Empirical Investigations of Implicit Prosody

Breen, Mara

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“…In a similar vein, rhythmic-prosodic sensitivity has been proposed as fundamental stepping stone into literacy [27][28][29] as well as implicit driver for skilled reading [30]. Breen et al [11] and Fotidzis et al [8] present converging EEG evidence for implicit rhythmic processing in silent reading of words in literate adults and children.…”

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Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language

Sammler

Elmer

2020

Brain Sciences

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Neurocomparative music and language research has seen major advances over the past two decades. The goal of this Special Issue “Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language” was to showcase the multiple neural analogies between musical and linguistic information processing, their entwined organization in human perception and cognition and to infer the applicability of the combined knowledge in pedagogy and therapy. Here, we summarize the main insights provided by the contributions and integrate them into current frameworks of rhythm processing, neuronal entrainment, predictive coding and cognitive control.

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Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language

Sammler

Elmer

2020

Brain Sciences

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“…In addition to the two emotional prosody tasks, Factor 1 had loadings from some versions of Irony, Metaphor, and Humor. A speculative explanation may be that these pragmatic tasks require simulation of intonation contours (e.g., Abramson & Goldinger, 1997;Ashby & Clifton, 2005;Breen, 2015). However, targeted studies will be necessary to replicate and better characterize this relationship.…”

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A tripartite structure of pragmatic language abilities: comprehension of social conventions, intonation processing and causal reasoning

Floyd,

Jouravlev,

Mineroff

et al. 2023

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Inferences are ubiquitous during linguistic communication and characterize diverse phenomena. In a large-scale individual-differences investigation, we asked whether pragmatic ability—the ability to go beyond literal meaning—is monolithic or whether it consists of at least partially dissociable cognitive skills. In Experiment 1, n=376 participants each completed an 8-hour behavioral battery of 18 pragmatic tasks in English. Controlling for IQ, an exploratory factor analysis revealed three clusters corresponding to i) the ability to adhere to social conventions (including phenomena like indirect requests and irony), ii) the ability to interpret emotional and contrastive intonation patterns, and iii) the ability to make causal inferences based on world knowledge. This pattern largely replicated in a new sample of n=400 participants (Experiment 2). This research uncovers important dissociations in the cognitive toolkit underlying human communication and can inform our understanding of pragmatic abilities in individuals with developmental and acquired brain disorders.

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“…The process requires a choice of focus, and can only take place relative to common grounds. In fact, there is good evidence that every assessor of an out‐of‐context sentence assigns it a choice of focus (see Breen, 2015) and evaluates it relative to an imaginary context that includes at least a congruent QUD (see van Berkum et al, 1999). There is some evidence that each sentence structure has a default focus choice, and that assessors are likely to assign this focus for sentences presented out of context (see Carlson et al, 2009), but we leave open the possibility that assessors can assign non‐default or arbitrary choices of focus.…”

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Focus on slurs

Mankowitz

Shaw

2022

Mind & Language

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Slurring expressions display puzzling behaviour when embedded, such as under negation and in attitude and speech reports. They frequently appear to retain their characteristic qualities, like offensiveness and propensity to derogate. Yet it is sometimes possible to understand them as lacking these qualities. A theory of slurring expressions should explain this variability. We develop an explanation that deploys the linguistic notion of focus. Our proposal is that a speaker can conversationally implicate metalinguistic claims about the aptness of a focused slurring expression. This explanation of variability relies on independently motivated mechanisms and is compatible with any theory of slurring expressions.

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Empirical Investigations of Implicit Prosody

Cited by 7 publications

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Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language

Advances in the Neurocognition of Music and Language

A tripartite structure of pragmatic language abilities: comprehension of social conventions, intonation processing and causal reasoning

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