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Is “limpa” a verb or an adjective? : the role of phonological phrase boundaries on syntactic parsing
Carolina Garcia de Carvalho Silva, Maria Cristina Name
Journal of Speech Sciences · 1(1), 15-30 · 2011
What the paper examines
The authors investigate how Brazilian Portuguese listeners use phonological phrase boundaries when interpreting an ambiguous word as a verb or an adjective. The paper examines a link between prosodic organization and syntactic interpretation.
Reading it in context
This is a study of sentence processing in a particular language. It illustrates that understanding spoken language involves relationships among timing, phrasing and grammar rather than isolated sound accuracy alone.
A question to read with
Which boundary cues were manipulated, and what interpretation did the listeners choose?
Citation
Carolina Garcia de Carvalho Silva, Maria Cristina Name (2011). Is “limpa” a verb or an adjective? : the role of phonological phrase boundaries on syntactic parsing. Journal of Speech Sciences, 1(1), 15-30. https://doi.org/10.20396/joss.v1i1.15008
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