ABSTRACT A growing body of research suggests that language users integrate diverse
sources of information in processing and adapt to the variability of language at multiple …

Can preschoolers make pragmatic inferences based on the intonation of an utterance?
Previous work has found that young children appear to ignore intonational meanings and …

In two ERP experiments, we investigated how the Dutch discourse markers eigenlijk
“actually”, signalling expectation disconfirmation, and inderdaad “indeed”, signalling …

Cues to prominence such as beat gesture and contrastive pitch accent play an important
role in constraining what is remembered. However, it is currently unclear how beat gesture …

Research has shown that comprehenders represent alternative meanings to single focused
words online, consistent with Rooth's (1992) formal semantic account. However, focus can …

Indirect answers are a common type of non-literal language that do not provide an explicit
“yes” or “no” to a question (eg,“I have to work late” indirectly answered “Are you going to the …

Cognitive control facilitates the resolution of representational conflict during language
comprehension when incompatible interpretations vie for selection due to linguistic …

Learners of lexical tone languages (eg, Mandarin) develop sensitivity to tonal contrasts and
recognize pitch-matched, but not pitch-mismatched, familiar words by 11 months. Learners …

We introduce a targeted language game approach using the visual world, eye-movement
paradigm to assess when and how certain intonational contours affect the interpretation of …

The present study examines the use of receptive emotional and linguistic prosody in patients
with schizophrenia; particularly, its aim was to evaluate the type and number of errors made …