{"pk":28736,"title":"Investigating sound and structure in concert: A pupillometry study of relativeclause attachment","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Listeners must integrate multiple sources of information toconstruct an interpretation of a sentence. We concentrate hereon the alignment of prosodic and syntactic grouping duringonline sentence comprehension. We present the results from apupillometry study on the use of prosodic boundaries in resolv-ing well-known attachment ambiguities. Using growth curveanalyses to capture the non-linear dynamics of pupil dilation,we found increased pupil excursions for sentences that weredisambiguated towards the dispreferred, non-local relation, es-pecially when accompanied by supporting prosodic informa-tion. However, when prosodic and structural information didnot align, pupillary response was muted, potentially indicatinga failure to commit to a specific interpretation. More generally,the study shows how the currently under-utilized pupillometrymethod offers insights into spoken language comprehension.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Relative clause attachment; prosody; pupillometry"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83t7q6tv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jesse","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Harris","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":""},{"first_name":"Alexandra","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lawn","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":""},{"first_name":"Marju","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kaps","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28736/galley/18607/download/"}]}