Pitch accent serves multiple duties (encoding lexical accent, syntactic structure, and focus)
in spoken Japanese. This study investigates how listeners interpret a role-ambiguous pitch …

Purpose Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often show difficulties understanding
non-literal language, such as metaphors and irony, because of their impaired theory of mind …

Speakers modulate the intonation of an utterance to express essential communicative
functions, and while intonational pitch contours span entire utterances, intonational …

Listeners can rapidly integrate intonational information to infer a speaker's intended
meaning. But not all components of an intonation contour contribute to meaning equally …

Prosodic emphasis affects referential processing in children, yet its effects on non-immediate
discourse representation is not well understood. Using a collaborative object search task …

While widely used in psycholinguistics, the linking hypothesis for eye movements in the
visual world paradigm is still poorly understood. Recent work on linking hypotheses for …

This paper presents the results of an analysis of production data obtained from twelve
female native Spanish learners of L2 German recorded during a collaborative map-task in …

Late second language (L2) learners often struggle with L2 prosody, both in perception and
production. This may result from first language (L1) interference or some property of how a …

This dissertation reports novel evidence that listeners evaluate the prosodic characteristics
of speech with respect to surrounding linguistic context, and that these prosodic …

It has been well established that prosody plays a key role in sentence processing,
influencing various aspects such as lexical activation, syntactic parsing, information structure …