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Task effects on prosodic prominence

Buxó-Lugo, A., Toscano, J. C., & Watson, D. G. (2013, March). Paper presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.

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Most prosody research is conducted on spoken corpora or on speech samples collected from laboratory studies. However, laboratory studies often use referential communication tasks in which speakers talk to a computer and the communicative “stakes” are low... Read more →

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Cue-integration and context effects in speech: Evidence against speaking-rate normalization

Toscano, J. C., & McMurray, B. (2012). Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 74, 1284-1301.

Abstract: Listeners are able to accurately recognize speech despite variation in acoustic cues across contexts, such as different speaking rates. Previous work has suggested that listeners use rate information (indicated by vowel length; VL) to modify their use of context-dependent acoustic cues, like voice-onset time (VOT), a primary cue to voicing... Read more →

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The role of time in spoken word recognition

Evidence against temporal order in lexical representations

Toscano, J. C., Anderson, N. D., & McMurray, B. (2011, November). Poster presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.

Abstract:  A challenging problem in spoken word recognition is time: speech unfolds over time, and  temporal order appears crucial for distinguishing words (cat vs... Read more →

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The role of phoneme order and phonetic detail in spoken word recognition

Toscano, J. C., Anderson, N. D., & McMurray, B. (2011, October). Paper presented at the 17th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, Urbana, IL.

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A basic challenge in understanding spoken word recognition is that speech unfolds over time.  This has led to a great deal of work in psycholinguistics on how listeners deal with temporary  ambiguity (Allopenna, Magnuson, & Tanenhaus, 1998; Luce & Pisoni, 1998; Marslen-Wilson,  1987), demonstrating that during early time points in a word (when its identity is still  ambiguous), listeners consider multiple lexical candidates that compete for recognition... Read more →

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Continuous perception and graded categorization: Electrophysiological evidence for a linear relationship between the acoustic signal and perceptual encoding of speech

Toscano, J. C., McMurray, B., Dennhardt, J., & Luck, S. J. (2010). Psychological Science, 21, 1532-1540.

Abstract: Speech sounds are highly variable, yet listeners readily extract information from them and transform continuous acoustic signals into meaningful categories during language comprehension. A central question is whether perceptual encoding captures acoustic detail in a one-to-one fashion or whether it is affected by phonological categories... Read more →

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Simulating individual differences in language ability and genetic differences in FOXP2 using a neural network model of the SRT task

Toscano, J. C., Mueller, K. L, McMurray, B., & Tomblin, J. B. (2010). In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2230-2235). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Abstract: Recent work has shown that individual differences in language development are related to differences in procedural learning, as measured by the serial reaction time (SRT) task... Read more →

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