Duane G Watson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3844872 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Duane G Watson |
| PRENOMES | Duane G |
| SOBRENOME | Watson |
| ASSINATURA | WATSON D G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7191-4238 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Tomato-tomahto
Speakers lengthen words that share initial phonological segments. • Segments may be planned by abstract representations or acoustic features. • Participants heard speakers of two dialects, which manipulated acoustic input. • Participants still lengthened words regardless of prime dialect. • Results suggest abstract phonological representations affect speech planning. Speakers often lengthen the duration of a word when it shares initial phonologic…
Perception and Interpretation of Contrastive Pitch Accent During Spoken Language Processing in Autistic Children
Although prosodic differences in autistic individuals have been widely documented, little is known about their ability to perceive and interpret specific prosodic features, such as contrastive pitch accent-a prosodic signal that places emphasis and helps listeners distinguish between competing referents in discourse. This study addresses that gap by investigating the extent to which autistic children can (1) perceive contrastive pitch accent (i.e…
Pauses and Parsing
It is broadly accepted that the prosody of a sentence can influence sentence processing by providing the listener information about the syntax of the sentence. It is less clear what the mechanism is that underlies the transmission of this information. In this paper, we test whether the influence of the prosodic structure on parsing is a result of perceptual breaks such as pauses or whether it is the result of more abstract prosodic elements, such…
A Markov Mixed-Effect Multinomial Logistic Regression Model for Nominal Repeated Measures with an Application to Syntactic Self-Priming Effects
Syntactic priming effects have been investigated for several decades in psycholinguistics and the cognitive sciences to understand the cognitive mechanisms that support language production and comprehension. The question of whether speakers prime themselves is central to adjudicating between two theories of syntactic priming, activation-based theories and expectation-based theories. However, there is a lack of a statistical model to investigate t…
The Contribution of Form Repetition to Listeners’ Expectation of Givenness in Online Reference Resolution
Although it is clear that unaccented referring expressions are associated with given information in a discourse (Dahan et al., 2002), it is less clear what aspects of givenness are relevant. We examine whether listeners' expectation of givenness depends on repetition of a referring expression or on contextual evocation of a referent. The results from two visual world eye-tracking experiments suggest that for interpretation, listeners associated r…
The world is not enough to explain lengthening of phonological competitors
Effects of Participant Engagement on Prosodic Prominence
It is generally assumed that prosodic cues that provide linguistic information, like discourse status, are driven primarily by the information structure of the conversation. This article investigates whether speakers have the capacity to adjust subtle acoustic-phonetic properties of the prosodic signal when they find themselves in contexts in which accurate communication is important. Thus, we examine whether the communicative context, in additio…
Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody
Research on prosody has recently become an important focus in various disciplines, including Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science. This article reviews recent research advances on two key issues: prosodic phrasing and prosodic prominence. Both aspects of prosody are influenced by linguistic factors such as syntactic constituent structure, semantic relations, phonological rhythm, pragmatic considerations, and also by processing factors su…
Reading relative clauses in English
Two self-paced reading experiments investigated several factors that influence the comprehension complexity of singly-embedded relative clauses (RCs) in English. Three factors were manipulated in Experiment 1, resulting in three main effects. First, object-extracted RCs were read more slowly than subject-extracted RCs, replicating previous work. Second, RCs that were embedded within the sentential complement of a noun were read more slowly than c…
The relationship between intonational phrasing and syntactic structure in language production
In this paper, we evaluate several theories of how syntactic/semantic structure influences the placement of intonational boundaries in language production (Cooper & Paccia-Cooper, 1980; Gee & Grosjean, 1983; Ferreira, 1988). Although the theories that we tested are shown to be quite successful, they are complex, and furthermore, they are incompatible with recent evidence for incrementality in sentence production. In light of these problems, we pr…
Making Sense of the Sense Unit Condition
July 01 2004 Making Sense of the Sense Unit Condition In Special Collection: CogNet Duane Watson, Duane Watson University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Edward Gibson Edward Gibson MIT Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Duane Watson University of Rochester Edward Gibson MIT Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2004 Massachuset…
Reading relative clauses in English
Two self-paced reading experiments investigated several factors that influence the comprehension complexity of singly-embedded relative clauses (RCs) in English. Three factors were manipulated in Experiment 1, resulting in three main effects. First, object-extracted RCs were read more slowly than subject-extracted RCs, replicating previous work. Second, RCs that were embedded within the sentential complement of a noun were read more slowly than c…
Pauses and Parsing
It is broadly accepted that the prosody of a sentence can influence sentence processing by providing the listener information about the syntax of the sentence. It is less clear what the mechanism is that underlies the transmission of this information. In this paper, we test whether the influence of the prosodic structure on parsing is a result of perceptual breaks such as pauses or whether it is the result of more abstract prosodic elements, such…
