in press. Two problems in theories of tone-melody matching.
To appear in Studies in Prosodic Grammar (韵律语法研究), vol. 9, 2023.
2023. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd and A. Arvaniti).
Prosodic prominence across languages. To appear in Annual Review
of Linguistics, vol. 9 (2023). Online at
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031120-101954
2022a. The Trouble with ToBI. In Barnes and Shattuck-Hufnagel, eds.
Prosodic Theory and Practice, MIT Press, pp. 247-257.
2022b. Mid-century American phonology: the
post-Bloomfieldians. In Dresher and van der Hulst, eds. The Oxford History of
Phonology, Oxford University Press, pp. 356-371.
2021a.
In search of Hauptmann Strümpell. Vestiges: Traces of Record,
vol. 7.2, pp. 17-27.
2021b. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd and M. L. Blum).
On the systematic nature of Dinka noun number morphology.
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 42: 223-252. Online at https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2021-2020.
2020a. (Co-authors: J. Kirby, D. R. Ladd, J. Gao, Z. Elliott).
Elicitation context does not drive F0 lowering following voiced stops: evidence from French
and Italian. JASA Express Letters, 7 June 2020, online at osf.io/gx2wh.
2020b. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd and J. Kirby).
Tone-melody matching in tone language singing. In Chen and Gussenhoven, eds. The Oxford
Handbook of Linguistic Prosody, Oxford University Press, pp. 676-687.
2019. O que é Prosódia? (Portuguese translation of chapter 3
of my 2014 book). In Working
Papers em Linguística vol. 20, Universidade Federal de Santa Caterina, Brazil.
Online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1984-8420.2019v20n1p8
2018. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd and S. Schmid).
Obstruent voicing effects on F0, but without voicing:
Phonetic correlates of Swiss German lenis, fortis, and aspirated stops.
Journal of Phonetics 71: 229-248. Published online October 2018, doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.09.003
2016a.
Commentary: Tone languages and
laryngeal precision. Journal of Language
Evolution 1: 70-72; published online February 2016, doi: 10.1093/jole/lzv014. Supplementary Materials.
2016b. (Co-authors: J. Kirby and D. R.
Ladd). Effects of
obstruent voicing on vowel F0: evidence from "true voicing" languages
. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140: 2400-2411. Published online
October 2016, doi: 10.1121/1.4962445 . Available here from Edinburgh Research Explorer.
2016c. (Co-authors: M. E. L. Renwick and D. R.
Ladd). Phonetic
distinctiveness vs. lexical contrastiveness in non-robust phonemic
contrasts. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory
Phonology 7(1): 19 (pp. 1-29). doi: 10.5334/labphon.17
2016d. (Co-authors: J. Kirby and D. R. Ladd).
Tone-melody
correspondence in Vietnamese popular song. Paper presented at TAL (Conference on Tonal
Aspects
of Language), Buffalo NY, May 2016.
2015a. The American four-level analysis of intonation contours:
historical postscript. Historiographia Linguistica 42: 119-137.
2015b. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd, S. G. Roberts, D. Dediu).
Correlational studies in typological and historical linguistics. Annual Review of
Linguistics, vol. 1, pp. 221-241. An "e-print" is available here.
2015c. (Co-authors, C. Caldwell-Harris, A. Lancaster, D. R. Ladd, D.
Dediu, M. Christiansen).
Factors influencing sensitivity to tone in an artificial language:
Implications for second language learning. Studies in Second Language
Acquisition 37: 335-357.
2015d. (Co-authors: P. Bestelmeyer, P. Belin, D. R. Ladd). A neural marker
for social bias toward in-group accents. Cerebral
Cortex 25: 3953-3961; published online December 2014, doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhu282.
2015e. (Co-authors: A. Arvaniti and D. R. Ladd).
Underspecification
in intonation
revisited: a reply to Xu, Lee, Prom-on and Liu.
Phonology 32: 537-541.
For many of these papers a pdf of the final submitted typescript (or a link to an open-access
published version) is made available here for private use. Citations and direct quotes should always
be based on the published version.
2013a. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd, R. Turnbull, C. Browne, C. Caldwell-Harris,
L. Ganushchak, K. Swoboda, V. Woodfield, D. Dediu). Patterns of individual differences in the perception
of missing-fundamental tones. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and
Performance 39: 1386-1397. Available online (subscribers
only?) at http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0031261. A prepublication
version that incorporates the online supplementary materials is here. Sound files of the complete set of
stimuli used in the
experiment 4 series are here.
2012a. Orthographic reform in Dinka: Some general
considerations and a proposal. Discussion document.
