Children’s memory for counting-out rhymes: A cross-language comparison

Rubin, David C.; Ciobanu, Violeta; Langston, William

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“…Second, the high degree of interlinear phonological patterning in poetic texts, e.g., line-final rhymes and recurrent meter, seems to increase memorability, as suggested by Tillmann and Dowling (2007) . In this latter view, it is the systematic sound patterns that serve as effective retrieval cues in actual performance ( Rubin, 1995 ), but also in experimental recall and recognition paradigms ( Van Peer, 1990 ; Rubin et al, 1997 ; Hanauer, 1998b ; Tillmann and Dowling, 2007 ; Lea et al, 2008 ). Note that this explanation is compatible with a level-of-processing account under the additional assumption that the depth of processing varies as a function of the amount of systematic sound patterning.…”

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Sentence-Level Effects of Literary Genre: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

Blohm

Schlesewsky

2017

Front. Psychol.

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The current study used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and behavioral measures to examine effects of genre awareness on sentence processing and evaluation. We hypothesized that genre awareness modulates effects of genre-typical manipulations. We manipulated instructions between participants, either specifying a genre (poetry) or not (neutral). Sentences contained genre-typical variations of semantic congruency (congruent/incongruent) and morpho-phonological features (archaic/contemporary inflections). Offline ratings of meaningfulness (n = 64/group) showed higher average ratings for semantically incongruent sentences in the poetry vs. neutral condition. ERPs during sentence reading (n = 24/group; RSVP presentation at a fixed per-constituent rate; probe task) showed a left-lateralized N400-like effect for contemporary vs. archaic inflections. Semantic congruency elicited a bilateral posterior N400 effect for incongruent vs. congruent continuations followed by a centro-parietal positivity (P600). While N400 amplitudes were insensitive to the genre, the latency of the P600 was delayed by the poetry instruction. From these results, we conclude that during real-time sentence comprehension, readers are sensitive to subtle morphological manipulations and the implicit prosodic differences that accompany them. By contrast, genre awareness affects later stages of comprehension.

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Sentence-Level Effects of Literary Genre: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

Blohm

Schlesewsky

2017

Front. Psychol.

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“…While establishing speech rhythm is not at all trivial, rhythmic patterns appear to be a relatively easy cognitive task in regularly metered and rhymed poems even for children (Rubin et al, 1997). However, it remains unclear how it works in silent reading MRRL (i.e., metrically-regular, rhymed language), if subvocalization plays an important role in it, and whether eye-movements may reflect that.…”

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Rhythmic subvocalization: An eye-tracking study on silent poetry reading

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Konieczny

2021

JEMR

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The present study investigates effects of conventionally metered and rhymed poetry on eye-movements in silent reading. Readers saw MRRL poems (i.e., metrically regular, rhymed language) in two layouts. In poem layout, verse endings coincided with line breaks. In prose layout verse endings could be mid-line. We also added metrical and rhyme anomalies. We hypothesized that silently reading MRRL results in building up auditive expectations that are based on a rhythmic “audible gestalt” and propose that rhythmicity is generated through subvocalization. Our results revealed that readers were sensitive to rhythmic-gestalt-anomalies but showed differential effects in poem and prose layouts. Metrical anomalies in particular resulted in robust reading disruptions across a variety of eye-movement measures in the poem layout and caused re-reading of the local context. Rhyme anomalies elicited stronger effects in prose layout and resulted in systematic re-reading of pre-rhymes. The presence or absence of rhythmic-gestalt-anomalies, as well as the layout manipulation, also affected reading in general. Effects of syllable number indicated a high degree of subvocalization. The overall pattern of results suggests that eye-movements reflect, and are closely aligned with, the rhythmic subvocalization of MRRL. This study introduces a two-stage approach to the analysis of long MRRL stimuli and contributes to the discussion of how the processing of rhythm in music and speech may overlap.

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“…In recent psycholinguistic research on rhyme and poetic meter, the focus has been almost exclusively on cognitive and other benefits. Specifically, rhyme and/or meter have been shown to enhance memorability (Bower & Bolton, 1969; Hanauer, 1996; Rubin, 1995; Rubin, Ciobanu, & Langston, 1997; Tillmann & Dowling, 2007), processing fluency (Dilley & McAuley, 2008; Hoorn, 1996; Menninghaus, Bohrn, Altmann, Lubrich, & Jacobs, 2014; Obermeier et al, 2016, 2013; Tilsen, 2011), truth attributions (McGlone & Tofighbakhsh, 1999, 2000), and in part also lexical access (Zwitserlood, 1996). Moreover, rhyme and meter enhanced ratings for beauty and the power to emotionally move readers (Menninghaus, Wagner, Wassiliwizky, Jacobsen, & Knoop, 2017).…”

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Ambiguity effects of rhyme and meter.

Wallot

2018

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Previous research has shown that rhyme and meter-although enhancing prosodic processing ease and memorability-also tend to make semantic processing more demanding. Using a set of rhymed and metered proverbs, as well as nonrhymed and nonmetered versions of these proverbs, the present study reveals this hitherto unspecified difficulty of comprehension to be specifically driven by perceived ambiguity. Roman Jakobson was the 1st to propose this hypothesis, in 1960. He suggested that "ambiguity is an intrinsic, inalienable feature" of "parallelistic" diction of which the combination of rhyme and meter is a pronounced example. Our results show that ambiguity indeed explains a substantial portion of the rhyme- and meter-driven difficulty of comprehension. Longer word-reading times differentially reflected ratings for ambiguity and comprehension difficulty. However, the ambiguity effect is not "inalienable." Rather, many rhymed and metered sentences turned out to be low in ambiguity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).

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Children’s memory for counting-out rhymes: A cross-language comparison

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Sentence-Level Effects of Literary Genre: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

Sentence-Level Effects of Literary Genre: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

Rhythmic subvocalization: An eye-tracking study on silent poetry reading

Ambiguity effects of rhyme and meter.

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