Recent Publications
2019
- Lehet, M., Arjmandi, M. K., Dilley, L. C., Houston, D. (under review). Accuracy of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) system for quantifying adult speech experienced by infants in naturalistic settings. Behavior Research Methods. (PDF)
- Dilley, L. C., Gamache, J., Wang, Y., Houston, D. M., & Bergeson, T. (2019). Statistical distributions of consonant variants in infant-directed speech: Evidence that /t/ may be exceptional. Journal of Phonetics. (PDF)
- Sanders, L., Dilley, L., Viswanathan, N., Arjmandi, M. K., & Muņoz, M. (under revision). Distal speech rate makes words disappear from early perceptual processing. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.
- Dilley, L. & Breen, M. (in press). An enhanced autosegmental-metrical theory (AM+) facilitates phonetically transparent prosodic annotation: A reply to Jun. Invited book chapter, Prosodic Theory and Practice, J. Barnes and S. Shattuck-Hufnagel (eds.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (PDF)
- McQueen, J. M. & Dilley, L. (in press). Prosody and spoken-word recognition. To be contributed to The Handbook of Prosody, C. Gussenhoven & A. Chen (eds.), Oxford University Press. (PDF)
- Baese-Berk, M., Dilley, L. C., Henry, M., Vinke, L. & Banzina, E. (2019). Not just a function of function words: Distal speech rate affects perception of prosodically weak syllables. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. (PDF)
2018
- Arjmandi, M. K., Dilley, L. & Lehet, M. (2018). A comprehensive framework for F0 estimation and sampling in modelling prosodic variation in infant-directed speech. 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language 2018, Berlin, Germany, June 18-20, 2018. (PDF)
- Baese-Berk, M., Morrill, T. & Dilley, L. (2018). Predictability and perception for native and non-native listeners. Linguistics Vanguard. (PDF)
- Dilley, L. & Breen, M. (2018). An enhanced autosegmental-metrical theory (AM+) facilitates phonetically transparent prosodic annotation. 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language 2018, Berlin, Germany. June 18-20, 2018. (PDF)
- Arjmandi, M. K., Dilley, L., & Wagner, S. (2018, May). Acoustic cues to linguistic profiling? Machine learning of phonetic features of African American English. Poster presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. (PDF)
- Dilley, L. (2018, June). Beyond phonology: The role of distal suprasegmental rate and rhythm in phonotactic parsing of speech. Paper presented at the LabPhon satellite Phonotactics Workshop. (PDF)
- Dilley, L. C., Wieland, E. A., Lehet, M. I., Arjmandi, M. K., Houston, D. M., & Bergeson, T. R. (2018, May). Quality and quantity of infant-directed speech by maternal caregivers predicts later speech-language outcomes in children with cochlear implants. Poster presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. (PDF)
2017
- Arjmandi, M. K., Dilley, L., & Ireland, Z. (2017, June). Applying pattern recognition to formant trajectories: A useful tool for understanding African American English (AAE) dialect variation. Poster presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Boston, MA. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Arjmandi, M. K., Ireland, Z., & Lehet, M. (2017, June). Spectro-temporal cues for perceptual recovery of reduced syllables from continuous, casual speech. Poster presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Boston, MA. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Wieland, E., Wang, Y., Reed, J., Bergeson, T., and Houston, D. (2017, November). Maternal speech predicts language outcomes in children with cochlear implants: Results from a 10-year study. Paper presented at American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. (PDF)
- Dilley, L. C., Wieland, E. A., Burnham, E., Wang, Y., Houston, D., Kondaurova, M., & Bergeson, T. (2017, June). Prosodic characteristics of speech directed to adults and to infants with and without hearing impairment. Poster presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Boston, MA. (PDF)
- Kondaurova, M., Dilley, L., Bergeson-Dana, T., & Fagan, M. (2017). Vocal matching in interactions between mothers and their normal-hearing and hearing-impaired twins. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 26, 060007. (PDF)
2016
- Baese-Berk, M. M., Dilley, L. C., Schmidt, S., Morrill, T. H., & Pitt, M. A. (2016). Revisiting Neil Armstrongs Moon-Landing Quote: Implications for Speech Perception, Function Word Reduction, and Acoustic Ambiguity. PloS one, 11(9), e0155975. (PDF)
