Assistant Professor in Experimental Linguistics
Canada Research Chair in Speech and Language Processing
chael mcgill ca
publications
experimental
Wagner, Michael & Serena Crivellaro (2010). Relative Prosodic Boundary Strength and Prior Bias in Disambiguation. To be presented at Speech Prosody. [paper]
Wagner, M. , M. Breen, E. Flemming, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel & E. Gibson (2010). Prosodic Effects of Discourse Salience and Association with Focus. To be presented at Speech prosody. [paper]
Prosodic Options or Semantic/Syntactic Choice? Poster presented at the conference on Prosody and Meaning, Barcelona, 17-18 September 2009.
M. Breen, M. Wagner, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, E. Flemming, & E. Gibson (UMass Amherst, Cornell University, McGill University, MIT): Factoring out Speaker Variation in Experimental Studies of Prosody: The Case of Association with Focus Poster presented at the conference on Prosody and Meaning, Barcelona, 17-18 September 2009.
Wagner Michael & Duane Watson. Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody: A review. Forthcoming introduction to special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes. Selected papers from the conference on Experimental and Theoretical Advances on Prosody at Cornell University.
Breen, Mara, Evelina Fedorenko, Michael Wagner & Ted Gibson (submitted). Acoustic correlates of information structure. Language and Cognitive Processes. Language and Cognitive Processes [Paper]
Wagner, Michael, John Kraemer & Ted Gibson (2006). Encoding and Retrieving Syntax with Prosody. Poster presented at CUNY. [Poster]
Michael Wagner & Ted Gibson (2006). Prosodic Boundary Strength Scaling. Poster presented at Labphon 10 in Paris. [Poster]
(accepted). Focus and Givenness: A Unified Approach. To appear in UCL volume on Information Structure [Paper]
(in press). Focus, Topic, Word Order: A Compositional Approach. Selected Papers from the Brussels Conference on Generative Grammar 2007. Edited by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck. [Paper]
(2008). A Compositional Theory of Contrastive Topics. Presented at NELS 28 [Paper]
(2007). Prosodic Evidence for Recursion? Ms. Cornell University. [Paper]
(2007). Prosody and Recursion in Coordinate Structures and Beyond. To appear in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory [Paper]
(2007) (with Asaf Bachrach). Syntactically Driven Cyclicity vs. Output-Output Correspondence: The Case of Adjunction in Diminutive Morphology. Ms. MIT/Cornell University. [Paper]
(2007). A note on stress in intransitives in English. Snippet 16. [Paper]
(2006). Association by Movement. Evidence from NPI-Licensing. Natural Language Semantics. [Paper]
(2006). Givenness and Locality. In: M. Gibson & J. Howell (eds.): Proceedings of SALT XVI. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. 295–312. [Paper]
(2006). NPI-Licensing and Focus Movement. In: Effi Georgala and Jonathan Howell (eds.): Proceedings of SALT XV. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. [Paper]
(2005). Asymmetries in Prosodic Domain Formation. In: Norvin Richards and Martha Mcginnis (eds.): Perspectives on Phases. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL. [Paper]
(2004). Asymmetries in the Syntax and Prosody of Verb-Intial Interpolated Clauses in German. Proceedings of Console XII 2003, University of Patras, Greece.
[Paper]
(2003). (with Florian Jaeger ). Association with Focus and Linear Order in German. The Semantics Archive. [26pp.][Paper]
(2002). The role of prosody in laryngeal neutralization. In: Aniko Csirmaz, Zhiqiang Li, Andrew Nevins, Olga Vaysman, and Michael Wagner (eds.): Phonological Answers. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 42. [Paper]
michael wagner
Assistant Professor in Experimental Linguistics
Canada Research Chair in Speech and Language Processing
chael mcgill ca
publications
experimental
Wagner, Michael & Serena Crivellaro (2010). Relative Prosodic Boundary Strength and Prior Bias in Disambiguation. To be presented at Speech Prosody. [paper]
Wagner, M. , M. Breen, E. Flemming, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel & E. Gibson (2010). Prosodic Effects of Discourse Salience and Association with Focus. To be presented at Speech prosody. [paper]
Prosodic Options or Semantic/Syntactic Choice? Poster presented at the conference on Prosody and Meaning, Barcelona, 17-18 September 2009.
M. Breen, M. Wagner, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, E. Flemming, & E. Gibson (UMass Amherst, Cornell University, McGill University, MIT): Factoring out Speaker Variation in Experimental Studies of Prosody: The Case of Association with Focus Poster presented at the conference on Prosody and Meaning, Barcelona, 17-18 September 2009.
Wagner Michael & Duane Watson. Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody: A review. Forthcoming introduction to special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes. Selected papers from the conference on Experimental and Theoretical Advances on Prosody at Cornell University.
Breen, Mara, Evelina Fedorenko, Michael Wagner & Ted Gibson (submitted). Acoustic correlates of information structure. Language and Cognitive Processes. Language and Cognitive Processes [Paper]
Wagner, Michael, John Kraemer & Ted Gibson (2006). Encoding and Retrieving Syntax with Prosody. Poster presented at CUNY. [Poster]
Michael Wagner & Ted Gibson (2006). Prosodic Boundary Strength Scaling. Poster presented at Labphon 10 in Paris. [Poster]
theoretical
(submitted) Contrastive Topics Decomposed. Semantics & Pragmatics.
(accepted). Focus and Givenness: A Unified Approach. To appear in UCL volume on Information Structure [Paper]
(in press). Focus, Topic, Word Order: A Compositional Approach. Selected Papers from the Brussels Conference on Generative Grammar 2007. Edited by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck. [Paper]
(2008). A Compositional Theory of Contrastive Topics. Presented at NELS 28 [Paper]
(2007). Prosodic Evidence for Recursion? Ms. Cornell University. [Paper]
(2007). Prosody and Recursion in Coordinate Structures and Beyond. To appear in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory [Paper]
(2007) (with Asaf Bachrach). Syntactically Driven Cyclicity vs. Output-Output Correspondence: The Case of Adjunction in Diminutive Morphology. Ms. MIT/Cornell University. [Paper]
(2007). A note on stress in intransitives in English. Snippet 16. [Paper]
(2006). Association by Movement. Evidence from NPI-Licensing. Natural Language Semantics. [Paper]
(2006). Givenness and Locality. In: M. Gibson & J. Howell (eds.): Proceedings of SALT XVI. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. 295–312. [Paper]
(2006). NPI-Licensing and Focus Movement. In: Effi Georgala and Jonathan Howell (eds.): Proceedings of SALT XV. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. [Paper]
(2005). Asymmetries in Prosodic Domain Formation. In: Norvin Richards and Martha Mcginnis (eds.): Perspectives on Phases. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL. [Paper]
(2004). Asymmetries in the Syntax and Prosody of Verb-Intial Interpolated Clauses in German. Proceedings of Console XII 2003, University of Patras, Greece.
[Paper]
(2003). (with Florian Jaeger ). Association with Focus and Linear Order in German. The Semantics Archive. [26pp.][Paper]
(2002). The role of prosody in laryngeal neutralization. In: Aniko Csirmaz, Zhiqiang Li, Andrew Nevins, Olga Vaysman, and Michael Wagner (eds.): Phonological Answers. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 42. [Paper]
thesis
Note: Some parts of the thesis have been superceded by the paper on Coordinate Structures and the Givenness Paper listed above!
(2005) Prosody and Recursion. Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Techonology (Some typos corrected 2007). [Thesis]