Pistas duracionais e entoacionais na marcação de sintagmas entoacionais (I) no PE: a prosódia no efeito Garden-Path

Abstract

This research examines the prosodic realization, in European Portuguese, of the sentences with temporary structural ambiguities, known in the psycholinguistic literature as Garden-Path sentences. In a perceptual task, we analyzed the influence of prosodic marking in the interpretation of such ambiguous sentences. With respect to prosodic analysis, we investigate, in particular, the structuring of sentences into prosodic constituents, intonational marking, and the effects of duration with respect to the final lengthening in the position of the final boundary I intermediate and initial strengthening in the left edge of the I final.