Research on the exploitation of prosodic information in the comprehension of spoken
language is reviewed. The research falls into three main areas: the use of prosody in the …

Research on prosody has recently become an important focus in various disciplines,
including Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science. This article reviews recent …

Este libro proporciona un estudio de la entonación y la estructura prosódica de última
generación. Desde un punto de vista fonológico, muestra cómo los constituyentes morfo …

Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David
Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic …

Subjects listened to sentences with early closure (eg, When Roger leaves the house is dark)
or late closure syntax (eg, When Roger leaves the house it's dark) and one of three …

Speakers' prosodic marking of syntactic constituency is often measured in sentence reading
tasks that lack realistic situational constraints on speaking. Results from such studies can be …

The listener can be thought of as a device for conversion of acoustic input into meaning. The
purpose of this chapter is to provide an outline, necessarily superficial but we hope not …

Just as the false comma in this sentence, shows punctuation can influence sentence
processing considerably. Pauses and other prosodic cues in spoken language serve the …

In this paper, we evaluate several theories of how syntactic/semantic structure influences the
placement of intonational boundaries in language production (Cooper & Paccia-Cooper …

Frequent words tend to shorten (see eg Schuchardt 1885, Hooper 1976), as do words that
have a high probability of occurrence given a neighboring word (Jurafsky et al. 2001). This …