Ratings of the prosodic features in speech are restricted to judgments of the speakers ability to blend sounds and words together, to stress syllables and words, and to modify pitch appropriately ...

In future work, we will investigate how the brain might use the prosodic properties of speech to extract the grammatical structure of spoken sentences," says Coopmans.

Human everyday communication is spoken rather than written, but the overwhelming majority of psycholinguistic research underlying models of sentence processing is still based on reading rather ...