How long is the sentence? Prediction and prosody in the on-line processing of language  

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Grosjean, Francois

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of The Language Sciences vol. 21 no. 3 (1983), page 501-529.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LING/21 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The gating paradigm (Grosjean 1980) was used to determine whether subjects who are listening to the 'potentially last word' of a sentence (in this case, a noun before an optional prepositional phrase) can indicate whether the sentence is over or not, and if it is not over, how much longer it will last. Sentences that contained endings ranging in length from zero to nine words were gated on the object noun and presented to subjects who had to choose which of four sentences was being presented or press a key at a point in time when they felt the sentence would have ended had it been presented in full. Results showed that, basing themselves solely on prosodic cues, subjects were surprisingly accurate at predicting the length of the upcoming endings. An acoustic analysis of the test sentences showed a strong relationship between measures of fundamental frequency, amplitude, and duration and the experimental data. These findings are discussed in terms of the predictive and interpretative roles of prosody during the on-line processing of language.

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