keywords
- phonological neighborhood effects, coarticulation, hyperarticulation, nasality, listener-directed speech, phonetic imitation, intonational phonology, visual prosody
- Contact Info
Scarborough, Rebecca
Positions
- Associate Professor, Linguistics
- Assoc Chair, Linguistics
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
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conference proceeding
- Feature-specific perceptual sensitivity to within-category variations. 107-111. 2023
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Secondary Phonetic Cues in the Production of the Nasal Short-a System in California English.
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH.
631-635.
2020
- Perceptual target of phonetic accommodation: a pattern within a speaker’s phonetic system or the raw acoustic signal? 2019
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RNN Classification of English Vowels: Nasalized or; Not.
318-321.
2019
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Perception and acoustics of vowel nasality in Brazilian Portuguese.
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH.
616-620.
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 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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On the target of phonetic convergence: Acoustic and linguistic aspects of pitch accent imitation.
Journal of Phonetics.
2024
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Multidimensional Signals and Analytic Flexibility: Estimating Degrees of Freedom in Human-Speech Analyses.
Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
2023
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Out of sight, out of mind: The influence of communicative load and phonological neighborhood density on phonetic variation in real listener-directed speech.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
577-586.
2022
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Perceptual Compensation of Vowel Nasality in Brazilian Portuguese.
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics.
2020
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Neighborhood-conditioned phonetic enhancement of an allophonic vowel split.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
3675-3685.
2019
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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. 19-34. 2007
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On the target of phonetic convergence: Acoustic and linguistic aspects of pitch accent imitation.
Journal of Phonetics.
2024
Teaching
courses taught
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LING 3100 - Language Sound Structures
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2021
Introduces the sounds of languages and their organization into phonological structures. -
LING 4830 - Honors Thesis
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019
Required for students who elect departmental honors. Students write an honors thesis based on independent research under the direction of a faculty member. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. -
LING 5030 - Linguistic Phonetics
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Introduces practical and theoretical aspects of phonetics. Provides training in recognition and production of speech sounds, and instruction on fundamentals of articulatory, acoustic, and auditory phonetics. -
LING 5410 - Phonology
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Studies sound systems of language. Introduces both principles of organization of sound systems and major kinds of phonological structures found worldwide. Provides extensive practice in applying phonological principles to data analysis. Recommended prerequisite: LING 5030. -
LING 6940 - Master's Candidate for Degree
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020
Registration intended for students preparing for a thesis defense, final examination, culminating activity, or completion of degree. -
LING 6950 - Master's Thesis
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
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LING 7030 - Phonetic Theory and Analysis
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2020
Provides students with the practical skills and the conceptual framework to do independent research in phonetics (or in other areas relying on phonetic data). Introduces current and traditional issues in phonetic research (both experimental and theoretical) and gives training in analytical methods. Recommended prerequisites: LING 5030 and LING 5410.
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
geographic focus
- France Country