TABLE III.

Examples of donor sentences, test sentences, and prosody-influenced reproductions. Note that the comma indicates the lexico-syntactically defined clause boundary; the double slash (//) indicates the position of the prosodic marking of a clause boundary. The shared word sequences between the donor sentences and test sentences are underlined.

Donor sentence: Since the man at the casino was winning, // bets were placed on his success.

Test sentence: With too many people winning // bets, the casino had to fire many of their staff.

Response: With too many people winning, (- - -) that casino had to fire many of their staff.

Donor sentence: Because of your skill in painting, // the pictures will be highly valued.

Test sentence: Because of her skill in painting // the pictures, she made a lot of money.

Response: Because of her skill with paintings, her pictures made a lot of money.