The Interpretation of Prosodic Patterns at Points of Syntactic Structure Ambiguity: Evidence for Cue Trading Relations  

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Beach, Cheryl M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Memory and Language (Full Text) vol. 30 no. 6 (Dec. 1991), page 644-663.
Fulltext: 30_06_Beach.pdf (1.85MB)

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Two experiments explore listeners' use of sentence prosody to identify syntactic structure. Beginning portions of synthesized sentences having a direct object-sentence complement ambiguity were assigned duration and pitch patterns more or less typical for a given sentence type. Listeners judged which type of complete sentence an item had been excised from. Experiment I shows that prosody, available at an early point in a sentence, influences listeners' judgments. Therefore it is reasonable to propose that listeners use prosodic information to predict eventual sentence syntactic structure during online sentence processing. Experiment 2 closely examines the mechanism by which prosody functions as a cue to syntactic structure. A close fit by the fuzzy propositional model (G. C. Oden & D. W. Massaro, 1978, Psychological Review 85, No.3, 172-191) demonstrates that the identification of syntactic structure based on acoustic-prosodic cues is characterized by the same type of cue trading relations that characterize identification of phonemes based on acousticphonetic cues.

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