Francisco Torreira
Biographic Data
| ID | 97625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco Torreira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco |
| FAMILY NAME | Torreira |
| SIGNATURE | TORREIRA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Phonological mediation effects in imitation of the Mandarin flat-falling tonal continua
Vocal reaction times to speech offsets
Turn-end Estimation in Conversational Turn-taking
This study investigated the role of contextual and prosodic information in turn-end estimation by means of a button-press task. We presented participants with turns extracted from a corpus of telephone calls visually (i.e., in transcribed form, word-by-word) and auditorily, and asked them to anticipate turn ends by pressing a button. The availability of the previous conversational context was generally helpful for turn-end estimation in short tur…
Melodic constructions in Spanish
This paper explores phrase-length-related alternations in the association of tones to positions in metrical structure in two melodic constructions of Spanish. An imitation-and-completion task eliciting (a) the low-falling-rising contour and (b) the circumflex contour on intonation phrases (IPs) of one, two, and three prosodic words revealed that, although the focus structure and pragmatic context is constant across conditions, phrases containing …
Timing of Visual Bodily Behavior in Repair Sequences
This article expands the study of other-initiated repair in conversation-when one party signals a problem with producing or perceiving another's turn at talk-into the domain of visual bodily behavior. It presents one primary cross-linguistic finding about the timing of visual bodily behavior in repair sequences: if the party who initiates repair accompanies their turn with a "hold"-when relatively dynamic movements are temporarily and meaningfull…
Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language
The core niche for language use is in verbal interaction, involving the rapid exchange of turns at talking. This paper reviews the extensive literature about this system, adding new statistical analyses of behavioral data where they have been missing, demonstrating that turn-taking has the systematic properties originally noted by Sacks et al. (1974; hereafter SSJ). This system poses some significant puzzles for current theories of language proce…
The Timing and Construction of Preference
Conversation-analytic research has argued that the timing and construction of preferred responding actions (e.g., acceptances) differ from that of dispreferred responding actions (e.g., rejections), potentially enabling early response prediction by recipients. We examined 195 preferred and dispreferred responding actions in telephone corpora and found that the timing of the most frequent cases of each type did not differ systematically. Only for …
Using Functional Data Analysis for investigating multidimensional dynamic phonetic contrasts
Listeners use intonational phrase boundaries to project turn ends in spoken interaction
Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items
A word like Huh?--used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard what someone just said--is found in roughly the same form and function in spoken languages across the globe. We investigate it in naturally occurring conversations in ten languages and present evidence and arguments for two distinct claims: that Huh? is universal, and that it is a word. In support of the first, we show that the similarities in form and funct…
Investigating the nature of aspirated stops in Western Andalusian Spanish
In Western Andalusian Spanish (WAS), [h + voiceless stop] clusters are realized as long pre- and postaspirated stops. This study investigates if a new class of stops (realized as geminates with variable degrees of pre- and postaspiration) has emerged in this dialect, or if postaspiration in these clusters results from articulatory overlap. An experiment was carried out in which WAS speakers produced [h + voiceless stop] clusters under changes in …
Vowel elision in casual French
Postlexical contraction of nonhigh vowels in Spanish
Lexical tone and stress in Goizueta Basque
Research in the past few decades has shown that Northern Bizkaian Basque possesses a pitch-accent system of the Tokyo Japanese type, with a contrast between lexically accented and unaccented words. There is, however, a separate area of the Basque-speaking territory where we also find tonal accent phenomena: Western Navarre. In comparison with Northern Bizkaian, the Western Navarrese prosodic system has remained under-studied and ill-understood. I…
The segmental anchoring hypothesis revisited
The Timing and Construction of Preference
Conversation-analytic research has argued that the timing and construction of preferred responding actions (e.g., acceptances) differ from that of dispreferred responding actions (e.g., rejections), potentially enabling early response prediction by recipients. We examined 195 preferred and dispreferred responding actions in telephone corpora and found that the timing of the most frequent cases of each type did not differ systematically. Only for …
The segmental anchoring hypothesis revisited
Using Functional Data Analysis for investigating multidimensional dynamic phonetic contrasts
Timing of Visual Bodily Behavior in Repair Sequences
This article expands the study of other-initiated repair in conversation-when one party signals a problem with producing or perceiving another's turn at talk-into the domain of visual bodily behavior. It presents one primary cross-linguistic finding about the timing of visual bodily behavior in repair sequences: if the party who initiates repair accompanies their turn with a "hold"-when relatively dynamic movements are temporarily and meaningfull…
Investigating the nature of aspirated stops in Western Andalusian Spanish
In Western Andalusian Spanish (WAS), [h + voiceless stop] clusters are realized as long pre- and postaspirated stops. This study investigates if a new class of stops (realized as geminates with variable degrees of pre- and postaspiration) has emerged in this dialect, or if postaspiration in these clusters results from articulatory overlap. An experiment was carried out in which WAS speakers produced [h + voiceless stop] clusters under changes in …
