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Yu, Vickie Y. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
This study examined the importance of syllable position, duration, and tone/pitch for the assignment of stress in Chinese hums. Twenty native Mandarin speakers and 20 native English speakers were asked to assign primary stress to two-syllable Chinese hums. The importance of acoustic cues for stress assignment was also evaluated. Our findings…
Descriptors: Native Language, Syllables, Acoustics, Cues
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Chen, Hui-Ching; Szendroi, Krista; Crain, Stephen; Höhle, Barbara – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
This study investigated whether Mandarin speakers interpret prosodic information as focus markers in a sentence-picture verification task. Previous production studies have shown that both Mandarin-speaking adults and Mandarin-speaking children mark focus by prosodic information (Ouyang and Kaiser in Lang Cogn Neurosc 30(1-2):57-72, 2014; Yang and…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Processing
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Webman-Shafran, Ronit; Fodor, Janet Dean – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
We investigated the processing of ambiguous double-PP constructions in Hebrew. Selection restrictions forced the first prepositional phrase (PP1) to attach low, but PP2 could attach maximally high to VP or maximally low to the NP inside PP1. A length contrast in PP2 was also examined. This construction affords more potential locations for prosodic…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Suprasegmentals, Ambiguity (Semantics), Semitic Languages
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Ding, Yi; Liu, Ru-De; McBride, Catherine A.; Fan, Chung-Hau; Xu, Le; Wang, Jia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
This study examined pinyin (the official phonetic system that transcribes the lexical tones and pronunciation of Chinese characters) invented spelling and English invented spelling in 72 Mandarin-speaking 6th graders who learned English as their second language. The pinyin invented spelling task measured segmental-level awareness including…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonetics, Intonation, Pronunciation
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Martzoukou, Maria; Papadopoulou, Despina; Kosmidis, Mary-Helen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The present study investigates the comprehension of syntactic and affective prosody in adults with autism spectrum disorder without accompanying cognitive deficits (ASD w/o cognitive deficits) as well as age-, education- and gender-matched unimpaired adults, while processing orally presented sentences. Two experiments were conducted: (a) an…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Syntax, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Feizabadi, Parvin Sadat; Bijankhan, Mahmood – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
This study examines the effect of non-sentential context prosody pattern on lexical activation in Persian. For this purpose a questionnaire including target and non-target words is used. The target words are homographs with two possible stress patterns belonging to different syntactic categories. Participants are asked to read out the words aloud…
Descriptors: Language Research, Indo European Languages, Intonation, Suprasegmentals