Informative prosodic boundaries

Language and Speech

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 87-114

  Clifton, Charles ^a   Carlson, Katy ^a,b   Frazier, Lyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Prosodic boundaries; Prosodic structure; Prosody

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

COMPREHENSION; CUES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PHONATION; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038659591     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309020450020101     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. BECKMAN, M. (1996). The parsing of prosody. Language and Cognitive Processes, 11, 17-67.
2. BECKMAN, M. E., & ELAM, G. A. (1997). Guidelines for ToBI labeling, version 3.0. Manuscript and accompanying speech materials.: Ohio State University.
3. BECKMAN, M. E., & HIRSCHBERG, J. (1994). The ToBI annotation conventions. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University.
4. BECKMAN, M. E., & PIERREHUMBERT, J. B. (1986). Intonational structure in Japanese and English. Phonology Yearbook, 3, 266-309.
5. CARLSON, K., CLIFTON, C. Jr., & FRAZIER, L. (2001). Prosodic boundaries in adjunct attachment. Journal of Memory and Language, 45, 58-81.
6. COOPER, W., & PACCIA-COOPER, J. (1980). Syntax and speech. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
7. CRUTTENDEN, A. (1997). Intonation (2nd ed.) Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
8. CUETOS, F., & MITCHELL, D. C. (1988). Cross-linguistic differences in parsing: Restrictions on the use of the Late Closure strategy in Spanish. Cognition, 30, 73-105.
9. EMONDS, J. (1973). Parenthetical clauses. In You take the high node and I'll take the low node (pp. 333-347). Chicago: Chicago Linguistics Society.
10. FODOR, J. D. (1998). Learning to parse? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 27, 285-319.
11. FRAZIER, L. (1978). On comprehending sentences: Syntactic parsing strategies. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Connecticut.
12. FRAZIER, L. (1990). Exploring the architecture of the language system. In G. Altmann (Ed.), Cognitive models of speech processing: Psycholinguistic and computational perspectives (pp. 409-433). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
13. FRAZIER, L., & CLIFTON, C., Jr., (1996). Construal. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
14. FRAZIER, L., & FODOR, J. D. (1978). The sausage machine: A new two-stage parsing model. Cognition, 6, 291-326.
15. FRAZIER, L., MUNN, A., & CLIFTON, C. Jr., (2000). Processing coordinate structures. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 343-370.
16. FRAZIER, L., TAFT, L., ROEPER, T., CLIFTON, C. Jr., & EHRLICH, K. (1984). Parallel structure: A source of facilitation in sentence comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 12, 421-430.
17. GIBSON, E., PEARLMUTTER, N., CANSECO-GONZALEZ, E., & HICKOK, G. (1996). Recency preference in the human sentence processing mechanism. Cognition, 59, 23-59.
18. HAYES, B. & LAHIRI, A. (1991). Bengali intonational phonology. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 9, 47-96.
19. HEMFORTH, B., KONIECZNY, L., & SCHEEPERS, C. (2000). Syntactic attachment and anaphor resolution: The two sides of relative clause attachment. In M. Crocker, M. Pickering & C. Clifton (Eds.), Architecture and mechanisms of language processing (pp.259-281). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
20. HENSTRA, J.-A. (1996). On the parsing of syntactically ambiguous sentences: Coordination and relative clause attachment. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Sussex, Sussex, England.
21. KIMBALL, J. (1973). Seven principles of surface structure parsing in natural language. Cognition, 2, 15-47.
22. LEHISTE, I. (1973). Phonetic disambiguation of syntactic ambiguity. Glossa, 7, 107-122.
23. MUNN, A. B. (1993). Topics in the syntax and semantics of coordinate structures. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Maryland.
24. NESPOR, M., & VOGEL, I. (1983). Prosodic structure above the word. In A. Cutler & R. Ladd (Eds.), Prosody: Models and measurements (pp. 123-140). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
25. PIERREHUMBERT, J. B. (1980). The phonology and phonetics of English intonation. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, MIT.
26. PIERREHUMBERT, J. B., & HIRSCHBERG, J. (1990). The meaning of intonational contours in the interpretation of discourse. In P. R. Cohen, J. Morgan, M. E. Pollack (Eds.), Intentions in communication (pp. 271-311). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
27. PRICE, P. J., OSTENDORF, M., SHATTUCK-HUFFNAGEL, S., & FONG, C. (1991). The use of prosody in syntactic disambiguation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 90, 2956-2970.
28. PYNTE, J., & PRIEUR, B. (1996). Prosodic breaks and attachment decisions in sentence processing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 11, 165-192.
29. ROSS, J. R. (1967). Constraints on variables in syntax. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, MIT.
30. SCHAFER, A. (1997). Prosodic parsing: The role of prosody in sentence comprehension. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
31. SCHAFER, A., CARTER, J., CLIFTON, C., Jr., & FRAZIER, L. (1996). Focus in relative clause construal. Language and Cognitive Processes, 11, 135-163.
32. SCHAFER, A. J., SPEER, S. R., WARREN, P., & WHITE, S. D. (2000). Intonational disambiguation in sentence production and comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 169-182.
33. SELKIRK, E. (1997). The interaction of constraints on prosodic phrasing. In M. Horne (Ed)., Festscrhrift Gösta Bruce. Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
34. SILVERMAN, K., BECKMAN, M. E., PITRELLI, J., OSTENDORF, M., WIGHTMAN, C., PRICE, P., PIERREHUMBET, J., & HIRSCHBERG, J. (1992). ToBI: A standard for labeling English prosody. Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Banff, Canada.
35. TRUCKENBRODT, H. (1995). Phonological phrases: Their relation to syntax, focus, and prominence. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
36. TRUCKENBRODT, H. (1999). On the relation between syntactic phrases and phonological phrases. Linguistic Inquiry, 30, 219-255.
37. TRUCKENBRODT, H. (2001). Shreds of syntactic structure. Lecture delivered at Linguistics Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, May 11, 2001.
38. WATSON, D. G., & GIBSON, E. (2002). When does prosody influence parsing? Poster presented at the Fifteenth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York.