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in press

  • Ernestus, M. (in press). Acoustic reduction and the roles of abstractions and exemplars in speech processing. Lingua. more >

2011

  • Braun, B., Dainora, A., & Ernestus, M. (2011). An unfamiliar intonation contour slows down online speech comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26(3), 350 -375. doi:10.1080/01690965.2010.492641. more >
  • Brenner, D., Warner, N., Ernestus, M., & Tucker, B. V. (2011). Parsing the ambiguity of casual speech: “He was like” or “He’s like”? [Abstract]. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(4 Pt. 2), 2683. more >
  • De Vaan, L., Ernestus, M., & Schreuder, R. (2011). The lifespan of lexical traces for novel morphologically complex words. The Mental Lexicon, 6, 374-392. doi:10.1075/ml.6.3.02dev. more >
  • Ernestus, M. (2011). Gradience and categoricality in phonological theory. In M. Van Oostendorp, C. J. Ewen, E. Hume, & K. Rice (Eds.), The Blackwell companion to phonology (pp. 2115-2136). Wiley-Blackwell. more >
  • Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2011). Corpora and exemplars in phonology. In J. A. Goldsmith, J. Riggle, & A. C. Yu (Eds.), The handbook of phonological theory (2nd ed.) (pp. 374-400). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. more >
  • Ernestus, M., & Warner, N. (Eds.).(2011). Speech reduction [Special Issue]. Journal of Phonetics, 39(SI).
  • Ernestus, M., & Warner, N. (2011). An introduction to reduced pronunciation variants [Editorial]. Journal of Phonetics, 39(SI), 253-260. doi:10.1016/S0095-4470(11)00055-6. more >
  • Hanique, I., & Ernestus, M. (2011). Final /t/ reduction in Dutch past-participles: The role of word predictability and morphological decomposability. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2011), Florence, Italy (pp. 2849-2852). more >
  • Janse, E., & Ernestus, M. (2011). The roles of bottom-up and top-down information in the recognition of reduced speech: Evidence from listeners with normal and impaired hearing. Journal of Phonetics, 39(3), 330-343. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2011.03.005. more >
  • Kuzla, C., & Ernestus, M. (2011). Prosodic conditioning of phonetic detail in German plosives. Journal of Phonetics, 39, 143-155. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2011.01.001. more >
  • Schuppler, B., Ernestus, M., Scharenborg, O., & Boves, L. (2011). Acoustic reduction in conversational Dutch: A quantitative analysis based on automatically generated segmental transcriptions [Letter to the editor]. Journal of Phonetics, 39(1), 96-109. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2010.11.006. more >
  • Ten Bosch, L., Hämäläinen, A., & Ernestus, M. (2011). Assessing acoustic reduction: Exploiting local structure in speech. In Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2011), Florence, Italy (pp. 2665-2668). more >
  • Torreira, F., & Ernestus, M. (2011). Realization of voiceless stops and vowels in conversational French and Spanish. Laboratory Phonology, 2(2), 331-353. doi:10.1515/LABPHON.2011.012. more >
  • Torreira, F., & Ernestus, M. (2011). Vowel elision in casual French: The case of vowel /e/ in the word c’était. Journal of Phonetics, 39(1), 50 -58. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2010.11.003. more >
  • Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B. V., & Ernestus, M. (2011). Semantic context effects in the comprehension of reduced pronunciation variants. Memory & Cognition, 39, 1301-1316. doi:10.3758/s13421-011-0103-2. more >

