Publications and Downloads
Speer, S.R., Schafer, A., & Warren, P. (2003, August). Intonation and sentence processing. Invited panel presentation, ICPhS, Barcelona, Spain. [pdf]
Speer, S.R. (2003, April). Intonational influences on the recovery of syntactic constituency in English sentence processing. Invited presentation to the European Science Foundation Workshop on Experimental Approaches to Tone and Intonation, Oxford, UK.
Kang, S. & Speer, S.R. (2003, April). Effects of prosodic phrasing on syntactic disambiguation. Presentation to the GLOW Workshop on Boundaries in Intonational Phonology, Lund, Sweden. [pdf]
Ito, K. & Speer, S.R. (2005, April). The effect of intonation on visual search: An eye-tracking study, Presentation to Experimental Pragmatics: Exploring the Cognitive Basis of Conversation, The British Academy, Cambridge, UK. [ppt]
Ito, K., Speer, S.R., & Beckman, M. (2003, March). The influence of given-new status and lexical accent on intonation in Japanese spontaneous speech, Presentation to the Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston, MA. [pdf]
Kang, S. & Speer, S.R. (2003, March). Prosodic disambiguation of syntactic clause boundaries in Korean. Presentation at WCCFL 22, San Diego, CA. [pdf]
Kang, S. & Speer, S. (2002). Prosody and clause boundaries in Korean. Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2002 Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France, April 11-13, 2002. [ps] [pdf]
(To listen to soundfiles check the Conference's Alphabetical Listing of submitted papers).
Palmer, C., Jungers, M., & Speer, S.R. (2003). Time after time: The coordinating influence of tempo in music and speech. Cognitive Processing 1.
Schafer, A. J., Speer, S.R., & Warren, P. (2003). Prosodic influences on the production and comprehension of syntactic ambiguity in a game-based conversation task. Invited to appear in Tanenhaus & Trueswell (Eds.) World Situated Language Use: Psycholinguistic, Linguistic and Computational Perspectives on Bridging the Product and Action Tradition . Cambridge: MIT Press.
Schafer, A. J., & Speer, S. R. (1998). Prosodic influences on the resolution of lexical ambiguity. Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, NY, NY. [Soundfiles]
Schafer, A.J., Speer, S.R., Warren, P., & White S.D. (2000). Intonational disambiguation in sentence production and comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 29 (2), 169-182. [Abstract & Full Text]
Speer, S.R. & Clifton, C.E. Jr. (1998). Plausibility and argument structure in sentence comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 26 (5), 965-978. [Abstract]
Speer, S.R., Schafer, A.J., & Warren, P. (1999). Intonational Disambiguation in Sentence Production. Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, CA.
Speer, S.R., Warren, P., & Schafer, A. J. (1998). Prosodic Disambiguation of Syntax in a Language Production Game. Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, TX.
Titone, D., Kjelgaard, M.M., Wingfield, A., Koh, C., Speer, S.R., & Bruce, S. (submitted). Speech comprehension in older adults: Partial and complete prosodic representations in the comprehension of temporary syntactic closure ambiguities.
Warren, P,. Schafer, A., Speer, S.R., & White, S.D. (2001). Prosodic resolution of prepositional phrase ambiguity in ambiguous and unambiguous situations. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 99, 5-33.
Speer, S.R., Warren, P., Schafer, A.J., White S.D., & Kneale, J. (1999). Situational constraints on the prosodic resolution of syntactic ambiguity. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, August 1-7, 1999, pp.1301-1304.
Kjelgaard, M.M., & Speer, S.R. (1999). Prosodic facilitation and interference in the resolution of temporary syntactic closure ambiguity. Journal of Memory and Language 40 (2), 153-194. [Abstract]; [Soundfiles].
Shank, B.L., Speer, S.R., Thompson, A.K., & Wayland, S.C. (1999). Discovering the object of knowledge, or Did the neutron exist before 1932? In P. Barringer, (Ed.) Science and Its Critics, Oxford University Press.
Speer, S.R., Kjelgaard, M.M., & Dobroth, K.M. (1996). The influence of prosodic structure on the resolution of temporary syntactic closure ambiguities. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 25 (2), 249-271.
Speer, S.R. (1994). Spoken language comprehension: An experimental approach. Language and Speech 37.
Speer, S.R., Crowder, R.G., & Thomas, L. (1993). Prosodic structure and sentence recognition. Journal of Memory and Language 32 (3), 336-358.
Clifton, C.E. Jr., Speer, S.R., & Abney, S. (1991). Parsing arguments: Phrase structure and argument structure as determinants of initial parsing decisions. Journal of Memory and Language 30 (2), 251-271.
Foss, Donald J.; Speer, Shari R. (1991). Global and local context effects in sentence processing. In R. Hoffman & D. Palermo (Eds.) Cognition and the Symbolic Processes: Applied and Ecological Perspectives, pp. 115-139.
Speer, S.R., Shih, C.-L., & Slowiaczek, M. L. (1989). Prosodic structure in language comprehension: Evidence from tone sandhi in Mandarin. Language and Speech 32, (4), 337-354.
Speer, S.R. (1988). Syntactic and thematic contributions to on-line sentence comprehension. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin. Dissertation Abstracts International, A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 49 (11) 1989 p. 3314-A.