Invited talk presented at the Dept. of Linguistics, Northwestern University, May 2013.
Abstract: Many researchers have observed that speech sounds vary considerably across different contexts, an issue known as the lack of invariance. Given this variability, how much information is conveyed by individual acoustic cues? That is, how reliably do specific cues distinguish phonological contrasts?.. Read more →
Toscano, J. C., Anderson, N. D., & McMurray, B. (2013). Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
Abstract: Models of spoken word recognition assume that words are represented as sequences of phonemes. We evaluated this assumption by examining phonemic anadromes, words that share the same phonemes but differ in their order (e.g., .. Read more →
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 →
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 →
Toscano, J. C., Anderson, N. D., & McMurray, B. (2011, October). Paper presented at the 17th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, Urbana, IL.
Abstract:
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 →
Toscano, J. C. and McMurray, B. (2006, June). Poster presented at the 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI.
