Amy J Schafer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3072184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy J Schafer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy J |
| FAMILY NAME | Schafer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAFER A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8800-7386 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The status of Jejueo
We examine a controversy involving the politics of bilingualism as it pertains to Jejueo (ISO 639–3 jje), the critically endangered variety of speech indigenous to Jeju, Korea's island province. Although Jejueo is officially classified as a non-standard dialect of Korean, members of the community are now calling for its recognition as a distinct language and for a corresponding change in the country's language policy. In order to shed new light o…
Expectation and integration processes in flexible word order processing
Agentive versus non-agentive motions immediately influence event apprehension and description
The embodied cognition hypothesis postulates that human cognition is fundamentally grounded in our experience of interacting with the physical world (Barsalou in Behav Brain Sci 22:577–609, 1999). Research has shown bi-directional associations between physical action and the processes of understanding language: language comprehension seems to activate implied visual and motor components (Zwaan and Taylor in J Exp Psychol Gen 135(1):1–11, 2006), a…
Coreference and discourse coherence in L2
Discourse-level factors, such as event structure and the form of referential expressions, play an important role in native speakers’ referential processing. This paper presents an experiment with Japanese- and Korean-speaking learners of English, investigating the extent to which discourse-level biases that have gradient effects in L1 speakers are also implicated in L2 speakers’ coreference choices. Results from a story continuation task indicate…
Processing Intonationally Implicated Contrast versus Negation in American English
Certain English intonational contours facilitate a conversational implicature that a relevant alternative to the stated proposition does not hold true. We evaluated how frequently and how quickly naïve participants achieved such pragmatically enriched meanings when their attention had not already been drawn to a set of alternatives. Sentences with L+H* L-H% intonational contours, along with broad focus affirmative and negative counterparts, were …
Constituent Length Affects Prosody and Processing for a Dative NP Ambiguity in Korean
Focus and the Interpretation of Pitch Accent
It has been suggested that prosodic disambiguation of sentences is largely a matter of prosodic phrasing. Ambiguities can be resolved if a prosodic break aligns with a major syntactic boundary of one structure but not another. The placement of pitch accents is viewed as playing only a supporting role (cf. Price, Ostendorf, Shattuck-Huffnagel, & Fong, 1991). This view of prosodic disambiguation does not apply tho all structures of a language. We r…
Intonational Disambiguation in Sentence Production and Comprehension
Intonational Disambiguation in Sentence Production and Comprehension
Constituent Length Affects Prosody and Processing for a Dative NP Ambiguity in Korean
Focus and the Interpretation of Pitch Accent
It has been suggested that prosodic disambiguation of sentences is largely a matter of prosodic phrasing. Ambiguities can be resolved if a prosodic break aligns with a major syntactic boundary of one structure but not another. The placement of pitch accents is viewed as playing only a supporting role (cf. Price, Ostendorf, Shattuck-Huffnagel, & Fong, 1991). This view of prosodic disambiguation does not apply tho all structures of a language. We r…
Processing Intonationally Implicated Contrast versus Negation in American English
Certain English intonational contours facilitate a conversational implicature that a relevant alternative to the stated proposition does not hold true. We evaluated how frequently and how quickly naïve participants achieved such pragmatically enriched meanings when their attention had not already been drawn to a set of alternatives. Sentences with L+H* L-H% intonational contours, along with broad focus affirmative and negative counterparts, were …
Focus and the Interpretation of Pitch Accent
It has been suggested that prosodic disambiguation of sentences is largely a matter of prosodic phrasing. Ambiguities can be resolved if a prosodic break aligns with a major syntactic boundary of one structure but not another. The placement of pitch accents is viewed as playing only a supporting role (cf. Price, Ostendorf, Shattuck-Huffnagel, & Fong, 1991). This view of prosodic disambiguation does not apply tho all structures of a language. We r…
Intonational Disambiguation in Sentence Production and Comprehension
Constituent Length Affects Prosody and Processing for a Dative NP Ambiguity in Korean
Coreference and discourse coherence in L2
Discourse-level factors, such as event structure and the form of referential expressions, play an important role in native speakers’ referential processing. This paper presents an experiment with Japanese- and Korean-speaking learners of English, investigating the extent to which discourse-level biases that have gradient effects in L1 speakers are also implicated in L2 speakers’ coreference choices. Results from a story continuation task indicate…
Processing Intonationally Implicated Contrast versus Negation in American English
Certain English intonational contours facilitate a conversational implicature that a relevant alternative to the stated proposition does not hold true. We evaluated how frequently and how quickly naïve participants achieved such pragmatically enriched meanings when their attention had not already been drawn to a set of alternatives. Sentences with L+H* L-H% intonational contours, along with broad focus affirmative and negative counterparts, were …
Agentive versus non-agentive motions immediately influence event apprehension and description
The embodied cognition hypothesis postulates that human cognition is fundamentally grounded in our experience of interacting with the physical world (Barsalou in Behav Brain Sci 22:577–609, 1999). Research has shown bi-directional associations between physical action and the processes of understanding language: language comprehension seems to activate implied visual and motor components (Zwaan and Taylor in J Exp Psychol Gen 135(1):1–11, 2006), a…
The status of Jejueo
We examine a controversy involving the politics of bilingualism as it pertains to Jejueo (ISO 639–3 jje), the critically endangered variety of speech indigenous to Jeju, Korea's island province. Although Jejueo is officially classified as a non-standard dialect of Korean, members of the community are now calling for its recognition as a distinct language and for a corresponding change in the country's language policy. In order to shed new light o…
Expectation and integration processes in flexible word order processing
Linguistics (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sentence (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Natural language processing (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Comprehension (3 works)