Aya Inoue,
Ph.D. 2008. Dissertation:
Copula
Variability in Hawai‘i Creole Continuum.
(Co-chair with
Jeff
Siegel; supervision led by
Andrew
Wong.) First & current position: Researcher at the
Charlene Sato
Center for Pidgin, Creole and Dialect Studies.
Annie
Tremblay, Ph.D. 2007,
Second Language Studies,
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 & current position: Assistant Professor at the University
of Illinois.
Hyekyung
Hwang, Ph.D. 2007. Dissertation:
Prosodic
Phrasing in Sentence Comprehension: Evidence from Native English
Speakers and Native Korean-speaking Second Language Learners of English.
First & current position: Postdoc at McGill University.
Michiko Nakamura,
Ph.D. 2003. 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; now at the University of Hawaii.
Kyuseek Hwang Jackson,
Ph.D. in progress. (Co-chair with
William
O'Grady.)
Junghee Kim,
Ph.D. in progress. (Co-chair with Bonnie Schwartz.)
Manami Sato,
Ph.D. in progress.
Heeyeon Dennison,
Ph.D. in progress.
Yukie Hara,
Ph.D. in progress.
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. [
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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., 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]
[
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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.
[
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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
me for a copy] [
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]
[
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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]
[
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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 me
for a copy]
[
Soundfiles]
Schafer, A.J. (1997). Prosodic Parsing: The Role of Prosody in Sentence
Comprehension. University of Massachusetts Doctoral
Dissertation.
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contact me
for a copy]
[
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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. [Please
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me for a copy] [
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