Research Publications (Linguistics)
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2023-01-01
This book chapter offers an overview of the grammar of Jodï, an Amazonian language spoken in Venezuela. It appears in Volume 1 Language Isolates I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra of the multivolume handbook "Amazonian Languages, An International Handbook" edited by Pattie Epps and Lev Michael and...
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2022-03-28
Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker
Pseudowords are used as stimuli in many psycholinguistic experiments yet they, remain largely under-researched. To better understand the cognitive processing of pseudowords, we analysed the pseudoword responses in the Massive Auditory Lexical Decision megastudy data set. Linguistic...
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2022-01-01
Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker
Using phonological neighborhood density has been a common method to quantify lexical competition. It is useful and convenient but has shortcomings that are worth reconsidering. The present study quantifies the effects of lexical competition during spoken word recognition using acoustic distance...
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Subjective experience of poetry: Latent structure and differences between experts and non-experts
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Nenadić, Filip, Vejnović, Dušan, Marković, Slobodan
We present a series of studies investigating subjective experience of poetry in expert and non expert readers. In the preliminary study, literature and psychology students produced adjectives descriptive of poetry. Separate lists of adjectives with 5 point Likert type scales, one for experts,...
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Prosodic focus marking in clefts and syntactically unmarked equivalents: Prosody–syntax trade-off or additive effects?
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Two experiments quantitatively investigated the interaction of prosody and syntax in marking focus in English. A production study with 28 participants (analyzing 919 utterances) found that the acoustic marking of subject focus vs broad focus, induced through a preceding context question, was...
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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...
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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...
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2021-12-01
Phillips, Audra, Tucker, Benjamin V.
Studies have shown that the voice onset time (VOT) of alveolo-palatal affricates is the longest, followed by velars, dental/alveolars, and bilabials. In a reciprocal pattern, closure duration is the longest for bilabials, followed by dental/alveolars, and then velars. Longer VOT is also...
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2020-01-01
Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker
Multiple measures of vowel overlap have been proposed that use F1, F2, and duration to calculate the degree of overlap between vowel categories. The present study assesses four of these measures: the spectral overlap assessment metric [SOAM; Wassink (2006). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119(4), 2334–2350],...