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Watson, Duane G. Watson, Duane G. Fraundorf, Scott 2010-01-06T17:50:09Z 2010-01-06T17:50:09Z 2012-01-07T11:00:12Z 2010-01-06T17:50:09Z The effects of pitch accenting on memory were investigated in three experiments. Participants listened to short recorded discourses that contained contrast sets with two items (e.g. British scientists and French scientists); a subsequent continuation picked out one item from the set. Pitch accenting on the critical word in the continuation was manipulated between non-contrastive (H* in the ToBI system) and contrastive (L+H*). On subsequent recognition memory tests, the L+H* accent increased hits to correct statements and correct rejections of the contrast item (Experiments 1-3). L+H* did not impair memory for other parts of the discourse (Experiment 2), suggesting that its effects are not due to prioritizing certain information for encoding. L+H* also did not facilitate correct rejections of lures not in the contrast set (Experiment 3), indicating that contrastive accents do not simply strengthen the representation of the target item. These results suggest comprehenders actively encode information about contrasts in discourse comprehension. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2009-12-11T16:39:21Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Fraundorf_Scott.doc: 498688 bytes, checksum: 28b9453be87b56c855f0fc0d8ea0235d (MD5) Fraundorf_Scott.pdf: 538073 bytes, checksum: 6133f60f75c949aed4eab66690122a28 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2010-01-06T17:50:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 license.txt: 4065 bytes, checksum: e61278c8eabeaf87d134ef2152da7990 (MD5) Fraundorf_Scott.doc: 498688 bytes, checksum: 28b9453be87b56c855f0fc0d8ea0235d (MD5) Fraundorf_Scott.pdf: 538073 bytes, checksum: 6133f60f75c949aed4eab66690122a28 (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2010-01-06T17:50:32Z Item is restricted until 2012-01-06T17:50:31Z Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-01-07T11:00:12Z Item was in collections: Dissertations and Theses - Psychology (ID: 590) University of Illinois Dissertations and Theses (ID: 204) No. of bitstreams: 4 Fraundorf_Scott.pdf.txt: 96017 bytes, checksum: 8fb4ef6a7dc9fdc3ad176b7a79cf9b9f (MD5) license.txt: 4065 bytes, checksum: e61278c8eabeaf87d134ef2152da7990 (MD5) Fraundorf_Scott.doc: 498688 bytes, checksum: 28b9453be87b56c855f0fc0d8ea0235d (MD5) Fraundorf_Scott.pdf: 538073 bytes, checksum: 6133f60f75c949aed4eab66690122a28 (MD5) Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-01-07T11:00:12Z http://hdl.handle.net/2142/14762 en Copyright 2009 Scott Fraundorf discourse language comprehension pitch accenting focus Recognition memory reveals just how contrastive contrastive accenting is 2009-12 Psychology 1299 Psychology 0338 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A. PHD:Psychology -UIUC 10KS0338PHD