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[t/d] realizations and production planning
Kilbourn-Ceron, O., Clayards, M., and Wagner, M. (2020). Predictability modulates pronunciation variants through speech planning effects: A case study on coronal stop realizations. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 11(1). [doi] Predictability has been shown to be associated with many dimensions of variation in speech, including durational variation and variable omission of […]
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new paper on hat contour
Martens, G., Torreira, F., and Wagner, M. (2020). Hat contour in dutch: Form and function. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020. [paper] The hat contour is an intonation pattern which starts with a rise and ends in a fall. Although most researchers agree that it consists of a rise and […]
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new paper on high fall
Gibson, Emma, Torreira, Francisco, and Wagner, Michael. (2020). The high-fall contour in North American English: A case study in imperatives. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020. [paper] Imperatives are often uttered with a standard declarative falling contour. However, there are several claims that they can be pronounced with different tunes, […]
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Andrés Buxó-Lugo @ prosodylab
On Wed November 13 Andrés Buxó-Lugo (University of Maryland) will present on his research in the prosodylab-meeting (10.30am-11.30am) in Room 117 in Linguistics (1085 Dr. Penfield Avenue). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andrés Buxó-Lugo (University of Maryland) : The world is not enough to explain lengthening of phonological competitors Speakers tend to lengthen words when a phonologically overlapping word […]
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new paper on focus and phrasing
Wagner, Michael and McAuliffe, Michael (2019). The effect of focus prominence on phrasing. Journal of Phonetics 77. [doi] [preprint] Abstract Prosody simultaneously encodes different kinds of information about an utterance, including the type of speech act (which, in English, often affects the choice of intonational tune), the syntactic constituent structure (which mainly affects prosodic phrasing), […]
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new paper on hierarchy effects
Keine, Stefan, Michael Wagner, and JessicaCoon, (2019). Hierarchy effects in copula constructions. Canadian Journal of Linguistics. [doi] AbstractThis paper develops a generalization about agreement in German copula constructions described in Coon et al. (2017), and proposes an analysis that ties it to other well-established hierarchy phenomena. Specifically, we show that “assumed-identity” copula constructions in German exibit […]
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toward a bestiary of intonational tunes
Slides of a colloquium talk at Northwestern University, reporting on joint work with Dan Goodhue: Toward a Bestiary of the Intonational Tunes of EnglishWhat is the inventory of tunes of North American English? What do particular tunes contribute to the pragmatic and semantic import of an utterance? How reliably are certain conversational goals and intentions […]
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allophonic variation and the locality of production planning
Colloquium talk at University of Maryland: Slides
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toronto intonation workshop
Slides on the intonational bestiary at the 4th Intonation Workshop at University of Toronto, reporting on joint work with Dan Goodhue
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production planning and sandhi @labphon 2020