Time-driven effects on parsing during reading
Roll, Mikael LU ; Lindgren, Magnus LU ; Alter, Kai and Horne, Merle LU
(2012)
In Brain and Language
121(3).
p.267-272
- Abstract
- The phonological trace of perceived words starts fading away in short-term memory after a few seconds. Spoken utterances are usually 2–3 s long, possibly to allow the listener to parse the words into coherent prosodic phrases while they still have a clear representation. Results from this brain potential study suggest that even during silent reading, words are organized into 2–3 s long ‘implicit’ prosodic phrases. Participants read the same sentences word by word at different presentation rates. Clause-final words occurring at multiples of 2–3 s from sentence onset yielded increased positivity, irrespective of presentation rate. The effect was interpreted as a closure positive shift (CPS), reflecting insertion of implicit prosodic phrase... (More)
- The phonological trace of perceived words starts fading away in short-term memory after a few seconds. Spoken utterances are usually 2–3 s long, possibly to allow the listener to parse the words into coherent prosodic phrases while they still have a clear representation. Results from this brain potential study suggest that even during silent reading, words are organized into 2–3 s long ‘implicit’ prosodic phrases. Participants read the same sentences word by word at different presentation rates. Clause-final words occurring at multiples of 2–3 s from sentence onset yielded increased positivity, irrespective of presentation rate. The effect was interpreted as a closure positive shift (CPS), reflecting insertion of implicit prosodic phrase boundaries every 2–3 s. Additionally, in participants with low working memory span, clauses over 3 s long produced a negativity, possibly indicating increased working memory load. (Less)
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- author
- Roll, Mikael
LU
; Lindgren, Magnus
LU
; Alter, Kai
and Horne, Merle
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Language, Short-term memory, Time-driven constant, Event-related potentials, Reading, Prosodic phrase, Implicit prosody, CPS, Working memory
- in
- Brain and Language
- volume
- 121
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 267 - 272
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- wos:000304339700010
- scopus:84860460790
- pmid:22480626
- ISSN
- 1090-2155
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.03.002
- project
- Grammar, Prosody, Discourse and the Brain. ERP-studies of Language Processing
- Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003), Department of Psychology (012010000)
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