Emphasizing the only character: Emphasis, attention and contrast

	Emphasizing the only character: Emphasis, attention and contrast
	Chen, Lijing1,2 ; Yang, Yufang2
摘要	In conversations, pragmatic information such as emphasis is important for identifying the speaker's/writer's intention. The present research examines the cognitive processes involved in emphasis processing. Participants read short discourses that introduced one or two character(s), with the character being emphasized or non-emphasized in subsequent texts. Eye movements showed that: (1) early processing of the emphasized word was facilitated, which may have been due to increased attention allocation, whereas (2) late integration of the emphasized character was inhibited when the discourse involved only this character. These results indicate that it is necessary to include other characters as contrastive characters to facilitate the integration of an emphasized character, and support the existence of a relationship between Emphasis and Contrast computation. Taken together, our findings indicate that both attention allocation and contrast computation are involved in emphasis processing, and support the incremental nature of sentence processing and the importance of contrast in discourse comprehension. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
关键词	Emphasis Attention Allocation Contrast Focus "shi" Eye Movement
	2015-03-01
语种	英语
发表期刊	COGNITION
ISSN	0010-0277
卷号	136 期号:0 页码:222-227
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000349882600021
引用统计	被引频次：12[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/14266
专题	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Fujian Normal Univ, Dept Psychol, Fuzhou, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
第一作者单位	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Lijing,Yang, Yufang. Emphasizing the only character: Emphasis, attention and contrast[J]. COGNITION,2015,136(0):222-227.
APA	Chen, Lijing,&Yang, Yufang.(2015).Emphasizing the only character: Emphasis, attention and contrast.COGNITION,136(0),222-227.
MLA	Chen, Lijing,et al."Emphasizing the only character: Emphasis, attention and contrast".COGNITION 136.0(2015):222-227.

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