11 | Interpreting sentences Flashcards
1
Q
What are reversible sentences?
A
Sentences that can be reversed and still retain their semantic meanings are easier to process than sentences that don’t.
Example:
The horse saw the chicken
The chicken saw the horse
2
Q
What is prosody?
A
The part of speech that is not syllabels or phonemes, but rather the other components like stress, tempo and so on.
3
Q
What is a stress shift?
A
A phenomenon in english in which the stress in a sentence is moved away if it comes closer to another stressed syllable.
Hong ‘Kong
‘Hong Kong ‘problems