- Baese-Berk, M., Morrill, T., & Dilley, L. (2016). Do non-native speakers use context speech rate in spoken word recognition? In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, MA, 979-983. (PDF)
- Banzina, E., Dilley, L., & Hewitt, L. (2016). The role of secondary-stressed and unstressed-unreduced syllables in word recognition: Acoustic and perceptual studies with Russian learners of English. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45(4), 813-831. (PDF)
- Lai, W., & Dilley, L. (2016). Cross-linguistic generalization of the distal rate effect: Speech rate in context affects whether listeners hear a function word in Chinese Mandarin. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody, Boston, MA, 1124-1128. (PDF)
- Pitt, M., Szostak, C., & Dilley, L. (2016). Rate-dependent speech processing can be speech-specific: Evidence from the perceptual disappearance of words under changes in context speech rate. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78(1), 334-345. (PDF)
2015
- Brown, M., Salverda, A. P., Dilley, L., & Tanenhaus, M. (2015). Metrical expectations from preceding prosody influence spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(2), 306-323. (PDF)
- Burnham, E., Wieland, E., Kondaurova, M., McAuley, J. D., Bergeson, T, & Dilley, L. (2015). Phonetic modification of vowel space in storybook speech to infants up to two years of age. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58, 241-253. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Pitt, M., Szostak, C., & Baese-Berk, M. (2015). Rate-dependent speech processing can be speech-specific: Evidence from the disappearance of words under changes in context speech rate. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow. ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4. Paper number 0915.1-5. (PDF)
- Heffner, C., Newman, R., Dilley, L., & Idsardi, W. (2015). Age-related differences in speech rate perception do not necessarily entail age-related differences in speech rate use. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58, 1341-1349. (PDF)
- Morrill, T., Baese-Berk, M., Heffner, C., & Dilley, L. (2015). Interactions between distal speech rate, linguistic knowledge, and speech environment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 1451-1457. (PDF)
- Morrill, T., McAuley, J. D., Dilley, L., & Hambrick, D. Z. (2015). Individual differences in the perception of melodic contours and pitch-accent timing in speech: Support for domain-generality of pitch processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(4), 730-736. (PDF)
- Morrill, T., McAuley, J.D., Dilley, L., Jones, K.B., Zdziarska, P.A., & Sanders, L. (2015). Distal prosody affects learning of novel words in an artificial language. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 22, 815-823. (PDF)
- Wieland, E., Burnham, E., Kondaurova, M., Bergeson, T., & Dilley, L. (2015). Vowel space characteristics of speech directed to children with and without hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58, 254-257. (PDF)
- Wieland, E., McAuley, J. D., Dilley, L., & Chang, S.-E. (2015). Evidence for a rhythm perception deficit in children who stutter. Brain and Language, 144, 26-34. (PDF)
2014
- Baese-Berk, M., Heffner, C., Dilley, L., Pitt, M., Morrill, T., & McAuley, J. D. (2014). Long-term temporal tracking of speech rate affects spoken-word recognition. Psychological Science, 25(8), 1546-1553. (PDF)
- Banzina, E., Hewitt, L., & Dilley, L. (2014). Using synchronous speech to facilitate acquisition of English rhythm: A small-scale study. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 1, 69-84. (PDF)
- Breen, M., Dilley, L., McAuley, J. D., & Sanders, L. (2014). Auditory evoked potentials reveal early perceptual effects of distal prosody on speech segmentation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(9), 1132-1146. (PDF)
- Brown, M., Dilley, L., & Tanenhaus, M. (2014). Probabilistic prosody: Effects of relative speech rate on perception of (a) word(s) several syllables later. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Speech Prosody, N. Campbell, D. Gibbon & D. Hirst (eds.), Dublin, Ireland, pp. 1154-1158. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Millett, A., McAuley, J. D., & Bergeson, T. (2014). Phonetic variation in consonants in infant-directed and adult-directed speech: the case of regressive place assimilation in word-final alveolar stops. Journal of Child Language, 41(1), 155-175. (PDF)
