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

Name: Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes
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ISBN: 9781848727403

ISBN-10: 1848727402

ISBN-13: 9781848727403

Edition: 2010

Authors: Michael Wagner, Edward Gibson, Duane G. Watson

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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 gathered at the inaugural meeting of the conference on Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Prosody at Cornell University. The papers in this volume represent the cutting edge of the prosody work presented at that conference.The articles in this special issue tackle a number of key questions: What type…

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List price: $165.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/23/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.75" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody: A review



The role of prosody in the English dative alternation



Turning points, tonal targets, and the English L- phrase accent



The role of contrastive intonation contours in the retrieval of contextual alternatives



Acoustic correlates of information structure



How does informativeness affect prosodic prominence?



The role of syntactic structure in guiding prosody perception with ordinary listeners and everyday speech



Accent detection is a slippery slope: Direction and rate of F0 change drives listeners' comprehension



The implicit prosody hypothesis and overt prosody in English



Is it all relative? Effects of prosodic boundaries on the comprehension and production of attachment ambiguities



Phoneme restoration methods for investigating prosodic influences on syntactic processing



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