TY  - GEN
A1  - Burmester, Juliane
A1  - Sauermann, Antje
A1  - Spalek, Katharina
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
T1  - Sensitivity to salience
BT  - linguistic vs. visual cues affect sentence processing and pronoun resolution
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Sentence comprehension is optimised by indicating entities as salient through linguistic (i.e., information-structural) or visual means. We compare how salience of a depicted referent due to a linguistic (i.e., topic status) or visual cue (i.e., a virtual person’s gaze shift) modulates sentence comprehension in German. We investigated processing of sentences with varying word order and pronoun resolution by means of self-paced reading and an antecedent choice task, respectively. Our results show that linguistic as well as visual salience cues immediately speeded up reading times of sentences mentioning the salient referent first. In contrast, for pronoun resolution, linguistic and visual cues modulated antecedent choice preferences less congruently. In sum, our findings speak in favour of a significant impact of linguistic and visual salience cues on sentence comprehension, substantiating that salient information delivered via language as well as the visual environment is integrated in the current mental representation of the discourse.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 454 
KW  - topic status
KW  - eye gaze
KW  - visual context
KW  - reading times
KW  - antecedent choice
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412838
IS  - 454
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Burmester, Juliane
A1  - Sauermann, Antje
A1  - Spalek, Katharina
A1  - Wartenburger, Isabell
T1  - Sensitivity to salience
BT  - linguistic vs. visual cues affect sentence processing and pronoun resolution
JF  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
N2  - Sentence comprehension is optimised by indicating entities as salient through linguistic (i.e., information-structural) or visual means. We compare how salience of a depicted referent due to a linguistic (i.e., topic status) or visual cue (i.e., a virtual person's gaze shift) modulates sentence comprehension in German. We investigated processing of sentences with varying word order and pronoun resolution by means of self-paced reading and an antecedent choice task, respectively. Our results show that linguistic as well as visual salience cues immediately speeded up reading times of sentences mentioning the salient referent first. In contrast, for pronoun resolution, linguistic and visual cues modulated antecedent choice preferences less congruently. In sum, our findings speak in favour of a significant impact of linguistic and visual salience cues on sentence comprehension, substantiating that salient information delivered via language as well as the visual environment is integrated in the current mental representation of the discourse.
KW  - Topic status
KW  - eye gaze
KW  - visual context
KW  - reading times
KW  - antecedent choice
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1428758
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 33
IS  - 6
SP  - 784
EP  - 801
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -