Metrical expectations from preceding prosody influence perception of lexical stress. Brown, M., Salverda, A. P., Dilley, L. C., & Tanenhaus, M. K. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform., 41(2):306 - 323, 2015.
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Two visual-world experiments tested the hypothesis that expectations based on preceding prosody influence the perception of suprasegmental cues to lexical stress. The results demonstrate that listeners' consideration of competing alternatives with different stress patterns (e.g., 'jury/gi'raffe) can be influenced by the fundamental frequency and syllable timing patterns across material preceding a target word. When preceding stressed syllables distal to the target word shared pitch and timing characteristics with the first syllable of the target word, pictures of alternatives with primary lexical stress on the first syllable (e.g., jury) initially attracted more looks than alternatives with unstressed initial syllables (e.g., giraffe). This effect was modulated when preceding unstressed syllables had pitch and timing characteristics similar to the initial syllable of the target word, with more looks to alternatives with unstressed initial syllables (e.g., giraffe) than to those with s
@Article{Brown2015,
  author   = {Brown, Meredith and Salverda, Anne Pier and Dilley, Laura C. and Tanenhaus, Michael K.},
  journal  = {J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform.},
  title    = {Metrical expectations from preceding prosody influence perception of lexical stress.},
  year     = {2015},
  issn     = {0096-1523},
  number   = {2},
  pages    = {306 - 323},
  volume   = {41},
  abstract = {Two visual-world experiments tested the hypothesis that expectations
	based on preceding prosody influence the perception of suprasegmental
	cues to lexical stress. The results demonstrate that listeners' consideration
	of competing alternatives with different stress patterns (e.g., 'jury/gi'raffe)
	can be influenced by the fundamental frequency and syllable timing
	patterns across material preceding a target word. When preceding
	stressed syllables distal to the target word shared pitch and timing
	characteristics with the first syllable of the target word, pictures
	of alternatives with primary lexical stress on the first syllable
	(e.g., jury) initially attracted more looks than alternatives with
	unstressed initial syllables (e.g., giraffe). This effect was modulated
	when preceding unstressed syllables had pitch and timing characteristics
	similar to the initial syllable of the target word, with more looks
	to alternatives with unstressed initial syllables (e.g., giraffe)
	than to those with s},
  keywords = {prosody, expectations, spoken-word recognition, lexical stress, lexical competition, Auditory Perception, Cues, Expectations, Prosody, Speech Characteristics},
}

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