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The influence of syntax on prosodic structure in Japanese
Venditti, Jennifer J. ( 1994-04 )This paper examines the relationship between the syntactic and prosodic structures of utterances which are structurally ambiguous. Two experiments were conducted involving ambiguous noun phrases (right-versus left-branching) ... -
The Influence of Orthography and Sentence Constraint on the Processing of Nouns in Japanese
Darnell, Kim; Boland, Julie; Nakayama, Mineharu ( 1994-04 )Utilizing a word-by-word reading paradigm, we investigated the role of orthographic familiarity in the processing of Japanese nouns by comparing the reading times of words that were kanji dominant (the kanji form is preferred ... -
Rate Effects on German Unstressed Syllables
Jannedy, Stefanie ( 1994-04 )German is characterized by the rhythmic alternation of strong and weak syllables. Weak syllables contain short or reduced vowels like schwa. In some instances, the unstressed weak syllable nucleus can be the only difference ... -
Asymmetry of prosodic effects on the glottal gesture in Korean
Jun, Sun-Ah ( 1994-04 )Many languages have different allophones for voiced or voiceless stops depending on position within the word or the phrase (Keating et al. 1983). However, such effects are not always symmetrical. In this paper, I examined ... -
Discourse functions of pitch range in spontaneous and read speech
Ayers, Gayle M. ( 1994-04 )Functions of intonation and pitch range were compared in matched spontaneous and read speech discourses. Two casual conversations were recorded, and the same speakers read scripts prepared from the original conversations. ... -
Is there 'dephrasing' of the accentual phrase in Japanese?
Maekawa, Kikuo ( 1994-04 )An experiment was carried out in order to examine two putative cases of 'dephrasing' of the accentual phrase in Japanese. The result revealed that it was possible to detect the accentedness of seemingly 'dephrased' accentual ... -
When is a Syllable not a Syllable?
Beckman, Mary E. ( 1994-04 )This paper reviews evidence for unifying two seemingly disparate types of syllable reduction phenomena: the elision of reduced vowels in English and German, and the devocalization of high vowels in Japanese, Korean, and ... -
The Relationship between Syntactic and Semantic Processes in Sentence Comprehension
Boland, Julie E. ( 1994-04 )Two experiments investigate how lexically ambiguous input is handled by the sentence processing system and shed light on the relationship between syntactic and semantic processing. Sentence contexts containing ambiguous ... -
Effects of Prosodic Position and Tonal Context on Taiwanese Tones
Peng, Shu-hui ( 1994-04 )The present study investigates the effects of prosodic position and following tone on duration and fundamental frequency of voicing (F0) pattern for the Taiwanese tones. The results showed that Taiwanese tones were ...