Using movies and narratives as naturalistic stimuli in human neuroimaging studies has
yielded significant advances in understanding of cognitive and emotional functions. The …

Language is a multi-faceted form of communication. It is not until recently though that
language research moved on from simple stimuli and protocols toward a more ecologically …

Lexical stress is an essential element of prosody. Mastering this prosodic feature is
challenging, especially in a free-stress foreign language for individuals native to a fixed …

A recent dual-stream model of language processing proposed that the postero-dorsal
stream performs predictive sequential processing of linguistic information via hierarchically …

Introduction The paper examines the discrimination of lexical stress contrasts in a foreign
language from a neural perspective. The aim of the study was to identify the areas …

It has been claimed that English has a metrical structure, or rhythm, in which stressed and
unstressed syllables alternate. In previous research regular, alternating patterns have been …

Prosody is a cover term referring to the melodic aspects of speech, with linguistic and
affective (aka emotional) meanings. This review provides an overview of linguistic and …

Rhythm is a phenomenon which is obviously present for both language and music.
However, it is unclear whether the term “rhythm” has the same meaning in these two …

Abstract (EN) Word stress is crucial for language perception and production as it enables
lexical access and speech segmentation. Phonetically, word stress is cued through higher …

During everyday conversation, listeners rely on several language cues to understand what
is being said. Besides syntax (grammar) and semantics (content), important information is …