Implicit Prosody (Van Handel)

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Series: Language & Linguistics The Sound of Silence: Investigations of Implicit Prosody — Nicholas J. Van Handel Nicholas Van Handel studies the prosodic structure readers assign during silent reading. The dissertation compares Maze tasks and self-paced reading as methods for investigating implicit prosody. Its experiments examine how mentally supplied rhythm and phrasing affect sentence processing. The findings support the Maze task’s sensitivity and its more localized processing effects. The work also outlines how grammatical principles could guide incremental prosodic parsing. Publication source Explore: Language & Linguistics Related episodes: Optimality Theory (Kager) · Phonological Tone (Yip)