. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Mem Lang. 2008 Feb;58(2):574–608. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2007.08.001

Table 7.

Analyses of the prosodic transcriptions for the stimuli in Experiment 2 and Snedeker & Trueswell (2004).

Dependent Variable	Instrument Prosody	Modifier Prosody	Neutral Prosody^†

verb break index	M = 1.08	M = 4	M = 1.08
verb break index	CI_.95 = ± .16	M = 4	CI_.95 = ± .16

noun break index	M = 4	M = .92	M = 1.33
noun break index	M = 4	CI_.95 = ± .11	CI_.95 = ± .31

pitch accent on verb	54% H*	100% L+H*
	25% L*		38% H*
	21% L*+H		62% L*+H

pitch accent on noun	21% H+!H*		46% H+!H*
	46% H*	79% H*	42% H*
	33% L+H*	21% L+H*	12% L+H*

presence of pitch accent on with	79%	0%	0%

accent on PP-object	58% H*	67% H*	67% H*
accent on PP-object	42% L+H*	33% L+H*	33% L+H*

break indices prediction	100%	100%	79% Neutral
	Instument	Modifier	17% Instrument
	Instument	Modifier	4% Modifier

^†

The Neutral Prosody utterances were the stimulus sentences from Snedeker & Trueswell (2004). They included the same root command without the carrier phrase (“You can”).