Arnold D, Wagner P. The influence of top-down expectations on the perception of syllable prominence. In: Proceedings of the 2nd ISCA Workshop on Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2008). 2008: 25-28.In our study we use the experimental framework of priming to manipulate our subjects‘ expectations of syllable prominence in sentences with a well-defined syntactic
and phonological structure. It shows that it is possible to prime prominence patterns and that priming leads to significant differences in the judgment of syllable promi-
nence.
Key words: Top-Down, Priming, Syllable Prominence, Perceptio
