Review of ASA abstracts

Rethinking the fundamentals of sentence comprehension A nearly self-evident fact about human language is that knowing a language consists of two systems: a list of terms stored in long-term memory (the...

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"Phonetics of Palatalization in O'dam"

“Overflow of the phonological planning window: Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi reanalyzed”

Prosodic Boundaries as Windows into Speech Planning: Timing, Meaning, and the Role of Focus Prosodic boundaries are systematically marked through temporal modulations in articulation, most prominently phrase-final (pre-boundary) lengthening. While this phenomenon is widely attested and often treated as a universal marker of prosodic structure, its scope and functional basis remain poorly understood. In particular,...