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Schafer, Amy; And Others – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Discusses two auditory comprehension studies that investigated the role of focus, as conveyed by a pitch accent, in the comprehension of relative clauses preceded by a complex noun phrase. Findings include focus attracts modifiers, and pitch accents for new phrases differ acoustically from pitch accents for contrastive phrases. (46 references)…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, College Students, Grammar
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Bates, Elizabeth; Liu, Hua – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Discusses "cued shadowing," during which subjects listen to pairs of words or sentences and repeat a target word signalled by a cue. Rapid semantic and grammatical priming effects have been observed with this technique, both with word and sentence contexts and at different positions within sentence contexts, in normal children and adults, and in…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Child Language, Context Effect, Cues