This study investigates the production and processing of lexical prosody in morphological ambiguities in Turkish. Native speakers of Turkish took part in two read-aloud and two lexical decision experiments. The results showed that in speaking, for both genuine and pseudo words that contrasted in stress, participants changed the fundamental frequency (F0) and intensity to disambiguate; and they changed duration (but not F0 or intensity) to disambiguate words and pseudo-words that did not contrast in stress. In listening, the participants were sensitive to the prosodic (mis)match in stress-contrasting pairs, but not to durational (mis)match presumably because the durational differences between the comparison pairs were shorter than perceivable. The findings show that Turkish speakers use prosody to disambiguate morphologically ambiguous word pairs and that they are sensitive to prosodic cues (at least to those used in stress contrast) when they hear them. Their behavior for pseudo-words suggests that they do so not on the basis of individual word knowledge but productively. The comparison pairs in the current study were segmentally identical, allowing us to attribute the observed prosodic variation only to the morpho-syntactic structure of the ambiguous pairs.

中文翻译：

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土耳其语形态歧义的韵律消歧。

本研究调查了土耳其语词形歧义中词汇韵律的产生和加工。母语为土耳其语的人参加了两次朗读和两次词汇决策实验。结果表明，在口语中，对于压力相对较大的真词和伪词，参与者改变了基本频率（F0）和强度以消除歧义；并且他们改变了持续时间（但不是 F0 或强度）以消除在压力上没有对比的单词和伪单词的歧义。在听力中，参与者对压力对比对中的韵律（错误）匹配敏感，但对持续时间（错误）匹配不敏感，大概是因为比较对之间的持续时间差异比可感知的要短。研究结果表明，土耳其语使用者使用韵律来消除形态上模棱两可的词对，并且当他们听到韵律线索时，他们对韵律线索（至少对用于重音对比的线索）很敏感。他们对伪词的行为表明他们这样做不是基于单个词的知识，而是富有成效的。当前研究中的比较对在分段上是相同的，这使我们能够将观察到的韵律变化仅归因于模糊对的形态句法结构。