Does the prosodic emphasis of sentential context cause deeper lexical-semantic processing?

A Brunellière, C Auran, L Delrue - Language, Cognition and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Speakers use prosodic emphasis to express the content of their message in order to help
listeners to infer meaning. By measuring event-related potentials (ERPs) to semantically …

Music training affects listeners' processing of different types of accentuation information: Evidence from ERPs

M Han, YF Chien, Z Zhang, Z Wei, W Li - Brain and Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Previous studies found that prolonged musical training can promote language processing,
but few studies have examined whether and how musical training affects the processing of …

Processing corrective focus and information focus at different positions: an electrophysiological investigation

ZL Zheng, XH Yang, WJ Li - Language, Cognition and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Focus is the most emphasised constituent of a sentence and either marks information that is
newly asserted or indicates a contrast between current information and its alternatives. To …

Prosodic processing in sentences with 'only'in L1 and L2 English

R Ganga, H Ge, ME Struiksma, V Yip… - Studies in Second …, 2024 - cambridge.org
It has been proposed that second language (L2) learners differ from native speakers in
processing due to either influence from their native language or an inability to integrate …