Bondoc, I. P. & Schafer, A. J. (2023). Agent-first and pivot-second constraint effects in the online processing of Tagalog flexible word order.
Philippine Journal of Linguistics, 54, 44-65.
Kim, J. J., Schafer, A. J., & Drager, K. (2022). Testing the influence of socio-lexical associations along the time course of spoken-word processing.
Studies in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, 28, 387-416.
https://doi.org/10.17959/sppm.2022.28.3.387
Bondoc, I. P. & Schafer, A. J. (2022). Differential effects of agency, animacy, and syntactic prominence on production and comprehension: Evidence from a verb-initial language.
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000280
Akamine, S., Kohatsu, T., Niikuni, K. Schafer, A. J. & Sato, M. (2022). Emotions in language processing: Affective priming in embodied cognition.
Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of Japanese Cognitive Science Society.
Sato, M., Niikuni, K. Schafer, A. J., & Koizumi, M. (2020). Agentive versus non-agentive motions immediately influence event apprehension and description: An eye-tracking study in a VOS language.
Journal of East Asian Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-020-09205-9
Esteve-Gibert, N., Schafer, A. J., Hemforth, B., Portes, C. Pozniak, C. & D'Imperio (2020). Empathy influences how listeners interpret intonation and meaning when words are ambiguous.
Memory & Cognition, 48, 566-580.
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00990-w
Schafer, A. J., Camp, A. Rohde,
H. & Grüter, T. (2019). Contrastive prosody and the subsequent
mention of alternatives during discourse processing. In K. Carlson, C.
Clifton Jr., & J. Fodor (Eds.)
Grammatical Approaches to Language
Processing – Essays in Honor of Lyn Frazier (pp. 29-44). Springer: Studies in
Theoretical Linguistics.
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PDF] [
Soundfiles] [
Data & code]
Grüter,
T., Takeda, A., Rohde, H. & Schafer, A. J. (2018). Intersentential
coreference expectations
reflect mental models of events.
Cognition,
177, 172-176. doi:
10.1016/j.cognition.2018.04.015 [
PDF]
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Soundfiles] [
Data]
Miyao, M., Schafer, A. J., & Schwartz, B. D. (2018). Difference in referential-expression preferences between Japanese and Chinese readers. IEICE Technical Report, 118(163), 83-86. Tokyo: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.
Sato, M., Niikuni, K., Schafer, A. J., & Koizumi, M. (2018). Agent
versus non-Agent motions influence language production: Word order and
perspective in a VOS language. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society. Madison, WI. [
PDF]
Dennison, H. & Schafer,
A. J. (2017). Processing intonationally implicated contrast
versus negation in American English.
Language
and Speech, 60, 174-199.
doi:10.1177/0023830917694066
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PDF] [
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Grüter,
T., Rohde, H., & Schafer, A. (2017). Coreference and discourse
coherence in L2: The roles of grammatical aspect and referential form.
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 7, 199-229.
doi:10.1075/lab.15011.gru
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PDF]
Schafer, A. J. (2017). Differences between native and non-native English listeners in the use of prosodic focus and event structure to anticipate discourse structure and resolve reference. Japanese Society for Language Sciences 2017 Conference Handbook. Kyoto, Japan. [
PDF] [
Soundfiles]
Esteve-Gibert, N., Portes, C., Schafer, A., Hemforth, B. &
D'Imperio, M. (2016). Intonation in the processing of contrast
meaning in French: An eye-tracking study. Proceedings of Speech Prosody
2016. (pp. 1225-1229). Boston, MA. [
abstract,
PDF, and video of conference presentation]
Ling, W. & Schafer, A. J. (2016). Tone pair similarity and
the perception of Mandarin tones by Mandarin and English listeners.
Proceedings of the 5th International Tonal Aspects of Language,
Buffalo, NY. [
PDF]
Schafer,
A. J., Takeda, A., Camp, A., Rohde, H., & Grüter, T. (2015).
Effects of contrastive intonation and grammatical aspect on processing
coreference in Mainstream American English. Proceedings of the 18th
International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland. [
PDF]
[
Soundfiles]
Sato, M., Schafer, A.J., &
Bergen, B.K. (2015). Metaphor priming in sentence production: Concrete
pictures affect abstract language production.
Acta Psychologica, 156, 136-142
. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.09.010
[
PDF]
Grüter,
T., Rohde, H., & Schafer, A. (2014). The role of
discourse-level expectations in non-native speakers' referential
choices. In W. Orman & M. J. Valleau (Eds.)
