Ventura, Caterina, Grice, Martine ORCID: 0000-0003-4973-4059, Savino, Michelina, Kolev, Diana, Brilmayer, Ingmar and Schumacher, Petra B.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0263-8502
(2020).
Attention allocation in a language with post-focal prominences.
NeuroReport, 31 (8).
pp. 624-628.
Wolters Kluwer Health.
Abstract
Accentuation influences selective attention and the depth of semantic processing during online speech comprehension. We investigated the processing of semantically congruent and incongruent words in a language that presents cues to prosodic prominences in the region of the utterance occurring after the focussed information (the post-focal region). This language is Italian, in particular the variety spoken in Bari. In this variety, questions have a compressed, post-focal accent, whereas in statements there is a low-level pitch in this position. Using event-related potentials, we investigated the processing of congruent and incongruent target words with two prosodic realizations (focussed with accentuation, post-focal realization) and in two-sentence modalities (statement, question). Results indicate an N400 congruence effect that was modulated by position (focal, post-focal) and modality (statement, question): processing was deeper for questions in narrow focus than in post-focal position, while statements showed similar
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-463255 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1097/WNR.0000000000001453 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | NeuroReport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 31 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number: | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 624-628 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Wolters Kluwer Health | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Collaborative Research Centers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Collaborative Research Centers > CRC 1252: Prominence in Language > TP A01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects: | Language, Linguistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/46325 |
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