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Grammaticalization of prosody in the brain

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Author

Editor

  • Peter Branderud
  • Hartmut Traunmüller

Summary, in English

Based on the results from three Event-Related Potential (ERP) studies, we show how the degree of grammaticalization of prosodic features influences their impact on syntactic and morphological processing. Thus, results indicate that only lexicalized word accents influence morphological processing. Furthermore, it is shown how an assumed semi-grammaticalized left-edge boundary tone activates main clause structure without, however, inhibiting subordinate clause structure in the presence of competing syntactic cues.

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

66-71

Publication/Series

Proceedings Fonetik 2009

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • Accent 2
  • Accent 1
  • prosody
  • Swedish
  • morphology
  • left edge boundary tone
  • ERP
  • P600

Conference name

Fonetik 2009

Conference date

2009-06-10 - 2009-06-12

Conference place

Stockholm, Sweden

Status

Published

Project

  • Grammar, Prosody, Discourse and the Brain. ERP-studies of Language Processing

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-91-633-4892-1
  • ISBN: 978-91-633-4893-8