Phoneme-monitoring reaction time and preceding prosody: Effects of stop closure duration and of fundamental frequency
Publication year
1981Source
Perception and Psychophysics, 29, 3, (1981), pp. 217-224ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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SW OZ DCC CO
Journal title
Perception and Psychophysics
Volume
vol. 29
Issue
iss. 3
Page start
p. 217
Page end
p. 224
Abstract
In an earlier study, it was shown that listeners can use prosodic cues that predict where sentence stress will fall; phoneme-monitoring RTs are faster when the preceding prosody indicates that the word bearing the target will be stressed. Two experiments which further investigate this effect are described. In the first, it is shown that the duration of the closure preceding the release of the target stop consonant burst does not affect the RT advantage for stressed words. In the second, it is shown that fundamental frequency variation is not a necessary component of the prosodic variation that produces the predicted-stress effect. It is argued that sentence processing involves a very flexible use of prosodic information.
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