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2021-04-01

Bohach, Megan Naomi

This thesis investigates the relationship between levels of shyness, verbal irony use, and the presence and influence of associated stereotypes. Although recent studies of personality and figurative language have addressed varying research questions, there has been little direct exploration of...

2021-01-01

Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

These files contain acoustic absement and acoustic distinctiveness calculations for the words in the Massive Auditory Lexical Decision database. These files accompany the "Using acoustic distance and acoustic absement to quantify lexical competition" article in the Journal of The Acoustical...

2020-12-09

Stephanie Hammond-Thrasher, Juhani Jarvikivi

2018-09-01

Matthew C. Kelley

In the present study, I propose an acoustically-based alternative to phonological neighborhood density. Phonological neighborhood density has been used in many studies as an approximate quantification of lexical competition during spoken word recognition. However, phonological neighborhood...

2021-11-06

Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

The notion of acoustic distance figures into many aspects of phonetics, including phonological neighborhoods. A measurement of word-level acoustic distance useful for cognitive modeling must account for two aspects of perception: listener sensitivity to acoustic differences and the duration...

2022-09-01

Alden, McKinley, Arnhold, Anja

This document is a step-by-step description of the process for deriving stress in Central Alaskan Yup'ik words, complete with a brief overview of the stress system of the language and detailed examples.

2018-12-20

Matthew C. Kelley, Benjamin V. Tucker

This paper has been significantly updated and published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Please read and cite that version instead, which can be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0009584. The present study quantifies the effects of lexical competition during spoken word...