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A partial list of lab-related publications or presentations for download. 


Hwang, K., Schafer, A.J., & O’Grady, W. (to appear). Contrastive focus facilitates scrambling in Korean sentence processing. Japanese/Korean Linguistics 17, CSLI: Stanford, CA.

Hwang, H., Schafer, A.J., & Anderson, V.B. (2007). Discrimination of English intonation contours by native speakers and second language learners. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences XVI, 713-716. [PDF]

Hwang, H. & Schafer, A.J. (2006). Prosodic effects in parsing early vs. late closure sentences by second language learners and native speakers. Hoffmann, R. & Mixdorff (Eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006, 585-588. [PDF]

Schafer, A.J. & & Jun, S.-A. (2005). Effects of contrastive focus on prosodic cues to clause boundaries.  18th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Tucson, AZ.  [Please contact AJS for a copy]  [Abstract]

Schafer, A.J., Speer, S.R., &  Warren, P. (2005). Prosodic influences on the production and comprehension of syntactic ambiguity in a game-based conversation task. In M. Tanenhaus & J. Trueswell (Eds.) Approaches to Studying World Situated Language Use: Psycholinguistic, Linguistic and Computational Perspectives on Bridging the Product and Action Tradition, Cambridge: MIT Press.  [PDF]  [Soundfiles]
 
Warren, P., Speer, S.R., & Schafer, A.J. (2003). Wanna-contraction and prosodic disambiguation in US and NZ English. Wellington Working Papers in Linguistics, 15, 31-49.  [PDF
 
Speer, S.R., Warren, P., & Schafer, A.J.  (2003). Intonation and sentence processing. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 3-9 August 2003. [PDF
 
Schafer, A.J. & Jun, S.-A. (2002). Effects of accentual phrasing on adjective interpretation in Korean. In M. Nakayama (Ed.) Sentence Processing in East Asian Languages, Stanford: CSLI Publications.  [Please contact AJS for a copy]  [Soundfiles]
 
Schafer, A.J. & Jun, S.-A. (2001). Effects of focus on prosodic reflections of phrase structure in American English. The Prosody in Processing Workshop, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.  [Please contact AJS for a copy or for soundfiles]  [Abstract]
 
Schafer, A.J., Carlson, K., Clifton, C., & Frazier, L. (2000). Focus and the interpretation of pitch accent: Disambiguating embedded questions. Language and Speech, 43, 75-105.  [PDF]  [Soundfiles]
 
Schafer, A.J., Speer, S.R., Warren, P., & White, S.D. (2000). Intonational disambiguation in sentence production and comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29, 169-182.  [PDF]  [Soundfiles]
 
 Warren, P., Schafer, A.J., Speer, S.R., & White, S.D. (2000). Prosodic resolution of prepositional phrase ambiguity in ambiguous and unambiguous situations. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 99, 5-33.  [PDF]  [Soundfiles]

Schafer, A.J. (1998). Bounded projection: The effect of prosodic phrasing on focus interpretation.  In E. Benedicto, M. Romero & S. Tomioka (Eds.) University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 21: Proceedings of the Workshop on Focus. Amherst: GLSA.  [Please contact AJS for a copy]  [Soundfiles]
 
Schafer, A.J. & Speer, S.R. (1998). Prosodic influences on the resolution of lexical ambiguity. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, NY.  [PDF]  [Soundfiles]
 
Schafer, A.J. (1997). Prosodic Parsing: The Role of Prosody in Sentence Comprehension. University of Massachusetts Doctoral Dissertation.  [Please contact AJS for a copy]   [Soundfiles]
 
Schafer, A.J., Carter, J., Clifton, C. & Frazier, L.  (1996). Focus in relative clause construal. Language and Cognitive Processes, 11, 135 - 163.  [Please contact AJS for a copy]  [Soundfiles]

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