The paper investigates the relationship between exposure to non-native dialects or foreign
languages and the extraction of pragmatic meaning from intonational cues, with specific …

Speech in everyday conversations is riddled with discourse markers (DMs), such as well,
you know, and like. However, in many lab-based studies of speech comprehension, such …

Human behavior is often remarkably flexible, showing the ability to quickly adapt to the
statistical peculiarities of a particular local context. When it comes to language, previous …

Intonation plays an integral role in comprehending spoken language. It encodes post-lexical
pragmatic functions such as sentence modality and discourse contexts. The present …

Certain English intonational contours facilitate a conversational implicature that a relevant
alternative to the stated proposition does not hold true. We evaluated how frequently and …

Linguistic research has long viewed prosody as an important indicator of information
structure in intonationally rich languages like English. Correspondingly, numerous …

By manipulating the location of prosodic boundary and the semantic bias of the ambiguous
“V+ N1+ de+ N2” phrase, which is composed of one verb (V), one noun (N1), one functional …

A phoneme-detection task shows that listeners of Sepedi use semantic information in
processing but not prosody (Experiment 1). Sepedi is a language with no grammaticalised …

Speech prosody, the rhythm and intonation in particular, plays an important role in
communication of meaning. Rising vs. falling intonation contours signaling the speaker's …

The involvement of tonal information during speech prediction: Evidence based on Chinese
tone sandhi Page 1 TONAL PREDICTION 1 The involvement of tonal information during …