2010

  • Bürki, A., Ernestus, M., & Frauenfelder, U. H. (2010). Is there only one "fenêtre" in the production lexicon? On-line evidence on the nature of phonological representations of pronunciation variants for French schwa words. Journal of Memory and Language, 62, 421-437. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2010.01.002. more >
  • Hanique, I., Schuppler, B., & Ernestus, M. (2010). Morphological and predictability effects on schwa reduction: The case of Dutch word-initial syllables. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2010), Makuhari, Japan (pp. 933-936). more >
  • Janse, E., & Ernestus, M. (2010). Use of linguistic knowledge in the recognition of reduced words: Effects of age and high-frequency hearing loss [Abstract]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128(4), 2457-2457. doi:10.1121/1.3508797. more >
  • Kuzla, C., Ernestus, M., & Mitterer, H. (2010). Compensation for assimilatory devoicing and prosodic structure in German fricative perception. In C. Fougeron, B. Kühnert, M. D'Imperio, & N. Vallée (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 10 (pp. 731-757). Berlin: De Gruyter. more >
  • Pluymaekers, M., Ernestus, M., Baayen, R. H., & Booij, G. (2010). Morphological effects on fine phonetic detail: The case of Dutch -igheid. In C. Fougeron, B. Kühnert, M. D'Imperio, & N. Vallée (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 10 (pp. 511-532). Berlin: De Gruyter. more >
  • Scharenborg, O., Wan, V., & Ernestus, M. (2010). Unsupervised speech segmentation: An analysis of the hypothesized phone boundaries. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127, 1084-1095. doi:10.1121/1.3277194. more >
  • Schuppler, B., Ernestus, M., Van Dommelen, W., & Koreman, J. (2010). Predicting human perception and ASR classification of word-final [t] by its acoustic sub-segmental properties. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2010), Makuhari, Japan (pp. 2466-2469). more >
  • Sikveland, A., Öttl, A., Amdal, I., Ernestus, M., Svendsen, T., & Edlund, J. (2010). Spontal-N: A Corpus of Interactional Spoken Norwegian. In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, J. Odijk, S. Piperidis, & D. Tapias (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10) (pp. 2986-2991). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). more >
  • Spilková, H., Brenner, D., Öttl, A., Vondřička, P., Van Dommelen, W., & Ernestus, M. (2010). The Kachna L1/L2 picture replication corpus. In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, J. Odijk, S. Piperidis, & D. Tapias (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10) (pp. 2432-2436). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). more >
  • Torreira, F., & Ernestus, M. (2010). Phrase-medial vowel devoicing in spontaneous French. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2010), Makuhari, Japan (pp. 2006-2009). more >
  • Torreira, F., & Ernestus, M. (2010). The Nijmegen corpus of casual Spanish. In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, J. Odijk, S. Piperidis, & D. Tapias (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10) (pp. 2981-2985). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). more >
  • Torreira, F., Adda-Decker, M., & Ernestus, M. (2010). The Nijmegen corpus of casual French. Speech Communication, 52, 201-212. doi:10.1016/j.specom.2009.10.004. more >
  • Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B. V., & Ernestus, M. (2010). Semantic facilitation in bilingual everyday speech comprehension. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2010), Makuhari, Japan (Interspeech 2010), Makuhari, Japan (pp. 1245-1248). more >

2009

  • Ernestus, M. (2009). The roles of reconstruction and lexical storage in the comprehension of regular pronunciation variants. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009) (pp. 1875-1878). Causal Productions Pty Ltd. more >
  • Janse, E., & Ernestus, M. (2009). Recognition of reduced speech and use of phonetic context in listeners with age-related hearing impairment [Abstract]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125(4), 2535. more >
  • Schuppler, B., Van Dommelen, W., Koreman, J., & Ernestus, M. (2009). Word-final [t]-deletion: An analysis on the segmental and sub-segmental level. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009) (pp. 2275-2278). Causal Productions Pty Ltd. more >
  • Torreira, F., & Ernestus, M. (2009). Probabilistic effects on French [t] duration. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009) (pp. 448-451). Causal Productions Pty Ltd. more >
  • Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B. V., & Ernestus, M. (2009). Semantic context effects in the recognition of acoustically unreduced and reduced words. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp. 1867-1870). Causal Productions Pty Ltd. more >

