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26.1 Introduction 26.1 Introduction
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26.2 Psycholinguistic methods used to investigate information structure 26.2 Psycholinguistic methods used to investigate information structure
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26.2.1 Time-based measures 26.2.1 Time-based measures
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26.2.2 Attention-based measures 26.2.2 Attention-based measures
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26.2.3 Off-line methods 26.2.3 Off-line methods
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26.3 Psycholinguistic research on the comprehension of information structure: syntactic cues 26.3 Psycholinguistic research on the comprehension of information structure: syntactic cues
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26.3.1 Syntactic marking of IS and ease of processing 26.3.1 Syntactic marking of IS and ease of processing
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26.3.2 How comprehenders extract syntactic cues about IS during real-time processing 26.3.2 How comprehenders extract syntactic cues about IS during real-time processing
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26.4 Prosodic cues to information structure 26.4 Prosodic cues to information structure
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26.4.1 Incremental and anticipatory effects of prosodic cues 26.4.1 Incremental and anticipatory effects of prosodic cues
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26.4.2 Mapping between information-structural categories and prosodic realizations 26.4.2 Mapping between information-structural categories and prosodic realizations
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26.4.3 Alternatives evoked by focus 26.4.3 Alternatives evoked by focus
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26.5 Future directions, broader issues 26.5 Future directions, broader issues
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26 Information Structure and Language Comprehension: Insights from Psycholinguistics
Get accessElsi Kaiser is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. She received her PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania, after a BA in Germanic languages and literatures from Princeton University and an MA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the processes and representations involved in comprehension and production, especially in domains involving multiple aspects of linguistic representation (syntax, semantics, pragmatics), such as reference resolution. She has investigated multiple languages (e.g. Finnish, Estonian, French, German, and Dutch, including collaborative work on Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese).
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Published:12 November 2015
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Abstract
This chapter explores the relationship between information structure and language comprehension from a psycholinguistic perspective. More specifically, it considers how information structure, when signalled by syntactic or prosodic cues, is processed during language comprehension. It begins with a brief review of some of the key psycholinguistic methods that have been used to investigate questions about information structure, including reaction-time-based measures, attention-based measures, and off-line methods. It then discusses major research findings regarding the comprehension of syntactic cues and prosodic cues to information structure. It also considers the relationship between prosody and information structure and its importance to our understanding of focus and focus alternatives. The article concludes by outlining broader issues and directions for psycholinguistic research on information structure.
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