Effects of prosody and context on the comprehension of syntactic ambiguity in English and Korean
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: This study investigates how prosodic and contextual information affects the way syntactically ambiguous sentences in English and Korean are understood in spoken language comprehension.English materials used include rarely studied present participial constructions.Korean materials include a type of relative clause that contains empty pronouns as one of arguments, a structure that was never examined before.When these sentence materials were presented without biasing contexts, results showed that prosodic phrasing largely determined meaning assignment.These resultsHelp from EunJong Kong cannot be emphasized too much.She not only produced all sentences for my Korean experiments but also rescued me from getting overwhelmed with phonetics and some statistical analyses.
Author: Soyoung Kang
Institution: The Ohio State University
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2259480850