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Prosodic form and parsing commitments

S M Watt1, W S Murray

  • 1School of Educational Studies, University of Dundee, Scotland.

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|March 1, 1996
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Prosody does not affect syntactic parsing of ambiguous sentences. Experiments showed no influence of prosodic form on how listeners process sentence structure, despite sensitivity to other factors.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Syntactic ambiguity resolution is crucial for language comprehension.
  • Prosody (intonation, rhythm) is hypothesized to aid parsing.
  • Previous research suggests auditory parsing differs from visual parsing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of prosody on syntactic parsing of temporarily ambiguous sentences.
  • To compare cross-modal lexical decision and naming tasks in revealing prosodic effects.
  • To examine potential differences between auditory and visual parsing processes.

Main Methods:

  • Five experiments using cross-modal response tasks.
  • Auditory sentence fragments with varying prosodic forms.

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  • Visual target words assessed for appropriateness and lexical decision/naming.
  • Simultaneous appropriateness judgment task in some experiments.

    • Main Results:

    • Cross-modal lexical decision showed sensitivity to syntactic and appropriateness manipulations.
    • Cross-modal naming showed limited sensitivity, only with an appropriateness judgment task.
    • No experiment demonstrated a significant effect of prosodic form on syntactic parsing.

    Conclusions:

    • Prosodic form does not appear to influence syntactic parsing of complement verb sentences.
    • Auditory and visual parsing may involve different mechanisms.
    • Findings support a constituent-based, minimal commitment auditory parser model.