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The Psycholinguistics Laboratory conducts research as part of the Department of Linguistics.
- Our research topics include:
- discourse structure and prosody (ToBI)
- phonological and phonetic analyses of prosody in natural speech (Praat) (R)
- use of prosody in sentence processing and referential resolution
- lexical prosody and language acquisition
- development of grammatical use of prosody by children
- We conduct various eye-tracking experiments, using technology from ASL and Tobii!
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- The Eye-Tracking Laboratory: Pomerene Hall Room 210.
- Office for Kiwako Ito and Ping Bai: Pomerene Hall Room 212.
- Behavioral studies and recording booths: Oxley Hall Room 10.
- Shari's Office: Oxley Hall Room 25.
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- Task and contrast factors in processing of subphonemic variation
- Oxana Skorniakova, Kiwako Ito, Mary Beckman
- Prosody in natural discourse: English & Japanese
- Shari R. Speer & Kiwako Ito
- Spontaneous speech in English and Japanese was collected during an interactive tree decoration task. These natural utterances are then analyzed for the discourse status and phonological and phonetic characteristics.
- Developmental change in the use of L+H* in referential resolution in English
- Kiwako Ito, Sarah Bibyk, Laura Wagner, Shari R. Speer
- This study compares the processing of L+H* on a pre-nominal adjective during a monitor-based visual search task across various developmental stages (6 to 11-year olds, and adults).
- Your Eyes on Aliens
- Jeonghwa Shin & Shari R. Speer
- This is a study that explores lexical stress and the time course of
lexical activation in English L2 listeners.
- Presented at TCP (2009) and CUNY (2009)
- Assessing Eye Tracking for the Online Evaluation of Prosody
in Speech Synthesis
- Michael White, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Kiwako Ito, Shari R. Speer
- This study investigates the extent to which unit selection synthesis can produce natural sounding intonation. By replicating an eye-tracking experiment in the real-world object
manipulation paradigm (Ito & Speer, 2008), the experiment tests the effect of intonation in synthesized speech on the referential resolution.
- Eliciting the perception of a stigmatized vowel merger: An Eye-tracking study
- Kiwako Ito & Katherine Campbell-Kibler
- This study investigates whether the perception of the /I/-/E/ merger can be elicited by visual cues that are associated with the social stigma.
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This is a partial body of selected publications; for a full listing of all publications, see the Publications Section of this website.
- Speer, S. R. & Ito, K. (2009). Prosody in first language acquisition - Acquiring intonation as a tool to organize information in conversation. Language and Linguistics Compass, 3(1), 90-110.
- Ito, K. & Speer, S. R. (2008). Anticipatory effect of intonation: Eye movements during instructed visual search. Journal of Memory and Language (58) 541-573.
- Ito, K & Speer, S. R. (2006). Using interactive tasks to elicit natural dialogue. In P. Augurzky & D. Lenertova (eds), Methods in Empirical Prosody Research. (pp.229-257) Mouton de Gruyter.
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