%0 Journal Article
%T Event-Related Potential Evidence of Implicit Metric Structure during Silent Reading
%J Brain Sciences | An Open Access Journal from MDPI
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9080192
%X Under the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis, readers generate prosodic structures during silent reading that can direct their real-time interpretations of the text. In the current study, we investigated the processing of implicit meter by recording event-related potentials (ERPs) while participants read a series of 160 rhyming couplets, where the rhyme target was always a stress-alternating noun每verb homograph (e.g., permit, which is pronounced PERmit as a noun and perMIT as a verb). The target had a strong每weak or weak每strong stress pattern, which was either consistent or inconsistent with the stress expectation generated by the couplet. Inconsistent strong每weak targets elicited negativities between 80每155 ms and 325每375 ms relative to consistent strong每weak targets; inconsistent weak每strong targets elicited a positivity between 365每435 ms relative to consistent weak每strong targets. These results are largely consistent with effects of metric violations during listening, demonstrating that implicit prosodic representations are similar to explicit prosodic representations. View Full-Tex
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/9/8/192