The Cat in the Cingulate: Source-domain differentiation of implicit metric and phrase processing in children’s poetry Ahren B. Fitzroy1,2 & Mara Breen1 1Department of Psychology and Education, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA; 2Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Poster presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (2020) Audio examples: Synthesized The Cat in the Hat excerpt, canonical order Synthesized The Cat in the Hat excerpt, random order References: Bögels, S., Schriefers, H., Vonk, W., & Chwilla, D. J. (2011). Prosodic Breaks in Sentence Processing Investigated by Event-Related Potentials. Language & Linguistics Compass, 5(7), 424–440. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2011.00291.x Dr. Seuss. (1957). The Cat in the Hat. New York, NY: Random House. Fitzroy, A. B., & Breen, M. (2019). Metric Structure and Rhyme Predictability Modulate Speech Intensity During Child-Directed and Read-Alone Productions of Children’s Literature. Language and Speech, 63(2), 292–305. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830919843158 Fitzroy, A. B., & Sanders, L. D. (2015). Musical Meter Modulates the Allocation of Attention across Time. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(12), 2339–2351. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00862 Hwang, H., & Steinhauer, K. (2011). Phrase Length Matters: The Interplay between Implicit Prosody and Syntax in Korean “Garden Path” Sentences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(11), 3555–3575. Knösche, T. R., Neuhaus, C., Haueisen, J., Alter, K., Maess, B., Witte, O. W., & Friederici, A. D. (2005). Perception of phrase structure in music. Human Brain Mapping, 24(4), 259–273. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.20088 Steinhauer, K., Alter, K., & Friederici, A. D. (1999). Brain potentials indicate immediate use of prosodic cues in natural speech processing. Nature Neuroscience, 2(2), 191–196. https://doi.org/10.1038/5757 |