Conference on The Role of Prosody in Sentence Parsing, Tucson, Arizona-March 1995

9422153这笔赠款将用于资助将于1995年3月在亚利桑那大学举行的第八届纽约市立大学句子处理年度会议上举行的关于“韵律在句子分析中的作用”的特别会议。直到最近，到目前为止，大多数句子处理研究都使用刺激的视觉呈现，部分原因是这使得将输入锁定到受试者的反应成为可能。但最近，随着计算机和语音编辑软件容量的增加和价格的下降，研究人员开始研究韵律在处理听音陈述的句子中的作用。这一新的研究浪潮绕过了视觉刺激中的一个常见担忧：语言的正字法表示不能充分代表语音的许多非分段属性，显然，语音是人类语言更自然的形式。直觉上，韵律线索--音节的音高、幅度和持续时间的变化，以及停顿长度的变化--对听者应该是有用的。它们是否真的是这样是一个经验性的问题，目前许多研究人员正在进行调查。CUNY句子处理会议的这次特别会议的目的是聚集正在研究韵律对句子分析的在线影响的研究人员，以展示和综合最新的结果，并提出争议的观点。我们打算将这些论文作为《心理语言学研究杂志》的特刊或一本书的一部分发表。

9422153 This grant will support a special session on "The Role of Prosody in Sentence Parsing" at the Eighth Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, to be held at the University of Arizona in March, 1995. Up until recently, by far the majority of sentence-processing research has used visual presentation of stimuli, in part because this makes it possible to timelock the input to the subject's response. But more recently, as computers and speech editing software have increased in capacity and reduced in price, researchers have begun to examine the role of prosody during the processing of auditorily-presented sentences. This new wave of research circumvents a common worry in visually-presented stimuli: orthographic representations of language do not adequately represent many of the non-segmental properties of speech and, obviously, speech is the more natural modality for human language. Intuitively, prosodic cues--changes in the pitch, amplitude and duration of syllables and changes in pause length--should be useful to listeners. Whether they actually are is an empirical question which a number of researchers are currently investigating. The goal of this special session of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference is to bring together researchers who are studying the on-line effects of prosody on sentence parsing to present and synthesize recent results, and to raise points of controversy. We intend to publish these papers as part of either a special issue of the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research or a book.