2008

  • De Schryver, J., Neijt, A., Ghesquière, P., & Ernestus, M. (2008). Analogy, frequency, and sound change: The case of Dutch devoicing. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 20(2), 159-195. doi:10.1017/S1470542708000056. more >
  • Ernestus, M., & Neijt, A. (2008). Word length and the location of primary word stress in Dutch, German, and English. Linguistics, 46(3), 507-540. doi:10.1515/LING.2008.017. more >
  • Kuperman, V., Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2008). Frequency distributions of uniphones, diphones, and triphones in spontaneous speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124(6), 3897-3908. doi:10.1121/1.3006378. more >
  • Schuppler, B., Ernestus, M., Scharenborg, O., & Boves, L. (2008). Preparing a corpus of Dutch spontaneous dialogues for automatic phonetic analysis. In INTERSPEECH 2008 - 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp. 1638-1641). ISCA Archive. more >
  • Wagner, A., & Ernestus, M. (2008). Identification of phonemes: Differences between phoneme classes and the effect of class size. Phonetica, 65(1-2), 106-127. doi:10.1159/000132389. more >

2007

  • Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2007). Intraparadigmatic effects on the perception of voice. In J. van de Weijer, & E. J. van der Torre (Eds.), Voicing in Dutch: (De)voicing-phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics (pp. 153-173). Amsterdam: Benjamins. more >
  • Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2007). Paradigmatic effects in auditory word recognition: The case of alternating voice in Dutch. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22(1), 1-24. doi:10.1080/01690960500268303. more >
  • Ernestus, M., Van Mulken, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2007). Ridders en heiligen in tijd en ruimte: Moderne stylometrische technieken toegepast op Oud-Franse teksten. Taal en Tongval, 58, 1-83. more >
  • Kuperman, V., Pluymaekers, M., Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2007). Morphological predictability and acoustic duration of interfixes in Dutch compounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(4), 2261-2271. doi:10.1121/1.2537393. more >
  • Kuzla, C., & Ernestus, M. (2007). Prosodic conditioning of phonetic detail of German plosives. In J. Trouvain, & W. J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2007) (pp. 461-464). Dudweiler: Pirrot. more >
  • Kuzla, C., Cho, T., & Ernestus, M. (2007). Prosodic strengthening of German fricatives in duration and assimilatory devoicing. Journal of Phonetics, 35(3), 301-320. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2006.11.001. more >
  • Scharenborg, O., Ernestus, M., & Wan, V. (2007). Segmentation of speech: Child's play? In H. van Hamme, & R. van Son (Eds.), Proceedings of Interspeech 2007 (pp. 1953-1956). Adelaide: Causal Productions. more >

2006

  • Ernestus, M. (2006). Statistically gradient generalizations for contrastive phonological features. The Linguistic Review, 23(3), 217-233. doi:10.1515/TLR.2006.008. more >
  • Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2006). The functionality of incomplete neutralization in Dutch: The case of past-tense formation. In L. Goldstein, D. Whalen, & C. Best (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 8 (pp. 27-49). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. more >
  • Ernestus, M., Lahey, M., Verhees, F., & Baayen, R. H. (2006). Lexical frequency and voice assimilation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120(2), 1040-1051. doi:10.1121/1.2211548. more >
  • Kuzla, C., Ernestus, M., & Mitterer, H. (2006). Prosodic structure affects the production and perception of voice-assimilated German fricatives. In R. Hoffmann, & H. Mixdorff (Eds.), Speech prosody 2006. Dresden: TUD Press. more >
  • Kuzla, C., Mitterer, H., & Ernestus, M. (2006). Compensation for assimilatory devoicing and prosodic structure in German fricative perception. In Variation, detail and representation: 10th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (pp. 43-44). more >
  • Kuzla, C., Mitterer, H., Ernestus, M., & Cutler, A. (2006). Perceptual compensation for voice assimilation of German fricatives. In P. Warren, & I. Watson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 394-399). more >
  • Mitterer, H., & Ernestus, M. (2006). Listeners recover /t/s that speakers reduce: Evidence from /t/-lenition in Dutch. Journal of Phonetics, 34(1), 73-103. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2005.03.003. more >
  • Pluymaekers, M., Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2006). Effects of word frequency on the acoustic durations of affixes. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2006 (pp. 953-956). Pittsburgh: ICSLP. more >
  • Ten Bosch, L., Baayen, R. H., & Ernestus, M. (2006). On speech variation and word type differentiation by articulatory feature representations. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2006 (pp. 2230-2233). more >
  • Wagner, A., Ernestus, M., & Cutler, A. (2006). Formant transitions in fricative identification: The role of native fricative inventory. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120(4), 2267-2277. doi:10.1121/1.2335422. more >
  • Wurm, L. H., Ernestus, M., Schreuder, R., & Baayen, R. H. (2006). Dynamics of the auditory comprehension of prefixed words: Cohort entropies and conditional root uniqueness points. The Mental Lexicon, 1(1), 125-146. more >

