caa a22 4500 475788451 CHVBK 20180406123705.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/PL00008163 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/PL00008163 Untrained speakers' use of prosody in syntactic disambiguation and listeners' interpretations [Elektronische Daten] [Jean E. Fox Tree, Paul J. A. Meijer] We investigated how naively produced prosody affects listeners' end interpretations of ambiguous utterances. Non-professional speakers who were unaware of any ambiguity produced ambiguous sentences couched in short, unambiguous passages. In a forced-choice task, listeners could not tell which context the isolated ambiguous sentences came from (Exp. 1). However, listeners were able to correctly paraphrase the least ambiguous subset of these utterances, showing that prosody can be used to resolve ambiguity (Exp. 2). Nonetheless, in everyday language use, both prosody and context are available to interpret speech. When the least ambiguous sentences were cross-spliced into contexts biasing towards their original interpretations or into contexts biasing towards their alternative interpretations, answers to content questions about the ambiguous sentence, confidence ratings, and ratings of naturalness all indicated that prosody is ignored when context is available (Exp. 3). Although listeners can use prosody to interpret ambiguous sentences, they generally do not, and this makes sense in light of the frequent lack of reliable prosodic cues in everyday speech. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Fox Tree Jean E. Psychology Department, Social Sciences II, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064; e-mail: foxtree@cats.ucsc.edu, US aut Meijer Paul J. A. Psychology Department, Social Sciences II, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064; e-mail: foxtree@cats.ucsc.edu, US aut https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00008163 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00008163 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fox Tree Jean E. Psychology Department, Social Sciences II, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064; e-mail: foxtree@cats.ucsc.edu, US aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Meijer Paul J. A. Psychology Department, Social Sciences II, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064; e-mail: foxtree@cats.ucsc.edu, US aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer