Bob Ladd: Publications

(excludes book reviews, and most conference papers and book chapters)

books   articles 1978-1993   articles 1994-2005  articles since 2006


Articles since 2006

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.

2006e. Segmental anchoring of pitch movements: autosegmental phonology or gestural coordination? Rivista di Linguistica (Italian Journal of Linguistics) 18: 19-38.

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.

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 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.

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.

2008b. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd, Dan Dediu, and Anna R. Kinsella). Reply to Bowles (2008). Biolinguistics 2: 255-258.

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.

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.

2011. Phonetics in phonology. In J. Goldsmith, J. Riggle, and A. Yu (eds.), Handbook of Phonological Theory (second edition), Blackwell, pp. 348-373.


Selected articles 1994-2005

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.

1997. (Co-Authors: D. R. Ladd and R. Morton). The perception of intonational emphasis: Continuous or categorical? Journal of Phonetics 25: 313-342.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2001. Intonation. In Handbook on Language Typology and Language Universals, edited by Ekkehard König et al., Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 1380-1390.

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.

2004a. (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.

2004b. (Co-authors: A. Sorace and D. R. Ladd). Raising bilingual children . Frequently Asked Questions, Linguistic Society of America. (Published both in leaflet form and on the web).

2005a. (Co-authors: L. Dilley, D. R. Ladd and A. Schepman). Alignment of L and H in bitonal pitch accents: testing two hypotheses. Journal of Phonetics 33: 115-119.

2005b. (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.


Selected articles 1978-1993

1978. Stylized intonation. Language 54: 517-540.

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.

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.

1983a. Phonological features of intonational peaks. Language 59: 721-759.

1983b. Even, focus, and normal stress. Journal of Semantics 2: 54-67.

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.

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.

1986. Intonational phrasing: The case for recursive prosodic structure. Phonology Yearbook 3: 311-340.

1987. (Co-authors: D. R. Ladd and C. Johnson). "Metrical" factors in the scaling of sentence-initial accent peaks. Phonetica 44: 238-245.

1988. Declination "reset" and the hierarchical organization of utterances. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 84: 530-544.

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.

1990c. (Co-authors: A. Monaghan and D. R. Ladd). Symbolic output as the basis for evaluating intonation in text-to-speech systems. Speech Communication 9: 305-314.

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.



Books

1980 The Structure of Intonational Meaning: Evidence from English. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

1983. (Co-editors: A. Cutler and D. R. Ladd). Prosody: Models and Measurements Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

1992. (Co-editors: G. J. Docherty and D. R. Ladd). Papers in Laboratory Phonology II: Gesture, Segment, Prosody. Cambridge University Press.

1996. Intonational Phonology. Cambridge University Press.

2008. Intonational Phonology, second edition. Cambridge University Press.



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