Lexical and contextual cue effects in discourse expectations: Experimenting with German 'zwar...aber' and English 'true/sure...but'

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Dialogue and Discourse Pub Date : 2020-08-20 DOI:10.5087/dad.2020.203

Juliane Schwab, Mingya Liu

引用次数: 8

Abstract

Existing literature shows that readers and listeners rapidly adjust their expectations about likely discourse continuations through discourse markers, as well as through other linguistic and extra-linguistic cues. However, it is unclear whether (i) the facilitative effects of various (extra-)linguistic cues differ in quality and (ii) whether the effects interact with one another in any principled manner. We conducted two self-paced reading experiments on concessive constructions in German and English wherein optional lexical and/or contextual cues appeared ahead of the concessive discourse marker. The results demonstrate that readers can use both types of cues to anticipate the upcoming discourse relation. Our study thus provides novel evidence for expectation-driven accounts of discourse processing and elucidates the functions of discourse signals. Furthermore, the results also show that the role that a type of cues plays is subject to cross-linguistic variation.

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语篇期望中的词汇和语境线索效应:以德语“zwar”为例aber'和英语'true/sure…but'

现有文献表明，读者和听者通过话语标记以及其他语言和语言外线索迅速调整他们对可能的话语延续的期望。然而，目前尚不清楚(i)各种(额外)语言线索的促进效果在质量上是否不同，以及(ii)这些效果是否以任何原则方式相互作用。我们对德语和英语的让步结构进行了两个自定节奏阅读实验，其中可选的词汇和/或上下文线索出现在让步话语标记之前。结果表明，读者可以使用这两种线索来预测即将到来的话语关系。因此，我们的研究为期望驱动语篇处理的解释提供了新的证据，并阐明了语篇信号的功能。此外，研究结果还表明，一种类型的线索所起的作用受到跨语言差异的影响。

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Dialogue and Discourse Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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1.90

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0.00%

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审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： D&D seeks previously unpublished, high quality articles on the analysis of discourse and dialogue that contain -experimental and/or theoretical studies related to the construction, representation, and maintenance of (linguistic) context -linguistic analysis of phenomena characteristic of discourse and/or dialogue (including, but not limited to: reference and anaphora, presupposition and accommodation, topicality and salience, implicature, ---discourse structure and rhetorical relations, discourse markers and particles, the semantics and -pragmatics of dialogue acts, questions, imperatives, non-sentential utterances, intonation, and meta--communicative phenomena such as repair and grounding) -experimental and/or theoretical studies of agents'' information states and their dynamics in conversational interaction -new analytical frameworks that advance theoretical studies of discourse and dialogue -research on systems performing coreference resolution, discourse structure parsing, event and temporal -structure, and reference resolution in multimodal communication -experimental and/or theoretical results yielding new insight into non-linguistic interaction in -communication -work on natural language understanding (including spoken language understanding), dialogue management, -reasoning, and natural language generation (including text-to-speech) in dialogue systems -work related to the design and engineering of dialogue systems (including, but not limited to: -evaluation, usability design and testing, rapid application deployment, embodied agents, affect detection, -mixed-initiative, adaptation, and user modeling). -extremely well-written surveys of existing work. Highest priority is given to research reports that are specifically written for a multidisciplinary audience. The audience is primarily researchers on discourse and dialogue and its associated fields, including computer scientists, linguists, psychologists, philosophers, roboticists, sociologists.