EDG Meetings

EDG meetings are normally held on Fridays at 1pm in room S38, 7 George Square

Please contact ku.ca.de|yelroC.nitraM#nitraM if you have difficulties obtaining any of the papers.

Suggest papers for future meetings on this page.

February 2015

13th February

Talk by Josef Fruehwald, LEL, PPLS

Is it really, um, revealing?

A chance to discuss some highly topical research on um and uh.

abstract

I'll be presenting a corpus study on the use of filled pauses across the 20th century from a spoken corpus of sociolinguistic interviews collected in Philadelphia. There is a trend across time for a growing preference to use um over uh (figure attached). I try to establish that this is a change across generational cohorts, rather than a strictly age-linked effect, and that it is really a change in choice of filled pause, rather than an increasing frequency of some communicative context that favors um.

If I have time remaining after that, I'll talk a bit about applying an information theoretic approach to socio-indexicality. Like most language changes in progress, women are approximately a generation ahead of men. Is women's higher rate of "um" usage than men in any given period a reliable signal of their gender? The answer looks like it's "no" with exceptionally low mutual information between gender and filled pause use.

6th February, 1pm, room S38, 7GS

We're back! Initial "hello" and planning: Please come along if you can.

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April 2014

11th April (for real)

Rosa, E. C., Finch, K. H., Bergeson, M., & Arnold, J. E. (in press). The effects of addressee attention on prosodic prominence. Language and Cognitive Processes.

4th April

Ingham, R. J., Wang, Y., Ingham, J. C., Bothe, A. K., & Grafton, S. T. (2013). Regional brain activity change predicts responsiveness to treatment for stuttering in adults. Brain and language, 127(3), 510-519.

March 2014

21st March

meeting postponed

14th March

no meeting

7th March

Tydgat, I., Diependale, K., Hartsuiker, R. J., & Pickering, M. J. (2012). How lingering representations of abandoned context words affect speech production. Acta Psychologica, 140, 218-229.

February 2014

28th February

No meeting. We will meet the following week (7th March) to discuss the Tydgat paper currently on the "suggestions" list.

21st February

Innovative learning week - no meeting.

14th February

No meeting.

Some people might be interested in attending an HCN talk by new Chancellor's Fellow, Candice Morey: "What asymmetric patterns of dual-task interference suggest about working memory".

7th February room S38

Dell, G. S., Schwartz, M. F., Nozari, N., Faseyitan, O., & Branch Coslett, H. (2013). Voxel-based lesion-parameter mapping: Identifying the neural correlates of a computational model of word production. Cognition, 128(3), 380–396.

January 2014

31st January room F29/30

Fiori, V., Cipollari, S., Caltagirone, C., & Marangolo, P. (2013). “If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?” tDCS over the left frontal region modulates tongue twister repetition in healthy subjects. Neuroscience, 256, 195–200.

Floor plan of 7 George Square (to help you find F29/30).

24th January

Walker, E. J., Risko, E.F., & Kingstone, A. (in press). Fillers as Signals: Evidence From a Question-Answering Paradigm. Discourse Processes.

December 2013

6th December

Hickok, G. (in press). The architecture of speech production and the role of the phoneme in speech processing. Language and Cognitive Processes.

November 2013

29th November

No meeting

22nd November

Dell, G.S. & Chang, F. (in press). The P-Chain: Relating sentence production and its disorders to comprehension and acquisition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

1st November

MacKay, D. G., James, L. E., Hadley, C. B., & Fogler, K. A. (2011). Speech errors of amnesic H.M.: Unlike everyday slips-of-the-tongue. Cortex, 47, 377-408. pdf

October 2013

18th October

Roche, J. M., Paxton, A., Ibarra, A., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2012). From Minor Mishap to Major Catastrophe: Lexical Choice in Miscommunication. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

11th October, 4pm, room S38, 7GS

Fraundorf, S.H., & Watson, D.G. (in press). Alice's adventures in um-derland: Psycholinguistic sources of variation in disfluency production. Language and Cognitive Processes.