- Morrill, T., Dilley, L., & McAuley, J. D. (2014). Prosodic patterning in distal speech context: Effects of list intonation and f0 downtrend on perception of proximal prosodic structure. Journal of Phonetics, 46, 68-85. (PDF)
- Morrill, T., Dilley, L., McAuley, J. D., & Pitt, M. (2014). Distal rhythm influences whether or not listeners hear a word in continuous speech: Support for a perceptual grouping hypothesis. Cognition, 131(1), 69-74. (PDF)
2013
- Burnham, E., Gamache, J., Bergeson, T., & Dilley, L. (2013). Voice-onset time in infant-directed speech over the first year and a half. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19, 060094. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Baese-Berk, M., Schmidt, S., Nagel, J., Morrill, T., & Pitt, M. (2013). One small step for (a) man: Function word reduction and acoustic ambiguity. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19, 060297. (PDF)
- Dilley, L. & Heffner, C. (2013). The role of F0 alignment in distinguishing categories: Evidence from American English. Journal of Speech Sciences, 3(1), 3-67. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Morrill, T., & Banzina, E. (2013). New tests of the distal speech rate effect: Examining cross-linguistic generalization. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4(1002), 1-13. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Wieland, E., Gamache, J., McAuley, J. D. & Redford, M. (2013). Age-related changes to spectral voice characteristics affect judgments of prosodic, segmental, and talker attributes for child and adult speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56, 159-177. (PDF)
- Heffner, C., Dilley, L., McAuley, J. D. & Pitt, M. (2013). When cues combine: How distal and proximal acoustic cues are integrated in word segmentation. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(9), 1275-1302. (PDF)
- Morrill, T., Dilley, L., McAuley, J., & Pitt, M. (2013). Speech rhythm and speech rate affect segmentation of reduced function words in continuous speech. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19, 060210. (PDF)
- Perrachione, T., Fedorenko, E., Vinke, L., Gibson, E., & Dilley, L. (2013). Evidence for shared cognitive processing of pitch in music and language. PLoS ONE, 8(8), e73372. (PDF)
Older Publications
- Lehet, M., Arjmandi, M. K., Dilley, L. C., Houston, D. (under review). Accuracy of the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) system for quantifying adult speech experienced by infants in naturalistic settings. Behavior Research Methods. (PDF)
- Dilley, L. C., Gamache, J., Wang, Y., Houston, D. M., & Bergeson, T. (2019). Statistical distributions of consonant variants in infant-directed speech: Evidence that /t/ may be exceptional. Journal of Phonetics. (PDF)
- Sanders, L., Dilley, L., Viswanathan, N., Arjmandi, M. K., & Muņoz, M. (under revision). Distal speech rate makes words disappear from early perceptual processing. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics.
- Dilley, L. & Breen, M. (in press). An enhanced autosegmental-metrical theory (AM+) facilitates phonetically transparent prosodic annotation: A reply to Jun. Invited book chapter, Prosodic Theory and Practice, J. Barnes and S. Shattuck-Hufnagel (eds.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (PDF)
- McQueen, J. M. & Dilley, L. (in press). Prosody and spoken-word recognition. To be contributed to The Handbook of Prosody, C. Gussenhoven & A. Chen (eds.), Oxford University Press. (PDF)
- Baese-Berk, M., Dilley, L. C., Henry, M., Vinke, L. & Banzina, E. (2019). Not just a function of function words: Distal speech rate affects perception of prosodically weak syllables. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. (PDF)
- Arjmandi, M. K., Dilley, L. & Lehet, M. (2018). A comprehensive framework for F0 estimation and sampling in modelling prosodic variation in infant-directed speech. 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language 2018, Berlin, Germany, June 18-20, 2018. (PDF)
- Baese-Berk, M., Morrill, T. & Dilley, L. (2018). Predictability and perception for native and non-native listeners. Linguistics Vanguard. (PDF)
- Dilley, L. & Breen, M. (2018). An enhanced autosegmental-metrical theory (AM+) facilitates phonetically transparent prosodic annotation. 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language 2018, Berlin, Germany. June 18-20, 2018. (PDF)
- Arjmandi, M. K., Dilley, L., & Wagner, S. (2018, May). Acoustic cues to linguistic profiling? Machine learning of phonetic features of African American English. Poster presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. (PDF)