Re-posted on the general Dinka language and culture blog Piööcku
Thuɔŋjäŋ.
2011.
Phonetics in
phonology. In J. Goldsmith, J. Riggle, and
A. Yu
(eds.), Handbook of Phonological Theory (second edition),
Blackwell, pp. 348-373.
2009a. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd, Astrid
Schepman, Laurence White, Louise May Quarmby, and Rebekah Stackhouse).
Structural and dialectal effects on pitch peak alignment in two
varieties of British English.
Journal of
Phonetics 37: 145-161; published online at
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2008.11.001. (A handout from a
related paper
presented
at
the 13th Manchester
Phonology Meeting (13mfm) is available here.)
2009b. (Co-authors: Amalia Arvaniti and D.
R. Ladd). Greek wh-questions and the phonology of
intonation. Phonology 26: 43-74.
2009c. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd,
Bert Remijsen, and Caguor Adong Manyang). On the
distinction between regular and irregular inflectional
morphology:
evidence from Dinka. Language 85: 659-670.
2008a. (Co-authors: D.
R. Ladd, Dan Dediu, and Anna R. Kinsella). Languages and genes:
Reflections on biolinguistics and the nature-nurture
question. Biolinguistics 2: 114-126.
2008c. (Co-authors: Bert Remijsen and
D.
R. Ladd). The tone system of the
Luanyjang dialect of Dinka. Journal of African
Languages and Linguistics 29: 173-213.
2008d. (Co-authors: Nikolaus Himmelmann and
D. R. Ladd). Prosodic
description: An introduction for fieldworkers.
Language Documentation and Conservation 2: 244-274.
2007a. (Co-authors: Dan Dediu and D. Robert Ladd).
Linguistic tone is related to the population frequency of the
adaptive haplogroups of two brain size genes, ASPM and
Microcephalin. Proceedings of the National Academy
of
Sciences 104: 10944-10949. Online reference dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0610848104.
Additional Information.
2007b. (Co-authors: Jennifer Pope, Miriam
Meyerhoff and D. Robert Ladd). Forty years of language
change on Martha's Vineyard. Language 83: 615-627.
2006a. (Co-authors: A. Schepman, R.Lickley and
D. R.
Ladd).
Effects of vowel length and "right context" on the alignment of
Dutch nuclear accents. Journal of Phonetics 34: 1-28.
2006b. (Co-Authors: Amalia Arvaniti, D. R.
Ladd, and Ineke
Mennen).
Effects of focus and "tonal crowding" in intonation:
Evidence from
Greek polar questions.
Speech Communication 48: 667-696.
2006c."Distinctive phones" in surface
representation.
In L. Goldstein, D. Whalen, C. Best (eds.) Laboratory Phonology 8,
Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 3-26.
2006d. (Co-Authors: Amalia Arvaniti, D. R.
Ladd, and Ineke Mennen).
Tonal association and tonal alignment: Evidence from
Greek polar questions and contrastive statements.
Language and Speech 49: 421-450.
2005. (Co-authors: R. Lickley, A. Schepman and
D. R. Ladd).
Alignment of "phrase accent" lows in Dutch
falling-rising questions:
Theoretical and methodological implications. Language and
Speech 48: 157-183.
2004. (Co-authors: M. Atterer and D. R. Ladd).
On the phonetics and phonology of "segmental anchoring" of F0:
Evidence from German. Journal of
Phonetics 32, 177-197.
2003a. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd and A. Schepman).
"Sagging transitions" between high accent peaks in English:
experimental evidence. Journal of Phonetics
31: 81-112.
2003b. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd and J. M. Scobbie).
External sandhi as gestural overlap? Counter-evidence
from Sardinian. In Local et al. (eds), Papers
in Laboratory Phonology VI, Cambridge University
Press, pp. 164-182.
2001. Intonation. In
Language Typology and Language
Universals: An International Handbook (M. Haspelmath, E.
König, W. Oesterreicher, W. Raible, eds.), Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 1380-1390.
2000a. (Co-authors: J. Pierrehumbert, M. E. Beckman,
D. R. Ladd).
Conceptual foundations of phonology as a laboratory science
.
In N. Burton-Roberts, P. Carr, G. J. Docherty (eds.), Conceptual
and Empirical Foundations of Phonology, Oxford University Press,
pp. 273-303. Reprinted 2012 in A.Cohn, C. Fougeron, M. Huffman (eds.)
The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology , Oxford University
Press, pp. 17-39.
2000b. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd, I. Mennen, A.
Schepman).