June 2013

21st June, 4pm, room S38

Talk by Oren Civier, Gonda Multidiscplinary Research Centre, Bar Ilan University, Israel

Computational Modeling of the Neural Substrates of Stuttering and Induced Fluency

abstract

Developmental stuttering is a speech motor control disorder of unknown etiology whose hallmarks are blocks, prolongations and part-syllable repetitions. The neural mechanisms underlying stuttering can be investigated through computational modeling with DIVA and GODIVA, neural network models of speech acquisition and production.

The first part of the talk explores the hypothesis that stuttering may result in part from impaired readout of feedforward commands for speech, which forces persons who stutter (PWS) to produce speech with a motor strategy that is weighted too much toward auditory feedback control. Over-reliance on feedback control leads to sensory errors which, if they grow large enough, can cause the motor system to “reset” and repeat the current syllable. This hypothesis was investigated by impairing the feedforward control subsystem of the DIVA model. The model’s outputs are compared to published acoustic data from PWS’ fluent speech, and to combined acoustic and articulatory-movement data collected from the dysfluent speech of one PWS. The simulations mimic the errors observed in the PWS subject’s speech, as well as the repairs of these errors. Additional simulations were able to account for enhancements of fluency gained by slowed/prolonged speech and masking noise.

The second part of the talk discusses the role of the basal ganglia (BG) – left ventral premotor cortex (vPMC) loop in the impaired readout of feedforward control. Two hypotheses were put to test: 1) due to structural abnormality in the corticostriatal projections carrying corollary discharge of motor commands, the BG fail to detect the context for initiating the next syllable, and 2) due to increased dopamine binding in the striatum leading to a ceiling effect, the BG are unable to bias cortical competition in favor of the correct syllable. Simulations of a neurally impaired version of the extended GODIVA model show that both hypotheses can explain dysfluent speech and associated abnormal brain activations. Further simulations account for the alleviation of stuttering with D2 antagonists. Together these results support the hypothesis that many dysfluencies in stuttering are due to abnormalities interfering with normal BG-vPMC loop operation, which may bias the system away from feedforward control and toward feedback control.

additional materials

Here are some papers that Oren suggested those interested might wish to familiarise themselves with:

• Bohland et al (2010)
• Civier et al (in press) (supplementary material)

May 2013

24th May

Poljac, E., Dahlslätt, K., & Bekkering, H. (2013). Shared predictive decision-making mechanisms in action and language. Language and Cognitive Processes, (ahead-of-print), 1-11.

May 17th

Jaeger, T.F., Furth, K., & Hilliard, C. (2012). Incremental phonological encoding during unscripted sentence production. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, article 00481

April 2013

26th April

Scott, M., Yeung, H. H., Gick, B., & Werker, J. F. (2013). Inner speech captures the perception of external speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133 (4), EL286-EL292.

19th April

Steinberg, M. E., Ratner, N. B., Gaillard, W., & Berl, M. (in press). Fluency patterns in narratives from children with localization related epilepsy. Journal of Fluency Disorders.

12th April

No meeting

5th April

Reed, P., & Wu, Y. (in press). Logistic regression for risk factor modelling in stuttering research. Journal of Fluency Disorders.

March 2013

Everyone's at conferences, etc.: Next meeting Friday 5th April

15th March

Bouchard, K. E., Mesgarani, N., Johnson, K., & Chang, E. F. (2013). Functional organization of human sensorimotor cortex for speech articulation. Nature.

8th March

No meeting.

1st March

Brocklehurst, P. H., Lickley, R. J., & Corley, M. (2012). The influence of anticipation of word misrecognition on the likelihood of stuttering. Journal of Communication Disorders.

February 2013

15th February

No meeting.

8th February

Rommers, J., Meyer, A. S., Praamstra, P., & Huettig, F. (2013). The contents of predictions in sentence comprehension: Activation of the shape of objects before they are referred to. Neuropsychologia.

