Vincent Porretta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1720084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Porretta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Porretta |
| SIGNATURE | PORRETTA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Speaker-Specific Cues Influence Semantic Disambiguation
Addressees use information from specific speakers' previous discourse to make predictions about incoming linguistic material and to restrict the choice of potential interpretations. In this way, speaker specificity has been shown to be an influential factor in language processing across several domains e.g., spoken word recognition, sentence processing, and pragmatics. However, its influence on semantic disambiguation has received little attentio…
When Couches Have Eyes
We examined the effects of semantic and visual cues of animacy on children’s and adults’ interpretation of ambiguous pronouns, using the visual world paradigm. Participants listened to sentences with object relative clauses that varied the animacy of potential referents, followed by test sentences beginning with a referentially ambiguous subject pronoun he. Participants viewed images of the referents, with semantically inanimate objects (e.g., a …
(Mis) understanding your native language
The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition
Perception of non-native consonant length contrast
The present investigation examines English speakers’ ability to identify and discriminate non-native consonant length contrast. Three groups (L1 English No-Instruction, L1 English Instruction, and L1 Finnish control) performed a speeded forced-choice identification task and a speeded AX discrimination task on Finnish non-words (e.g. /hupo/–/huppo/) which were manipulated for intervocalic consonant duration. The results indicate that basic informa…
The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition
Perception of non-native consonant length contrast
The present investigation examines English speakers’ ability to identify and discriminate non-native consonant length contrast. Three groups (L1 English No-Instruction, L1 English Instruction, and L1 Finnish control) performed a speeded forced-choice identification task and a speeded AX discrimination task on Finnish non-words (e.g. /hupo/–/huppo/) which were manipulated for intervocalic consonant duration. The results indicate that basic informa…
Speaker-Specific Cues Influence Semantic Disambiguation
Addressees use information from specific speakers' previous discourse to make predictions about incoming linguistic material and to restrict the choice of potential interpretations. In this way, speaker specificity has been shown to be an influential factor in language processing across several domains e.g., spoken word recognition, sentence processing, and pragmatics. However, its influence on semantic disambiguation has received little attentio…
Perception of non-native consonant length contrast
The present investigation examines English speakers’ ability to identify and discriminate non-native consonant length contrast. Three groups (L1 English No-Instruction, L1 English Instruction, and L1 Finnish control) performed a speeded forced-choice identification task and a speeded AX discrimination task on Finnish non-words (e.g. /hupo/–/huppo/) which were manipulated for intervocalic consonant duration. The results indicate that basic informa…
The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition
When Couches Have Eyes
We examined the effects of semantic and visual cues of animacy on children’s and adults’ interpretation of ambiguous pronouns, using the visual world paradigm. Participants listened to sentences with object relative clauses that varied the animacy of potential referents, followed by test sentences beginning with a referentially ambiguous subject pronoun he. Participants viewed images of the referents, with semantically inanimate objects (e.g., a …
(Mis) understanding your native language
Speaker-Specific Cues Influence Semantic Disambiguation
Addressees use information from specific speakers' previous discourse to make predictions about incoming linguistic material and to restrict the choice of potential interpretations. In this way, speaker specificity has been shown to be an influential factor in language processing across several domains e.g., spoken word recognition, sentence processing, and pragmatics. However, its influence on semantic disambiguation has received little attentio…
Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American English (1 work) · Animacy (1 work)