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Tooley, Kristen M.; Konopka, Agnieszka E.; Watson, Duane G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
In 3 experiments, we investigated whether intonational phrase structure can be primed. In all experiments, participants listened to sentences in which the presence and location of intonational phrase boundaries were manipulated such that the recording included either no intonational phrase boundaries, a boundary in a structurally dispreferred…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Phrase Structure, Priming, Sentences
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Breen, Mara; Watson, Duane G.; Gibson, Edward – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
This paper evaluates two classes of hypotheses about how people prosodically segment utterances: (1) meaning-based proposals, with a focus on Watson and Gibson's (2004) proposal, according to which speakers tend to produce boundaries before and after long constituents; and (2) balancing proposals, according to which speakers tend to produce…
Descriptors: Local History, Sentences, Intervals, Verbs