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Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody: A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes book cover

1st Edition

Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

Edited By Duane G. Watson, Michael Wagner, Edward Gibson Copyright 2010
400 Pages
by Psychology Press

400 Pages
by Psychology Press

Prosody is the rhythm, stress and intonation of speech, which encodes information that is not encoded by the syntax or words of an utterance. Prosody is critical for parsing speech, constructing syntactic structure, and building a representation of the conversational discourse model, among other linguistic functions. In 2008, researchers from linguistics, psychology and computer science... Read more

M. Wagner, D.G. Watson, Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody: A Review. A. Anttila, M. Adams, M. Speriosu, The Role of Prosody in the English Dative Alternation. J. Barnes, N. Veilleux, A. Brugos, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, Turning Points, Tonal Targets, and the English L-phrase Accent. B. Braun, L. Tagliapietra, The Role of Contrastive Intonation Contours in the Retrieval of Contextual Alternatives. M. Breen, E. Fedorenko, M. Wagner, E. Gibson, Acoustic Correlates of Information Structure. S. Calhoun, How Does Informativeness Affect Prosodic Prominence? J. Cole, Y. Mo, S. Baek, The Role of Syntactic Structure in Guiding Prosody Perception with Ordinary Listeners and Everyday Speech. A. Isaacs, D.G. Watson, Accent Detection is a Slippery Slope: Direction and Rate of F0 Change Drives Listeners’ Comprehension. S.A. Jun, The Implicit Prosody Hypothesis and Overt Prosody in English. J. Snedeker, E. Casserly, Is it All Relative? Effects of Prosodic Boundaries on the Comprehension and Production of Attachment Ambiguities. I. Stoyneshka-Raleva, J.D. Fodor, E. Fernandez, Phoneme Restoration Methods Reveal Prosodic Influences on Syntactic Processing.

Biography

Duane G. Watson, Univeristy of Illinois, USA
Michael Wagner, McGill University, USA
Edward Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

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