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. . .  possibilities here. One is a prosodic explanation: perhaps English leans toward no pre-RC break for ambiguous long RCs because that is easy and is acceptable; then the absence of a break is interpreted, by the general priority of configurational principles, as a sign of low attachment. However, there is an alternative possibility: since the English prosodic principles are neutral, that may leave room for a syntactic locality principle such as Late Closure to step in and resolve the ambiguity. Thus we cannot claim that English long RCs make the case for syntactic disambiguation by implicit prosody. What supports the IPH is the pattern of contrasts between long and short RCs, and between languages. This has found no stable explanation so far on any other grounds, but it is exactly what would be expected given independently demonstrable facts about prosodic phrasing. 5. The extent of the phenomenon It is important to establish how pervasively implicit prosody influences syntactic ambiguity resolution . . .
. . .  contradiction - be causally affected by the prosody that is derived by the reader from a prosody-less word string. This is all very abstract. Some real instances in the next sections will show that it has application to natural language. I will then try to assess how widespread the phenomenon is. This part of the project is new and still very speculative. But it has practical importance for psycholinguistics . Wherever silent reading is affected by mentally projected prosody, prosody cannot be escaped by presenting experimental materials visually. Wherever experimental materials are presented visually, there is a risk that processing outcomes will be affected by mentally projected prosody. Therefore, to avoid experimental artifacts, the interface principles by which prosodic contours are assigned to sentences need to be understood and applied even in silent reading experiments. 3. The Implicit Prosody Hypothesis The sentence processing research group at the City University of New York . . .
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