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What can prosody tell a parser?

J L Nicol1

  • 1Psychology 312, University of Arizona Tucson 85721, USA.

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|March 1, 1996
PubMed
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This study explores how prosodic cues aid sentence processors in resolving syntactic ambiguity. While useful in some cases, prosody

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Speech Processing

Background:

  • Syntactic ambiguity presents a challenge for sentence processing.
  • Prosodic cues, such as intonation and stress, offer potential disambiguation signals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of specific prosodic cues in resolving syntactic ambiguity during sentence processing.
  • To determine the conditions under which prosodic information is most effective for disambiguation.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of sentence processing models incorporating prosodic information.
  • Examination of the relationship between prosodic cue patterns and syntactic structures.
  • Review of experimental data on prosody and ambiguity resolution.

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Main Results:

  • Prosodic cues can be utilized by sentence processors at different stages of syntactic analysis.
  • The effectiveness of prosodic disambiguation is contingent on the specific cues and available syntactic options.
  • Prosodic information is not universally effective but provides valuable disambiguation in certain contexts.

Conclusions:

  • Prosodic cues play a context-dependent role in resolving syntactic ambiguity.
  • Sentence processing models can benefit from integrating prosodic information for improved accuracy.
  • Further research is needed to fully elucidate the mechanisms of prosodic disambiguation in language comprehension.