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Priming Effects of Focus in Mandarin Chinese by Yan, Mengzhu, Calhoun, Sasha

“…Psycholinguistic research has long established that focus-marked words have a processing advantage over other words in an utterance, e.g., they are recognized…”
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Exclusives, equatives and prosodic phrases in Samoan by Calhoun, Sasha

“…This paper investigates the functions of prosodic phrasing in the Austronesian VSO language Samoan. Two types of sentences are investigated, exclusives…”
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Rejecting false alternatives in Chinese and English: The interaction of prosody, clefting, and default focus position by Yan, Mengzhu, Calhoun, Sasha

“…In a discourse, a listener must keep track of information which is presupposed, or established, with the speaker, and that which is new in the common ground…”
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Multimodal cues to intonational categories: Gesture apex coordination with tonal events by Turk, Olcay, Calhoun, Sasha

“…This study argues for a multimodal view of the identification, representation, and implementation of intonational structure, with evidence from gesture…”
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Prominence and focus: The tension between acoustic cues and phonological structure by Calhoun, Sasha

“…Across many languages, prosodic prominence signals focus. For example, “Does SHE like it?” has different implications to “Does she LIKE it?” (capitals indicate…”
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The interplay of information structure, semantics, prosody, and word ordering in Spanish intransitives by Calhoun, Sasha, La Cruz, Erwin, Olssen, Ana

“…A production experiment was run to examine how information structure and verbal semantics affect word ordering and nuclear stress placement in intransitive…”
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THE CENTRALITY OF METRICAL STRUCTURE IN SIGNALING INFORMATION STRUCTURE: A PROBABILISTIC PERSPECTIVE by Calhoun, Sasha

“…This article introduces a new way to explain how information structure is signaled prosodically in English. I claim that METRICAL STRUCTURE plays a central…”
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Examining focus and alternative priming: Effects of grammatical role and breadth of the alternative set by Calhoun, Sasha, Yan, Mengzhu, White, Hannah

“…Recent work has shown that contrastive accenting plays a crucial role in discourse processing, causing listeners to activate alternatives to focused words…”
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The interaction of prosody and syntax in Samoan focus marking by Calhoun, Sasha

“…•First major study of focus-marking in Samoan, an Austronesian VSO language.•Analysed prosody and syntax of answers to questions eliciting different focus…”
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The theme/rheme distinction: Accent type or relative prominence? by Calhoun, Sasha

“…In English, theme/rheme status (or topic/comment) is claimed to be marked by pitch accent type, i.e. L+H⁎ (LH%) versus H⁎ (LL%). Calhoun (2010a) claims that,…”
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Socialising the Frequency Code: Effects of gender and age on iconic associations of pitch by Calhoun, Sasha, Warren, Paul, Mills, Joy, Agnew, Jemima

“…Burgeoning research has shown the pervasiveness of sound symbolism, a type of iconicity, in language. However, little work looks at how individual experiences…”
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Socialising the Frequency Code: Effects of gender and age on iconic associations of pitcha by Calhoun, Sasha, Warren, Paul, Mills, Joy, Agnew, Jemima

“…Burgeoning research has shown the pervasiveness of sound symbolism, a type of iconicity, in language. However, little work looks at how individual experiences…”
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Phrasal Synchronization of Gesture With Prosody and Information Structure by Türk, Olcay, Calhoun, Sasha

“…This study investigates the synchronization of manual gestures with prosody and information structure using Turkish natural speech data. Prosody has long been…”
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The Role of Prominence in Activating Focused Words and Their Alternatives in Mandarin: Evidence from Lexical Priming and Recognition Memory by Yan, Mengzhu, Calhoun, Sasha, Warren, Paul

“…When a sentence is produced with contrastive prosodic prominence, the word that carries the prominence becomes more salient, and alternatives to that word are…”
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Prosodic Prominence and Focus: Expectation Affects Interpretation in Samoan and English by Calhoun, Sasha, Wollum, Emma, Kruse Va’ai, Emma

“…This paper looks at the perception of prosodic prominence and the interpretation of focus position in the unrelated languages, Samoan and English. In many…”
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Focus Effects on Immediate and Delayed Recognition of Referents in Samoan by Calhoun, Sasha, Yan, Mengzhu, Salanoa, Honiara, Taupi, Fualuga, Kruse Va’ai, Emma

“…This paper looks at the effect of focus-marking on the immediate and delayed recognition of referents in Samoan. Focus-marking on a word can imply the presence…”
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The NXT-format Switchboard Corpus: a rich resource for investigating the syntax, semantics, pragmatics and prosody of dialogue by Calhoun, Sasha, Carletta, Jean, Brenier, Jason M., Mayo, Neil, Jurafsky, Dan, Steedman, Mark, Beaver, David

“…This paper describes a recently completed common resource for the study of spoken discourse, the NXT-format Switchboard Corpus. Switchboard is a long-standing…”
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Exploring the relationship between intonation and the lexicon: Evidence for lexicalised storage of intonation by Schweitzer, Katrin, Walsh, Michael, Calhoun, Sasha, Schütze, Hinrich, Möbius, Bernd, Schweitzer, Antje, Dogil, Grzegorz

“…•Prosodic features are shown to depend on distributional properties at the word level.•Increasing frequency of word-accent pairs results in greater accent…”
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How does informativeness affect prosodic prominence? by Calhoun, Sasha

“…A key function of prosodic prominence is to mark the most informative words in an utterance. However, informativeness has been conceptualised as, e.g., focus,…”
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Information structure and the prosodic structure of english: a probabilistic relationship by Calhoun, Sasha

“…This work concerns how information structure is signalled prosodically in English, that is, how prosodic prominence and phrasing are used to indicate the…”
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