THE INTONATION-SYNTAX INTERACTION: PROSODIC FEATURES IN PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING OF SENTENCES

Speech is an intrinsically temporal event in which the auditory input is constantly changing over time. No single instant of the speech signal carries sufficient information to be fully discriminating, and recognition on the phonemic level, for example, is heavily dependent on the context of neighboring linguistic elements (Cole & Scott, 1974). For this reason, logic alone would demand that speech must be processed in “units” of some useful and manageable size. Arguments for the phoneme as one such unit have been offered (Liberman, et al., 1967), as have arguments for units closer to syllable size (Massaro, 1972).

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