We describe the key features of the visual world paradigm and review the main research
areas where it has been used. In our discussion we highlight that the paradigm provides …

Research on prosody has recently become an important focus in various disciplines,
including Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science. This article reviews recent …

Prosody conveys information about the linguistic context of an utterance at every level of
linguistic organisation, from the word up to the discourse context. Acoustic correlates of …

Scalar implicature has served as a test case for exploring the relations between semantic
and pragmatic processes during language comprehension. Most studies have used reaction …

This article introduces a new way to explain how information structure is signaled
prosodically in English. I claim that METRICAL STRUCTURE plays a central role (Ladd …

This study tests the influence of acoustic cues and non-acoustic contextual factors on
listeners' perception of prominence in three languages whose prominence systems differ in …

The effects of pitch accenting on memory were investigated in three experiments.
Participants listened to short recorded discourses that contained contrast sets with two items …

Sentences with a contrastive intonation contour are usually produced when the speaker
entertains alternatives to the accented words. However, such contrastive sentences are …

Abstract Language use in conversation is fundamentally incremental, and is guided by the
representations that interlocutors maintain of each other's knowledge and beliefs. While …

A visual world experiment examined the time course for pragmatic inferences derived from
visual context and contrastive intonation contours. We used the construction It looks like an …