Lecture: Anna fährt zur StuTS, er hat viel Spaß. But what about Alex?
Do ambiguous first names cause referential failure effects.
"Anna fährt zur StuTS, er hat viel Spaß" will immediately identified as ungrammatical by most native German speakers, but what happens if we changed the first name (antecedent) to Alex? There are names in our mental lexicon that may or may not cause referential failure effects - slower reading times, N400, or P600 components. I found these "ambiguous names" in well-known papers classified as either male or female antecedents, but the use of these names as stimuli may be problematic. I conducted a reading time study to answer the research question whether ambiguous first names cause referential failure effects. Previous works on stereotypical role nouns (e.g., surgeon/nurse/student) found no effects for "neutral" occupations (student ... he/she), but there has been no previous research on the topic of ambiguous first names. My preliminary results may reveal interesting insights about the psycholinguistic interface of first names and gender and potentially another difference of stereotypical role nouns and names.
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Day:
2022-11-05
Start time:
10:45
Duration:
00:30
Room:
Wiwi-Bunker —Room 4047
Track:
Neuro- and Psycholinguistics
Language:
en
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Alexander Clemen |