Publications

Breen, M., Dilley, L.C., Kraemer, J., and Gibson, E. (in press). Inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch). Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. pdf

Breen, M. and Clifton, Charles (2010). Stress Matters: Effects of Anticipated Lexical Stress on Silent Reading. Journal of Memory and Language. pdf Materials

Breen, M., Fedorenko, E., Wagner, M., Gibson, E., (2010). Acoustic correlates of information structure. Language and Cognitive Processes. 25 (7), 1044-1098. pdf

Breen, M., Gibson, E. and Watson, D (2010). Intonational phrasing is dependent on the length of semantic dependency. Language and Cognitive Processes. pdf

Breen, M., Kraemer, J., Dilley, L., and Gibson, E. (submitted). Advances in prosodic annotation. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.

Levy, R., Fedorenko, E., Breen, M., and Gibson, E. (submitted). The processing of extraposed structures in English.

Wagner, M., Breen, M., Flemming, E., Shattuck-Hufnagael, S., and Gibson, E. Prosodic Effects of Discourse Salience and Association with Focus. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, IL. pdf

Watson, D., Breen, M., & Gibson, E. (2006). The role of syntactic obligatoriness in the production of intonational boundaries. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32(5), 1045-1056.pdf

Brugos, A., Veilleux, N., Breen, M., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2008) The Alternatives (Alt) Tier for ToBI: Advantages of capturing prosodic ambiguity. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brazil. pdf

Dilley, L., Breen, M. & Bolivar, M., Kraemer, J. and Gibson, E. (2006) A comparison of inter-coder reliability for two systems of prosodic transcriptions: RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) and ToBI (Tones and Break Indices). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA. pdf