Abstract
Despite its presence in all natural languages prosodic processing remains under-researched in cognitive science. Hemispheric specialisation for linguistic word-level prosody, specifically, sensitivity to stress typicality was examined using dichotic listening. In Experiment 1, participants named targets and in Experiment 2 participants classified targets as nouns or verbs. In both studies stress typicality effects emerged in the left hemisphere only. These results suggest that: (1) the left hemisphere may be responsible for conveying accurate stress patterns prior to lexical access, (2) supra-segmental information reduces the set of potential candidates during lexical access, and (3) prosody and grammatical category interact in the language processing system.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2638-2642 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Neuropsychologia |
Volume | 45 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 25 Jun 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Dichotic listening
- Hemispheric specialisation
- Linguistic prosody
- Spoken word recognition