Prosody in the Comprehension of Spoken Language: A Literature Review

By Ann Cutler, Delphine Dahan, Wilma van Donselaar. 1997

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Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody: A review (2010, methodology): “The success of Dahan et al.’s (2002) study has led researchers to adopt this technique to investigate the semantic and acoustic properties of pitch accents. Using the visual-world paradigm, Ito and Speer (2008) and Weber, Braun, and Crocker (2006) found that listeners fixated potential contrast obje”
Suprasegmental Measures of Accentedness and Judgments of Language Learner Proficiency in Oral English (2010, background): “Given the particular array of constituents, we interpret this cluster to reflect individual differences in voice pitch, not the use of discourse-level pitch structure, as a cue to topic openings and closings or to distinguish the informational value of individual lexical items (Cutler et al., 1997).”
Prosodic cues to semantic structure in native and nonnative listening (2003, background): “This also seems to us unlikely, given evidence from native listening that prosodic processing actually assists phonetic identification and lexical access (see Cutler, Dahan and Donselaar, 1997; Nooteboom, 1997; Cutler, 1998, for”
Using prosody to avoid ambiguity: Effects of speaker awareness and referential context (2003, background): “This is especially important when one considers that prosodic variation is influenced by several factors other than syntactic structure, including the length and stress pattern of words, speech rate, the presence of contrastive or emphatic stress, and the prosodic marking of discourse focus (e.g., F”
Accent and reference resolution in spoken-language comprehension (2002, background): “PII: S 0 7 4 9 - 5 9 6 X ( 0 2 ) 0 0 0 0 1 - 3 in particular the distribution of pitch accents, is also likely to affect both the salience of discourse entities and the processing of anaphoric expressions (see Cutler, Dahan, & van Donselaar, 1997, and references therein).”
Syntactic and Semantic Modulation of Neural Activity during Auditory Sentence Comprehension (2006, background): “At a minimum, this process requires simultaneous input from lexical systems, morphological decomposition mechanisms, and phonetic and prosodic systems that analyze word and phrase boundary cues (Clifton, Carlson, & Frazier, 2002; Cutler, Dahan, & van Donselaar, 1997; MacDonald et al., 1994; Shapir”
The elastic phrase: modeling the dynamics of boundary-adjacent lengthening (2003, background): “Prominence or accent directs the attentional resources of the listener to new and/or important information in the discourse (see, e.g., Cutler et al., 1997; Birch & Clifton, 1995).”