1st February

Pitt, M. A., & Szostak, C. M. (2012). A lexically biased attentional set compensates for variable speech quality caused by pronunciation variation. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27(7-8), 1225-1239.

January 2013

25th January

No meeting.

18th January

Cason, N., & Schön, D. (2012). Rhythmic priming enhances the phonological processing of speech. Neuropsychologia.

11th January

We will discuss:
Arnold, J. E., Kahn, J. M., & Pancani, G. C. (2012). Audience design affects acoustic reduction via production facilitation. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 1-8.

A further paper which may be of interest, and which is relevant to a discussion of the Arnold et al. paper is:
Fukumura, K., & van Gompel, R. P. (2012). Producing Pronouns and Definite Noun Phrases: Do Speakers Use the Addressee’s Discourse Model?. Cognitive Science.

December 2012

14th December

Acheson, D.J., Ganushchak, L.Y., Christoffels, I.K., & Hagoort, P. (2012). Conflict monitoring in speech production: Physiological evidence from bilingual picture naming. Brain and Language, 123, 131-136. As postponed from 7th December.

7th December - meeting postponed until 14th December

November 2012

30th November

Liu, K., & Fox Tree, J. E. (2012). Hedges enhance memory but inhibit retelling. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 892-898.

23rd November

Hickok, G. (2012). Computational neuroanatomy of speech production. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 13, 135-145.

16th November

Slevc, L. R., & Ferreira, V. S. (in press). To Err Is Human; To Structurally Prime From Errors Is Also Human. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.

9th November

Kuhlen, A. K., Allefield, C., & Haynes, J.-D. (2012). Content-specific coordination of listeners' to speakers' EEG during communication. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 00266.

2nd November

Ian Finlayson will be giving a practice run of his talk for Workshop Fluent Speech: "Testing the disfluency-as-signal hypothesis"

October 2012

26th October

Bosker, H. R., Pinget, A.-F., Quene, H., Sanders, T., & de Jong, N. H. (in press). What makes speech sound fluent? The contributions of pauses, speed and repairs. Language Testing.

19th October

We will discuss three papers on phonetic convergence:

Pardo, J. S., Gibbons, R., Suppes, A., & Krauss, R. M. (2012). Phonetic convergence in college roommates. Journal of Phonetics, 40, 190–197.

Babel, M. (2012). Evidence for phonetic and social selectivity in spontaneous phonetic imitation. Journal of Phonetics, 40, 177–189.

Pardo, J. S., Cajori Jay, I., & Krauss, R. M. (2010). Conversational role influences speech imitation. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72, 2254-2264.

12th October

Gollan, T. H., & Goldrick M. (in press). Does bilingualism twist your tongue? Cognition.

5th October

Filik, R., & Barber, E. (2011). Inner speech during silent reading reflects the reader's regional accent. PLoS ONE, 6, e25782.

September 2012

28th September: First Meeting 2012/13

This week we will have a meeting to welcome new members. Returning to our occasional theme of general methods, will also discuss:

Shtulman, A., & Valcarcel, J. (2012). Scientific knowledge suppresses but does not supplant earlier intuitions. Cognition, 124, 209-215.

July 2012

Friday 13th July: Summer drink (5pm)

Meet in the concourse of 7 George Square

June 2012

Friday 29th June

There will be no meeting this week.

Friday 22nd June

There will be no meeting this week.

Friday 15th June, from 4:30ish

At the Dalriada in Portobello— see map
Alter, A. L., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2009). Uniting the Tribes of Fluency to Form a Metacognitive Nation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 13, 219-235.

Friday 1st June

There will be no meeting this week.

May 2012

Friday 25th May

There will be no meeting this week.

Friday 18th May

Dhooge, E., & Hartsuiker, R. J., (2011). Lexical selection and verbal self-monitoring: Effects of lexicality, context, and time pressure in picture-word interference. Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 163–176.

Friday 11th May

There will be no meeting this week

Friday 4th May

There will be no meeting this week.

