ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理科学进展 ›› 2021, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (3): 425-437.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2021.00425

• 研究前沿 • 上一篇    下一篇

口语句子的韵律边界:窥探言语理解的秘窗

方岚1,2, 郑苑仪3,4, 金晗2, 李晓庆3,4, 杨玉芳3,4, 王瑞明1()   

  1. 1脑认知与教育科学教育部重点实验室, 华南师范大学心理学院/心理应用研究中心, 广州 510631
    2广州大学外国语学院, 广州 510030
    3中国科学院心理研究所行为科学重点实验室, 北京 100101
    4中国科学院大学心理学系, 北京 100049
  • 收稿日期:2020-05-04 出版日期:2021-03-15 发布日期:2021-01-26
  • 通讯作者: 王瑞明 E-mail:wruiming@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    本文系广东省哲学社会科学“十三五”规划项目“中国EFL学习者韵律边界加工机制研究” 的阶段性成果(GD19WXZ11)

Prosodic boundaries in speech: A window to spoken language comprehension

FANG Lan1,2, ZHENG Yuanyi3,4, JIN Han2, LI Xiaoqing3,4, YANG Yufang3,4, WANG Ruiming1()   

  1. 1Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, & Center for Studies of Psychological Application, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
    2School of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510030, China
    3Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    4Department of Psychology, Universities of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100149, China
  • Received:2020-05-04 Online:2021-03-15 Published:2021-01-26
  • Contact: WANG Ruiming E-mail:wruiming@163.com

摘要:

韵律边界加工与言语理解紧密相关, 最近十几年来逐渐成为心理学和语言学的研究焦点。韵律系统包含若干由小到大的韵律单位, 不同单位的韵律成分其边界强度不同, 表现在音高、延宕和停顿三个声学线索上的参数也不同。句子的听力理解过程中, 听话人运用声学线索感知权重策略对韵律边界的声学线索进行加工。从神经层面上来看, 对于韵律边界的加工, 大脑显示出独立且特异性的神经机制。韵律边界的加工能力在婴儿出生后随年龄的增长而发展, 到了老年阶段则逐渐退化, 而且似乎能够对二语迁移。未来, 需要扩大对韵律边界声学表现的考查范围, 进一步明确韵律边界的加工过程, 进一步厘清韵律边界加工和句法加工之间的关系, 进一步关注二语者韵律边界加工能力的发展。

关键词: 韵律边界, 言语理解, 声学表现, 神经振荡

Abstract:

The perception of prosodic boundaries is critical to spoken language comprehension, and it has become a primary research topic among psychologists and psycholinguists in the past decade. Utterances are chunked into prosodic units of different strengths. The boundaries between prosodic units are mainly signaled by acoustic cues like pitch change, final lengthening, and pause. Previous cognitive, linguistic, developmental, and neuroimaging studies have significantly advanced our understanding of the processing of prosodic boundaries. We now know that listeners use a perceptual weighting strategy to process prosodic boundary cues, and there are specific brain mechanisms for prosodic boundary processing. The ability to processing prosodic boundaries steadily develops with age in young children and transfers to a second language, but it generally decreases with age in older adults. Future studies should expand the investigation of prosodic boundaries to more pragmatic genres and focus on revealing the cognitive mechanisms underlying prosodic boundary processing, the relationship between prosodic boundary and syntax processing, and the development of prosodic boundary perception in second language learners.

Key words: prosodic boundary, spoken language comprehension, acoustic characteristics, neural oscillation

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