Jennifer Gross
Biographic Data
| ID | 5603408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Gross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Gross |
| SIGNATURE | GROSS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9536-3503 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Training with orthographic stress and rhythm markers improves adult readers’ prosodic sensitivity
Interviewing Roomba
Roomba, the autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner sold by iRobot since 2002, is now a taken-for-granted household helper in many homes. In this study that cross-cuts phenomenology, postphenomenology, actor–network theory and media ecology, I utilize four heuristics for interviewing digital objects. I interview Roomba and utilize qualitative research methods to theorize about the complexities of the entanglements and relationships between human beings…
Marking Stress Ex PLIC itly in Written English Fosters Rhythm in the Reader's Inner Voice
Spoken English has a stress‐alternating rhythm that is not marked in its orthography. In two experiments, the authors evaluated whether stylistic alterations to print that marked stress pulses fostered the rendering of rhythm (experiment 1) and stress (experiment 2) during silent reading. In experiment 1, silent readers rated the helpfulness of the stylistic alterations appearing in the last line of poems. In experiment 2, silent readers rated th…
Forecasting the student–professor matches that result in unusually effective teaching
BACKGROUND: Two important influences on students' evaluations of teaching are relationship and professor effects. Relationship effects reflect unique matches between students and professors such that some professors are unusually effective for some students, but not for others. Professor effects reflect inter-rater agreement that some professors are more effective than others, on average across students. AIMS: We attempted to forecast students' e…
Evidence for Prosody in Silent Reading
English speakers and expressive readers emphasize new content in an ongoing discourse. Do silent readers emphasize new content in their inner voice? Because the inner voice cannot be directly observed, we borrowed the cap-emphasis technique (e.g., "toMAYto") from the pronunciation guides of dictionaries to elicit prosodic emphasis. Extrapolating from linguistic theories of focus prosody in spoken English, we predicted and found that silent reader…
Lonely lives are not necessarily joyless’
This essay re‐examines Augusta Jane Evans's Civil War novel Macaria; or Altars of Sacrifice. Citing its adherence to the traditional form of the domestic novel, the historical context in which it was written, the realities of Evans's own life, and the body of her earlier and later works, it argues against literary critics’ assessments that Evans's wartime tome was a proto‐feminist or feminist novel, a precursor to the works of Kate Chopin. Rather…
The syllabification of /s/ clusters in English
The syllabification of /s/ clusters in English
Evidence for Prosody in Silent Reading
English speakers and expressive readers emphasize new content in an ongoing discourse. Do silent readers emphasize new content in their inner voice? Because the inner voice cannot be directly observed, we borrowed the cap-emphasis technique (e.g., "toMAYto") from the pronunciation guides of dictionaries to elicit prosodic emphasis. Extrapolating from linguistic theories of focus prosody in spoken English, we predicted and found that silent reader…
Interviewing Roomba
Roomba, the autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner sold by iRobot since 2002, is now a taken-for-granted household helper in many homes. In this study that cross-cuts phenomenology, postphenomenology, actor–network theory and media ecology, I utilize four heuristics for interviewing digital objects. I interview Roomba and utilize qualitative research methods to theorize about the complexities of the entanglements and relationships between human beings…
Forecasting the student–professor matches that result in unusually effective teaching
BACKGROUND: Two important influences on students' evaluations of teaching are relationship and professor effects. Relationship effects reflect unique matches between students and professors such that some professors are unusually effective for some students, but not for others. Professor effects reflect inter-rater agreement that some professors are more effective than others, on average across students. AIMS: We attempted to forecast students' e…
The syllabification of /s/ clusters in English
Lonely lives are not necessarily joyless’
This essay re‐examines Augusta Jane Evans's Civil War novel Macaria; or Altars of Sacrifice. Citing its adherence to the traditional form of the domestic novel, the historical context in which it was written, the realities of Evans's own life, and the body of her earlier and later works, it argues against literary critics’ assessments that Evans's wartime tome was a proto‐feminist or feminist novel, a precursor to the works of Kate Chopin. Rather…
Evidence for Prosody in Silent Reading
English speakers and expressive readers emphasize new content in an ongoing discourse. Do silent readers emphasize new content in their inner voice? Because the inner voice cannot be directly observed, we borrowed the cap-emphasis technique (e.g., "toMAYto") from the pronunciation guides of dictionaries to elicit prosodic emphasis. Extrapolating from linguistic theories of focus prosody in spoken English, we predicted and found that silent reader…
Forecasting the student–professor matches that result in unusually effective teaching
BACKGROUND: Two important influences on students' evaluations of teaching are relationship and professor effects. Relationship effects reflect unique matches between students and professors such that some professors are unusually effective for some students, but not for others. Professor effects reflect inter-rater agreement that some professors are more effective than others, on average across students. AIMS: We attempted to forecast students' e…
Marking Stress Ex PLIC itly in Written English Fosters Rhythm in the Reader's Inner Voice
Spoken English has a stress‐alternating rhythm that is not marked in its orthography. In two experiments, the authors evaluated whether stylistic alterations to print that marked stress pulses fostered the rendering of rhythm (experiment 1) and stress (experiment 2) during silent reading. In experiment 1, silent readers rated the helpfulness of the stylistic alterations appearing in the last line of poems. In experiment 2, silent readers rated th…
Interviewing Roomba
Roomba, the autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner sold by iRobot since 2002, is now a taken-for-granted household helper in many homes. In this study that cross-cuts phenomenology, postphenomenology, actor–network theory and media ecology, I utilize four heuristics for interviewing digital objects. I interview Roomba and utilize qualitative research methods to theorize about the complexities of the entanglements and relationships between human beings…
Training with orthographic stress and rhythm markers improves adult readers’ prosodic sensitivity
Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (2 works) · Rhythm (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Syllable (2 works) · Actor–network theory (1 works)