April 2012

Friday 27th April

Grondelaers, S., Speelman, D., Drieghe, D., Brysbaert, M., & Geeraert, D. (2009). Introducing a new entity into discourse: Comprehension and production evidence for the status of Dutch er "there" as a higher-level expectancy monitor. Acta Psychologica, 130. 153-160.

Friday 20th April

Laganaro, M., Valente, A., & Perret, C. (2012). Time course of word production in fast and slow speakers: A high density ERP topographic study. NeuroImage, 59, 3881-3888.

Friday 13th April

Vincent, I., Bernard, B. & Gilbert, H. (in press). Phonological priming in adults who stutter, Journal of Fluency Disorders

Friday 6th April

No meeting. Have a good Easter weekend!

March 2012

Friday 30th March

Shuval, N., Konieczny, L., & Hemforth, B. (2011). Secret agents or sleeping beauties: What happens to repaired constituents? In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (3307-3312). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Friday 23rd March

No meeting this week. Some EDGers may be interested in attending "Getting a GRIP on grasping: neural correlates of visually guided actions", a talk to be given by Cristiana Cavina-Pratesi in S38 at 4pm.

Friday 16th March in room B6

We will continue our discussion of Nozari, N., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (2011). Is comprehension necessary for error detection? A conflict-based account of monitoring in speech production. Cognitive Psychology, 63 (1), 1-33. This week we will be focusing on the second part of the paper (i.e., p. 9 onward).

Friday 9th March in room S38

Ian Finlayson will be giving a practice run of his CUNY talk: "Convergence of speech rate: Interactive alignment beyond representation"

Friday 2nd March

Nozari, N., Dell, G. S., & Schwartz, M. F. (2011). Is comprehension necessary for error detection? A conflict-based account of monitoring in speech production. Cognitive Psychology, 63 (1), 1-33.

February 2012

Friday 24th February

No EDG meeting this week. EDGers might want to attend the Psychology Research Day (note that it starts at 11:30, not 10:30 as advertised).

Friday 17th February

No EDG meeting this week, as a number of us will be attending the "Perceiving as Predicting" Philosophy departmental symposium.

Friday 10th February

Hlavac, J., (2011). Hesitation and monitoring phenomena in bilingual speech: A consequence of code-switching or a strategy to facilitate its incorporation? Journal of Pragmatics, 43, 3793–3806.

Friday 3rd February in room B6 (in the basement)

Rieger, M., Martinez, F., & Wenke, D., (2011). Imagery of errors in typing. Cognition, 121, 163–175.

January 2012

Friday 27th January in room B6 (in the basement)

Ayora, P., Peressotti, F., Alario, F.X., Mulatti, C., Pluchino, P., Job, R., Dell'Acqua, R. (2011). What phonological facilitation tells about semantic interference: a dual-task study. Frontiers in Psychology, 2;57, 1-10.

Friday 20th January in room B6 (in the basement)

Maxfield, N.D., Pizon-Moore, A.A., Frisch, S.A., Constantine, J.L. (in press). Exploring semantic and phonological picture–word priming in adults who stutter using event-related potentials. Clinical Neurophysiology.

Friday 13th January

Ian Finlayson and Martin Corley will be presenting some data on the possible communicative role of disfluency and discussing plans for a follow-up experiment.

November 2011

Friday 25th November

There are 2 (short) papers this week…
Fay, N., Page, A.C., Serfaty, C. (2010). Listeners influence speakers’ perceived communication effectiveness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 689-692.
Fay, N., Page, A.C., Serfaty, C., Tai V., Winkler, C. (2008). Speaker overestimation of communication effectiveness and fear of negative evaluation: Being realistic is unrealistic. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15,1160–1165.

Friday 11th November

Madeleine Beveridge will give a talk: Eye movements and perceptual span in people who stutter.

abstract

Recent evidence suggests that people who stutter (PWS) may display different eye movement behaviour in silent reading compared with people who do not stutter (Corcoran & Frisson, 2011). We used the moving window paradigm (McConkie & Rayner, 1975) to examine whether the size of the perceptual span (the range of effective vision used in reading) differed between people who stutter and age- and education- matched controls. Participants read sentences in which information was available from (a) the currently fixated word only, (b) the currently fixated word plus one word to the right, (c) the currently fixated word plus two words to the right, or (d) the whole sentence. Results showed that people who stutter had a smaller rightward perceptual span, compared with controls.

