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Recycling prosodic boundaries.

Yuki Hirose1

  • 1University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu 182-8585, Japan. hirose@cs.uec.ac.jp

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|April 15, 2003
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This study shows how sentence structure and prosody influence Japanese relative clause parsing during silent reading. Prosodic boundary recycling aids ambiguity resolution, but its absence increases processing difficulty.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Syntactic Parsing

Background:

  • Syntactic ambiguity resolution is crucial for language comprehension.
  • The role of prosody in silent reading remains an active area of research.
  • Previous work suggests prosodic cues can influence syntactic processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how prosodic structure affects syntactic analysis during silent reading of Japanese relative clauses.
  • To examine the temporal dynamics of prosodic influence on ambiguity resolution.
  • To test the hypothesis that prosodic boundary recycling impacts parsing.

Main Methods:

  • Sentence-completion questionnaires (Experiments 1-2).
  • Fragment-reading tasks (Experiment 3).

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  • Self-paced reading experiments (Experiments 4-5).

    • Main Results:

    • Sentence-initial constituent length affected clause boundary ambiguity resolution.
    • Prosodic phrasing in speech reflected length manipulations.
    • Prosodic boundary recycling influenced ambiguity resolution immediately during online processing.
    • Lack of a recyclable prosodic boundary increased processing difficulty.

    Conclusions:

    • Prosodic structure plays a significant role in syntactic ambiguity resolution during silent reading.
    • The 'recycling' of prosodic boundaries is a key mechanism for efficient parsing.
    • Understanding prosody's role enhances models of language comprehension.