Research on prosody has recently become an important focus in various disciplines,
including Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science. This article reviews recent …

Prosody conveys information about the linguistic context of an utterance at every level of
linguistic organisation, from the word up to the discourse context. Acoustic correlates of …

Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech
in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that …

This book provides a state-of-the-art survey of intonation and prosodic structure. Taking a
phonological perspective, it shows how morpho-syntactic constituents are mapped to …

Although the presence or absence of a pitch accent clearly can play an important role in
signaling the discourse and information structure of an utterance, whether the form of an …

The effects of pitch accenting on memory were investigated in three experiments.
Participants listened to short recorded discourses that contained contrast sets with two items …

This article critically evaluates the notion of contrast and discusses the role that contrast has
been claimed to have in grammar. It argues that a precise understanding of grammatical …

A key function of prosodic prominence is to mark the most informative words in an utterance.
However, informativeness has been conceptualised as, eg, focus, given/new status or …

Previous processing studies have shown that constituents that are prosodically marked as
focus lead to an activation of alternatives. We investigate the processing of constituents that …

In this study, we employed an eye-gaze paradigm to explore whether children (ages 8–12)
and adolescents (ages 12–18) with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are able to use …