Publications [#252820] of Reiko Mazuka

Journal Articles

1. Kondo, T; Mazuka, R (1996). Prosodic planning while reading aloud: on-line examination of Japanese sentences.. Journal of psycholinguistic research, 25(2), 357-381. [8667303], [doi]
   (last updated on 2025/06/16)

   Abstract:
   In this paper, we discuss the process of generating prosody on-line while reading a sentence orally. We report results from two studies in which eye-voice span was measured while subjects read aloud. In study one, the average eye-voice span for simple texts was only about 2.5 characters. In study two, the eye-voice span was also about 2.5 characters even when the subjects read garden-path sentences which required reanalysis during processing. That the readers looked only a few characters ahead before reading aloud suggests that the prosody which they generate is not based on a global syntactic analysis, but instead reflects only limited, local syntactic information. The subjects, therefore, make errors and repairs when this locally determined prosody obviously contradicts the meaning of the sentence.