Laura Staum Casasanto
Biographic Data
| ID | 784143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Staum Casasanto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura Staum |
| FAMILY NAME | Casasanto |
| SIGNATURE | CASASANTO L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Konstanz Germany and University of Chicago Illinois U.S.A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Totally tall sounds totally younger
In two social perception experiments, we explore the relationship between the social meaning and the semantic/pragmatic properties of the intensifier totally in American English. In Experiment 1, we show that totally is perceived as a more salient index of social identity categories - measured in terms of Age, Solidarity and Status attributes - when it targets a scalar dimension grounded in the speaker's attitude, as opposed to when it occurs in …
Speech Accommodation Without Priming
People often accommodate to each other's speech by aligning their linguistic production with their partner's. According to an influential theory, the Interactive Alignment Model, alignment is the result of priming. When people perceive an utterance, the corresponding linguistic representations are primed and become easier to produce. Here we tested this theory by investigating whether pitch (F0) alignment shows two characteristic signatures of pr…
How do individual cognitive differences relate to acceptability judgments? A reply to Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips
Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012) carried out two experiments in which they measured individual differences in memory to test processing accounts of island effects. They found that these individual differences failed to predict the magnitude of island effects, and they construe these findings as counterevidence to processing-based accounts of island effects. Here, we take up several problems with their methods, their findings, and their conclu…
Misapplying working-memory tests
Misapplying working-memory tests:A reductio ad absurdum* Philip Hofmeister, Laura Staum Casasanto, and Ivan A. Sag The preceding discussion note by Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012b; SWP2) sidesteps the objections we raised in our critique (Hofmeister et al. 2012; HSS) of their 2012a article (SWP1). In the process, they attempt to deflect attention away from the fundamental issue at stake: is the experimental method used by SWP1 an effective d…
Using Social Information in Language Processing
Totally tall sounds totally younger
In two social perception experiments, we explore the relationship between the social meaning and the semantic/pragmatic properties of the intensifier totally in American English. In Experiment 1, we show that totally is perceived as a more salient index of social identity categories - measured in terms of Age, Solidarity and Status attributes - when it targets a scalar dimension grounded in the speaker's attitude, as opposed to when it occurs in …
Misapplying working-memory tests
Misapplying working-memory tests:A reductio ad absurdum* Philip Hofmeister, Laura Staum Casasanto, and Ivan A. Sag The preceding discussion note by Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012b; SWP2) sidesteps the objections we raised in our critique (Hofmeister et al. 2012; HSS) of their 2012a article (SWP1). In the process, they attempt to deflect attention away from the fundamental issue at stake: is the experimental method used by SWP1 an effective d…
Speech Accommodation Without Priming
People often accommodate to each other's speech by aligning their linguistic production with their partner's. According to an influential theory, the Interactive Alignment Model, alignment is the result of priming. When people perceive an utterance, the corresponding linguistic representations are primed and become easier to produce. Here we tested this theory by investigating whether pitch (F0) alignment shows two characteristic signatures of pr…
Using Social Information in Language Processing
How do individual cognitive differences relate to acceptability judgments? A reply to Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips
Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012) carried out two experiments in which they measured individual differences in memory to test processing accounts of island effects. They found that these individual differences failed to predict the magnitude of island effects, and they construe these findings as counterevidence to processing-based accounts of island effects. Here, we take up several problems with their methods, their findings, and their conclu…
Misapplying working-memory tests
Misapplying working-memory tests:A reductio ad absurdum* Philip Hofmeister, Laura Staum Casasanto, and Ivan A. Sag The preceding discussion note by Sprouse, Wagers, and Phillips (2012b; SWP2) sidesteps the objections we raised in our critique (Hofmeister et al. 2012; HSS) of their 2012a article (SWP1). In the process, they attempt to deflect attention away from the fundamental issue at stake: is the experimental method used by SWP1 an effective d…
Speech Accommodation Without Priming
People often accommodate to each other's speech by aligning their linguistic production with their partner's. According to an influential theory, the Interactive Alignment Model, alignment is the result of priming. When people perceive an utterance, the corresponding linguistic representations are primed and become easier to produce. Here we tested this theory by investigating whether pitch (F0) alignment shows two characteristic signatures of pr…
Totally tall sounds totally younger
In two social perception experiments, we explore the relationship between the social meaning and the semantic/pragmatic properties of the intensifier totally in American English. In Experiment 1, we show that totally is perceived as a more salient index of social identity categories - measured in terms of Age, Solidarity and Status attributes - when it targets a scalar dimension grounded in the speaker's attitude, as opposed to when it occurs in …
Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Accommodation (1 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Biology (1 works)