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semdial 2018 talk

By chael | Published: November 8, 2018
Here are the slides of a talk on the intonational bestiary at the Workshop on Prosody and meaning atSemDial in Aix en Provence (also presented at Linguae in Paris on Nov 7), reporting on joint work with Dan Goodhue
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new paper about the processing of relative clauses

By chael | Published: August 27, 2018
Andrea Santi, Nino Grillo, Emilia Molimpakis & Michael Wagner (2018) Processing relative clauses across comprehension and production: similarities and differences, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2018.1513539
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new paper on light vs. dark [l]

By chael | Published: August 27, 2018
Mackenzie, Sara, Erin Olson, Meghan Clayards, and Michael Wagner (2018). North American /l/ both darkens and lightens depending on prosodic context. Laboratory Phonology, 9(1)(13)
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dan goodhue to maryland

By chael | Published: June 15, 2018
Daniel Goodhue, who defended his thesis this February, has recently accepted a postdoctoral position in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. He will be working with Dr. Valentine Hacquard and Dr. Jeffrey Lidz at the intersection of semantics and language acquisition. The position begins in August 2018.
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two new papers on focus prosody

By chael | Published: June 15, 2018
Vander Klok, Jozina, Heather Goad, and Michael Wagner (2018). Prosodic Focus in English vs. French: A Scope Account.Glossa: a journal of general linguistics  3(1): 71. 1-47 [DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.172] Hamlaoui,Fatima, Marzena Żygis, Jonas Engelmann, and Michael Wagner (2018). Acoustic correlates of focus marking in Czech and Polish. Language and Speech, 1(20):44pp [doi]
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new paper on reconstruction and focus operators

By chael | Published: June 15, 2018
Smeets, Liz and Michael Wagner (2018). Reconstructing the syntax of focus operators. Semantics & Pragmatics, 11(6):1–27. [doi]
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Dissertation award for Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron

By chael | Published: April 11, 2018
Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron yesterday was awarded this year’s McGill Arts insight dissertation award in the social sciences for her recent thesis on Speech production planning affects variation in external sandhi.
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Goodhue on responses to polarity questions

By chael | Published: March 28, 2018
Dan Goodhue just filed the final version of his awsome doctoral thesis: Asking and answering biased polar questions This dissertation explores how the interpretation of polar questions and answers to them is affected by prosody and negation. Phenomena analyzed include polar questions with polarity focus (prominence on the auxiliary), negative polar questions, yes/no responses to […]
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another paper in laboratory phonology

By chael | Published: July 14, 2017
Howell, Jonathan, Rooth, Mats, & Wagner, Michael (2017). Acoustic classification of focus: On the web and in the lab. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8(1), 16. [doi]
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production planning and deletion

By chael | Published: June 16, 2017
New paper published in Laboratory Phonology: Tanner, James, Morgan Sonderegger and Michael Wagner (2017). Production planning and coronal stop deletion in spontaneous speech. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8(1), 15. [doi]
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