Background Despite being an essential component of children's oral reading fluency,
prosodic reading, which involves expressive changes in pitch patterns and pause durations …

Abstract 1 Emerging research on reading prosody, an indicator of fluent reading, is finding
that it contributes to comprehension processing in students across elementary, middle, and …

Understanding a sentence and integrating it into the discourse depends upon the
identification of its focus, which, in spoken German, is marked by accentuation. In the case of …

Under the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis, readers generate prosodic structures during silent
reading that can direct their real-time interpretations of the text. In the current study, we …

Fodor's introduction of the implicit prosody hypothesis (IPH; 2002) inspired a series of
studies exploring how readers'“inner voice” influences sentence comprehension. In this …

A controlled reading experiment reveals that stress-based linguistic rhythm impinges on
syntactic ambiguity resolution in silent and oral reading. The results suggest that, at points of …

By manipulating the location of prosodic boundary and the semantic bias of the ambiguous
“V+ N1+ de+ N2” phrase, which is composed of one verb (V), one noun (N1), one functional …

This thesis investigates two questions about the cognitive mechanisms underlying the
advance preparation of sentences. First, how much planning does the language system …

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of text complexity on the oral reading
prosody of fifth-grade children. Reading prosody is considered an important aspect of fluent …

When investigating the right sentence periphery in German, two constructions are
encountered that appear to be rather similar at first glance: right dislocation and afterthought …