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Peer reviewedBeckman, Mary E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Considers the fact that prosody is a grammatical (phonological) structure that must be parsed. The article describes prosodic categories marked by intonational pattern for English and Japanese, concentrates on "pitch accent" and tonally marked "phrases," and discusses potential ambiguities in parsing these categories. (60…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, English, Grammar, Intonation
Peer reviewedSchafer, Amy; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Discusses two auditory comprehension studies that investigated the role of focus, as conveyed by a pitch accent, in the comprehension of relative clauses preceded by a complex noun phrase. Findings include focus attracts modifiers, and pitch accents for new phrases differ acoustically from pitch accents for contrastive phrases. (46 references)…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, College Students, Grammar
