The online advantage of repairing metrical structure: Stress shift in pupillometry
Canaan Breiss, Jesse Harris, Amanda Rysling
May 2021 

In this paper we use pupillometry, a non-invasive, naturalistic method of measuring attention and cognitive load, to measure the effect of stress clash (Chinése shíp) and its metrical repair (Chínese shíp) during auditory sentence processing. We addressed two main research questions. The first question explores whether phonologically-disfavored metrical structures induce processing costs indexed by changes in pupil size. The second investigates whether the application of an optional process of stress retraction called the Rhythm Rule (Liberman & Prince, 1977) ameliorates or compounds any general penalty for stress clash. We find that unrepaired stress clash leads to greater pupil diameter relative to non-clashing sequences, indicating increased attention and cognitive load. We also find that repaired sequences lead to a decrease in overall pupil diameter, indicating facilitation.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/005940 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
keywords:	stress clash; rhythm rule; metrical constraints; lexical processing; pupillometry; auditory sentence processing, phonology
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