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doi:10.22028/D291-30849
Title: | Counting ‘uhm’s: How tracking the distribution of native and non-native disfluencies influences online language comprehension |
Author(s): | Bosker, Hans Rutger van Os, Marjolein Does, Rik van Bergen, Geertje |
Language: | English |
Title: | Journal of memory and language : JML |
Volume: | 106 |
Startpage: | 189 |
Endpage: | 202 |
Publisher/Platform: | Elsevier |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Publikation type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | Disfluencies, like uh, have been shown to help listeners anticipate reference to low-frequency words. The associative account of this ‘disfluency bias’ proposes that listeners learn to associate disfluency with low-frequency referents based on prior exposure to non-arbitrary disfluency distributions (i.e., greater probability of low-frequency words after disfluencies). However, there is limited evidence for listeners actually tracking disfluency distributions online. The present experiments are the first to show that adult listeners, exposed to a typical or more atypical disfluency distribution (i.e., hearing a talker unexpectedly say uh before high-frequency words), flexibly adjust their predictive strategies to the disfluency distribution at hand (e.g., learn to predict high-frequency referents after disfluency). However, when listeners were presented with the same atypical disfluency distribution but produced by a non-native speaker, no adjustment was observed. This suggests pragmatic inferences can modulate distributional learning, revealing the flexibility of, and constraints on, distributional learning in incremental language comprehension. |
DOI of the first publication: | 10.1016/j.jml.2019.02.006 |
URL of the first publication: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X19300208 |
Link to this record: | hdl:20.500.11880/29173 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-30849 |
ISSN: | 1096-0821 0749-596X |
Date of registration: | 20-May-2020 |
Faculty: | P - Philosophische Fakultät |
Department: | P - Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie |
Professorship: | P - Keiner Professur zugeordnet |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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