Friday 4th November

Scott, S. K., McGettigan, C., & Eisner, F. (2009). A little more conversation, a little less action: Candidate roles for the motor cortex in speech perception. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10, 295-302.

October 2011

Friday 28th October

Civier, O., Tasko, S.M., Guenther, F.K. (2010). Overreliance on auditory feedback may lead to sound/syllable repetitions: Simulations of stuttering and fluency-inducing conditions with a neural model of speech production. Journal of fluency Disorders, 35, 2246-279.

Friday 21st October

Bell, A., Brenier, J. M., Gregory, M., Girand, C., Jurafsky, D. (2009). Predictability effects on durations of content and function words in conversational English. Journal of Memory and Language, 60, 92-111.

Friday 14th October

Planning meeting.

Friday 7th October

We're back! Ian Finlayson will give an informal talk entitled Speakers' preference for (dis)fluency and its consequence for listeners.

September 2011

Semester is starting! Meetings will resume on 7th October when the dust has settled.

August 2011

Friday 26th August

Paul Brocklehurst will give a talk entitled Stuttering: Revisiting Bloodstein’s ‘Anticipatory Struggle Hypothesis’ from a psycholinguistic perspective.
this is a practice run for the Oxford Dysfluency Conference the following week, so feedback and suggestions for improvements will be welcomed.

Friday 19th August

No meeting this week

Friday 12th August

Van Orden, G. C., Holden, J. G., Turvey, M. T., (2003). Self-organization of cognitive performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 331-350.

Friday 5th August

Fraundorf, S. H., & Watson, D. G., (in press.). The disfluent discourse: Effects of filled pauses on recall. Journal of Memory and Language.

July 2011

Friday 29th July

Farewell meeting with Tony Buhr at the Pear Tree, 34 West Nicolson Street @ about 4.30pm.

Friday 15th July, from 5ish

At the Dalriada in Portobello.— see map
General Discussion and planning meeting :)

Friday 8th July

Kidd, C., White, K. S., & Aslin, R. N. (in press). Toddlers use speech disfluencies to predict speakers' referential intentions. Developmental Science.

Friday 1st July

No meeting this week

June 2011

Friday 24th June

in S38, 7 George Square
Dhooge, E., Hartsuiker, R.J. (2010). The Distractor Frequency Effect in Picture–Word Interference: Evidence for Response Exclusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 878-891.

Friday 17th June

At the Dalriada in Portobello.— see map
Dhooge, E., Hartsuiker, R.J. (in press). How do speakers resist distraction? Evidence from a taboo picture-word interference task. Psychological Science.
Nb. as usual, we're starting at 4pm. The change of venue is just for this one week.

Friday 10th June

Tony Buhr will give a talk entitled Articulatory movement at cutoff: In search of hidden error.

abstract

Is has been speculated that repetitions and pauses are by-products of covert errors that are detected and repaired before reaching overt speech (Postma & Kolk, 1993). However, remnants of an error may still be identifiable in articulatory movement, if not the acoustic signal. Indeed, perception may not be a reliable indicator of error (Bard & Lickley, 1998; McMillan, Corley, & Lickley, 2009). EMA data acquired from dialogues recorded in the Edinburgh Speech Production Facility were used to analyze tongue and lip movement at cutoff with respect to the acoustic signal in search of evidence for hidden error.

Friday 3rd June

No meeting this week

May 2011

Friday 27th May

Villar, G., Arciuli, J., & Mallard, D. (in press). Use of "um" in the deceptive speech of a convicted murderer. Applied Psycholinguistics.

Friday 20th May

Schweppe, J., Grice, M., & Rummer, R. (2011). What models of working memory can learn from phonological theory: Decomposing the phonological similarity effect. Journal of Memory and Language, 64, 256-269.

