Abstract: This is an experiment report on lexical parsing of Chinese utterances, Us-ing as stimuli reiterant and synthesized sentences'of six-syllable Chinese shortutterances, the roles in lexical parsing were investigated of such prosodic cuesas distribution patterns of syllable durations, fundamental frequency and inten-sity curves of utterances, and forment transitions of syllables. It was found thatlisteners could identify with high accuracy sentence structures and parse wordsin short utterances without any segment and semantic information, and thatamong the prosodic cues possibly usefull for lexical parsing the most importantwere distribution patterns of syllable durations and fundamental frequencycurves of utterances.

Key words: lexica1 parsing, prosodic cues, reiterant sentences