Variable linguistic environments require the ability to quickly update expectations and
behavior including speech comprehension. This adaptive capacity is key to understanding …

We investigated how two cues to contrast—beat gesture and contrastive pitch accenting—
affect comprehenders' cognitive load during processing of spoken referring expressions. In …

Interpersonal discourse particles (DPs), such as Dutch inderdaad (≈'indeed') and eigenlijk
(≈'actually') are highly frequent in everyday conversational interaction. Despite extensive …

Previous psycholinguistic studies that compared the time course of interpretation for
pragmatic some and literal all have returned mixed results. In particular, a delayed …

Are our concepts from prosodic typology, like word stress, pitch accent, head-/edge-
prominence, really that tightly linked to individual languages? How are meanings often …

Cues to emphasis, such as beat gesture and contrastive pitch accenting, play an important
role in constraining what comprehenders remember from a discourse. One possibility is that …

Although prosody clearly affects the interpretation of utterances, the mapping between
prosodic representations and acoustic features is highly variable. Listeners may in part cope …

The present article introduces the concept of an educational game application aimed at
providing training in predictive second language (L2) processing. The prototype of the …

Traditionally, pitch accents are understood to relate to the information structure of a sentence
and its discourse connections, while prosodic boundaries indicate groupings of words and …

Individuals vary in how they produce speech. This variability affects both the segments
(vowels and consonants) and the suprasegmental properties of their speech (prosody) …