Prosody and the Brain

The article reviews studies, including lesion, dichotic¬listening, and functional imaging studies, which have investigated hemispheric specialization of prosodic features, with particular emphasis on variations in pitch. The article also discusses to what extent these studies support current hypotheses concerning hemispheric specialization of prosody.

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