Does the speaker matter? Online processing of semantic and pragmatic information in L2 speech comprehension

The present study investigated how pragmatic information is integrated during L2 sentence comprehension. We put forward that the differences often observed between L1 and L2 sentence processing may reflect differences on how various types of information are used to process a sentence, and not necess...

ver descrição completa

Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Foucart, Alice, García, Xavier, 1967-, Ayguasanosa, Meritxell, Thierry, Guillaume, Martin, Clara D., Costa, Albert, 1970-
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Data de publicação:2015
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositório:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/35228
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.06.027
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Bilingualism
Sentence comprehension
Semantics
Pragmatics
ERPs
N400
LPP
id ES_62db966cde3bd5041dee6df13bd34472
oai_identifier_str oai:recercat.cat:10230/35228
network_acronym_str ES
network_name_str España
repository_id_str
spelling Does the speaker matter? Online processing of semantic and pragmatic information in L2 speech comprehensionFoucart, AliceGarcía, Xavier, 1967-Ayguasanosa, MeritxellThierry, GuillaumeMartin, Clara D.Costa, Albert, 1970-BilingualismSentence comprehensionSemanticsPragmaticsERPsN400LPPThe present study investigated how pragmatic information is integrated during L2 sentence comprehension. We put forward that the differences often observed between L1 and L2 sentence processing may reflect differences on how various types of information are used to process a sentence, and not necessarily differences between native and non-native linguistic systems. Based on the idea that when a cue is missing or distorted, one relies more on other cues available, we hypothesised that late bilinguals favour the cues that they master during sentence processing. To verify this hypothesis we investigated whether late bilinguals take the speaker's identity (inferred by the voice) into account when incrementally processing speech and whether this affects their online interpretation of the sentence. To do so, we adapted Van Berkum, J.J.A., Van den Brink, D., Tesink, C.M.J.Y., Kos, M., Hagoort, P., 2008. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 20(4), 580–591, study in which sentences with either semantic violations or pragmatic inconsistencies were presented. While both the native and the non-native groups showed a similar response to semantic violations (N400), their response to speakers’ inconsistencies slightly diverged; late bilinguals showed a positivity much earlier than native speakers (LPP). These results suggest that, like native speakers, late bilinguals process semantic and pragmatic information incrementally; however, what seems to differ between L1 and L2 processing is the time-course of the different processes. We propose that this difference may originate from late bilinguals’ sensitivity to pragmatic information and/or their ability to efficiently make use of the information provided by the sentence context to generate expectations in relation to pragmatic information during L2 sentence comprehension. In other words, late bilinguals may rely more on speaker identity than native speakers when they face semantic integration difficulties.This work was supported by Grants from the Spanish Government (PSI2011-23033, and CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00048), from the Catalan Government (SGR 2009-1521) and from the European Research Council under the European Community's Seventh Framework (FP7/2007–2013 Cooperation Grant agreement 613465-AThEME). C. Martin is supported by the Basque Foundation for Science (IKERBASQUE), Spain and the BCBL Institution.Elsevier201820182015info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/35228http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.06.027reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésNeuropsychologia. 2015;75: 291-303.info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/613465info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/PSI2011-23033© Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.06.027info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/352282026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Does the speaker matter? Online processing of semantic and pragmatic information in L2 speech comprehension
title Does the speaker matter? Online processing of semantic and pragmatic information in L2 speech comprehension
spellingShingle Does the speaker matter? Online processing of semantic and pragmatic information in L2 speech comprehension
Foucart, Alice
Bilingualism
Sentence comprehension
Semantics
Pragmatics
ERPs
N400
LPP
title_short Does the speaker matter? Online processing of semantic and pragmatic information in L2 speech comprehension
title_full Does the speaker matter? Online processing of semantic and pragmatic information in L2 speech comprehension
title_fullStr Does the speaker matter? Online processing of semantic and pragmatic information in L2 speech comprehension
title_full_unstemmed Does the speaker matter? Online processing of semantic and pragmatic information in L2 speech comprehension
title_sort Does the speaker matter? Online processing of semantic and pragmatic information in L2 speech comprehension
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Foucart, Alice
García, Xavier, 1967-
Ayguasanosa, Meritxell
Thierry, Guillaume
Martin, Clara D.
Costa, Albert, 1970-
author Foucart, Alice
author_facet Foucart, Alice
García, Xavier, 1967-
Ayguasanosa, Meritxell
Thierry, Guillaume
Martin, Clara D.
Costa, Albert, 1970-
author_role author
author2 García, Xavier, 1967-
Ayguasanosa, Meritxell
Thierry, Guillaume
Martin, Clara D.
Costa, Albert, 1970-
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Bilingualism
Sentence comprehension
Semantics
Pragmatics
ERPs
N400
LPP
topic Bilingualism
Sentence comprehension
Semantics
Pragmatics
ERPs
N400
LPP
description The present study investigated how pragmatic information is integrated during L2 sentence comprehension. We put forward that the differences often observed between L1 and L2 sentence processing may reflect differences on how various types of information are used to process a sentence, and not necessarily differences between native and non-native linguistic systems. Based on the idea that when a cue is missing or distorted, one relies more on other cues available, we hypothesised that late bilinguals favour the cues that they master during sentence processing. To verify this hypothesis we investigated whether late bilinguals take the speaker's identity (inferred by the voice) into account when incrementally processing speech and whether this affects their online interpretation of the sentence. To do so, we adapted Van Berkum, J.J.A., Van den Brink, D., Tesink, C.M.J.Y., Kos, M., Hagoort, P., 2008. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 20(4), 580–591, study in which sentences with either semantic violations or pragmatic inconsistencies were presented. While both the native and the non-native groups showed a similar response to semantic violations (N400), their response to speakers’ inconsistencies slightly diverged; late bilinguals showed a positivity much earlier than native speakers (LPP). These results suggest that, like native speakers, late bilinguals process semantic and pragmatic information incrementally; however, what seems to differ between L1 and L2 processing is the time-course of the different processes. We propose that this difference may originate from late bilinguals’ sensitivity to pragmatic information and/or their ability to efficiently make use of the information provided by the sentence context to generate expectations in relation to pragmatic information during L2 sentence comprehension. In other words, late bilinguals may rely more on speaker identity than native speakers when they face semantic integration difficulties.
publishDate 2015
dc.date.none.fl_str_mv 2015
2018
2018
dc.type.none.fl_str_mv info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
format article
status_str acceptedVersion
dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.06.027
url http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.06.027
dc.language.none.fl_str_mv Inglés
language_invalid_str_mv Inglés
dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv Neuropsychologia. 2015;75: 291-303.
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/613465
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/PSI2011-23033
dc.rights.none.fl_str_mv © Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.06.027
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
rights_invalid_str_mv © Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.06.027
eu_rights_str_mv openAccess
dc.format.none.fl_str_mv application/pdf
application/pdf
dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv Elsevier
publisher.none.fl_str_mv Elsevier
dc.source.none.fl_str_mv reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
instname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
instname_str Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
reponame_str Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
collection Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
repository.name.fl_str_mv
repository.mail.fl_str_mv
_version_ 1869409529145327616
score 15.812455

Registros relacionados