Loutrari, Ariadni and Tselekidou, F. and Proios, H. (2018) Phrase-final words in Greek storytelling speech: a study on the effect of a culturally-specific prosodic feature on short-term memory. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 47 (4), pp. 947-957. ISSN 0090-6905.
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Abstract
Prosodic patterns of speech appear to make a critical contribution to memoryrelated processing. We considered the case of a previously unexplored prosodic feature of Greek storytelling and its effect on free recall in thirty typically developing children between the ages of 10 and 12 years, using short ecologically valid auditory stimuli. The combination of a falling pitch contour and, more notably, extensive final-syllable vowel lengthening, which gives rise to the prosodic feature in question, led to statistically significantly higher performance in comparison to neutral phrase-final prosody. Number of syllables in target words did not reveal substantial difference in performance. The current study presents a previously undocumented culturally-specific prosodic pattern and its effect on short-term memory.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | The final publication is available at Springer via the link above. |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Prosody, Storytelling, Short-term memory, Pitch, Duration |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Ariadne Loutrari |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2018 10:14 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2025 13:10 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/22698 |
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