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  • Psycholinguistics
  • Phonetics

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  • The glottal stop in Maltese has a dual role: phonemic for lexical contrast and phonetic for prosodic marking.
  • Understanding the interplay between segmental information and prosody in syntactic parsing is crucial for language processing research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if segmental information, specifically an epenthetic glottal stop in Maltese, affects syntactic parsing.
  • To determine the influence of prosodic boundaries, signaled by segmental and suprasegmental cues, on sentence structure interpretation.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted with Maltese speakers.
  • Participants' perception of prosodic boundaries was measured in relation to an epenthetic glottal stop and syllable lengthening before the conjunction 'u' (and).

Main Results:

  • Participants perceived larger prosodic boundaries before 'u' when it was preceded by an epenthetic glottal stop.
  • Syllable lengthening before 'u' also led to the perception of a larger prosodic juncture.
  • These effects were consistent across different syntactic closure decisions.

Conclusions:

  • Segmental and suprasegmental information significantly influences syntactic parsing decisions in Maltese.
  • The findings highlight the role of the phonetics-prosody interface in mediating the syntax-prosody interaction.
  • Prosodically conditioned segmental information, even when not consciously perceived, impacts sentence processing.