Mara Breen
Mount Holyoke College
28 Papers
230 Citations
Mara Breen is an academic researcher from Mount Holyoke College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prosody & Sentence. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 26 publications. Previous affiliations of Mara Breen include University of Massachusetts Amherst & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Papers
Acoustic Correlates of Information Structure.
TL;DR: In this paper, three studies aimed at addressing three questions about the acoustic correlates of information structure in English: (1) do speakers mark information structure prosodically, and, to the extent they do, what are the acoustic features associated with different aspects of information structures; and, how well can listeners retrieve this information from the signal.
Inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch)
TL;DR: Comparable reliability for both systems was obtained for a variety of prominence- and boundary-related agreement categories, and these results help to establish RaP as an alternative to ToBI for research and technology applications.
Empirical Investigations of the Role of Implicit Prosody in Sentence Processing
TL;DR: It is argued that the accumulated evidence suggests that implicit prosody can influence online sentence interpretation and explore the implications of these findings for models of sentence processing.
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The processing of extraposed structures in English.
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that comprehenders maintain probabilistic syntactic expectations that persist beyond projective-dependency structures, and suggest that it may be possible to explain observed patterns of comprehension difficulty associated with extraposition entirely through Probabilistic expectations.
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Perceptual representations of phonotactically illegal syllables
TL;DR: Data from this study support a model of speech perception in which veridical representations of phoneme sequences are not only generated during processing, but also are maintained in a manner that affects perceptual processing of subsequent speech sounds.