PhD Candidate Jungyun Seo, former Postdoctoral Fellow Ruaridh Purse, and Professor Jelena Krivokapić have recently published an article in the Journal of Phonetics, titled “The Interplay of Planning and Prosody: Investigating the Bidirectional Influences of Planning and Prosody in Speech Production”. The full bibliographic information, as well the abstract of the paper, are given below.
Jungyun Seo, Ruaridh Purse, Jelena Krivokapić (2026), The Interplay of Planning and Prosody: Investigating the Bidirectional Influences of Planning and Prosody in Speech Production. Journal of Phonetics, 44: 101461 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101461.
Abstract: This study investigates how planning and prosodic structure interact in speech production. Planning is operationalized in this study as the selection of one lexical item from two possible candidates. In an Electromagnetic Articulometry study that elicited this planning at a word or phrase boundary, two questions were examined. The first question tested whether planning has an effect on the kinematic properties of prosodic phrase boundaries. The results show that an increase in planning load does not affect the scope of boundary-related gestural lengthening but only leads to an increase in pause duration. The second question tested the effect of planning at word boundaries, specifically whether an increase in planning load at a word boundary leads to the production of a prosodic phrase boundary or just the insertion of a pause. The results show that an increase in the planning load at word boundaries leads to lengthening of gestures at a boundary and the insertion of pauses, indicating that speakers insert prosodic phrase boundaries when they need more planning time.
