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ArticleBrain sciences2019

Event-Related Potential Evidence of Implicit Metric Structure during Silent Reading.

Mara Breen, Ahren B Fitzroy, Michelle Oraa Ali

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Article in Brain sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  1. The Implicit and Explicit Prosody of the Focus OperatorBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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3 authors.

Mara BreenDepartment of Psychology and Education, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075, USA. mbreen@mtholyoke.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8904-3087
Ahren B FitzroyDepartment of Psychology and Education, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1429-5308
Michelle Oraa AliDepartment of Psychology and Education, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 01075, USA.

Funding

James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award in Understanding Human Cognition
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Under the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis, readers generate prosodic structures during silent reading that can direct their real-time interpretations of the text. In the current study, we investigated the processing of implicit meter by recording event-related potentials (ERPs) while participants read a series of 160 rhyming couplets, where the rhyme target was always a stress-alternating noun-verb homograph (e.g., permit, which is pronounced PERmit as a noun and perMIT as a verb). The target had a strong-weak or weak-strong stress pattern, which was either consistent or inconsistent with the stress expectation generated by the couplet. Inconsistent strong-weak targets elicited negativities between 80-155 ms and 325-375 ms relative to consistent strong-weak targets; inconsistent weak-strong targets elicited a positivity between 365-435 ms relative to consistent weak-strong targets. These results are largely consistent with effects of metric violations during listening, demonstrating that implicit prosodic representations are similar to explicit prosodic representations.

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event-related potentialsimplicit prosodylexical stressmeterpoetryreadingrhythm

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PMID31398845
PMCPMC6721353

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