title: What can prosody tell a parser?
abstract: In this paper, I consider how a sentence processor might use specific prosodic cues at various points in the processing of particular sentences containing (at least temporary) syntactic ambiguity. In principle, the usefulness of prosodic information depends on what a given cluster of prosodic cues typically signifies, and on which syntactic options exist for a given string: in only some instances can prosodic information provide useful disambiguating information.
authors.affiliation: Psychology 312, University of Arizona Tucson 85721, USA.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Nicol
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D012660:Semantics; D013067:Speech Perception