Running title: Prosodic influences in a conversation task 1 Prosodic influences on the production and comprehension of syntactic ambiguity in a game-based conversation task∗
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Intonational disambiguation in sentence production and comprehension.
Speakers' prosodic marking of syntactic constituency is often measured in sentence reading tasks that lack realistic situational constraints on speaking. Results from such studies can be criticized because the pragmatic goals of readers differ dramatically from those of speakers in typical conversation. On the other hand, recordings of unscripted speech do not readily yield the carefully contro...
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