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Using tonal cues to predict inflections

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Author

Editor

  • Malin Svensson Lundmark
  • Gilbert Ambrazaitis
  • Joost van de Weijer

Summary, in English

The present article discusses the Central Swedish word accents – Accent 1 and Accent 2 – and their productive association to suffixes from the point of view of prediction theories of speech processing. Based on recent neurophysiological findings, we propose that both word accents are used predictively, but that Accent 1 is more ‘predictively useful’ than Accent 2, due to the fact that Accent 1 stems signal a smaller well-defined set of upcoming affixes as compared to Accent 2. This ‘usefulness’ allows suffixes to be pre-activated before they have even been heard.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

91-94

Publication/Series

Working Papers

Volume

55

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • tone
  • word accent
  • inflectional morphology
  • fMRI
  • EEG
  • ERP

Conference name

Fonetik 2015

Conference date

2015-06-08 - 2015-06-10

Conference place

Lund, Sweden

Status

Published

Project

  • Images of tones: fMRI-studies on the processing of prosody in the human brain

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0280-526X