Research Publications (Linguistics)

2011-07-25

Tucker, Benjamin V., Warner, Natasha

TABLE II: Average (left) and standard deviation (right) for each dependent measure (consonant duration (sec.), intensity drop, proportion with a voiceless portion during the consonant, proportion with a burst, proportion with cessation in F2 and F3), and number of tokens. S: post-stress, U:...

2021-10-06

Lohmann, Arne, Tucker, Benjamin V.

This article reports the results of an auditory lexical decision task, testing the processing of phonetic detail of English noun/verb conversion pairs. The article builds on recent findings showing that the frequent occurrence in certain prosodic environments may lead to the storage of...

2021-08-01

Morin, Gabrielle, Tucker, Benjamin V.

Gabrielle Morin, and Benjamin Tucker, “The acoustic characteristics of um and uh in spontaneous Canadian English,” in The 10th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2021), St. Denis, France, August 2021, pp. 53-58. The present study investigates and compares the acoustic...

2011

Tremblay, Antoine, Tucker, Benjamin V.

2014

Tomaschek, Fabian

A frequently replicated finding is that the frequency of words affects their phonetic shape. In English, high frequency words have been shown to contain more centralized vowels than low frequency words. By contrast, a recent study on vowel articulation in German has shown a contrary finding. At...

2010

Warner, Natasha, Tucker, Benjamin V.

Abstract phonological patterns and detailed phonetic patterns can combine to produce unusual acoustic results, but criteria for what aspects of a pattern are phonetic and what aspects are phonological are often disputed. Early literature on Romanian makes mention of nasal devoicing in word-final...