Listeners use intonational phrase boundaries to project turn ends in spoken interaction
Lexical tone and stress in Goizueta Basque
Research in the past few decades has shown that Northern Bizkaian Basque possesses a pitch-accent system of the Tokyo Japanese type, with a contrast between lexically accented and unaccented words. There is, however, a separate area of the Basque-speaking territory where we also find tonal accent phenomena: Western Navarre. In comparison with Northern Bizkaian, the Western Navarrese prosodic system has remained under-studied and ill-understood. I…
Turn-end Estimation in Conversational Turn-taking
This study investigated the role of contextual and prosodic information in turn-end estimation by means of a button-press task. We presented participants with turns extracted from a corpus of telephone calls visually (i.e., in transcribed form, word-by-word) and auditorily, and asked them to anticipate turn ends by pressing a button. The availability of the previous conversational context was generally helpful for turn-end estimation in short tur…
Postlexical contraction of nonhigh vowels in Spanish
Vocal reaction times to speech offsets
Phonological mediation effects in imitation of the Mandarin flat-falling tonal continua
Melodic constructions in Spanish
This paper explores phrase-length-related alternations in the association of tones to positions in metrical structure in two melodic constructions of Spanish. An imitation-and-completion task eliciting (a) the low-falling-rising contour and (b) the circumflex contour on intonation phrases (IPs) of one, two, and three prosodic words revealed that, although the focus structure and pragmatic context is constant across conditions, phrases containing …
Vowel elision in casual French
The segmental anchoring hypothesis revisited
Postlexical contraction of nonhigh vowels in Spanish
Lexical tone and stress in Goizueta Basque
Research in the past few decades has shown that Northern Bizkaian Basque possesses a pitch-accent system of the Tokyo Japanese type, with a contrast between lexically accented and unaccented words. There is, however, a separate area of the Basque-speaking territory where we also find tonal accent phenomena: Western Navarre. In comparison with Northern Bizkaian, the Western Navarrese prosodic system has remained under-studied and ill-understood. I…
Vowel elision in casual French
Investigating the nature of aspirated stops in Western Andalusian Spanish
In Western Andalusian Spanish (WAS), [h + voiceless stop] clusters are realized as long pre- and postaspirated stops. This study investigates if a new class of stops (realized as geminates with variable degrees of pre- and postaspiration) has emerged in this dialect, or if postaspiration in these clusters results from articulatory overlap. An experiment was carried out in which WAS speakers produced [h + voiceless stop] clusters under changes in …
Is “Huh?” a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items
A word like Huh?--used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard what someone just said--is found in roughly the same form and function in spoken languages across the globe. We investigate it in naturally occurring conversations in ten languages and present evidence and arguments for two distinct claims: that Huh? is universal, and that it is a word. In support of the first, we show that the similarities in form and funct…
Timing in turn-taking and its implications for processing models of language
The core niche for language use is in verbal interaction, involving the rapid exchange of turns at talking. This paper reviews the extensive literature about this system, adding new statistical analyses of behavioral data where they have been missing, demonstrating that turn-taking has the systematic properties originally noted by Sacks et al. (1974; hereafter SSJ). This system poses some significant puzzles for current theories of language proce…
The Timing and Construction of Preference
Conversation-analytic research has argued that the timing and construction of preferred responding actions (e.g., acceptances) differ from that of dispreferred responding actions (e.g., rejections), potentially enabling early response prediction by recipients. We examined 195 preferred and dispreferred responding actions in telephone corpora and found that the timing of the most frequent cases of each type did not differ systematically. Only for …
Using Functional Data Analysis for investigating multidimensional dynamic phonetic contrasts
Listeners use intonational phrase boundaries to project turn ends in spoken interaction
Timing of Visual Bodily Behavior in Repair Sequences
This article expands the study of other-initiated repair in conversation-when one party signals a problem with producing or perceiving another's turn at talk-into the domain of visual bodily behavior. It presents one primary cross-linguistic finding about the timing of visual bodily behavior in repair sequences: if the party who initiates repair accompanies their turn with a "hold"-when relatively dynamic movements are temporarily and meaningfull…
Melodic constructions in Spanish
This paper explores phrase-length-related alternations in the association of tones to positions in metrical structure in two melodic constructions of Spanish. An imitation-and-completion task eliciting (a) the low-falling-rising contour and (b) the circumflex contour on intonation phrases (IPs) of one, two, and three prosodic words revealed that, although the focus structure and pragmatic context is constant across conditions, phrases containing …
Turn-end Estimation in Conversational Turn-taking
This study investigated the role of contextual and prosodic information in turn-end estimation by means of a button-press task. We presented participants with turns extracted from a corpus of telephone calls visually (i.e., in transcribed form, word-by-word) and auditorily, and asked them to anticipate turn ends by pressing a button. The availability of the previous conversational context was generally helpful for turn-end estimation in short tur…
Vocal reaction times to speech offsets
Phonological mediation effects in imitation of the Mandarin flat-falling tonal continua
Computer Science (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Speech recognition (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works)