2005

  • Ernestus, M., & Mak, W. M. (2005). Analogical effects in reading Dutch verb forms. Memory & Cognition, 33(7), 1160-1173. more >
  • Ernestus, M., Mak, W. M., & Baayen, R. H. (2005). Waar 't kofschip strandt. Levende Talen Magazine, 92, 9-11.
  • Kemps, R. J. J. K., Ernestus, M., Schreuder, R., & Baayen, R. H. (2005). Prosodic cues for morphological complexity: The case of Dutch plural nouns. Memory & Cognition, 33(3), 430-446. more >
  • Kemps, R. J. J. K., Wurm, L. H., Ernestus, M., Schreuder, R., & Baayen, R. H. (2005). Prosodic cues for morphological complexity in Dutch and English. Language and Cognitive Processes, 20(1/2), 43-73. doi:10.1080/01690960444000223. more >
  • Keune, K., Ernestus, M., Van Hout, R., & Baayen, R. H. (2005). Variation in Dutch: From written "mogelijk" to spoken "mok". Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 1(2), 183-223. doi:10.1515/cllt.2005.1.2.183. more >
  • Pluymaekers, M., Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2005). Articulatory planning is continuous and sensitive to informational redundancy. Phonetica, 62(2-4), 146-159. doi:10.1159/000090095. more >
  • Pluymaekers, M., Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2005). Lexical frequency and acoustic reduction in spoken Dutch. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118(4), 2561-2569. doi:10.1121/1.2011150. more >

2004

  • Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2004). Analogical effects in regular past tense production in Dutch. Linguistics, 42(5), 873-903. doi:10.1515/ling.2004.031. more >
  • Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2004). Kuchde, tobte, en turfte: Lekkage in 't kofschip. Onze Taal, 73(12), 360-361.
  • Ernestus, M., & Mak, W. M. (2004). Distinctive phonological features differ in relevance for both spoken and written word recognition. Brain and Language, 90(1-3), 378-392. doi:10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00449-8. more >
  • Kemps, R. J. J. K., Ernestus, M., Schreuder, R., & Baayen, R. H. (2004). Processing reduced word forms: The suffix restoration effect. Brain and Language, 90(1-3), 117-127. doi:10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00425-5. more >
  • Moscoso del Prado Martín, F., Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2004). Do type and token effects reflect different mechanisms? Connectionist modeling of Dutch past-tense formation and final devoicing. Brain and Language, 90(1-3), 287-298. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2003.12.002. more >
  • Rietveld, T., Van Hout, R., & Ernestus, M. (2004). Pitfalls in corpus research. Computers and the Humanities, 38(4), 343-362. doi:10.1007/s10579-004-1919-1. more >

2003

  • Ernestus, M. (2003). The role of phonology and phonetics in Dutch voice assimilation. In J. v. d. Weijer, V. J. v. Heuven, & H. v. d. Hulst (Eds.), The phonological spectrum Volume 1: Segmental structure (pp. 119-144). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2003). Predicting the unpredictable: The phonological interpretation of neutralized segments in Dutch. Language, 79(1), 5-38. more >

2002

  • Ernestus, M., Baayen, R. H., & Schreuder, R. (2002). The recognition of reduced word forms. Brain and Language, 81(1-3), 162-173. doi:10.1006/brln.2001.2514. more >
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Mirjam Ernestus

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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