Examples of soundfiles associated with selected publications and presentations
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.
Comprehension Experiments:
N1-modification
prosody
Adjective-focus
prosody
Default
prosody
N2-modification
prosody
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]
Experiments 1, 2, & 4:
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Experiment 3:
Short
clause, intonation phrase
Short
clause, intermediate phrase
Long
clause, intonation phrase
Long
clause, intermediate phrase
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]
Three productions of the Late Closure sentence from one speaker:
Example
1
Example
2
Example
3
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]
Warren,
P., Schafer, A.J., Speer,
S.R., & White, S.D. (2000). Prosodic resolution of prepostional
phrase ambiguity in ambiguous and unambiguous situations. UCLA
Working Papers in Phonetics, 99, 5-33. [PDF]
The High Attachment sentence produced by three different speakers:
Example
1
Example
2
Example
3
Three productions of the Low Attachment sentence from one speaker:
Example
1
Example
2
Example
3
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.
Questions:
NP
Focus
VP
Focus
Answers:
Break
after verb
Break
after subject
Focus
on verb
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]
Experiment 1: Makes-Sense Judgment, Full Sentences, Natural
Speech:
Intermediate
phrase - dominant condition
Intermediate
phrase - subordinate condition
Intonation
phrase - dominant condition
Intonation
phrase - subordinate condition
Experiment 2: Cross-Modal Naming, Sentence Fragments, Natural Speech:
Intermediate
phrase condition
Intonation
phrase condition
Subsequent experiments:
Experiment 3: Cross-Modal Naming, Sentence Fragments, Durationally
Altered Speech:
Intermediate
phrase condition
Intonation
phrase condition
Experiment 4: Cross-Modal Naming, Sentence Fragments,
Matched Time from Ambiguous Word to Naming Target, Natural Speech:
(Beep indicates onset of naming target; this example contains the largest
silent interval used.)
Intermediate
phrase condition
Intonation
phrase condition
Schafer, A.J. (1997). Prosodic Parsing: The Role of
Prosody in Sentence Comprehension. Doctoral Dissertation, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst. Forthcoming, Amherst: GLSA.
Experiment 1:
Late
Boundary
Early
Boundary
No
Boundaries
Both
Boundaries
Other experiments:
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Schafer, A.J., Carter, J., Clifton,
C. & Frazier,
L. (1996). Focus in relative clause construal. Language
and Cognitive Processes, 11, 135 - 163.
Experiment 1:
Argument,
accent on N1
Argument,
accent on N2
Experiment 2:
New
NP2, "accented" RC
Contrastive
NP2, "accented" RC
New
NP2, "unaccented" RC
Contrastive
NP2, "unaccented" RC
Problems, questions, or comments:
E-Mail: aschafer@hawii.edu
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