In Korean language, questions containing ambiguous wh-words may be interpreted as either wh-questions or yes-no questions. This study investigated 43 Korean three-year-olds’ ability to disambiguate eight indeterminate questions using prosodic and visual cues. The intonation of each question provided a cue as to whether it should be interpreted as a wh-question or a yes-no question. The questions were presented alongside picture stimuli, which acted as either a matched (presentation of corresponding auditory-visual stimuli) or a mismatched contextual cue (presentation conflicting auditory-visual stimuli). Like adults, the children preferred to comprehend questions involving ambiguous wh-words as wh-questions, rather than yes-no questions. In addition, children were as effective as adults in disambiguating indeterminate questions using prosodic cues regardless of the visual cue. However, when confronted with conflicting auditory-visual stimuli (mismatched), the quality of children's responses was less accurate than adults’ responses.

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韵律和视觉信息在消除 wh-indeterminate 中的作用：以韩国 3 岁儿童为例

在韩语中，包含歧义的问题单词可以解释为wh-问题或yes-no问题。这项研究调查了 43 名韩国 3 岁儿童使用韵律和视觉线索消除八个不确定问题的能力。每个问题的语调都提供了一个提示，即是否应该将其解释为 wh 问题或 yes-no 问题。这些问题与图片刺激一起呈现，图片刺激充当匹配的（相应听觉视觉刺激的呈现）或不匹配的上下文提示（呈现冲突的听觉视觉刺激）。与成年人一样，孩子们更喜欢将涉及含糊 wh 词的问题理解为 wh 问题，而不是是 - 否问题。此外，无论视觉提示如何，儿童在使用韵律提示消除不确定问题方面与成人一样有效。然而，