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 …

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 …

Children's epistemic inferences through modal verbs and prosody

M Armstrong - Journal of Child Language, 2020 - cambridge.org
… Introduction As listeners in conversation, we make use of … aspects of speaker commitment
when speaker commitment is … Rapid improvement ensues for prosody/negative between …

[HTML][HTML] Listeners are better at predicting speakers similar to themselves

LV Hadley, NK Fisher, MJ Pickering - Acta psychologica, 2020 - Elsevier
… interlocutors to rapidly alternate between … an explanation of how prediction can help
explain short turn intervals in conversation. Listeners could make predictions about a speaker's

The role of prosody in disambiguating English indirect requests

S Trott, S Reed, D Kaliblotzky, V Ferreira… - Language and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
… find that human listeners can successfully determine whether … of how humans rapidly infer a
speaker’s intended meaning in … speakers can reliably produce prosodic cues that aid human …