题目：The effect of discourse context on sentence planning

讲座人：陈轶亚

主持人：吴芙芸

时间：2016年11月11日（周五）9:30-11:30

地点：虹口校区图书馆604室

主办：语言研究院

讲座摘要：It is by now well-known that in speech communication, the same string of words can be uttered differently as a function of different preceding discourse contexts. Little, however, is known about how exactly discourse context affects the way an utterance is formulated (or planned). In this talk, I will discuss results of two studies which aimed to shed some light on this issue. In both studies, participants described pictures of two-character transitive events and their eye fixation patterns were recorded (via an eyetracker), together with the response time of their speech, as indices of their utterance planning processes. The first study zoomed into the effect of focus while the second one giveness, two important dimensions of discourse context on sentence planning. Results suggest that discourse context affects the time course of linguistic formulation in simple sentences but its effect can be modulated by language-specific linguistic structures as well as the planning scope of the utterance (which provides further evidence for highly incremental planning in sentence production).

人物简介：陈轶亚，美国纽约州立大学石溪分校博士，荷兰莱顿大学语言研究中心副教授,莱顿人脑与认知科学研究中心高级研究员。她的研究方向是语音学。研究兴趣主要是语言的韵律特征及其变化模式，包括语调韵律如何在自然话语中通过变异来传达发言人的不同意图，以及声调的变异、表征和加工。同时她也对语言中不同层次的变异在人脑中的存储方式，以及这些变异在言语产生过程中的加工步骤很感兴趣。她的大部分研究着重于中国方言，尤其是北方官话和吴语。她的研究受到了荷兰皇家科学院 （KNAW），荷兰科学基金委员会（NWO），以及欧洲研究理事会(ERC)等研究基金机构的支持。陈轶亚博在国际著名科学杂志上发表多篇学术文章，同时也是Journal of Phonetics、Journal of International Association of Phonetics的编委会委员。陈轶亚曾在康乃尔大学和纽约大学的语言学系任教，并曾在英国爱丁堡大学及荷兰纳美亨大学接受博士后培训。