Mapping prosody onto meaning–the case of information structure in American English

TB Roettger, T Mahrt, J Cole - Language, Cognition and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… shown that in some contexts listeners can rapidly anticipate speaker intentions based on …
mapping of prosody and meaning. We conclude that listeners infer speaker intentions based on …

Some inferences still take time: Prosody, predictability, and the speed of scalar implicatures

YT Huang, J Snedeker - Cognitive psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
… explores whether rapid inferencing depends on the prosody (ie, … are instantaneous because
listeners (like speakers) often … that listeners in this study attended to prosodic variation …

Listeners' adaptation to unreliable intonation is speaker-sensitive

TB Roettger, K Rimland - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
… comprehension adapts to speaker-specific prosodic variability. … they integrate this information
to infer speakers' mental states … , we expect listeners to rapidly disregard accent placement …

The role of prosody in interpreting causality in English discourse

N Hu, A Chen, H Quené, TJM Sanders - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
… must be at home” is inferred from the factual statement “Their car is in … whether listeners differ
in their interpretation of prosodic … to interpret the type of the causality the speaker intends to …

Using prosody to infer discourse prominence in cochlear-implant users and normal-hearing listeners

YT Huang, RS Newman, A Catalano, MJ Goupell - Cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
… linguistic meaning are well documented. During communication, speakers recruit prosody to
… will be sensitive to redundant acoustic cues and rapidly recruit them to infer likely referents. …

The impact of simultaneous-interpreting prosody on comprehension: An experiment

C Lenglet, C Michaux - Interpreting, 2020 - jbe-platform.com
… study that SI prosody had a negative impact on the listeners’ … function of prosody, that is, its
use as an indicator of the speaker’s … inferences can be summed up and hierarchical prosodic

Thinking probabilistically in the study of intonational speech prosody

C Kurumada, TB Roettger - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… To do so, we will examine data of German speakers collected … We have so far postulated that
listeners infer a meaning from … consistently signaling a contextual contrast), listeners rapidly

Empathy influences how listeners interpret intonation and meaning when words are ambiguous

N Esteve-Gibert, AJ Schafer, B Hemforth, C Portes… - Memory & …, 2020 - Springer
Speaker B’s response, and correlated them with the listeners’ … The specificity of French
prosodic structure might have … of how listeners are able to infer communicative intentions …

Immediate online use of prosody reveals the ironic intentions of a speaker: Neurophysiological evidence

M Mauchand, JA Caballero, X Jiang… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2021 - Springer
rapid uptake of salient prosodic features allows listeners to … on prosody as a major pragmatic
cue for inferring a speaker’s … which prosodic information is used to retrieve ironic meanings

Encoding and decoding of meaning through structured variability in intonational speech prosody

X Xie, A Buxó-Lugo, C Kurumada - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
… We hypothesize that listeners ameliorate this ambiguity in … Both younger and older speakers
of NZE use utterance final … At its essence, we submit, prosodic processing is inference over …