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Phrase prosody and sentence prosody operate at different hierarchical levels of spoken language.
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Is it true that phrase prosody and sentence prosody operate at different hierarchical levels of spoken language?
Yes. Current linguistic and neurobiological evidence indicates that prosody is organized hierarchically, with phrase-level and sentence-level features operating at distinct structural tiers.
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The analysis
The retrieved papers examine prosody across multiple units—such as syllables, words, phrase boundaries, and intonation units—confirming that distinct levels of prosodic organization are processed hierarchically in speech. Papers [6] and [8] explicitly model or demonstrate this hierarchical structure of prosody. No papers refute the claim.
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Lin, B., Wang, L., Feng, X., & Zhang, J. (2020). Joint Detection of Sentence Stress and Phrase Boundary for Prosody. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2020-1284
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C, O., E, S., S, S., & M, M. (2024). Concurrent processing of the prosodic hierarchy is supported by cortical entrainment and phase-amplitude coupling.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae479
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