Processing discourse roles in scripted narratives: The influences of context and world knowledge☆
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Experiment 1
The passage in Table 1 illustrates the two factors manipulated in Experiment 1. Note that there are two encounters between the protagonists and an individual filling the role of a performer. Our primary interest in this experiment was in participants’ eye movements while they processed the second encounter. The action described there (e.g., playing a song) is carried out either by an individual appropriate to the scripted role (the audience listened to the guitarist, A2) or by someone
Experiment 2
One purpose of Experiment 2 was to replicate the effects of first-encounter appropriateness on first pass times on the target, in addition to examining the appropriateness effect on other measures. In Experiment 1, the first encounter with the target word occurred at the end of a sentence. Because of this, we could not be certain that any measures of post-target processing (e.g., post-target first pass times, regressions to the target, second pass times on the target) were not confounded with
General discussion
In Experiment 1, participants read script-based stories in which some individual or object filled a scriptal role in an inappropriate or unexpected way. When the inappropriate role filler had not been encountered previously in the story, first pass times in the target and post-target regions, and second pass times on the target, were longer for the inappropriate than for an appropriate role filler, and there were more regressions to the target region in the inappropriate condition. The same
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Portions of this research were completed while Anne Cook was supported by NIMH Training Grant MH16745 awarded to the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts. Additional support was provided by a University of Utah Research Committee grant awarded to Anne Cook. We would like to thank Chuck Clifton and Keith Rayner for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript.