Top researchers in prosody and psycholinguistics present their research and their views on the
role of prosody in processing speech and also its role in reading. The volume characterizes the
state of the art in an important area of psycholinguistics. How are general constraints on
prosody ('timing') and intonation ('melody') used to constrain the parsing and interpretation
of spoken language? How are they used to assign a default prosody intonation in silent reading
and more generally what is the role of phonology in reading? Prosody and intonation interact
with phonology syntax semantics and pragmatics and thus are at the very core of language
processes.
