Two eye-tracking experiments examine whether adults and 4-and 5-year-old children use
the presence or absence of accenting to guide their interpretation of noun phrases (eg, the …

This paper investigates the use of word surprisal, a measure of the predictability of a word in
a given context, as a feature to aid speech synthesis prosody. We explore how word …

Studies of children's use of intonation in reference are few in number but are diverse in
terms of theoretical frameworks and intonational parameters. In the current review, I present …

When a subject NP has a singular head noun and a plural noun in some lower syntactic
phrase (ie local noun), occasionally a plural verb will be produced in a sentence (ie …

This paper investigates L2 learners' use of intonation in reference maintenance in
comparison to native speakers at three longitudinal points. Nominal referring expressions …

Successful communication depends on both what is said and how something is said. This
aspect of language is collectively referred to as prosody and is ubiquitous in human …

This paper investigates L2 learners' use of intonation in reference maintenance in
comparison to native speakers at three longitudinal points. Nominal referring expressions …