Selected Prosody and Speech Papers
Every so often I foray into research at the interface of sound and meaning and speech perception as a side interest.
You can find publications on these topics here.
Syrett, K., Lu, J., & Parrish, K. 2024. Perceptual benefits of linguistic diversity and language background: Evidence from auditory free classification of English dialects and Asian languages. Glossa: Psycholinguistics.
Syrett, K., Simon, G., & Nisula, K. 2014. Prosodic disambiguation of scopally ambiguous sentences in a discourse context. Journal of Linguistics, 50, 453-493.
Syrett, K., & Kawahara, S. 2014. Production and perception of listener-oriented clear speech in child language. Journal of Child Language, 41, 1373-1389.
Déprez, V., Syrett, K., & Kawahara, S. 2013. The interaction of syntax, prosody, and discourse in licensing French wh-in-situ questions. Lingua (Special issue: Prosody at the Grammatical Crossroad), 124, 4-19.
Déprez, V., Syrett, K., & Kawahara, S. 2012. Interfacing information and prosody: French in situ questions. In Irene Franco, Sara Lusini, and Andrés Saab (Eds.), Romance languages and linguistic theory: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2010 24 (pp. 135-154). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.​
Syrett, K., G. Simon, & Nisula, K. 2013. Prosodic disambiguation of scopally ambiguous sentences. In Hsin-Lun Huang, Ethan Poole, and Amanda Rysling (Eds.), Proceedings of 43rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) Vol. 2 (pp. 141-152). Amherst, MA: GLSA.