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Severijnen, G. G. A., Bosker, H. R., & McQueen, J. M. (2023). Individual differences in lexical stress in Dutch: An examination of cue weighting in production. Talk presented at the 5th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe Conference (PaPE 2023). Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2023-06-02 - 2023-06-04.
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Severijnen, G. G. A., Bosker, H. R., & McQueen, J. M. (2023). Listeners prioritize acoustic information over orthographic information in rate normalization. Poster presented at the 29th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP 2023), Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain.
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Severijnen, G. G. A., Bosker, H. R., & McQueen, J. M. (2023). Syllable rate drives rate normalization, but is not the only factor. Poster presented at the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023), Prague, Czech Republic.
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Uluşahin, O., Bosker, H. R., McQueen, J. M., & Meyer, A. S. (2023). No evidence for convergence to sub-phonemic F2 shifts in shadowing. Poster presented at the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023), Prague, Czech Republic.
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Uluşahin, O., Bosker, H. R., McQueen, J. M., & Meyer, A. S. (2023). The influence of contextual and talker F0 information on fricative perception. Poster presented at the 5th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe Conference (PaPE 2023), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Uluşahin, O., Bosker, H. R., McQueen, J. M., & Meyer, A. S. (2023). Listeners converge to fundamental frequency in synchronous speech. Poster presented at the 19th NVP Winter Conference on Brain and Cognition, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.
Abstract
Convergence broadly refers to interlocutors’ tendency to progressively sound more like each other over time. Recent empirical work has used various experimental paradigms to observe convergence in voice fundamental frequency (f0). One study used stable mean f0 over trials in a synchronous speech task with manipulated (i.e., high and low) f0 conditions (Bradshaw & McGettigan, 2021). Here, we attempted to replicate this study in Dutch. First, in a reading task, participants read 40 sentences at their own pace to establish f0 baselines. Later, in a synchronous speech task, participants read 80 sentences in synchrony with a speaker whose voice was manipulated ±2st above or below (i.e., for the high and low f0 conditions, respectively) a reference mean f0 value. The reference mean f0 value and the manipulation size were obtained across multiple pre-tests. Our results revealed that the f0 manipulation significantly predicted f0 convergence in both high f0 and low f0 conditions. Furthermore, the proportion of convergers in the sample was larger than those reported by Bradshaw & McGettigan, highlighting the benefits of stimulus optimization. Our study thus provides stronger evidence that the pitch of two talkers tends to converge as they speak together. -
Bujok, R., Bultena, S., McQueen, J. M., & Broersma, M. (2021). Accent adaptation through error-based learning. Talk presented at EDLL 2021 - International Conference on Error-Driven Learning in Language. Tübingen, Germany. 2021-03-10 - 2021-03-12.
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Hintz, F., Voeten, C. C., McQueen, J. M., & Scharenborg, O. (2021). Effects of masking position on the time course of spoken word comprehension in noise. Talk presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2021). Vienna, Austria. 2021-07-26 - 2021-07-29.
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Hintz, F., Voeten, C. C., Isakoglou, C., McQueen, J. M., & Meyer, A. S. (2021). Individual differences in language ability: Quantifying the relationships between linguistic experience, general cognitive skills and linguistic processing skills. Talk presented at the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (CUNY 2021). Philadelphia, USA. 2021-03-04 - 2021-03-06.
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