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Discourse context influences how we interpret speech sounds. Information structure affects expectations about word pronunciation, impacting real-time language processing.

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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Phonetics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Spoken word recognition relies on integrating acoustic cues with linguistic expectations.
  • Prosodic cues, like duration and pitch, signal linguistic information but their interpretation can be context-dependent.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how discourse-based expectations modulate the interpretation of acoustic-prosodic cues.
  • To determine the time course of this modulation during spoken word recognition.

Main Methods:

  • Two visual-world experiments using eye-tracking.
  • Manipulation of segmental duration and fundamental frequency (F0) in resynthesized speech.
  • Establishment of information-structural differences (thematic roles) via critical instructions.

Main Results:

  • Replication of segmental lengthening effects on word activation.
  • A significant interaction between information structure and prosodic cues.
  • Prosodic cues influenced competitor activation only when the target word maintained its thematic role.

Conclusions:

  • Information structure dynamically shapes expectations about fine-grained acoustic-phonetic properties.
  • These expectations influence the interpretation of prosodic cues in real-time speech processing.
  • Discourse context plays a crucial role in the predictive nature of language comprehension.