Editorial: Perceptual Linguistic Salience: Modeling Causes and Consequences

Frontiers in Psychology

Alice Blumenthal-Dramé¹ 

关键词: prediction;    language learning;    morphology;    salience;    surprisal;    social markers;    dialects;    language variation and change;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00411

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the notion of salience in linguistics and related disciplines. The attention literature distinguishes two broad types of perceptual salience (Summerfield and Egner, 2009; Awh et al., 2012). First, a stimulus can be salient—i.e., foremost in one's mind—because it is cognitively preactivated. This type of salience, sometimes referred to as top-down salience, may occur if a stimulus is expected because it is part of a cognitive routine, if it has recently been mentioned, or due to current intentions of the perceiver. Research on salience as a semantic-pragmatic phenomenon has shown that top-down salience can account for systematic preferences in the interpretation of figurative utterances, pronominal antecedents, implicatures, and discursive links (Geeraerts, 2000; Giora, 2003; Chiarcos et al., 2011; Jaszczolt and Allan, 2011).

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