Making Sense of the Sense Unit Condition
July 01 2004 Making Sense of the Sense Unit Condition In Special Collection: CogNet Duane Watson, Duane Watson University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Edward Gibson Edward Gibson MIT Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Duane Watson University of Rochester Edward Gibson MIT Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2004 Massachuset…
Effects of Participant Engagement on Prosodic Prominence
It is generally assumed that prosodic cues that provide linguistic information, like discourse status, are driven primarily by the information structure of the conversation. This article investigates whether speakers have the capacity to adjust subtle acoustic-phonetic properties of the prosodic signal when they find themselves in contexts in which accurate communication is important. Thus, we examine whether the communicative context, in additio…
The relationship between intonational phrasing and syntactic structure in language production
In this paper, we evaluate several theories of how syntactic/semantic structure influences the placement of intonational boundaries in language production (Cooper & Paccia-Cooper, 1980; Gee & Grosjean, 1983; Ferreira, 1988). Although the theories that we tested are shown to be quite successful, they are complex, and furthermore, they are incompatible with recent evidence for incrementality in sentence production. In light of these problems, we pr…
Making Sense of the Sense Unit Condition
July 01 2004 Making Sense of the Sense Unit Condition In Special Collection: CogNet Duane Watson, Duane Watson University of Rochester Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Edward Gibson Edward Gibson MIT Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Duane Watson University of Rochester Edward Gibson MIT Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2004 Massachuset…
Reading relative clauses in English
Two self-paced reading experiments investigated several factors that influence the comprehension complexity of singly-embedded relative clauses (RCs) in English. Three factors were manipulated in Experiment 1, resulting in three main effects. First, object-extracted RCs were read more slowly than subject-extracted RCs, replicating previous work. Second, RCs that were embedded within the sentential complement of a noun were read more slowly than c…
Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody
Research on prosody has recently become an important focus in various disciplines, including Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science. This article reviews recent research advances on two key issues: prosodic phrasing and prosodic prominence. Both aspects of prosody are influenced by linguistic factors such as syntactic constituent structure, semantic relations, phonological rhythm, pragmatic considerations, and also by processing factors su…
Effects of Participant Engagement on Prosodic Prominence
It is generally assumed that prosodic cues that provide linguistic information, like discourse status, are driven primarily by the information structure of the conversation. This article investigates whether speakers have the capacity to adjust subtle acoustic-phonetic properties of the prosodic signal when they find themselves in contexts in which accurate communication is important. Thus, we examine whether the communicative context, in additio…
The world is not enough to explain lengthening of phonological competitors
A Markov Mixed-Effect Multinomial Logistic Regression Model for Nominal Repeated Measures with an Application to Syntactic Self-Priming Effects
Syntactic priming effects have been investigated for several decades in psycholinguistics and the cognitive sciences to understand the cognitive mechanisms that support language production and comprehension. The question of whether speakers prime themselves is central to adjudicating between two theories of syntactic priming, activation-based theories and expectation-based theories. However, there is a lack of a statistical model to investigate t…
The Contribution of Form Repetition to Listeners’ Expectation of Givenness in Online Reference Resolution
Although it is clear that unaccented referring expressions are associated with given information in a discourse (Dahan et al., 2002), it is less clear what aspects of givenness are relevant. We examine whether listeners' expectation of givenness depends on repetition of a referring expression or on contextual evocation of a referent. The results from two visual world eye-tracking experiments suggest that for interpretation, listeners associated r…
Pauses and Parsing
It is broadly accepted that the prosody of a sentence can influence sentence processing by providing the listener information about the syntax of the sentence. It is less clear what the mechanism is that underlies the transmission of this information. In this paper, we test whether the influence of the prosodic structure on parsing is a result of perceptual breaks such as pauses or whether it is the result of more abstract prosodic elements, such…
Tomato-tomahto
Speakers lengthen words that share initial phonological segments. • Segments may be planned by abstract representations or acoustic features. • Participants heard speakers of two dialects, which manipulated acoustic input. • Participants still lengthened words regardless of prime dialect. • Results suggest abstract phonological representations affect speech planning. Speakers often lengthen the duration of a word when it shares initial phonologic…
Perception and Interpretation of Contrastive Pitch Accent During Spoken Language Processing in Autistic Children
Although prosodic differences in autistic individuals have been widely documented, little is known about their ability to perceive and interpret specific prosodic features, such as contrastive pitch accent-a prosodic signal that places emphasis and helps listeners distinguish between competing referents in discourse. This study addresses that gap by investigating the extent to which autistic children can (1) perceive contrastive pitch accent (i.e…
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