scholarly journals Focus Marking and Prosodic Boundary Strength in French

Phonetica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-267
Author(s):  
Amandine Michelas ◽  
James S. German
Keyword(s):  
Prosodic Boundary ◽  
Focus Marking ◽  
Boundary Strength

scholarly journals Prosodic boundary strength: An articulatory and perceptual study

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Krivokapić ◽  
Dani Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Prosodic Boundary ◽  
Boundary Strength

scholarly journals Prosodic boundary strength guides syntactic parsing of French utterances

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amandine Michelas ◽  
Mariapaola D’Imperio
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Parsing ◽  
Accentual Phrase ◽  
Prosodic Boundary ◽  
Boundary Strength

AbstractThis study tests how prosodic boundary strength (i.e., categorical differences between Accentual Phrase, AP, and intermediate phrase, ip, boundaries)

scholarly journals Gradient prosodic boundary strength in syntactic disambiguation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregg Castellucci ◽  
Dolly Goldenberg
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Pause Duration ◽  
Prosodic Structure ◽  
Single Class ◽  
Prosodic Boundaries ◽  
Ambiguous Stimuli ◽  
Prosodic Boundary ◽  
Boundary Strength

Unlike syntactic structure, prosodic structure is typically thought of as non-recursive, with categorical boundaries delineating constituents within a rudimentary hierarchy. However, several experimental studies have demonstrated that prosodic boundaries are not produced categorically, and listeners are sensitive to these gradient variations in production, therefore suggesting that prosodic structure is more complex than normally assumed. While intriguing, it remains unclear whether such variability in boundary production is linguistically meaningful. Here, we explicitly test whether variability within a single class of prosodic boundary can be used to disambiguate sentences containing coordinative structures having multiple possible meanings. Interestingly, a majority of participants reliably employed gradient differences in pause duration to differentiate these ambiguous stimuli, demonstrating conclusively that listeners are not only able to perceive non-categorical variation in prosodic boundary strength, but that this variation can be linguistically meaningful. These results therefore indicate that prosodic structure may be less rigid than previously thought.

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