Intonation plays an integral role in comprehending spoken language. Listeners can rapidly integrate intonational information to predictively map a given pitch accent onto the speaker's …
Speech prosody, the melodic and rhythmic properties of a language, plays a critical role in our everyday communication. Researchers have identified unique patterns of prosody that …
A central question regarding predictive language processing concerns the extent to which linguistic experience modulates the process. We approached this question by investigating …
M Yan, S Calhoun - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Psycholinguistic research has long established that focus-marked words have a processing advantage over other words in an utterance, eg, they are recognized more quickly and …
S Calhoun, M Yan, H Salanoa, F Taupi… - Language and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper looks at the effect of focus-marking on the immediate and delayed recognition of referents in Samoan. Focus-marking on a word can imply the presence of alternatives to that …
The perception of prosodic prominence is thought to be influenced by multiple competing factors. Three experiments tested the effects of phonological salience, discourse context and …
J Degen, L Kursat, DD Leigh - … of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2021 - escholarship.org
Experimental investigation is fundamental to theory-building in cognitive science, but its value depends on the linking assumptions made by researchers about the mapping …
Recent advances in understanding the functionality of the human hippocampus has led to a number of proposals for how hippocampus may support a range of cognitive abilities …
E Chun, E Kaan - Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2019 - Springer
Recent studies have found that proficient second language (L2) listeners are able to predict upcoming linguistic information to the same extent as first language (L1) listeners during …