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| Title | Time-driven effects on parsing during reading |
| Author/s | Mikael Roll, Magnus Lindgren, Kai Alter, Merle Horne |
| Department/s |
Department of Psychology
Linguistics and Phonetics |
| Full-text | Full text is not available in this archive |
| Alternative location (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ba... Restricted Access (Alternative Location) |
| Publication/Series | Brain and Language |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 267 - 272 |
| Document type | Journal article |
| Status | published |
| Quality controlled | yes |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Abstract English | The phonological trace of perceived words starts fading away in short-term memory after a few seconds. Spoken utterances are usually 2–3 s long, possibly to allow the listener to parse the words into coherent prosodic phrases while they still have a clear representation. Results from this brain potential study suggest that even during silent reading, words are organized into 2–3 s long ‘implicit’ prosodic phrases. Participants read the same sentences word by word at different presentation rates. Clause-final words occurring at multiples of 2–3 s from sentence onset yielded increased positivity, irrespective of presentation rate. The effect was interpreted as a closure positive shift (CPS), reflecting insertion of implicit prosodic phrase boundaries every 2–3 s. Additionally, in participants with low working memory span, clauses over 3 s long produced a negativity, possibly indicating increased working memory load. |
| Subject |
Languages and Literatures |
| Keywords | Short-term memory, Language, Time-driven constant, Event-related potentials, Reading, Prosodic phrase, Implicit prosody, CPS, Working memory |
| ISBN/ISSN/Other |
ISSN: 1090-2155 |
| Project | Cognition, Communication and Learning |
| Project | Grammar, Prosody, Discourse and the Brain. ERP-studies in speech processing |
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