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基于可测性的产出预测说话人实时的汉语量词选择

Availability-Based Production Predicts Speakers' Real-time Choices of Mandarin Classifiers

Massachusetts Institute of Technology(麻省理工学院)

Meilin Zhan, Roger Levy

摘要:

说话者经常面临如何将他们想要传达的信息组织成话语的选择。在这里,我们调查的影响,语境的可预测性的语言内容的编码表现为在一个分类语言的说话人选择。在英语中,数词直接修饰名词(例如,三台电脑)。在诸如汉语普通话之类的分类语言中,必须使用带有数字和名词的分类器(CL)(例如,三个CL.机械计算机,三个CL.通用计算机)。虽然不同的名词与不同的具体量词兼容,但有一个通用量词“个”(CL.general)可以与大多数名词一起使用。当即将出现的名词不太可预测时,使用更具体的分类器将减少名词的重复,从而潜在地促进理解(由Uniform Information Density,Levy & Jaeger,2007年预测),但是如果访问通用分类器总是可用,则从生产的角度来看,可以不使用该更具体的分类器(由基于可制造性的生产预测; Bock,1987; Ferreira & Dell,2000)。在这里,我们使用图片命名实验表明,基于可译性的生产预测说话人的实时的【形】选择的普通话量词。

英文摘要:

Speakers often face choices as to how to structure their intended message into an utterance. Here we investigate the influence of contextual predictability on the encoding of linguistic content manifested by speaker choice in a classifier language. In English, a numeral modifies a noun directly (e.g., three computers). In classifier languages such as Mandarin Chinese, it is obligatory to use a classifier (CL) with the numeral and the noun (e.g., three CL.machinery computer, three CL.general computer). While different nouns are compatible with different specific classifiers, there is a general classifier "ge" (CL.general) that can be used with most nouns. When the upcoming noun is less predictable, the use of a more specific classifier would reduce surprisal at the noun thus potentially facilitate comprehension (predicted by Uniform Information Density, Levy & Jaeger, 2007), but the use of that more specific classifier may be dispreferred from a production standpoint if accessing the general classifier is always available (predicted by Availability-Based Production; Bock, 1987; Ferreira & Dell, 2000). Here we use a picture-naming experiment showing that Availability-Based Production predicts speakers' real-time choices of Mandarin classifiers.

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