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Nonlocal effects of prosodic boundaries.

Katy Carlson¹, Charles Clifton, Lyn Frazier

¹Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky, USA. k.carlson@moreheadstate.edu

Memory & Cognition

|September 12, 2009

Summary

Prosodic boundaries influence syntactic analysis. A boundary after the first verb increases its attachment likelihood, supporting the informative boundary hypothesis.

Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Computational Linguistics
Cognitive Science

Background:

Prosodic boundaries can affect syntactic analysis.
The influence of prosodic boundaries depends on their position relative to other boundaries.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how the position of an early prosodic boundary affects syntactic analysis.
To extend previous findings on the role of prosodic boundary placement.

Main Methods:

Three experiments were conducted using sentences with potentially ambiguous syntactic structures.
Participants' syntactic attachments were analyzed based on prosodic boundary placement.
The effect of boundary position was compared to sentence structures with accented verbs.

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Main Results:

A prosodic boundary placed immediately after the first verb led to more attachments to that verb.
This effect was observed regardless of the distance to other boundaries.
Similar effects were found when the first verb was accented, suggesting prominence plays a role.

Conclusions:

The position of prosodic boundaries significantly impacts syntactic analysis.
The findings support the informative boundary hypothesis.
Earlier, nonlocal prosodic boundaries have a non-uniform but significant impact on sentence processing.