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Stirling, Lesley; Wales, Roger – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Examines, through two studies, how prosodic information affects syntactic processing in locally ambiguous sentences. The first study dealt with people's judgments of the continuation of locally ambiguous sentence fragments of differing lengths. The second concerned ratings of normality of sentence types with differing contours. (27 references)…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Auditory Stimuli, College Students, English