Duration as a cue to the perception of a phrase boundary

Scott, Donia

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“…(a) Intonational cues were removed since all final versions of a sentence now had the same intonation contour. (b) Timing cues were removed by the splicing manipulation in two ways (i) in the spliced versions timing cues would suggest one reading, while the critical segment would suggest the other, and (ii) in any case disruption of the smooth timing pattern of the utterance by the cross splicing would result in the normally efficient processing of rhythmic cues to syntax (Lehiste, 1977;Scott, 1982) being severely disrupted (Martin, 1979;Meltzer, Martin, Mills, Imhoff, & Zohar, 1976). This disruption applies equally to phrase boundary readings spliced into a no-phrase boundary context, and vice versa.…”

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“…(a) a fall-rise in the fundamental frequency contour (Cooper & Sorensen, 1977;Lea, 1972;'t Hart & Cohen, 1973), (b) a pause (Boomer, 1965;GoldmanEisler, 1972;Grosjean & Deschamps, 1975), (c) lengthening of the final stressed syllable of a phrase (Cooper, Paccia and Lapointe, 1978;Klatt, 1975;Lindblom & Rapp, 1973;Scott, 1982), (d) lengthening of the foot (interstress interval) which contains the phrase boundary (Lehiste, Olive, & Streeter, 1976;Scott, 1982), and (e) changes in amplitude (Streeter, 1978). The first four of these features, at least, can be used by listeners as perceptual cues to the location of a major syntactic boundary (Collier and 't Hart, 1975;Lehiste et al, 1976;Scott, 1982;Streeter, 1978).…”

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“…The first four of these features, at least, can be used by listeners as perceptual cues to the location of a major syntactic boundary (Collier and 't Hart, 1975;Lehiste et al, 1976;Scott, 1982;Streeter, 1978).…”

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Segmental phonology and the perception of syntactic structure

Scott

Cutler

1984

Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior

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Recent research in speech production has shown that syntactic structure is reflected in segmental phonology--the application of certain phonological rules of English (e.g., palatalization and alveolar flapping) is inhibited across phrase boundaries. We examined whether such segmental effects can be used in speech perception as cues to syntactic structure, and the relation between the use of these segmental features as syntactic markers in production and perception. Speakers of American English (a dialect in which the above segmental effects occur) could indeed use the segmental cues in syntax perception; speakers of British English (in which the effects do not occur) were unable to make use of them, while speakers of British English who were long-term residents of the United States showed intermediate performance.Anyone who has had to make the separate meanings of an ambiguous sentence clear to listeners will know that often the most efficient method is just to say the sentence in different ways. Of course, some sentences will be more difficult to disambiguate in this manner than others; in general, surface structure ambiguities (e.g., "The old men and women stayed at home") prove easier than deep structure ambiguities (e.g., "Flying planes can be

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Segmental phonology and the perception of syntactic structure

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1984

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“…Grammatical functions of prosody include the segmenting of utterances into prosodic phrases; the ends of phrases are signalled by a number of prosodic factors (forms) including: pause (Butcher, 1981); lengthening of the final syllable (Scott, 1982); and the presence of nuclear tone (Cruttenden, 1997), located at or near the end of the utterance. Such boundary markers have been collectively designated 'boundary tone' (Pierrehumbert, 1987).…”

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“…It appears that "rate" was taken to refer to both final syllable lengthening, i.e. relative syllable rate, a crucial indicator in prosodic phrasing (Scott, 1982;Katz, Beach, Jenouri & Verma, 1996), and tempo, or overall speech-rate, important for affective distinctions. Such a blurring of distinctions is by no means an isolated occurrence in the literature involving prosody research, and highlights the need for better definition of the forms and functions of prosody.…”

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Receptive and Expressive Prosodic Ability in Children With High-Functioning Autism

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Purpose This study aimed to identify the nature and extent of receptive and expressive prosodic deficits in children with high-functioning autism (HFA). Method Thirty-one children with HFA, 72 typically developing controls matched on verbal mental age, and 33 adults with normal speech completed the prosody assessment procedure, Profiling Elements of Prosodic Systems in Children. Results Children with HFA performed significantly less well than controls on 11 of 12 prosody tasks ( p < .005). Receptive prosodic skills showed a strong correlation ( p < .01) with verbal mental age in both groups, and to a lesser extent with expressive prosodic skills. Receptive prosodic scores also correlated with expressive prosody scores, particularly in grammatical prosodic functions. Prosodic development in the HFA group appeared to be delayed in many aspects of prosody and deviant in some. Adults showed near-ceiling scores in all tasks. Conclusions The study demonstrates that receptive and expressive prosodic skills are closely associated in HFA. Receptive prosodic skills would be an appropriate focus for clinical intervention, and further investigation of prosody and the relationship between prosody and social skills is warranted.

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Speech Perception

Jusczyk

Luce

2002

Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology

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The scientific study of the perception of spoken language has been a productive area of research for over fifty years. During this period, we have learned much about infants' and adults' remarkable capacities for perceiving and understanding the sounds of their language. We present a selective review of the past half century of research on speech perception, focusing on three principle topics: early work on the discrimination and categorization of speech sounds, more recent efforts to understand the processes and representations responsible for spoken word recognition, and research on how infants acquire the capacity to perceive their native language. Our intent is to provide the reader with a sense of the progress our field has made over the last half century in understanding the human's extraordinary capacity for the perception of spoken language.

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Duration as a cue to the perception of a phrase boundary

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Segmental phonology and the perception of syntactic structure

Segmental phonology and the perception of syntactic structure

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