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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Mental models are crucial for understanding discourse.
  • Language processing involves updating and utilizing these mental models.
  • The interplay between event representation and language comprehension is complex.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the temporal dynamics of mental model updating during discourse.
  • To examine how event structure influences listeners' expectations about subsequent mentions.
  • To explore the proactive nature of mental models in language comprehension.

Main Methods:

  • Visual world eye-tracking experiment.
  • Measuring listeners' coreference expectations during an intersentential pause.
  • Analyzing fixation patterns on 'Source' versus 'Goal' entities in transfer-of-possession events.

Main Results:

  • A sustained preference for fixating the 'Goal' was observed.
  • This 'Goal' fixation preference was significantly stronger for completed events compared to incomplete events.
  • Expectations for subsequent mentions are temporally dispersed but sustained.

Conclusions:

  • Mental models of events generate proactive expectations about upcoming discourse.
  • Verb aspect, conveying event completion, modulates these expectations.
  • This provides evidence for the dynamic and predictive nature of mental event representations in language processing.