Examples of soundfiles associated with selected publications
and presentations
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
Examples of critical conditions (note: speech
begins 2 secs after file onset)
Perfective aspect in context; Goal reference
in continuation
Perfective aspect in context; Source reference in continuation
Progressive aspect in context; Goal
reference in continuation
Progressive aspect in context; Source
reference in continuation
Dennison, H. & Schafer,
A. J. (2017). Processing intonationally implicated contrast
versus negation in American English. Language
and Speech, 60, 174-199.
Critical conditions (Experiment 1 &
2):
Contrastive condition
Affirmative condition
Negative condition
Fillers (Experiment 1 &
2):
Filler example 1
Filler example 2
Fillers example 3
Prosody manipulation in story continuation
experiments (Schafer et al., 2015, to appear, in prep):
Contrastive intonation on
Source/Goal:
Contrastive intonation on Source
Contrastive intonation on Goal
Broad focus sentence plus stressed/unstressed pronoun and
adverb:
Unstressed pronoun condition
Stressed pronoun condition
Background sentence plus prominence manipulation on incomplete
sentence:
Background sentence
Incomplete sentence with broad prominence
Incomplete sentence with prominence on Source
Incomplete sentence with prominence on Goal
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:
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. [PDF]
Experiment 1:
Late Boundary
Early Boundary
No Boundaries
Both Boundaries
Other experiments:
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soundfiles.
Schafer, A.J., Carter, J., Clifton, C. & Frazier,
L. (1996). Focus in relative clause construal. Language and Cognitive
Processes, 11, 135 - 163.