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Andrés Buxó-Lugo @ prosodylab

By chael | Published: November 10, 2019
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

By chael | Published: November 2, 2019
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

By chael | Published: November 2, 2019
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

By chael | Published: October 18, 2019
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

By chael | Published: September 13, 2019
Colloquium talk at University of Maryland: Slides
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toronto intonation workshop

By chael | Published: February 15, 2019
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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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 at SemDial 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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