English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
  Interindividual variation in weighting prosodic and semantic cues during sentence comprehension – a partial replication of Van der Burght et al. (2021)

van der Burght, C. L., & Meyer, A. S. (2024). Interindividual variation in weighting prosodic and semantic cues during sentence comprehension – a partial replication of Van der Burght et al. (2021). In Y. Chen, A. Chen, & A. Arvaniti (Eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024 (pp. 792-796). doi:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-160.

Item is

Basic

show hide
Genre: Conference Paper

Files

show Files
hide Files
:
burght24_speechprosody.pdf (Publisher version), 523KB
Name:
burght24_speechprosody.pdf
Description:
-
OA-Status:
Green
Visibility:
Public
MIME-Type / Checksum:
application/pdf / [MD5]
Technical Metadata:
Copyright Date:
-
Copyright Info:
-
License:
-

Locators

show

Creators

show
hide
 Creators:
van der Burght, Constantijn L.1, Author                 
Meyer, Antje S.1, Author           
Affiliations:
1Psychology of Language Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, ou_792545              

Content

show
hide
Free keywords: -
 Abstract: Contrastive pitch accents can mark sentence elements occupying parallel roles. In “Mary kissed John, not Peter”, a pitch accent on Mary or John cues the implied syntactic role of Peter. Van der Burght, Friederici, Goucha, and Hartwigsen (2021) showed that listeners can build expectations concerning syntactic and semantic properties of upcoming words, derived from pitch accent information they heard previously. To further explore these expectations, we attempted a partial replication of the original German study in Dutch. In the experimental sentences “Yesterday, the police officer arrested the thief, not the inspector/murderer”, a pitch accent on subject or object cued the subject/object role of the ellipsis clause. Contrasting elements were additionally cued by the thematic role typicality of the nouns. Participants listened to sentences in which the ellipsis clause was omitted and selected the most plausible sentence-final noun (presented visually) via button press. Replicating the original study results, listeners based their sentence-final preference on the pitch accent information available in the sentence. However, as in the original study, individual differences between listeners were found, with some following prosodic information and others relying on a structural bias. The results complement the literature on ellipsis resolution and on interindividual variability in cue weighting.

Details

show
hide
Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2024-03-0820242024
 Publication Status: Issued
 Pages: -
 Publishing info: -
 Table of Contents: -
 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-160
 Degree: -

Event

show
hide
Title: Speech Prosody 2024
Place of Event: Leiden, The Netherlands
Start-/End Date: 2024-07-02 - 2024-07-05

Legal Case

show

Project information

show

Source 1

show
hide
Title: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024
Source Genre: Proceedings
 Creator(s):
Chen, Yiyan, Editor
Chen, Aoju, Editor
Arvaniti, Amalia, Editor
Affiliations:
-
Publ. Info: -
Pages: - Volume / Issue: - Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 792 - 796 Identifier: -