The Role of Prosody in Silent Reading  

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Kadota, Shuhei

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 9 no. 2 (1987), page 185-206.
Fulltext: 09_02_Kadota.pdf (1.01MB)

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This paper addresses itself to the prosodic structure hypothesis stressing the cognitive role of prosody in silent reading. A wide variety of recent empirical studies on subvocalization during silent reading and on prosody in listening and acquisition of language axe surveyed and summarized with a view to revealing that such a prosodic variable as the isochrony of speech rhythm, which may not be irrelevant to the neurophysiological constraints on human motor rhythm, plays a part in supplying an essential frame for linguistic processing and acquisition, and this seems to offer a conceptual validation to the hypothesis stated above. Two experiments were designed and conducted, the conclusions of which are: (1) the isochrony of speech rhythm provided through subvocalization during silent reading is involved in the processing of printed sentences; (2) this isochronous speech rhythm may play an important role in the higher-order cognitive mechanism of organizing words into phrase-like processing chunks. Some methodological implications for ESL/EFL are given, together with a suggestion that such isochronous rhythm may constitute a vehicle to incorporate both listening and reading comprehension processes into a single theoretical framework.

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