- Dilley, L. (2018, June). Beyond phonology: The role of distal suprasegmental rate and rhythm in phonotactic parsing of speech. Paper presented at the LabPhon satellite Phonotactics Workshop. (PDF)
- Dilley, L. C., Wieland, E. A., Lehet, M. I., Arjmandi, M. K., Houston, D. M., & Bergeson, T. R. (2018, May). Quality and quantity of infant-directed speech by maternal caregivers predicts later speech-language outcomes in children with cochlear implants. Poster presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. (PDF)
- Arjmandi, M. K., Dilley, L., & Ireland, Z. (2017, June). Applying pattern recognition to formant trajectories: A useful tool for understanding African American English (AAE) dialect variation. Poster presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Boston, MA. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Arjmandi, M. K., Ireland, Z., & Lehet, M. (2017, June). Spectro-temporal cues for perceptual recovery of reduced syllables from continuous, casual speech. Poster presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Boston, MA. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Wieland, E., Wang, Y., Reed, J., Bergeson, T., and Houston, D. (2017, November). Maternal speech predicts language outcomes in children with cochlear implants: Results from a 10-year study. Paper presented at American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. (PDF)
- Dilley, L. C., Wieland, E. A., Burnham, E., Wang, Y., Houston, D., Kondaurova, M., & Bergeson, T. (2017, June). Prosodic characteristics of speech directed to adults and to infants with and without hearing impairment. Poster presented at the meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Boston, MA. (PDF)
- Kondaurova, M., Dilley, L., Bergeson-Dana, T., & Fagan, M. (2017). Vocal matching in interactions between mothers and their normal-hearing and hearing-impaired twins. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 26, 060007. (PDF)
- Baese-Berk, M. M., Dilley, L. C., Schmidt, S., Morrill, T. H., & Pitt, M. A. (2016). Revisiting Neil Armstrongs Moon-Landing Quote: Implications for Speech Perception, Function Word Reduction, and Acoustic Ambiguity. PloS one, 11(9), e0155975. (PDF)
- Baese-Berk, M., Morrill, T., & Dilley, L. (2016). Do non-native speakers use context speech rate in spoken word recognition? In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, MA, 979-983. (PDF)
- Banzina, E., Dilley, L., & Hewitt, L. (2016). The role of secondary-stressed and unstressed-unreduced syllables in word recognition: Acoustic and perceptual studies with Russian learners of English. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45(4), 813-831. (PDF)
- Lai, W., & Dilley, L. (2016). Cross-linguistic generalization of the distal rate effect: Speech rate in context affects whether listeners hear a function word in Chinese Mandarin. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody, Boston, MA, 1124-1128. (PDF)
- Pitt, M., Szostak, C., & Dilley, L. (2016). Rate-dependent speech processing can be speech-specific: Evidence from the perceptual disappearance of words under changes in context speech rate. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 78(1), 334-345. (PDF)
- Brown, M., Salverda, A. P., Dilley, L., & Tanenhaus, M. (2015). Metrical expectations from preceding prosody influence spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(2), 306-323. (PDF)
- Burnham, E., Wieland, E., Kondaurova, M., McAuley, J. D., Bergeson, T, & Dilley, L. (2015). Phonetic modification of vowel space in storybook speech to infants up to two years of age. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58, 241-253. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Pitt, M., Szostak, C., & Baese-Berk, M. (2015). Rate-dependent speech processing can be speech-specific: Evidence from the disappearance of words under changes in context speech rate. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow. ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4. Paper number 0915.1-5. (PDF)
- Heffner, C., Newman, R., Dilley, L., & Idsardi, W. (2015). Age-related differences in speech rate perception do not necessarily entail age-related differences in speech rate use. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58, 1341-1349. (PDF)
- Morrill, T., Baese-Berk, M., Heffner, C., & Dilley, L. (2015). Interactions between distal speech rate, linguistic knowledge, and speech environment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22, 1451-1457. (PDF)
