One important feature of linguistic communication is that some parts of utterances are more
prominent than others. Prominence as a perceptual feature of spoken language is …

This study tests the influence of acoustic cues and non-acoustic contextual factors on
listeners' perception of prominence in three languages whose prominence systems differ in …

The repetition and the predictability of a word in a conversation are two factors that are
believed to affect whether it is emphasized: Predictable, repeated words are less …

Experimental pragmatics has gained many insights from understanding how people use
weak scalar terms (like some) to infer that a stronger alternative (like all) is false. Early …

This chapter provides an introduction to some of the key methods commonly used in
psycholinguistic research. We will focus on three main types of methods: reaction-time …

Substantial empirical research has revealed that temporal and spectral phonetic vowel
reduction occurs in “easy” processing contexts relative to “hard” processing contexts …

Prosody conveys discourse-level information, but the extent to which prosodic cues
distinguish different kinds of information-structural concepts remains unclear. The prosodic …

This study investigates the relationship between signal-based factors and discourse context
in the production and perception of prominence, extending prior work on prominence in …

We investigate whether expectations based on syntactic position influence the processing of
intonational boundaries. In a boundary detection task, we manipulated (a) the strength of …

Predictability is known to affect many properties of speech production. In particular, it has
been observed that highly predictable elements (words, syllables) are produced with less …