Time-driven effects on parsing during reading

Mikael Roll; Magnus Lindgren; Kai Alter; Merle Horne

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2012.03.002

Time-driven effects on parsing during reading

Mikael Roll, Magnus Lindgren, Kai Alter, Merle Horne

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The phonological trace of perceived words starts fading away in short-term memory after a few seconds. Spoken utterances are usually 2–3 s long, possibly to allow the listener to parse the words into coherent prosodic phrases while they still have a clear representation. Results from this brain potential study suggest that even during silent reading, words are organized into 2–3 s long ‘implicit’ prosodic phrases. Participants read the same sentences word by word at different presentation rates. Clause-final words occurring at multiples of 2–3 s from sentence onset yielded increased positivity, irrespective of presentation rate. The effect was interpreted as a closure positive shift (CPS), reflecting insertion of implicit prosodic phrase boundaries every 2–3 s. Additionally, in participants with low working memory span, clauses over 3 s long produced a negativity, possibly indicating increased working memory load.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	267-272
Journal	Brain and Language
Volume	121
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2012.03.002
Publication status	Published - 2012

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The record was previously connected to the following departments: Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003), Department of Psychology (012010000)

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Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics
Psychology

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Language
Short-term memory
Time-driven constant
Event-related potentials
Reading
Prosodic phrase
Implicit prosody
CPS
Working memory

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CCL: Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning
Sahlén, B. (PI), Gärdenfors, P. (PI), Hesslow, G. (Researcher), Lindgren, M. (PI), Strömqvist, S. (PI), Byström, I. (Administrator), Sjöstrand, E. (Administrator), Mårtensson, J. (Researcher), Andersson, A. (Researcher), Hansson, K. (Researcher), Gullberg, M. (Researcher), Johansson, R. (Researcher), Johansson, M. (Researcher), Falck, A. (Researcher), Roll, M. (Researcher), Ståhlberg, F. (Researcher), Horne, M. (Researcher), Blomberg, F. (Researcher), Johansson, V. (Researcher), Nirme, J. (Research student), Gulz, A. (Researcher), van de Weijer, J. (Researcher), Paradis, C. (Researcher), Tärning, B. (Research student), Bramao, I. (Researcher), Sayehli, S. (Researcher), Löhndorf, S. (Research student), Willners, C. (Researcher), Blomberg, J. (Research assistant), Schötz, S. (Researcher), Haake, M. (Researcher), Brännström, J. (Researcher), Grenner, E. (Research student), Holsanova, J. (Researcher), Wengelin, Å. (Researcher), Johnsson, M. (Researcher), Winberg, S. (Researcher), Balkenius, C. (Researcher), Gharaee, Z. (Researcher) & Bååth, R. (Research student)
Swedish Research Council
2008/01/01 → 2018/12/31
Project: Research
Grammar, Prosody, Discourse and the Brain. ERP-studies of Language Processing
Horne, M. (PI), Roll, M. (Researcher) & Lindgren, M. (Researcher)
2005/01/01 → 2009/12/31
Project: Research

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Time-driven effects on parsing during reading

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