There remains little consensus about whether there exist meaningful individual differences
in syntactic processing and, if so, what explains them. We argue that this partially reflects the …

Although the importance of prosody in processing information structure (IS) has been shown
in many languages including English and Mandarin, the interacting effects of prosody with …

While monolingual speakers can use contrastive pitch accents to predict upcoming
referents, bilingual speakers do not always use this cue predictively in their L2. The current …

Adults often learn new semantic information in face-to-face communication with other adults
(eg, teachers, colleagues). More knowledgeable individuals provide an ensemble of …

This chapter provides an overview of (i) the intonational properties of second language (L2)
speech above the word level,(ii) timing aspects, and (iii) the perception and processing of …

Cues to emphasis, such as beat gesture and contrastive pitch accenting, play an important
role in constraining what comprehenders remember from a discourse. One possibility is that …

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of the causal connectivity of the
statements (their total number of causal connections) and the modality of presentation of …

Prosodic cues play a key role in speech processing at multiple levels of linguistic structure.
Despite this, research on the role of prosodic cues in second language (L2) speech …

Across three experiments, we investigated how different markers of contrastive focus affect
text encoding and retention. Prior work suggests that some contrastive focus markers (eg …

Research has shown that comprehenders represent alternative meanings to single focused
words online, consistent with Rooth's (1992) formal semantic account. However, focus can …