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Effects of prosody and context on the comprehension of syntactic ambiguity in English and Korean

Kang, Soyoung
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1166827417

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2007, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Linguistics.
This study investigates how prosodic and contextual information affects the way syntactically ambiguous sentences in English and Korean are understood in spoken language comprehension. English materials used include rarely studied present participial constructions. Korean materials include a type of relative clause that contains empty pronouns as one of arguments, a structure that was never examined before. When these sentence materials were presented without biasing contexts, results showed that prosodic phrasing largely determined meaning assignment. These results extended previous research that demonstrated prosodic effects on syntactically ambiguous structures. Results from experiments that manipulated both prosodic and contextual information showed that prosodic information was still effective even in the presence of biasing contextual information. Taken together, these results demonstrate the robust effect of prosodic information and necessitate the inclusion of prosodic component in any model of spoken language processing.
Shari Speer (Advisor)
Language, Linguistics

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  • Kang, S. (2007). Effects of prosody and context on the comprehension of syntactic ambiguity in English and Korean [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1166827417

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kang, Soyoung. Effects of prosody and context on the comprehension of syntactic ambiguity in English and Korean. 2007. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1166827417.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kang, Soyoung. "Effects of prosody and context on the comprehension of syntactic ambiguity in English and Korean." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1166827417

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