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Empirical Investigations of Implicit Prosody

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Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics ((SITP,volume 46))

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Fodor’s introduction of the implicit prosody hypothesis (IPH; 2002) inspired a series of studies exploring how readers’ “inner voice” influences sentence comprehension. In this chapter, I review the history of the IPH and a variety of studies which have demonstrated that implicit phrasing, accentuation, and rhythm appear to play a role in syntactic parsing. I explore how work moving forward might address the question of the psychological reality of the “inner voice,” and how we can investigate the relative contribution of implicit prosody to sentence processing in consideration of other known information sources.

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    see also Breen (2014) for a more detailed review.

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Breen, M. (2015). Empirical Investigations of Implicit Prosody. 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_10

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