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The influence of rhythmic (ir)regularities on speech processing: evidence from an ERP study on German phrases
(Elsevier, 2013)The present study investigates the status of rhythmic irregularities occurring in natural speech and the importance of rhythmic alternations in cognitive processing. Previous studies showed the relevance of rhythm for ... -
The role of predicta¬bility and structure in word stress processing: An ERP study on Cairene Arabic and a cross-linguistic comparison
(Frontiers, 2014)This article presents neurolinguistic data on word stress perception in Cairene Arabic, in comparison to previous results on German and Turkish. The main goal is to investigate how central properties of stress systems such ... -
The lexical representation of word stress in Russian: evidence from event-related potentials
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2013)This paper explores the processing of metrical structure in Russian, a language with free lexical stress. According to the existing theoretical accounts, not all Russian stems are specified for accent in the lexicon. The ... -
Stress 'deafness' in a language with fixed word stress: an ERP study on Polish
(Frontiers, 2012)The aim of the present contribution was to examine the factors influencing the prosodic processing in a language with predictable word stress. For Polish, a language with fixed penultimate stress but several well-defined ... -
Processing (un)predictable word stress: ERP evidence from Turkish
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles, 2013)This paper investigates the way the predictability of prosodic patterns in a particular language influences the processing of stress information by native speakers of that language. We extend previous findings where speakers ...
