Naslov
Eye-tracking evidence for processing quantified utterances

Autori
Gordana Hržica ; Nevena Padovan ; Jelena Kuvač Kraljević

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, stručni

Izvornik
Learning & Perception / Racsmany, Mihaly - Budimpešta : Akadémiai Kiadó, 2010, 31-31

Skup
II. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 06.05.2010. - 09.05.2010

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
quantified utterances ; eye-tracking ; terms of quantity

Sažetak
Quantified utterances (e.g. Some eggs have been eaten, All candles have been lit up etc.) have been studied in logic for more than two thousand years. However, a question of how language users process quantified utterances is a relatively new pragmatic/semantic topic. In this study we tried to find out how language users resolve vague quantified expressions that have a form "Some A's are B's". The eye- tracking study used a typical listening paradigm in which sentences were presented to the participants in headphones while they were viewing pictures that correspond to the sentences. The participants had to choose the correct picture. The experimental conditions (i.e. the pictures presented) varied in terms of quantity of the presented objects (e.g. one, two, three or four candles being lit up). The participants were 40 psychology and speech & language pathology students. The results were analyzed in terms of gaze duration, first fixation and choice. They suggest that language users tend to interpret the vague quantified expressions "Some A's are B's" as "At least one A is B".

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Logopedija, Interdisciplinarne društvene znanosti, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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