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Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing

Studies in Honor of Janet Dean Fodor

  • Includes the latest findings from leading researchers on the role of prosody in spoken and written text
  • Research is placed in the context of what is currently known about this core concept in language that influences phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
  • Linguists and psychologists bring their insights on prosody together in one volume
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (SITP, volume 46)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    • Lyn Frazier, Edward Gibson
    Pages 1-7
  3. Explicit Prosody

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. Prosodic Realizations of Information Focus in French

      • Claire Beyssade, Barbara Hemforth, Jean-Marie Marandin, Cristel Portes
      Pages 39-61
    3. The Effect of Phonological Encoding on Word Duration: Selection Takes Time

      • Duane G Watson, Andrés Buxó-Lugo, Dominique C Simmons
      Pages 85-98
    4. Prosody and Intention Recognition

      • Michael K. Tanenhaus, Chigusa Kurumada, Meredith Brown
      Pages 99-118
    5. Processing, Prosody, and Optional to

      • Thomas Wasow, Roger Levy, Robin Melnick, Hanzhi Zhu, Tom Juzek
      Pages 133-158

About this book

Top researchers in prosody and psycholinguistics present their research and their views on the role of prosody in processing speech and also its role in reading. The volume characterizes the state of the art in an important area of psycholinguistics. How are general constraints on prosody (‘timing’) and intonation (‘melody’) used to constrain the parsing and interpretation of spoken language? How are they used to assign a default prosody/intonation in silent reading, and more generally what is the role of phonology in reading? Prosody and intonation interact with phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics and thus are at the very core of language processes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, USA

    Lyn Frazier

  • Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Edward Gibson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing

  • Book Subtitle: Studies in Honor of Janet Dean Fodor

  • Editors: Lyn Frazier, Edward Gibson

  • Series Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12961-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12960-0Published: 08 July 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35403-3Published: 15 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12961-7Published: 23 June 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1873-0043

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1788

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 307

  • Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax

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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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