Implicit Prosody (Van Handel)

Series: Language & Linguistics

The Sound of Silence: Investigations of Implicit Prosody — Nicholas J. Van Handel

Nicholas Van Handel studies the prosodic structure readers assign during silent reading.

The dissertation compares Maze tasks and self-paced reading as methods for investigating implicit prosody.

Its experiments examine how mentally supplied rhythm and phrasing affect sentence processing.

The findings support the Maze task’s sensitivity and its more localized processing effects.

The work also outlines how grammatical principles could guide incremental prosodic parsing.

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