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2024
Sostarics, T., Ronai, E., Cole, J. 2024. Relating Scalar Inference and Alternative Activation: A View from the Rise-Fall-Rise Tune in American English. To appear in Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, Linguistic Society of America. [pdf]
Steffman, J., Cole, J. 2024. Metrical enhancement in American English nuclear tunes. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.15297 [pdf]
Cole, J., Steffman, J., Awwad, A. 2024. Functional modeling of F0 variation across speakers and between phonological categories: Rising pitch accents in American English. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden. [pdf]
Steffman, J., Cole, J. 2024. Comparing the imitation of naturally-produced and synthesized F0 in American English nuclear tunes. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden. [pdf]
Foster, S., Cole, J. 2024. Trading Relations in Segmental Cues to Prosodic Prominence. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden. [pdf]
Sostarics, T., Cole, J. 2024. PitchMendR: A Tool for the Diagnosis and Treatment of F0 Tracking Errors. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden. [pdf]
Iskarous, K., Cole, J., Steffman, J. 2024.Variation in intonation: A stochastic dynamical system for pitch accents and its inversion. Proceedings of Speech Prosody, Leiden. [pdf]
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 [pdf]
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 [pdf]
2023
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. [pdf]
Im, S., Cole, J., Baumann, S. 2023. Standing out in context: Prominence in the production and perception of public speech. Laboratory Phonology, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6417 [pdf]
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 [pdf]
Sostarics, T., Cole, J. 2023. Pitch accent variation and the interpretation of rising and falling intonation in American English. Proceedings of Interspeech, Dublin. [pdf]
Cole, J., Steffman, J. 2023. Enhancement of intonational contrasts in American English. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Prague. [pdf]
Sostarics, T., Cole, J. 2023. Testing the Locus of Speech-Act Meaning in English Intonation. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Prague. [pdf]
Iskarous, K., Steffman, J., Cole, J. 2023. American English Pitch Accent Dynamics: A Minimal Model. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Prague.[pdf]
2022
Steffman, J., Cole, J. 2022. An automated method for detecting F0 measurement jumps based on sample-to-sample differences. Journal of the Acoustical Society Express Letters. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0015045 [pdf]
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 [pdf]
Choe, J., Cole, J., Yoshida, M. (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. [link to open access article]
Hilger, A., Cole, J., Larson, C. 2022. Semantic focus mediates pitch auditory feedback control in phrasal prosody. Language Cognition & Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2022.2116060 [pdf]
Cole, J., Hilger, A., and S. Patel. 2022. Prosody: Linguistic and clinical perspectives. In N. Gurevich & C. Grindrod (Eds.) Clinical Applications of Linguistics to Speech-Language Pathology: A Guide for Clinicians. Routledge. [authors’ version pdf]
Chernyak, B., Ben Simon, T., Segal, Y., Steffman, J., Chodroff, E., Cole, J., Keshet, J. 2022. DeepFry: Identifying Vocal Fry Using Deep Neural Networks. Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea. [pdf]
Cole, J., Tilsen, S., Steffman, J. 2022. Shape matters: Machine classification and listeners’ perceptual discrimination of American English intonational tunes. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon. [pdf]
Steffman, J., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., Cole, J. 2022. The rise and fall of American English pitch accents: Evidence from an imitation study of rising nuclear tunes. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon. [pdf]
Cole, J., Steffman, J. 2022. The primacy of the rising/non-rising dichotomy in American English intonational tunes. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Sonderborg, Denmark. [pdf]
Sostarics, T., Cole, J. 2022. Epistemic Meaning and the LLL Tune in American English. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Sonderborg, Denmark. [pdf]
Sandberg, K., Cole, J. 2022. The Consistent Meaning of Intonational Tunes Across Sentence Type in American English. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Sonderborg, Denmark. [pdf]
2020
, J. 2020. Positional biases in predictive processing of intonation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2020.1853185 [pdf]