Phonological conditioning of peak alignment of rising pitch
accents in Dutch.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 107: 2685-2696.
2000c. (Co-authors: M. Grice, D. R. Ladd, A.
Arvaniti). On the place of phrase accents in intonational phonology.
Phonology 17: 143-186.
For many of these older papers there is no suitable electronic source for creating a pdf. Where
possible I am working (slowly) to make scanned versions available.
1999. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd,
D. Faulkner, H. Faulkner, A. Schepman) Constant "segmental anchoring" of F0 movements under changes in speech rate.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 106: 1543-1554.
1998. (Co-Authors: A. Arvaniti, D. R. Ladd, and I.
Mennen).
Stability of
tonal alignment: the case of Greek
prenuclear accents.
Journal of Phonetics 26: 3-25.
1997. (Co-Authors: D. R. Ladd and R. Morton).
The
perception of intonational emphasis: Continuous or categorical?
Journal of Phonetics 25: 313-342.
1994. (Co-Authors: D. R. Ladd, J. Verhoeven, K. Jacobs).
Influence of
adjacent pitch accents on each other's
perceived prominence: Two contradictory effects.
Journal of
Phonetics 22: 87-99.
1993a. On the theoretical status of
"the baseline" in modelling
intonation.
Language and Speech 36: 435-451.
1993b. Constraints on the gradient
variability of pitch range (or) Pitch level 4 lives!
In Papers in Laboratory Phonology III
(P. Keating, ed.), Cambridge
University Press, pp. 43-63.
1990a. Metrical representation of pitch register. In
Papers in Laboratory Phonology I: Between
the Grammar and Physics of Speech
(J. Kingston and M. Beckman, eds.), Cambridge University Press, pp.
35-57.
1990b. (Co-authors:
B. Connell and D. R. Ladd). Aspects of pitch realisation in
Yoruba.
Phonology
7: 1-29.
1988. Declination "reset" and the
hierarchical organization
of utterances.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
84: 530-544.
1986. Intonational phrasing: The case for
recursive prosodic
structure. Phonology Yearbook
3: 311-340.
1985. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd, K. Silverman, F.
Tolkmitt,
G. Bergmann, and K. R. Scherer). Evidence
for the
independent function of intonation
contour type, voice quality, and F0 range in signalling speaker
affect. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
78: 435-444.
1984a. Declination: A review and some
hypotheses.
Phonology Yearbook
1: 53-74.
1984b. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd and K. Silverman).
Vowel intrinsic pitch in connected speech.
Phonetica
41: 31-40.
1984c. (Co-authors:
K. R. Scherer, D. R. Ladd, and K. Silverman).
Vocal cues
to speaker affect: Testing two models.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
76: 1346-1356.
1983a. Phonological features of intonational
peaks. Language
59: 721-759.
1983b. Even,
focus, and normal stress. Journal of Semantics
2: 54-67.
1981.
A first look at the semantics and
pragmatics of negative
questions and tag questions.
Proceedings of Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS)
vol. 17, pp. 164-171.
1980. English compound stress.
Proceedings of the Eleventh Meeting
of the Northeast
Linguistic Society (NELS 11).
Reprinted in D. Gibbon and H. Richter
(eds.), Intonation, Accent, and Rhythm
(Berlin, de Gruyter, 1984), pp.
253-266.
1978. Stylized intonation.
Language
54: 517-540.
The following item is the full written version of a short paper
presented in June 2023 at a memorial workshop
for Anne Cutler at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The pseudonymous authorship
is part of the paper's memorial nature. The paper is unlikely to be formally published anywhere,
but this version
may be cited verbatim (pseudonymously or not) in any context where it is relevant.
Elizabeth Dwight, 2023.
Comparative performance by a polyglot on Wordle in four languages:
Case study and observations on lexical access.
As will be clear from their informal style, approximate references, and so on, the following talks are
posted here in essentially the form in which they were delivered. This should be taken into account by
anyone citing them, and ideally they should not be quoted verbatim.
2011-14x.
Individual
differences in
pitch perception, and their possible relevance for language typology. One version of a paper
presented to various audiences, including the 27th Annual Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan in Kanazawa in
September 2013.
2008x.
Phonological equivalence of pitch level in speech. Paper presented at a conference at
Tufts University in July 2008 on the
occasion of the 25th anniversary of the publication of Lerdahl and Jackendoff's Generative Theory of
Tonal Music.
2007x.
Alignment of tonal targets: 30
years on. Paper presented at a symposium in honour of
Gösta
Bruce's 60th birthday in Lund, January 2007. Posted
here following
Gösta's death in June 2010.
updated June 2023
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