The where and when of linguistic word-level prosody. Arciuli, J. & Slowiaczek, L. M Neuropsychologia, 45(11):2638-42, 2007.
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Despite its presence in all natural languages prosodic processing remains under-researched in cognitive science. Hemispheric specialisation for linguistic word-level prosody, specifically, sensitivity to stress typicality was examined using dichotic listening. In Experiment 1, participants named targets and in Experiment 2 participants classified targets as nouns or verbs. In both studies stress typicality effects emerged in the left hemisphere only. These results suggest that: (1) the left hemisphere may be responsible for conveying accurate stress patterns prior to lexical access, (2) supra-segmental information reduces the set of potential candidates during lexical access, and (3) prosody and grammatical category interact in the language processing system.
@Article{Arciuli2007,
  author   = {Joanne Arciuli and Louisa M Slowiaczek},
  journal  = {Neuropsychologia},
  title    = {The where and when of linguistic word-level prosody.},
  year     = {2007},
  number   = {11},
  pages    = {2638-42},
  volume   = {45},
  abstract = {Despite its presence in all natural languages prosodic processing
	remains under-researched in cognitive science. Hemispheric specialisation
	for linguistic word-level prosody, specifically, sensitivity to stress
	typicality was examined using dichotic listening. In Experiment 1,
	participants named targets and in Experiment 2 participants classified
	targets as nouns or verbs. In both studies stress typicality effects
	emerged in the left hemisphere only. These results suggest that:
	(1) the left hemisphere may be responsible for conveying accurate
	stress patterns prior to lexical access, (2) supra-segmental information
	reduces the set of potential candidates during lexical access, and
	(3) prosody and grammatical category interact in the language processing
	system.},
  doi      = {10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.03.010},
  keywords = {17475291},
}

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