keywords
- phonological neighborhood effects, coarticulation, nasality, listener-directed speech, intonational phonology, visual prosody
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Scarborough, Rebecca Anne Associate Professor
Positions
- Associate Professor, Linguistics
- Assoc Chair, Linguistics
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
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conference proceeding
- Perception and acoustics of vowel nasality in Brazilian Portuguese. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. 2017
- Coarticulation and contrast: Neighborhood density-conditioned phonetic variation in French 2015
- Perceptual asymmetry between greater and lesser vowel nasality and VOT 2015
- Acoustic and Perceptual Similarity in Coarticulatorily Nasalized Vowels. 2693-2696. 2012
- Nasal Coarticulation and Contrastive Stress. 2685-2688. 2012
- Nasal Coarticulation in Lexical Perception: The Role of Neighborhood-Conditioned Variation. 1750-1753. 2011
- An Acoustic Study of Real and Imagined Foreigner-Directed Speech. 2165-2168. 2007
- Optical Cues to the Visual Perception of Lexical and Phrasal Stress in English. Ucla Working Papers in Phonetics. 2006
- Degree of Coarticulation and Lexical Confusability. 367-378. 2003
- Optical Phonetics and Visual Perception of Lexical and Phrasal Stress in English. 2071-2074. 2003
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journal article
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Phonetic imitation of coarticulatory vowel nasalization.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
3560-3575.
2016
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Phonetic and phonological patterns of nasality in Lakota vowels.
Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
289-309.
2015
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Lexically conditioned phonetic variation in motherese: age-of-acquisition and other word-specific factors in infant- and adult-directed speech.
Laboratory Phonology.
305-336.
2015
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Clarity in communication: "Clear" speech authenticity and lexical neighborhood density effects in speech production and perception.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
3793-3807.
2013
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Neighborhood-conditioned patterns in phonetic detail: Relating coarticulation and hyperarticulation.
Journal of Phonetics.
491-508.
2013
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Lexical similarity and speech production: Neighborhoods for nonwords.
Lingua.
164-176.
2012
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Optical Phonetics and Visual Perception of Lexical and Phrasal Stress in English.
Language and Speech.
135-175.
2009
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Talker adaptation in speech perception: Adjusting the signal or the representations?.
Cognition.
710-718.
2008
- The Intonation of Focus in Farsi. Ucla Working Papers in Phonetics. 19-34. 2007
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Phonetic imitation of coarticulatory vowel nasalization.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
3560-3575.
2016
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles 2004
- M.A., University of California-Los Angeles 2001
- B.A., Stanford University 1999
awards and honors
International Activities
global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)
- France Country