This study investigated the effects of syntactically marked and enhanced prosody on local ambiguity resolution in German SVO and OVS sentences. In a visual-world experiment, thirty younger and thirty elderly healthy participants performed a sentence-picture matching task. Response accuracy, reaction times and fixations proportions to the target picture were analysed using linear mixed models. We found no support for beneficial effects of syntactically marked prosody, however, results suggested a facilitative role of enhanced prosodic cues (i.e., increased f0 maximum) before the point of disambiguation in SVO structures, as well as beneficial effects of enhanced prosody adding to morpho-syntactic cues in OVS structures. Both age groups showed comparable cue use but inter-individual variability in prosodic cue processing. Overall, our study replicates and extends previous findings demonstrating the importance of examining variability in prosodic cue processing in future research.