| Term | Definition |
|---|
| prosody | melody of speech, including such features as pitch, stress, juncture/pause, sentence-phrase intonation |
| suprasegmentals | prosodic elements, independent of segmental events, and can extend over many segmental events |
| segmental events | consonants and vowels |
| aprosody | right hemisphere damaged patients are unable to correctly assess both faces and voices that confer emotional moods |
| Blumstein and Cooper | prosody as distinct from speech signal and keep prosody intact is to low-pass filter the signal |
| Van Lackner and Fromkin | if tone serves as a phonemic cue, then the left hemisphere superiority exists. If the tonal info extends over larger domains of signal, then the right hemisphere is superior in processing the meaning |
| Taft and Forster | when nonwords contain real words as initial stems reaction times got longer in a lexical decision task compared to complete nonsense words |
| Bradley | effect of nonwords is not seen when closed class words make up initial stem, only content words |
| Shapiro and Jensen | only RVH showed effect of increased RT with content words; open class headed nonwords led to greater RTs than closed class and complete nonwords, but only for RVF; RH doesn't appear to distinguish between open v. closed class vocabulary type |
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