Message Planning and Lexical Encoding in Sentence Production : A View from Japanese Existential Construction

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Griffin & Bock (2000) monitored the eye-movement of speakers as they describe simple events and found that the speakers gaze a certain object before they decide what to say, suggesting that the result supports Wundt's idea of incremental lexical encoding. Sentence formulation, however, involves other stages such as message planning including determination of speakers' point of view, grammatical function assignment, or linearization of constituents (Bock & Levelt, 1994). To examine the time course of these multiple stages, we conducted an eye-tracking experiment in which the participants were required to describe a picture by an existential construction in Japanese where the elements are aligned as Location-Object word order. The result shows that speakers initially gaze the Object at the message planning stage, which was followed by the lexical encoding stage where speakers' gaze is shifted to the Location.
社団法人電子情報通信学会の論文
2008-08-01