The role of prosody in semantic interpretation

Journal/Book: Music Percept. 1998; 16: Journals Dept 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Univ Calif Press. 79-97.

Abstract: Four psycholinguistic experiments are reported, the aim of which was to examine whether and how the perceptual grouping of words into higher order units imposed by prosody can influence on-line sentence comprehension. The results suggest that prosodic phrasing does not directly influence syntactic decisions, but rather operates at the semantic interpretation level, in relation with lexical and discourse-level factors (e.g., verbs' argument structure and referential completedness of noun phrases).

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Keyword(s): PERFORMANCE STRUCTURES; ATTACHMENT; FRENCH

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