません。

明日，KCPミーティングが以下の通り開催されます。今回はReading大の藤田さんが遠方から発表してくださいます。参加自由ですので，大勢の参加をお待ちしています。

＊KCPは心理言語学研究者だけでなく，「心理言語学に興味はあるけれども，勉強する機会があまりなかった」という学生・院生さんたちに心理言語学のおもしろさを伝え，心理言語学という若い分野を関西の地に根付かせたいという思いで立ち上げた会ですので，予備知識のない人も大歓迎です。お気軽に遊びに来てください。

http://www.konan-u.ac.jp/hp/nakatani/kcp/

【日時】3/31 (土) 13:00--15:00 

【場所】関西学院大学の梅田サテライトキャンパス　1401教室（14 階） 

http://www.kwansei.ac.jp/kg_hub/ 

（阪急梅田　茶屋町口を北に徒歩5分） 

 

【発表者】藤田宏樹（University of Reading）
【発表タイトル】Persistent Misinterpretation of Non-Local Dependencies in Native and Non-Native Speakers.


【要旨】

Some studies show that both native and non-native English speakers sometimes misinterpret locally ambiguous sentences like ‘While Mary dressed the child played in the room’ (Christianson et al., 2001), where ‘the child’ may be initially construed as the object of the subordinate clause verb (‘dressed’) but needs to be reinterpreted as the subject of the main clause at the disambiguating verb (‘played’). One account for this phenomenon is that language processing is good enough (Ferreira et al., 2001), and as a result, the initially assigned misinterpretation lingers even after attempts at reanalysis. Recent studies also suggest that difficulty in such sentences is attributed to a failure in erasing the memory of the initially assigned misinterpretation rather than to an inability to construct a fully specified syntactic structure (Fujita & Cunnings, 2018a; Slattery et al., 2013). However, most studies on good-enough processing examine subject-object ambiguities and it remains less unexplored about how other reanalysis-required sentences are processed after reanalysis. Non-local dependencies (e.g., ‘John saw the car which the officer stopped the bicycle near earlier today’) may also require reanalysis when the filled-gap effect is at play (Stowe, 1986) such that ‘the car’ is initially construed as the direct object of the verb ‘stopped’ according to the active-filler strategy (e.g., Frazier, 1987), but needs to be reanalysed as the complement of the preposition ‘near’. Fujita and Cunnings (2018b) show that the initially assigned misinterpretation lingers in such non-local dependencies in both native and non-native speakers, suggesting that the good-enough account is a general property of sentence processing in both native and non-native speakers. In this talk, I will talk about reanalysis processes on a different type of non-local dependencies like ‘The cameraman saw the helicopter which the soldier attacked very swiftly from during the war’, where the noun ‘helicopter’ may be initially interpreted as the direct object of the verb ‘attacked’ just like the sentence with the filled-gap effect above, but in contrast to it, the ambiguity is disambiguated by the preposition (Pickering & Traxler, 2003). If the good-enough account accounts for lingering misinterpretations in non-local dependencies, both native and non-native speakers should show persistence in the initially assigned interpretation in such non-local dependencies as well. It is also possible that non-native speakers are more persistent in initially assigned misinterpretations than native speakers due to their reduced syntactic parsing ability (Clahsen & Felser, 2006) or their poorer performance in erasing misinterpretations from memory (Cunnings, 2017). I will also discuss some future studies related to reanalysis processes.

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問い合わせ／連絡先

田中幹大　（甲南女子大学）mta...@konan-wu.ac.jp

中谷健太郎（甲南大学）kent...@konan-u.ac.jp

中野陽子　（関西学院大学）y-k.n...@kwansei.ac.jp

祐伯敦史　（立命館大学）yuh...@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp