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Iskarous, K., Cole, J., Steffman, J. 2024. A Minimal Dynamical Model of Intonation: Tone contrast, alignment, and scaling of American English pitch accents as emergent properties. Journal of Phonetics, 104, 101309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101309 The pitch accent system of Mainstream American English…

Steffman, J., Cole, J., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. 2024. Intonational categories and continua in American English rising nuclear tunes. Journal of Phonetics, 104, 101310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101310 The present study tests a prediction from the prevalent Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) model of American English intonation: the…

Goldrick, M., Cole, J. 2023. Advancement of phonetics in the 21st century: Exemplar models of speech production. Journal of Phonetics, 99: 101254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101254. In the first decades of the 21st century, exemplar theory has fueled an explosion of theoretical and…

Im, S., Cole, J., Baumann, S. 2023. Standing out in context: Prominence in the production and perception of public speech. Laboratory Phonology, 14(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6417 This study investigates the relationship between signal-based factors and discourse context in the production and…

Cole, J., Steffman, J., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., Tilsen, S. 2023. Hierarchical distinctions in the production and perception of nuclear tunes in American English. Laboratory Phonology, 14(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.9437 In Autosegmental-Metrical models of intonational phonology, different types of pitch accents, phrase accents,…

Patel, S., Cole, J., Lau, J. Fragnito, G., Losh, M. 2022. Verbal Entrainment in Autism Spectrum Disorder and First-Degree Relatives. Nature Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12945-4   Entrainment, the unconscious process leading to coordination between communication partners, is an important dynamic human…

Choe, J., Yoshida, M., & Cole, J. 2022. The role of prosodic focus in the reanalysis of garden path sentences: Depth of semantic processing impedes the revision of an erroneous local analysis. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 1(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.5070/G601136. Research on post-repair representations of…

Hilger, A., Cole, J., Larson, C. 2022. Semantic focus mediates pitch auditory feedback control in phrasal prosody. Language Cognition & Neuroscience, 1-18.  DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2022.2116060   This study investigated the effect of semantic focus on pitch auditory feedback control in the…

Jeremy Steffman and Jennifer Cole. “An automated method for detecting F0 measurement jumps based on sample-to-sample differences”, JASA Express Letters 2, 115201 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0015045   An algorithm for detecting sudden jumps in measured F0, which are likely to be inaccurate measures, is introduced. The method computes…

See Jennifer’s Abralin ao Vivo talk livestream on Wed. 8/11, 12pm CDT (UTC -5) “Unlocking Prosody: Discovering structured variation and rich context effects”, with Timo Roettger as the discussant! Jennifer Cole – Abralin ao Vivo: Linguists Online