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Boston
University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). (pp.
179-191). Cascadilla: Somerville, MA. [
PDF]
Sato, M., Schafer, A.J., &
Bergen, B.K. (2013). One word at a time: Mental representations of
object shape change
incrementally during sentence processing.
Language & Cognition, 5, 345-373
. doi:10.1515/langcog-2013-0022 [
PDF]
Dennison, H. Y. & Schafer, A. J. (2011). Contrastive focus
affects word order in Korean sentence production. In H.-M. Sohh, H. M.
Cook, W. O'Grady, L. A. Serafim, & S. Y. Cheon (Eds.)
Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 19
(pp. 483-497). CSLI: Stanford, CA. [
PDF]
Speer,
S. R., Warren, P., & Schafer, A. J. (2011). Situationally
independent prosodic phrasing.
Laboratory
Phonology, 2, 35-98.
doi:10.1515/labphon.2011.002
[
abstract]
[
PDF] [
supplemental
material]
Dennison, H. Y. & Schafer, A. J. (2010). Online construction of
implicature through contrastive prosody. In
Proceedings of Speech Prosody
2010. [
abstract]
[
PDF].
Hwang [Jackson], K., Schafer, A.J.,
& O’Grady, W. (2010). Contrastive focus facilitates
scrambling in Korean sentence processing. In S. Iwasaki, H. Hoji, P.M.
Clancy, & S.-O. Sohn (Eds.)
Japanese/Korean
Linguistics, 17 (pp. 167-181). CSLI:
Stanford, CA. [
PDF]
Hwang, H. & Schafer, A.J. (2009). Constituent length affects
prosody and processing for a dative NP ambiguity in Korean.
Journal of
Psycholinguistic Research, 38, 151-175.
doi:10.1007/s10936-008-9091-1 [
abstract]
[
PDF]
O’Grady, W., Schafer, A.J., Perla, J., Lee, O.-S., & Wieting,
J. (2009). A psycholinguistic tool for the assessment of language loss:
The HALA project.
Language
Documentation and Conservation, 3, 100-112. [
abstract & PDF]
Schafer, A. J., O’Grady, W., Lee, O.-S., Perla, J., Wieting, J., &
Perdue, K. (2009). On the psycholinguistic assessment of relative
language strength in bilinguals: Evidence from Korean heritage
speakers. In
Proceedings of Mental
Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language (MAPLL) 2009.
Technical Report of Language and Thought of the Institute of
Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.
Hwang, H., Schafer, A.J., & Anderson, V.B. (2007).
Discrimination
of English intonation contours by native speakers and second language
learners. In
Proceedings of the
International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences XVI (pp. 713-716). Saarbrücken, Germany. [
PDF]
Hwang, H. & Schafer, A.J. (2006). Prosodic effects in parsing
early
vs. late closure sentences by second language learners and native
speakers.
In Hoffmann, R. & Mixdorff (Eds.),
Proceedings
of Speech
Prosody 2006 (pp. 585-588). Dresden, Germany. [
PDF]
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 (pp. 209-225). Cambridge: MIT
Press. [
PDF]
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Speer, S.R., Warren, P., & Schafer, A.J. (2003). Intonation and
sentence processing. In M. J. Solé, D. Recansens, & J. Romero
(Eds.),
Proceedings of the Fifteenth
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 95-105).
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]
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 (pp. 223-255). Stanford: CSLI Publications. [
PDF]
[
Soundfiles]
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. & Jun, S.-A. (2000). Prosody in spoken language
processing.
Journal of the
Acoustical Society of Korea, 19, 7-10.
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]
Schafer, A.J. & Tuttle, S. (2000). Editors,
UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 99.
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.
Speer, S.R., Warren, P., Schafer, A.J., White, S.D., & Kneale, J.
(1999). Situational constraints on the prosodic resolution of syntactic
ambiguity. In
Proceedings of the
Fourteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp.
1301-1304).
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 (pp. 227-241)
. Amherst: GLSA. [
PDF]
[
Soundfiles]
Schafer, A.J. (1997). Prosodic Parsing: The Role of Prosody in Sentence
Comprehension. University of Massachusetts Doctoral
Dissertation. [
PDF]
[
Soundfiles]
Schafer, A.J., Carter, J., Clifton,
C. & Frazier,
L. (1996). Focus in relative clause construal.
Language
and Cognitive Processes, 11, 135 - 163. [
PDF] [
Soundfiles]
Schafer, A.J. (1993). Editor,
Proceedings
of the North East Linguistic Society 23, Amherst: GLSA.
