Speech prosody plays an important role in communication of meaning. The cognitive and
computational mechanisms supporting this communication remain to be understood …

Prosody is a central part of human speech, with prosodic modulations of the signal
expressing important communicative functions. Yet, the exact mechanisms of how listeners …

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 …

The perception of prosodic structure (phrasal prominences and boundaries) may depend in
part on acoustic cues in the speech signal and in part on utterance meaning as related to …

The realization of prosody varies across speakers, accents, and speech conditions.
Listeners must navigate this variability to converge on consistent prosodic interpretations …

A visual world experiment examined the time course for pragmatic inferences derived from
visual context and contrastive intonation contours. We used the construction It looks like an …

Listeners face multiple challenges in mapping prosody onto intentions: The relevant
intentions vary with the general context of an utterance (eg, the speaker's goals) and how …

This paper reports three studies aimed at addressing three questions about the acoustic
correlates of information structure in English:(1) do speakers mark information structure …

This thesis explores two questions about the role of prosody in language. From the
perspective of speech production, it examines the regularity with which speakers provide …

We examined the processing of potential auditory and visual cues that differentiate
statements from echoic questions. In Experiment 1, four natural speech statement-question …