This paper investigates how speakers of English can use the prosodic design of utterances
to identity parts of these utterances as instances of reported speech. We will show that …

Repetition poses certain problems for pragmatics, as evidenced by Sperber and Wilson's
claim that “the effects of repetition on utterance interpretation are by no means constant” …

Prosody has been demonstrated to play some role in parsing the grammatical structure of
utterances of texts that might otherwise display surface (syntactic) ambiguity. In the context of …

Prosody is relevant to continuity in spoken discourse in a number of ways. For example,
variations in pitch height may be used for discourse topic delineation. Geluykens (1993 …

In communication settings, human beings use prosody to structure information. Prosody is
an intrinsic determinant of spoken language (Cutler, Dahan & van Donselaar, 1997), and …

A written sentence consists of a sequence of letters interrupted by spaces and punctuation
marks, like commas and periods. The spaces indicate the beginnings and endings of words …

Sentence-initial pronoun-verb combinations such as I think, I believe are ambiguous
between main clause use on the one hand and adverbial or discourse use on the other …

Research on the exploitation of prosodic information in the comprehension of spoken
language is reviewed. The research falls into three main areas: the use of prosody in the …

The place of prosody in language is, as the introduction to the present volume recounts, one
of the most regularly disputed topics in linguistics. The question at issue is: must prosody be …

In this tutorial we present evidence that, because syntax does not fully predict the way that
spoken utterances are organized, prosody is a significant issue for studies of auditory …