Sentence-Level Effects of Literary Genre: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

Blohm, Stefan; Schlesewsky, Matthias

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01887

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“…Moreover, pupillary responses in Scheepers et al´s study probably reflect processes on an affective or aesthetic level, where rhymes or rhyme violations may trigger stronger responses. Previous research states that readers generally adjust their reading style and pace to the text genre and that the poem layout is a relevant cue for such an adjustments (Blohm et al, 2017;Hanauer, 1998bHanauer, , 2001Menninghaus & Wallot, 2021;Peskin, 2007;Xue et al, 2020). In our study, the rhyme effects in gaze durations and RPDs suggest that MRRL is detectable without the layout cue.…”

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“…Previous research states that readers generally adjust their reading style and pace to the text genre and that the poem layout is a relevant cue for such an adjustments ( 13 ; 51 , 52 ; 96 ; 108 ; 148 ). In our study, the rhyme effects in gaze durations and RPDs suggest that MRRL is detectable without the layout cue.…”

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“…Note that we have not included obvious semantic or syntactic anomalies in this study. Poems (or poetic language more generally) may induce a certain tolerance towards these kinds of violations (see 13 for investigation of genre-related tolerance towards semantic and morphological anomalies in verse, and syntactic inversions, 14 ), but this is not a research question of this paper.…”

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Rhythmic subvocalization: An eye-tracking study on silent poetry reading

Beck¹,

Konieczny

2021

JEMR

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The present study investigates effects of conventionally metered and rhymed poetry on eye-movements in silent reading. Readers saw MRRL poems (i.e., metrically regular, rhymed language) in two layouts. In poem layout, verse endings coincided with line breaks. In prose layout verse endings could be mid-line. We also added metrical and rhyme anomalies. We hypothesized that silently reading MRRL results in building up auditive expectations that are based on a rhythmic “audible gestalt” and propose that rhythmicity is generated through subvocalization. Our results revealed that readers were sensitive to rhythmic-gestalt-anomalies but showed differential effects in poem and prose layouts. Metrical anomalies in particular resulted in robust reading disruptions across a variety of eye-movement measures in the poem layout and caused re-reading of the local context. Rhyme anomalies elicited stronger effects in prose layout and resulted in systematic re-reading of pre-rhymes. The presence or absence of rhythmic-gestalt-anomalies, as well as the layout manipulation, also affected reading in general. Effects of syllable number indicated a high degree of subvocalization. The overall pattern of results suggests that eye-movements reflect, and are closely aligned with, the rhythmic subvocalization of MRRL. This study introduces a two-stage approach to the analysis of long MRRL stimuli and contributes to the discussion of how the processing of rhythm in music and speech may overlap.

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Rhythmic subvocalization: An eye-tracking study on silent poetry reading

Beck¹,

Konieczny

2021

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“…Within our own research context, the manual described in this paper is part of a larger project on the rhythm of literary prose, which in turn contributes to the greater field of research on prosodic particularities of literary language. To date, this field mainly includes research on poetry, such as on poetic speech melody (Menninghaus et al 2018), on poetic rhyme and metre (e.g., Blohm et al 2017;Menninghaus et al 2017), as well as on sound-meaning interfaces in poetic language (e.g., Auracher et al 2019;Kraxenberger et al 2018). The present paper paves the way for additional insights into the reading of prose.…”

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Prosodic Phrasing and Syllable Prominence in Spoken Prose. A Validated Coding Manual

Franz¹,

Knoop²,

Kentner³

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Current systems for predicting prosodic prominence and boundaries in texts focus on syntax/semantic-based automatic decoding of sentences that need to be annotated syntactically (Atterer & Klein 2002; Windmann et al. 2011). However, to date, there is no phonetically validated replicable system for manually coding prosodic boundaries and syllable prominence in longer sentences or texts. Based on work in the fields of metrical phonology (Liberman & Prince 1977), phrase formation (Hayes 1989) and existing pause coding systems (Gee and Grosjean 1983), we developed a manual for coding prosodic boundaries (with 6 degrees of juncture) and syllable prominence (8 degrees). Three independent annotators applied the coding system to the beginning pages of four German novels and to four short stories (20 058 syllables, Fleiss kappa .82). For the phonetic validation, eight professional speakers read the excerpts of the novels aloud. We annotated the speech signal automatically with MAUS (Schiel 1999). Using PRAAT (Boersma & Weenink 2019), we extracted pitch, duration, and intensity for each syllable, as well as several phonetic parameters for pauses, and compared all measures obtained to the theoretically predicted levels of syllable prominence and prosodic boundary strength. The validation with the speech signal shows that our annotation system reliably predicts syllable prominence and prosodic boundaries. Since our annotation works with plain text, there are many potential applications of the coding system, covering research on prose rhythm, synthetic speech and (psycho)linguistic research on prosody.

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“…194-198 for a review; Crozier and Chapman, 1981, for a review across all art forms). Additional evidence for effects of prior information was also provided by a number of more recent studies on the perception, enjoyment, and evaluation of music (Anglada-Tort & Müllensiefen, 2017;Kroger & Margulis, 2016;Margulis, 2010;Margulis, Kisida, & Greene, 2015;North & Hargreaves, 2005;Vuoskoski & Eerola, 2015;Ziv & Moran, 2006), art works, such as digital reproductions of paintings (Kirk, Skov, Hulme, Christensen, & Zeki, 2009;Lauring et al, 2016;Lin & Yao, 2017), photos (Tousignant & Bodner, 2014), poems (Blohm, Menninghaus, & Schlesewsky, 2017), or live theater performances (Wagner et al, 2015).…”

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If it’s Mozart, it must be good? The influence of textual information and age on musical appreciation

Fischinger

Kaufmann

Schlotz

2018

Psychology of Music

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In a framing experiment, 170 participants aged 19–80 years were asked to read a description in the fashion of a program note prior to listening (individually via headphones) to a sinfonia by Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781). Divergent versions of this description were created for treatment manipulation, while the participants were not informed about it. Within a 2 × 2 design the descriptions (a) attributed the musical piece to different composers of highly different prominence and prestige. Half of the participant group was informed that they would be listening to the overture to the pastoral opera Ascanio in Alba by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–1791), whereas the other half was informed correctly. The composers’ names were (b) combined with descriptions that applied either an analytic or expressive writing mode. Subsequently collected ratings for liking and a number of perceived musical characteristics were significantly higher when participants had read the expressive compared with the analytic writing mode. Interestingly, younger adults showed higher liking ratings when the music was attributed to Mozart, whereas no significant differences were found in older adults. In sum, this study supports the notion that being exposed to text information prior to listening to music affects perception and appreciation of musical characteristics.

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Sentence-Level Effects of Literary Genre: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence

Cited by 13 publications

References 92 publications

Rhythmic subvocalization: An eye-tracking study on silent poetry reading

Rhythmic subvocalization: An eye-tracking study on silent poetry reading

Prosodic Phrasing and Syllable Prominence in Spoken Prose. A Validated Coding Manual

If it’s Mozart, it must be good? The influence of textual information and age on musical appreciation

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