All Stories

  1. Lexical access in English-Spanish bilinguals

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, February 2018, John Benjamins

    Irina Shport

  2. The Roles of Vowel Fronting, Lengthening, and Listener Variables in the Perception of Vocal Femininity

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, January 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Irina Shport

  3. Flapping before a stressed vowel – whatever!

    Article • January 2017, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport, Wendy Herd

  4. Perceptual assimilation and discrimination of falling, level, and rising lexical tones by native English speakers

    Article • May 2016, International Speech Communication Association

    Irina Shport

  5. TRAINING ENGLISH LISTENERS TO IDENTIFY PITCH-ACCENT PATTERNS IN TOKYO JAPANESE

    Article • Studies in Second Language Acquisition, December 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Irina Shport

  6. Perception of acoustic cues to Tokyo Japanese pitch-accent contrasts in native Japanese and naive English listeners

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, July 2015, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport

  7. Word learning by naïve non-native speakers may not be predictable by cognitive test scores

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2015, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport

  8. Production and perception of tones by English speaking children

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2013, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport

  9. Lexical and phrasal prominence patterns in school-aged children's speech

    Article • Journal of Child Language, September 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Irina Shport

  10. Acoustic cues to prominence in children's speech

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport

  11. The acquisition of English rhythm as a function of changes in phrase-level prosody

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport

  12. Comparing weights of cues with different numbers of levels.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2011, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport

  13. The challenge of learning new highly variable prosodic categories: Training English listeners on pitch accent in Tokyo Japanese.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2010, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport

  14. Word-level prosody in Balsas Nahuatl: The origin, development, and acoustic correlates of tone in a stress accent language

    Article • Journal of Phonetics, April 2010, Elsevier

    Irina Shport

  15. The effect of oral proficiency on production of rhythm in spontaneous second language (L2) Japanese speech.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, April 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport

  16. Perception of prominence by Japanese and American listeners.

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, January 2009, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport

  17. Acquisition of rhythm: evidence from spontaneous L2 speech

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2008, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport

  18. A prototypical pitch pattern of unaccented Japanese words

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, May 2007, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport

  19. The effect of segmental structure on the production of Japanese pitch‐accent

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2006, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport

  20. Production characteristics of accent in four dialects of Nahuatl

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2006, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Irina Shport