Friday 13th May

Clark, H. H., & Krych, M. A. (2004). Speaking while monitoring addressees for understanding. Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 62-81.

Friday 6th May

Goldwater, S., Jurafsky, D., & Manning, C. D. (2010). Which words are hard to recognize? Prosodic, lexical, and disfluency factors that increase speech recognition error rates. Speech Communication, 52, 181-200.

April 2011

Friday 29th April: No meeting

Friday 22nd April: No meeting

Friday 15th April

There will be two closely-related readings:
Seyfeddinipur, M., Kita, S., & Indefrey, P. (2008). How speakers interrupt themselves in managing problems in speaking: Evidence from self-repairs. Cognition, 108, 837-842.
Tydgat, I., Stevens, M., Hartsuiker, R. J., & Pickering, M. J. (2011). Deciding where to stop speaking. Journal of Memory and Language, 64, 359-380.

Friday 8th April

Goberman, A.M., Blomgren, M., Metzger, E. (2009). Characteristics of speech disfluency in Parkinson disease. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 23, 470-478.

Friday 1st April

Lotto, A.J., Hickock, G.S., & Holt, L.L. (2009). Reflections on mirror neurons and speech perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 110-114.

March 2011

Friday 25th March

Talk by Robin Lickley
"Issues in the production and perception of disfluent speech"

Friday 18th March

Cook, S., Rieger, M., Donlan, C., & Howell, P. (In press.) Testing orofacial abilities of children who stutter: The Movement, Articulation, Mandibular and Sensory awareness (MAMS) assessment procedure. Journal of Fluency Disorders In Press, Corrected Proof.

Friday 11th March

Gayraud, F., Lee, H-R., Barkat-Defradas, M. (2011) Syntactic and lexical context of pauses and hesitations in the discourse of Alzheimer patients and healthy elderly subjects. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 25 198-209.

Friday 4th March

Ohala, J. J. (1990) There is no interface between phonetics and phonology. A personal view. Journal of Phonetics, 18, 153-171.

February 2011

Friday 25th February:

Arnstein, D., Lakey, B., Compton, RJ., Kleinow, J. (in press). Preverbal error-monitoring in stutterers and fluent speakers. Brain and Language.

summary of discussion

The experiment was predicated on the Vicious Circle Hypothesis that posits that PWS are more vigilant at (speech and non-speech) error monitoring are perceive more errors (even if they don't actually make more).

The authors looked at two dependent variables: the Error-related negativity (ERN) and the Error positivity (Pe)… stemming from the anterior cingulate cortex. The former has been equated with an fast/automatic action error-monitoring and the Pe with a slower more conscious error monitoring.

They predicted that PWS would produce larger spikes on these two ERP measures.

• There seemed to be some doubt as to whether the size of the ERN and Pe effects really represented error-monitoring activity, or whether they simply reflected the amount of effort required for the tasks… apparently anterior cingulated cortex activation reflects lots of things and may be involved in effortful thought (Davis et al. 2000 cited on p 2)… So it's noteworthy that although greater effects were associated with the tasks that produced more errors, these were also the more difficult tasks that required more cognitive effort.
• Compared to controls, PWS produced greater ERN and Pe readings across all conditions, (there were no group by condition interactions). Although this could reflect the fact that monitoring by PWS was hypervigilant across all conditions and led to an increased perception of errors across all conditions, it could also be interpreted in terms of PWS simply making more effort to attend to the task. With regards to this, it is noteworthy that the mean age of the PWS group was 10 years older than that of the control group… so the difference may have been a result of their age rather than their stuttering.
• Participants didn't give feedback on whether or not they had actually perceived the errors they made as errors. The finding that there was an adverse effect of errors on next-trial accuracy, and that this was more pronounced in stutterers, suggests that participants may not have perceived many of the errors they made… and that error monitoring in PWS may have been less effective than in controls. This might account for why the ERN was weaker in severe PWS than in mild PWS.

