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The Implicit Prosody of Corrective Contrast Primes Appropriately Intonated Probes (for Some Readers)

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Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing

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Two visual-to-auditory cross-modal priming experiments looked for evidence of a link between the implicit prosodic contour readers generated during silent reading and the explicit prosodic contour of a subsequently presented auditory probe word. Pairs of text sentences that contained corrective contrasts (e.g., Jacquelyn didn’t pass the test. Belinda passed the test) were immediately followed by probes pronounced with pitch accent patterns consistent (BELINDA) or inconsistent (belinda) with the corrective contrast in the read text. Participants were grouped according to individual differences in their pitch accent production while reading aloud in an independent task. Pitch accent production patterns were shown to correlate with the performance in the cross-modal task, providing initial evidence about the content of the auditory image produced as inner speech during silent reading.

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  1. Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Shari R. Speer

  2. School of Linguistics and English, Bangor University Language, Bangor, Gwynedd, UK

    Anouschka Foltz

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Speer, S., Foltz, A. (2015). The Implicit Prosody of Corrective Contrast Primes Appropriately Intonated Probes (for Some Readers). In: Frazier, L., Gibson, E. (eds) Explicit and Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 46. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12961-7_14

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