Margarethe Mcdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3821782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margarethe Mcdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margarethe |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9620-8556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Combining and integrating multiple linguistic cues during spoken language comprehension
This research examines how adults process and integrate a combination of higher-level semantic cues (i.e., semantic context) which are followed by lower-level acoustic cues (i.e., coarticulatory cues) during online spoken comprehension. Previous studies investigating cue integration within Martin (2016)'s framework found that listeners can flexibly use and integrate a variety of available cues across linguistic representations. The current pre-re…
Bilingual Children Shift and Relax Second-Language Phoneme Categorization in Response to Accented L2 and Native L1 Speech Exposure
Listeners adjust their perception to match that of presented speech through shifting and relaxation of categorical boundaries. This allows for processing of speech variation, but may be detrimental to processing efficiency. Bilingual children are exposed to many types of speech in their linguistic environment, including native and non-native speech. This study examined how first language (L1) Spanish/second language (L2) English bilingual childre…
Developmental change in children’s speech processing of auditory and visual cues
This study investigates how children aged two to eight years ( N = 129) and adults ( N = 29) use auditory and visual speech for word recognition. The goal was to bridge the gap between apparent successes of visual speech processing in young children in visual-looking tasks, with apparent difficulties of speech processing in older children from explicit behavioural measures. Participants were presented with familiar words in audio-visual (AV), aud…
Testing the Triggering Hypothesis
Triggered switching" is the theory that code-switching happens more often with words connected to both languages, such as cognates. Corpus analyses have supported this theory; however, they do not allow testing for directional causality. Here, we test the triggering hypothesis through a picture-naming task, and examine whether cognates trigger code-switches, as well as more subtle interference effects resulting in disfluencies. Forty English-Span…
Factors modulating cross-linguistic co-activation in bilinguals
Testing the Triggering Hypothesis
Triggered switching" is the theory that code-switching happens more often with words connected to both languages, such as cognates. Corpus analyses have supported this theory; however, they do not allow testing for directional causality. Here, we test the triggering hypothesis through a picture-naming task, and examine whether cognates trigger code-switches, as well as more subtle interference effects resulting in disfluencies. Forty English-Span…
Factors modulating cross-linguistic co-activation in bilinguals
Testing the Triggering Hypothesis
Triggered switching" is the theory that code-switching happens more often with words connected to both languages, such as cognates. Corpus analyses have supported this theory; however, they do not allow testing for directional causality. Here, we test the triggering hypothesis through a picture-naming task, and examine whether cognates trigger code-switches, as well as more subtle interference effects resulting in disfluencies. Forty English-Span…
Developmental change in children’s speech processing of auditory and visual cues
This study investigates how children aged two to eight years ( N = 129) and adults ( N = 29) use auditory and visual speech for word recognition. The goal was to bridge the gap between apparent successes of visual speech processing in young children in visual-looking tasks, with apparent difficulties of speech processing in older children from explicit behavioural measures. Participants were presented with familiar words in audio-visual (AV), aud…
Bilingual Children Shift and Relax Second-Language Phoneme Categorization in Response to Accented L2 and Native L1 Speech Exposure
Listeners adjust their perception to match that of presented speech through shifting and relaxation of categorical boundaries. This allows for processing of speech variation, but may be detrimental to processing efficiency. Bilingual children are exposed to many types of speech in their linguistic environment, including native and non-native speech. This study examined how first language (L1) Spanish/second language (L2) English bilingual childre…
Combining and integrating multiple linguistic cues during spoken language comprehension
This research examines how adults process and integrate a combination of higher-level semantic cues (i.e., semantic context) which are followed by lower-level acoustic cues (i.e., coarticulatory cues) during online spoken comprehension. Previous studies investigating cue integration within Martin (2016)'s framework found that listeners can flexibly use and integrate a variety of available cues across linguistic representations. The current pre-re…
Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (3 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 works) · Multisensory perception and integration (2 works) · Perception (2 works) · Speech perception (2 works) · Speech recognition (2 works) · Audiology (1 work)