Friday 18th February:

Faust, M., & Sharfstein-Friedman, S. (2003). Naming difficulties in adolescents with dyslexia: Application of the tip-of-the-tongue paradigm. Brain and Cognition, 53, 211-217.

Friday 11th February:

Ecker, U.H., Lewandowsky, S., & Apai, J. (2011). Terrorists brought down the plane!—No, actually it was a technical fault: Processing corrections of emotive information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 283-310.

Friday 4th February:

Humphreys, K.R, Candice H. Boyd, C.H., & Watter, S. (2010). Phonological facilitation from pictures in a word association task: Evidence for routine cascaded processing in spoken word production. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63, 2289-2296.

January 2011

Friday 28th January:

Bakker, K., Brutten, G.J., Janssen, P., van der Meulen, S. (1991). An eyemarking study of anticipation and dysfluency among elementary school stutterers. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 16, 25-33.

Friday 21st January:

DeLong, K. A., Urbach, T. P., & Kutas, M. (2005). Probabilistic word pre-activation during language comprehension inferred from electrical brain activity. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 1117-1121.

Friday 14th January:

Anderson, J.D.; Wagovich, S.A. (2010). Relationships among linguistic processing speed, phonological working memory, and attention in children who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 35, 216-234.

December 2010

Friday 17th December:

No meeting this week. Meetings will resume in January.

Friday 10th December:

Stuttering and the Dysarthrias: Talk by Paul Brocklehurst

Friday 3rd December:

Lake, J., Humphreys, K. R., & Cardy S. (in press). Listener vs. speaker oriented aspects of speech: Studying the disfluencies of individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

November 2010

Friday 26th November:

Jones, M., Dobson, A., Onslow, M., & Carey, B. (2009). Negative binomial mixed models for analysis of stuttering rates. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 53, 4590-4600.

Friday 19th November:

Diemand-Yauman, C., Oppenheimer, D.M., Vaughan, E.B. (in press) Fortune favors the Bold (and the Italicized): Effects of disfluency on educational outcomes. Cognition (2010).

Friday 12th November:

Motor perspectives on speech production 2. - Discussion led by Tony Buhr
Reading:
Smith, A. (2006) Speech motor development: Integrating muscles, movements, and linguistic units. Journal of Communication Disorders 39, 331–349.

Friday 5th November:

Motor perspectives on speech production 1. - Discussion led by Tony Buhr
There are two readings for this session:
Rosenbaum, D.A., Rajal, G.C., Jax, S.A., Weiss, D.J., van der Wel, R. (2007). The problem of serial order in behavior: Lashely's legacy.Human Movement Science, 26, 525-554
Lackner, J.R., Tuller, B. (2008) Dynamical systems and internal models. In A. Fuchs & V. Jirsa (Eds.) Coordination: Neural, behavioral and social dynamics, pp93-103, Heidelberg: Springer.

October 2010

Friday 29th October:

Arciuli, J., Mallard, D., & Villar, G. (2010). “Um, I can tell you're lying”: Linguistic markers of deception versus truth-telling in speech. Applied Psycholinguistics, 31, 397-411.

Friday 22nd October:

Goldrick, M., Folk, J., R., & Rapp, B. (2010). Mrs Malaprop's neighborhood: Using word errors to reveal neighborhood structure. Journal of Memory and Language, 62, 113-134.

Friday 15th October:

Metten, C., Bosshardt, H.-G., Jones, M., Eisenhuth, J., Block, S., et al. (2010). Dual tasking and stuttering: from the laboratory to the clinic. Disability and Rehabilitation, early online, 1-12. A copy will be mailed to the EDG list.

Friday 8th October:

Hudson Kam, C. L., & Edwards, N. A. (2008). The use of uh and um by 3- and 4-year-old native English-speaking children: Not quite right but not completely wrong. First Language, 28, 313-327.

Friday 1st October:

Planning Meeting. Come along with ideas of issues or papers to discuss, or just to meet people.

