The present study investigated the perception of phrase-level prosodic prominence in
American English, using the Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) task. We had two basic …

The growing interest in the interfaces of prosody with other areas, notably pragmatics, has
led to an interesting cross-fertilization of methods such as the Discourse Completion Task …

Psycholinguistic research has long established that focus-marked words have a processing
advantage over other words in an utterance, eg, they are recognized more quickly and …

Face masks affect the transmission of speech and obscure facial cues. Here, we examine
how this reduction in acoustic and facial information affects a listener's understanding of …

While a large body of work in sentence comprehension has explored how different types of
linguistic information are used to guide syntactic parsing, less is known about the effect of …

Individual variation is ubiquitous in the acoustic realization of human speech; however, little
is known about the nature of individual differences in coarticulation. Through an in-depth …

The present study sought to investigate, in French, the relative influence of both contextual
incongruity and prosodic cues on irony comprehension and to explore whether individual …

ABSTRACT Theories of Focus Projection claim that a single pitch accent on a verb's
argument is sufficient to prosodically mark that verb as part of the focus, negating the need …

In recent years, work carried out in the context of the implicit prosody hypothesis (IPH) has
called into question the assumption that implicit (ie, silently generated) prosody and explicit …

Phonetic imitation, or implicitly matching the acousticphonetic patterns of another speaker,
has been empirically associated with natural tendencies to promote successful social …