Stewart, Andrew, Haigh, Matthew and Ferguson, Heather (2013) Sensitivity to speaker control in the online comprehension of conditional tips and promises: an eye tracking study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 39 (4). pp. 1022-1036. ISSN 0278-7393
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Abstract
Statements of the form if… then… can be used to communicate conditional speech acts such as tips and promises. Conditional promises require the speaker to have perceived control over the outcome event, whereas conditional tips do not. In an eye-tracking study, we examined whether readers are sensitive to information about perceived speaker control during processing of conditionals embedded in context. On a number of eye-tracking measures, we found that readers are sensitive to whether or not the speaker of a conditional has perceived control over the consequent event; conditional promises (which require the speaker to have perceived control over the consequent) result in processing disruption for contexts where this control is absent. Conditional tips (which do not require perceived control) are processed equivalently easily regardless of context. These results suggest that readers rapidly utilize pragmatic information related to perceived control in order to represent conditional speech acts as they are read. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. |
| Subjects: | C800 Psychology |
| Department: | Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Matthew Haigh |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2013 10:35 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2023 14:49 |
| URI: | https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/14043 |
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