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  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Prosody, including pitch accents and boundaries, is known to influence syntactic attachment.
  • The precise mechanism—perceptual salience versus focus marking—remains debated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether perceptual salience or focus attraction drives prosodic effects on syntactic attachment.
  • To determine if information structure, independent of prosody, influences sentence interpretation.

Main Methods:

  • Two auditory comprehension experiments were conducted.
  • Ambiguous sentences were presented, with focus manipulated via preceding wh-questions.
  • Syntactic attachment preferences were measured.

Main Results:

  • Focus position, signaled by wh-questions, significantly affected syntactic attachment.
  • Ambiguous phrases were preferentially attached to the focused information.
  • This effect occurred even without explicit pitch accents marking the focus.

Conclusions:

  • The Focus Attraction Hypothesis, or a pragmatic salience account, is supported.
  • Information structure, conveyed through various means including prosody, guides sentence interpretation.
  • Modifiers are preferentially integrated with the most salient or important information in a sentence.