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 …

Frequent or contextually predictable words are often phonetically reduced, ie shortened and
produced with articulatory undershoot. Explanations for phonetic reduction of predictable …

Words, like musical notes, are grouped together into phrases by their rhythmic and
durational properties as well as their tonal pitch. This 'prosodic phrasing'affects the …

This thesis proposes a recursive mapping of syntactic derivations to prosodic
representations. I argue that the prosody of an expression, just like its meaning, is …

The word 'fluency'is used in many different ways and is a crucial aspect not only of typical
speech but also of speech pathology and second language learning. To understand how …

Syntactic priming during language production is pervasive and well-studied. Hearing,
reading, speaking or writing a sentence with a given structure increases the probability of …

Two self-paced reading experiments investigated several factors that influence the
comprehension complexity of singly-embedded relative clauses (RCs) in English. Three …

Research on pause duration has mainly focused on the impact of syntactic structure on the
duration of pauses within an utterance and on the impact of syntax, discourse, and prosodic …

Generalizations about relative prosodic boundary strength are recursive. Initial evidence
comes from the fragment of English consisting only of proper names and and and or. A …