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- Longer sentences have higher pitch peaks at the start compared to shorter ones, potentially due to increased cognitive effort in planning speech.
- A study using a dual-task method showed that when participants had to remember additional nouns while describing pictures, their pitch peaks decreased, highlighting the effect of cognitive load on intonation.
- Eye gaze measurements revealed a brief processing delay when starting to describe the picture, suggesting a connection between memory and sentence intonation that requires further exploration.
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