Cutler, A. & Foss, D. J. (1977). On the role of sentence stress in sentence processing. Language and Speech, 20, 1–10.
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Summary: Chris
The study aimed to test the form-class hypothesis, which predicts that content words in accented locations will be processed faster than content words in unaccented locations and that there is no such advantage for accented function words over unaccented function words. In this study, all stimuli were consisted of content words or function words and they were embedded into a sentence with normal intonation and that with non-normal intonation. The rationale is that, if there is no difference between a sentence with normal intonation and a sentence with non-normal intonation, normal stress pattern should not be viewed as a relevant concept for actual speech. Subjects were asked to perform a phoneme-monitoring task. Results showed that a phoneme was detected faster in the stressed condition. However, neither word class nor the normality of intonation had effects on subjects’ reaction time in the phoneme-monitoring task. The authors concluded that the normality of intonation and the syntactic category were not significant factors for phoneme detections in speech. Therefore, the form-class hypothesis was not supported in this study.
Presentation: Sarah
Summary: Chris
The study aimed to test the form-class hypothesis, which predicts that content words in accented locations will be processed faster than content words in unaccented locations and that there is no such advantage for accented function words over unaccented function words. In this study, all stimuli were consisted of content words or function words and they were embedded into a sentence with normal intonation and that with non-normal intonation. The rationale is that, if there is no difference between a sentence with normal intonation and a sentence with non-normal intonation, normal stress pattern should not be viewed as a relevant concept for actual speech. Subjects were asked to perform a phoneme-monitoring task. Results showed that a phoneme was detected faster in the stressed condition. However, neither word class nor the normality of intonation had effects on subjects’ reaction time in the phoneme-monitoring task. The authors concluded that the normality of intonation and the syntactic category were not significant factors for phoneme detections in speech. Therefore, the form-class hypothesis was not supported in this study.
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