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Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic disambiguation.

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Misono, Y; Mazuka, R; Kondo, T; Kiritani, S
Published in: Journal of psycholinguistic research
March 1997

This paper examined the effects of prosody on the syntactic ambiguity resolution of Japanese sentences, especially with reference to the interaction with semantic bias. Syntactically ambiguous sentences with different types of semantic bias were constructed. The degree of bias in each sentence was evaluated through visual presentation experiments. Three types of sentences were selected based on the results of visual presentation experiments, were recorded with prosody maximally favoring each possible interpretation of the sentences, and were used as the stimuli for the auditory presentation experiments. The results showed that prosodic cues can influence the interpretation of a sentence even when the sentence is strongly semantically biased. The results also showed a limitation to prosodic cues. The prosodic biases alone were not sufficient to fully determine the interpretation of the sentences even when the sentences were neutrally biased semantically.

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Published In

Journal of psycholinguistic research

DOI

EISSN

1573-6555

ISSN

0090-6905

Publication Date

March 1997

Volume

26

Issue

2

Start / End Page

229 / 245

Related Subject Headings

  • Visual Perception
  • Speech Perception
  • Semantics
  • Language
  • Japan
  • Humans
  • Experimental Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 4704 Linguistics
  • 2004 Linguistics
 

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Misono, Y., Mazuka, R., Kondo, T., & Kiritani, S. (1997). Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic disambiguation. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 26(2), 229–245. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1025065700451
Misono, Y., R. Mazuka, T. Kondo, and S. Kiritani. “Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic disambiguation.Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 26, no. 2 (March 1997): 229–45. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1025065700451.
Misono Y, Mazuka R, Kondo T, Kiritani S. Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic disambiguation. Journal of psycholinguistic research. 1997 Mar;26(2):229–45.
Misono, Y., et al. “Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic disambiguation.Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, vol. 26, no. 2, Mar. 1997, pp. 229–45. Epmc, doi:10.1023/a:1025065700451.
Misono Y, Mazuka R, Kondo T, Kiritani S. Effects and limitations of prosodic and semantic biases on syntactic disambiguation. Journal of psycholinguistic research. 1997 Mar;26(2):229–245.
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of psycholinguistic research

DOI

EISSN

1573-6555

ISSN

0090-6905

Publication Date

March 1997

Volume

26

Issue

2

Start / End Page

229 / 245

Related Subject Headings

  • Visual Perception
  • Speech Perception
  • Semantics
  • Language
  • Japan
  • Humans
  • Experimental Psychology
  • 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 4704 Linguistics
  • 2004 Linguistics