Schafer, A.J. (1993). The syllable structure of Tamil nouns. In T.
Sherer, (Ed.)
University of
Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 16: Phonological
Representations (pp. 247-274). Amherst: GLSA.
Olivia Bianchini, (in progress).
Nicki Butler, (in progress).
Amber Camp, (in progress).
Jacob Hakim, (in progress). (Co-chair with Brad McDonnell.)
Ivan Bondoc, 2020. Ph.D. Dissertation:
Probabilistic and Predictive Parsing in Tagalog Voice Alternations). First & current position: contractual Assistant Professor,
Department of Linguistics, U. of Toronto.
Yukie Hara,
2014. Ph.D. Dissertation:
Sentence
Comprehension of Event Structure in English and Japanese: An Evaluation
of the Interaction between Grammatical Aspect and Lexical Aspect. First position: Project Associate
Fellow, Ochanomizu
University. Current position: Assistant Professor,
Nagasaki University.
Heeyeon
Dennison,
2010. Ph.D. Dissertation:
Processing Implied Meaning through
Contrastive Prosody. [
Soundfiles]
This material is based upon work
supported by the National Science Foundation under
Grant
No. 0921696. First & current position: Defense Language
Institute.
Manami Sato,
2010. Ph.D. Dissertation:
Message in the "Body": Effects of
Simulation in Sentence Production. This material is based
upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under
Grant No. 0950290.
First position: Postdoctoral researcher at Hiroshima
University. Current position: Associate Professor, Department of
British and English Language and Culture,
Okinawa International
University.
Kyuseek Hwang Jackson,
2008. Ph.D. Dissertation:
The
Effect of Information Structure on Korean Scrambling. (Co-chair
with William
O'Grady.) First position: Instructor at Kapiolani Community
College. Current position: Instructor of Korean, Honolulu.
Aya
Inoue, 2008. Ph.D. Dissertation:
Copula
Variability in Hawai‘i Creole Continuum.
(Co-chair with Jeff
Siegel; supervision led by Andrew
Wong.) First position: Researcher at the
Charlene Sato
Center for Pidgin, Creole and Dialect Studies. Current position:
Associate Professor, Music Department, Aichi University of Arts.
Annie
Tremblay, 2007,
Second
Language Studies,
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Bridging
the Gap between Theoretical Linguistics and Psycholinguistics in L2
Phonology: Acquisition and Processing of English Word Stress by French
Canadian L2 Learners. (Co-chair with Bonnie Schwartz.)
First position: Assistant Professor at the University
of Illinois. Current position: Associate Professor, Linguistics,
University of Kansas.
Hyekyung
Hwang, 2007. Ph.D. Dissertation:
Prosodic
Phrasing in Sentence Comprehension: Evidence from Native English
Speakers and Native Korean-speaking Second Language Learners of English.
First position: Postdoctoral researcher at McGill University.
Michiko Nakamura,
2003. Ph.D. Dissertation:
Processing
of multiple filler-gap dependencies in Japanese.
(Co-chair with William
O'Grady.) First position: Postdoc at Nara Institute of
Science and Technology. Current position: Associate Professor, School
of Systems Information Science, Future University Hakodate, Japan.
Ph.D. committee member for:
Yu-Tzu Chang (in progress, SLS), Kai Ying Lin (in progress), Bonnie Fox (in progress, EALL), A. L. Blake (in progress), Fred Zenker (in progress, SLS), Crystal Zhong (2022, SLS), Emily Jo Noschese (2022), Haerim Hwang (2020, SLS), Jarrod Brown (2018, Philosophy), Aya Takeda (2018, SLS),
Brad Rentz
(2018),
Jonny
Kim (2018),
Mari Miyao
(2017, SLS), Kelly Lin (2016, SLS), Zhijun Wen (2015, SLS),
Daniel Jackson
(2013, SLS),
Carl
Polley (2012),
Nian
Liu (2012),
Apay Tang
(2011), Soyoung Kim
(2011), Kaori Ueki (2011),
Hunter
Hatfield (2010), Hye-Young Kwak
(2010), Sunyoung Lee (2009), Kyung Sook Shin (2007), Barbara Schulz
(2006, SLS), Hi-Sun Kim (2005, EALL), Tomoko Kozasa (2005), Napasri
Timyam (2005), P. J. Seymour (2004, Speech-Language-Hearing, U. Kansas).