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two new papers on focus prosody
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
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
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
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
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
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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Poster at PaPE
Poster at today’s PaPE: Wagner, M. and McAuliffe, M. (2017). Three dimensions of sentence prosody and their (non-)interactions. Poster presentation at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2017, Universität Köln. [poster]
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she is you
Why you can’t say this in German (or at least it won’t sound great): Coon, Jessica, Stefan Keine, & Michael Wagner (2016): Hierarchy effects in copular constructions: ThePCC corner of German. Poster presented at NELS 47, UMass Amherst.
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more on frowns
A while ago, I posted on two competing meanings of ‘frown’ here. Just recently, Lynne Murphy at separated by a common language followed up on this with this post, which generated some interesting responses. Most spectacularly, it prompted the following confirmation that British vs. American English distinction indeed has something to do with it (even though I […]
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