- Morrill, T., McAuley, J. D., Dilley, L., & Hambrick, D. Z. (2015). Individual differences in the perception of melodic contours and pitch-accent timing in speech: Support for domain-generality of pitch processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(4), 730-736. (PDF)
- Morrill, T., McAuley, J.D., Dilley, L., Jones, K.B., Zdziarska, P.A., & Sanders, L. (2015). Distal prosody affects learning of novel words in an artificial language. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 22, 815-823. (PDF)
- Wieland, E., Burnham, E., Kondaurova, M., Bergeson, T., & Dilley, L. (2015). Vowel space characteristics of speech directed to children with and without hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58, 254-257. (PDF)
- Wieland, E., McAuley, J. D., Dilley, L., & Chang, S.-E. (2015). Evidence for a rhythm perception deficit in children who stutter. Brain and Language, 144, 26-34. (PDF)
- Baese-Berk, M., Heffner, C., Dilley, L., Pitt, M., Morrill, T., & McAuley, J. D. (2014). Long-term temporal tracking of speech rate affects spoken-word recognition. Psychological Science, 25(8), 1546-1553. (PDF)
- Banzina, E., Hewitt, L., & Dilley, L. (2014). Using synchronous speech to facilitate acquisition of English rhythm: A small-scale study. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 1, 69-84. (PDF)
- Breen, M., Dilley, L., McAuley, J. D., & Sanders, L. (2014). Auditory evoked potentials reveal early perceptual effects of distal prosody on speech segmentation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(9), 1132-1146. (PDF)
- Brown, M., Dilley, L., & Tanenhaus, M. (2014). Probabilistic prosody: Effects of relative speech rate on perception of (a) word(s) several syllables later. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Speech Prosody, N. Campbell, D. Gibbon & D. Hirst (eds.), Dublin, Ireland, pp. 1154-1158. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Millett, A., McAuley, J. D., & Bergeson, T. (2014). Phonetic variation in consonants in infant-directed and adult-directed speech: the case of regressive place assimilation in word-final alveolar stops. Journal of Child Language, 41(1), 155-175. (PDF)
- Morrill, T., Dilley, L., & McAuley, J. D. (2014). Prosodic patterning in distal speech context: Effects of list intonation and f0 downtrend on perception of proximal prosodic structure. Journal of Phonetics, 46, 68-85. (PDF)
- Morrill, T., Dilley, L., McAuley, J. D., & Pitt, M. (2014). Distal rhythm influences whether or not listeners hear a word in continuous speech: Support for a perceptual grouping hypothesis. Cognition, 131(1), 69-74. (PDF)
- Burnham, E., Gamache, J., Bergeson, T., & Dilley, L. (2013). Voice-onset time in infant-directed speech over the first year and a half. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19, 060094. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Baese-Berk, M., Schmidt, S., Nagel, J., Morrill, T., & Pitt, M. (2013). One small step for (a) man: Function word reduction and acoustic ambiguity. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19, 060297. (PDF)
- Dilley, L. & Heffner, C. (2013). The role of F0 alignment in distinguishing categories: Evidence from American English. Journal of Speech Sciences, 3(1), 3-67. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Morrill, T., & Banzina, E. (2013). New tests of the distal speech rate effect: Examining cross-linguistic generalization. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4(1002), 1-13. (PDF)
- Dilley, L., Wieland, E., Gamache, J., McAuley, J. D. & Redford, M. (2013). Age-related changes to spectral voice characteristics affect judgments of prosodic, segmental, and talker attributes for child and adult speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56, 159-177. (PDF)
- Heffner, C., Dilley, L., McAuley, J. D. & Pitt, M. (2013). When cues combine: How distal and proximal acoustic cues are integrated in word segmentation. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(9), 1275-1302. (PDF)
- Morrill, T., Dilley, L., McAuley, J., & Pitt, M. (2013). Speech rhythm and speech rate affect segmentation of reduced function words in continuous speech. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19, 060210. (PDF)
- Perrachione, T., Fedorenko, E., Vinke, L., Gibson, E., & Dilley, L. (2013). Evidence for shared cognitive processing of pitch in music and language. PLoS ONE, 8(8), e73372. (PDF)
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