Intonational phrasing is constrained by meaning, not balance

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1532-1562

  Breen, Mara ^a   Watson, Duane G ^b   Gibson, Edward ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intonation; Language production; Phrasing; Prosody; Syntax; ToBI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH RATE;

EID: 84858024777     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.508878     Document Type: Article

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