Table 1.
Word prosodic features of five languages in the experiment (rows 1–5) and predictions for success in the Sequence Recall Task (row 6).
Table 2.
Mean acoustic measurements of the prosodic tokens after durational adjustments pooled over 6 tokens of each nonword ([númi / numí]) for Persian and Dutch separately.
Table 3.
Sequences of nonwords used in the experiment.
Table 4.
Mean scores (percentages correct) for each language group as a function of contrast and stimulus type at the 3-word level of sequence length.
Table 5.
Mean scores (percentages correct) for each language group as a function of contrast and stimulus type at the 4-word level of sequence length.
Table 6.
Mean scores (percentages correct) for each language group as a function of contrast and stimulus type at the 5-word level of sequence length.
Table 7.
Summary of the repeated measures ANOVA: Scores by the language of the listener, the type of the contrast, the length of the sequence and the type of the stimulus.
Fig 1.
Mean scores for each language group across the two contrasts.
Table 8.
Summary of the separate one-way ANOVAs for the segmental and prosodic contrasts.
Table 9.
Summary of a one-way ANOVA with a Sidak post-hoc analysis for the prosodic contrast.