Language Production, Incremental

Wheeldon, Linda; Meyer, Antje S.; Smith, Mark C.

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“…Thus, the need to buffer large chunks of output between stages is minimized, and the cost of production can be distributed across the period in which an utterance is articulated (cf. Wheeldon, Meyer, & Smith, 2003).…”

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Anticipatory coarticulation and the minimal planning unit of speech.

Liu¹,

Kawamoto²,

Payne³

et al. 2018

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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One of the most persistent arguments against the segment as the minimal planning unit is that the seemingly ubiquitous, thus, presumed obligatory, nature of anticipatory coarticulation (AC) effects favors the syllable or a larger unit. By contrast, we present the results of 3 experiments showing that AC is not ubiquitous, but graded and variable based on (a) phonological availability and (b) the specific criterion to initiate articulation adopted by a speaker. We further argue that phonological encoding is parallel. These results point to (a) the segment, and not the syllable, as the minimal planning unit and (b) a flexible planning scope. Implications with respect to the current formulation of AC regarding phonological availability and the minimal unit of speech articulation are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Anticipatory coarticulation and the minimal planning unit of speech.

Liu¹,

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Payne³

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“…Therefore, we hypothesize that the effect of stress might be rather related to the general dynamics or movement of speech prosody. A shift forward in the prosodic stress position (potentially from a nuclear stress; Wheeldon, 2000, p. 258) would thus not have an emphatic or contrastive role but could help the listener infer an ironic meaning. The replication of such findings with filtered speech (Bryant & Fox Tree, 2005), or jabberwocky material (e.g., Banse & Scherer, 1996) or in languages that have other syntactic structures, would confirm that the acoustic signature of irony is not about the distinct degrees of stress placed on specific words but rather about a differential distribution of stress patterns over the trajectory of a sentence, and specifically about prosodic stress at an earlier position in the sentence compared to a nonironic use of the same sentence.…”

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Ironic twists of sentence meaning can be signaled by forward move of prosodic stress.

Larrouy-Maestri¹,

Kegel²,

Schlotz³

et al. 2023

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Prosodic stresses are known to affect the meaning of utterances, but exactly how they do this is not known in many cases. We focus on the mechanisms underlying the meaning effects of ironic prosody (e.g., teasing or blaming through an ironic twist), which is frequently used in both personal and mass-media communication. To investigate ironic twists, we created 30 sentences that can be interpreted both ironically and nonironically, depending on the context. In Experiment 1, 14 of these sentences were identified as being most reliably understood in the two conditions. In Experiment 2, we recorded the 14 sentences spoken in both a literal and an ironic condition by 14 speakers, and the resulting 392 recorded sentences were acoustically analyzed. In Experiment 3, 20 listeners marked the acoustically prominent words, thus identifying perceived prosodic stresses. In Experiment 4, 53 participants rated how ironic they perceived the 392 recorded sentences to be. The combined analysis of irony ratings, acoustic features, and various prosodic stress characteristics revealed that ironic meaning is primarily signaled by a stress shift from the end of a sentence to an earlier position. This change in position might function as a “warning” cue for listeners to consider potential alternative meanings of the sentence. Thus, beyond giving individual words a stronger contrastive or emphatic role, the distribution of prosodic stresses can also prime opposite meanings for identical sentences, supporting the view that the dynamic aspect of prosody conveys important cues in human communication.

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“…First of all, a definition of psycholinguistics is needed, in order to situate the context of analyzing reading comprehension from the point of view of this theory. Psycholinguistics can be understood as explaining the psychological means through which our use and understanding of language works while interacting with our mind, as well as the way language is expressed, or produced, and understood by us [5][6][7][8].…”

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Perspective Chapter: Reading Comprehension – A Matter of Skill or Knowledge of the World?

Drobot

2023

Psycholinguistics - New Advances and Real-World Applications

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The purpose of this chapter is to understand how insights in psycholinguistics could help in the creation of reading comprehension exercises for various language proficiency tests. The author of this chapter has created and adapted reading comprehension questions for students in engineering, therefore the psycholinguistic theory insights will be applied to her experience and to the domain of engineering when it comes to the topic of the text. The psycholinguistic perspective could offer insights regarding how the reading process takes place. For example, how does the interaction between language and thought occur? In order to prepare reading comprehension questions, we should know which types of questions can be helpful in order to improve the students’ skills. There are many courses and sites claiming that they can help us read a whole book in only one day or in the shortest time possible. Psycholinguistics could highlight useful skimming techniques.

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Language Production, Incremental

Abstract: Incrementality concerns the processing stages of linguistic output: conceptual structure, lexical selection, and generation of grammatical and phonological structure, and suggests that these processes can to an extent run in parallel to aid the speed and fluency of speech production.

Cited by 5 publications

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Anticipatory coarticulation and the minimal planning unit of speech.

Anticipatory coarticulation and the minimal planning unit of speech.

Ironic twists of sentence meaning can be signaled by forward move of prosodic stress.

Perspective Chapter: Reading Comprehension – A Matter of Skill or Knowledge of the World?

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