文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Asymmetry in L1 and L2 listeners’ use of prosody for PP-attachment disambiguation

作者：Zhang, Yuanyuan[1,2]; Ding, Hongwei[3]

机构：[1] School of Foreign Languages, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China; [2] MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, NSW, Australia; [3] Speech-Language-Hearing Center, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

年份：2022

卷号：2022-May

起止页码：659

外文期刊名：Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody

收录：EI(收录号：20233114479965)

语种：英文

摘要：The role of prosody in sentence processing has received little attention in L2 spoken-language comprehension research, and studies of prosodic disambiguation of PP-attachment ambiguity by L2 learners are rare. We investigated the effects of prosody (accompanied by visual context from the pictures) on PP-attachment ambiguity resolution by native Australian English speakers and Chinese-speaking learners of English, comparing their attachment preferences to examine L1-L2 sentence processing differences. Our results show that prosody can guide both native speakers and L2 learners towards the resolution of sentence-level ambiguity. However, the observed effects varied. For native speakers, prosody overrode bias for the NP-attachment induced by the visual context; L2 learners in contrast showed a preference for the VP-attachment independent of prosodic cues, indicating that they did not detect the ambiguity within the structure from the visual context and that it is difficult for them to effectively integrate different domains of information in ambiguity resolution. These L1-L2 differences might reflect L2 learners’ limited processing capacity for detecting ambiguity and integrating multiple domains of information during L2 sentence processing. ? 2022 International Speech Communications Association. All rights reserved.