Hilger, A., Cole, J., Kim, J.H., Lester-Smith, R., Larson, C. 2020 (in print). The effect of pitch auditory feedback perturbations on the production of anticipatory phrasal prominence and boundary. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. [pdf]
2019
Luchkina, T., & Cole, J. 2019. Perception of Word-level Prominence in Free Word Order Language Discourse. Language and Speech, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830919884089. [pdf]
Chodroff, E., Cole, J. 2019. 2019. Testing the distinctiveness of intonational tunes: Evidence from imitative
productions in American English. Proc. Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria. [pdf]
Turner, D., Bradlow, A., Cole, J. 2019. Perception of Pitch Contours in Speech and Nonspeech. Proc. Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria. [pdf]
Cole, J., Hualde, J. I., Smith, C. L., Eager, C., Mahrt, T. & Napoleão de Souze, R. 2019. Sound , structure and meaning : The bases of prominence ratings in English , French and Spanish. Journal of Phonetics, 75, 113–147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2019.05.002 [pdf]
Roettger, T. B., Mahrt, T. & Cole, J. 2019. Mapping prosody onto meaning – the case of information structure in American English. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2019.1587482 [pdf]
Roettger, T., Franke, M., Cole, J. 2019. Testing the relevance of prenuclear accents for predicting intonational meaning in German. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne. [pdf]
Chodroff, E., Cole, J. 2019. The phonological and phonetic encoding of information structure in American English nuclear accents. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne. [pdf]
2018
Chodroff, E., Cole, J. 2018. Information Structure, Affect, and Prenuclear Prominence in American English. Proc. Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India. [pdf]
Im, S., Cole, J., Baumann, S. 2018. The probabilistic relationship between pitch accents and information status in public speech. Proc. Speech Prosody 9, 508-511. [pdf]
2017
Roy, J., Cole, J., Mahrt, T. 2017. Individual differences and patterns of convergence in prosody perception. Laboratory Phonology 8(1): 22, pp. 1–36. [pdf]
Cole, J., Mahrt, T., Roy, J. 2017. Crowd-sourcing prosodic annotation. Computer Speech & Language, 45: 300–325. [pdf]
2016
Luchkina, T., Cole, J. to appear, 2016. Structural and referent-based effects on prosodic expression in Russian. Phonetica. 73: 279-313. [pdf]
Cole, J., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. 2016. New methods for prosodic transcription: Capturing variability as a source of information. Laboratory Phonology 7(1): 8, pp. 1–29. [pdf]
Kimball, A., Cole, J. 2016. Pitch contour shape matters in memory. Proc. Speech Prosody 8, 1171-1175. [pdf]
Hualde, J.I., Cole, J., Smith, C.L., Eager, C.D., Mahrt, T. Napoleão de Souza, R. 2016. The perception of phrasal prominence in English, Spanish and French conversational speech. Proc. Speech Prosody 8, 459-463. [pdf]
Reichel, U.D. and Cole, J. 2016. Entrainment analysis of categorical intonation representations, Proc. Phonetik und Phonologie, Munich, Germany. [pdf]
2015
Cole, J. 2015. Prosody in Context: A review. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30:1-2, 1-31. [pdf]
Hasegawa-Johnson, M., Cole, J., Jyothi, P., Varshney, L. 2015. Models of dataset size, question design, and cross-language speech perception for speech crowdsourcing applications Laboratory Phonology, 6:3-4, 381-431. [pdf]
Reichel, U., Pörner, N., Nowack, D., Cole, J. 2015. Analysis and classification of cooperative and competitive dialogs. Proc. Interspeech, Dresden. [pdf]
Kimball, A., Cole, J., Dell, G., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. 2015. Categorical vs. episodic memory for pitch accents in English. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow. [pdf]
Cole, J., Hualde, J.I., Eager, C. Mahrt, T. 2015. On the prominence of accent in stress reversal. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow. [pdf]
Luchkina, T., Jyothi, P. Sharma, V., Cole, J. 2015. Prosodic and structural correlates of perceived prominence in Russian and Hindi. Proc. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow. [pdf]
2014
Cole, J., Mahrt, T., Hualde, J.I. 2014. Listening for sound, listening for meaning: Task effects on prosodic effects on prosodic transcription. Proc. Speech Prosody 7, Dublin. [pdf]
Kimball, A., Cole, J. 2014. Avoidance of stress clash in perception of American English. Proc. Speech Prosody 7, Dublin. [pdf]
Luchkina, T., Cole, J. 2014. Structural and prosodic correlates of prominence in free word order language discourse. Proc. Speech Prosody 7, Dublin. [pdf]
Jyothi, P., Cole, J., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., Puri, V. 2014. An investigation of prosody in Hindi narrative speech. Proc. Speech Prosody 7, Dublin. [pdf]