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      Prosody and language comprehension : Prosody and language comprehension

      Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science
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          Intonational Phonology

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            Prosodic phrasing is central to language comprehension.

            Words, like musical notes, are grouped together into phrases by their rhythmic and durational properties as well as their tonal pitch. This 'prosodic phrasing' affects the understanding of sentences. Many processing studies of prosody have investigated sentences with a single, grammatically required prosodic boundary, which might be interpreted strictly locally, as a signal to end the current syntactic unit. Recent results suggest, however, that the global pattern of prosodic phrasing is what matters in sentence comprehension, not just the occurrence or size of a single local boundary. In this article we claim that the impact of prosodic boundaries depends on the other prosodic choices a speaker has made. We speculate that prosody serves to hold distinct linguistic representations together in memory.
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              The role of prosodic boundaries in the resolution of lexical embedding in speech comprehension.

              Participants' eye movements were monitored as they heard sentences and saw four pictured objects on a computer screen. Participants were instructed to click on the object mentioned in the sentence. There were more transitory fixations to pictures representing monosyllabic words (e.g. ham) when the first syllable of the target word (e.g. hamster) had been replaced by a recording of the monosyllabic word than when it came from a different recording of the target word. This demonstrates that a phonemically identical sequence can contain cues that modulate its lexical interpretation. This effect was governed by the duration of the sequence, rather than by its origin (i.e. which type of word it came from). The longer the sequence, the more monosyllabic-word interpretations it generated. We argue that cues to lexical-embedding disambiguation, such as segmental lengthening, result from the realization of a prosodic boundary that often but not always follows monosyllabic words, and that lexical candidates whose word boundaries are aligned with prosodic boundaries are favored in the word-recognition process.
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                Journal
                Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science
                WIREs Cogn Sci
                Wiley-Blackwell
                19395078
                September 2015
                September 25 2015
                : 6
                : 5
                : 441-452
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                10.1002/wcs.1355
                6a3f2247-23d1-47a7-a04e-73917b7c094b
                © 2015

                http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1

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