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 …

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 …

The understanding of speech melody, ie, pitch variations related to tone and intonation, can
be improved by simultaneously taking into consideration two basic facts: that speech …

Two experiments explore listener's use of sentence prosody to identify syntactic structure.
Beginning portions of synthesized sentences having a direct object-sentence complement …

In three experiments, the processing of lexical tone in Cantonese was examined. Cantonese
listeners more often accepted a nonword as a word when the only difference between the …

This study investigated the effects of linguistic experience on tone perception. Both
Cantonese (in Experiment 1) and Mandarin (in Experiment 2) tones, including both lexical …

In tone languages, the identity of a word depends on its tone pattern as well as its phonetic
structure. The primary cue to tone identity is the fundamental frequency (F0) contour. Two …

Vowel and tone monitoring tasks were used to investigate the role of tone information in
processing Mandarin. In Experiment 1, participants monitored for a tone-plus-vowel …

This work presents an investigation of how prosodic information is used in natural language
processing and how prosody should be incorporated into models of sentence …

Acoustic-phonetic ambiguity in word initial position was investigated in three experiments in
which the ambiguous string was compatible with two lexical items. Perceptual/lexical …