September 2010

Friday 24th September:

Paul Brocklehurst will present some preliminary data from his study investigating the impact of listener miscomprehension on the fluency of people who stutter.

Friday 17th September:

Ian Finlayson will give a practice run of his DiSS talk "The influence of articulation rate, and the disfluency of others, on one's own speech".

Friday 3rd September: No meeting (EDG folk are likely to be at the Language Production Workshop).

August 2010

Friday 27th August: No meeting

Friday 20th August:

Guest talk from Tony Buhr (Vanderbilt University): "Word class and utterance position in stuttering".

Friday 13th August:

Ian Finlayson will give a practice run of his AMLAP talk "The influence of situational factors on the production of disfluencies in spontaneous speech".

Thursday 5th August, 4pm, room S38, 7 George Square

Maxfield, N., Huffman, J., Frisch, S., & Hinckley, J. (in press). Neural correlates of semantic activation spreading on the path to picture naming in adults who stutter. Clinical Neurophysiology.

July 2010

June 2010

Monday 28th June, 11am, room S38, 7 George Square

Suzy Moat's viva talk: "Modelling subphonemic information flow." Please come and support Suzy if you can!

Friday 25th June:

Suzy Moat will give a practice run of her pre-viva talk "Modelling subphonemic information flow: An investigation and extension of Dell's 1986 model of word production".

Friday 18th June:

Oppenheim G. M., & Dell G. S. (in press) Motor movement matters: the flexible abstractness of inner speech. Memory & Cognition. Please contact Paul or Martin for a pdf of the paper.

May 2010

Friday 21st May:

Abdalla, F., Robb, M.P., & Al Shatti, T. (2010). Stuttering and lexical category in adult Arabic speakers. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 24, 70–81.

Friday 14th May: No meeting

Friday 7th May: No meeting

April 2010

Friday 30th April:

Ian Finlayson will be discussing his latest research in a talk, entitled: Why use disfluency? The effect of non-linguistic factors on the production of disfluent speech in dialogue.

Friday 23rd April: No meeting

Friday 16th April:

Paul Brocklehurst will do a practice run of his upcoming talk (at the ECSF symposium in Antwerp): Comparing inner-speech error rates in people who do and do not stutter.

Friday 9th April:

Namasivayam, A. K., van Lieshout, P., McIlroy, W. E., De Nil, L. (2009). Sensory feedback dependence hypothesis in persons who stutter. Human Movement Science 28, 688–707.

March 2010

Friday 19th March:

Lincoln, M., Packman, A., Onslow, M., & Jones, M. (2010). An experimental investigation of the effect of AAF on the conversational speech of adults who stutter. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, in press.

Friday 12th March:

Smith, A., Sadagopan, N., Walsh, B., Weber-Fox, C. (2010). Increasing phonological complexity reveals heightened instability in interarticulatory coordination in adults who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, in press.

Friday 5th March: No meeting

February 2010

Friday 26th February:

Galati, A. & Brennan, S. E. (2010). Attenuating information in spoken communication: For the speaker, or for the addressee? Journal of Memory and Language, 62, 35-51.

Friday 19th February:

Tsiamtsiouris J., Cairns H.S. (2009). Effects of syntactic complexity and sentence-structure priming on speech initiation time in adults who stutter. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research 52,1623-39.

Friday 12th February: No meeting

Friday 5th February:

Yuen, I., Davis, M. H., Brysbaert, M., & Rastle, K. (2010). Activation of articulatory information in speech perception. PNAS, 107, 592-597.

January 2010

Friday 29th January:

Merlo, S. & Barbosa, P. A. (in press). Hesitation phenomena: A dynamical perspective. Cognitive Processing.

Friday 22nd January:

Laganaro, M. & Zimmermann, C. (2010). Origin of phoneme substitution and phoneme movement errors in aphasia. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 1-37.

Friday 15th January: No meeting

Friday 8th January:

Stemberger, J. P. (2009). Preventing perseveration in language production. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 1431-1470.

December 2009

Friday 18th December: Christmas Drink! (5pm)

Meet in the concourse, 7 George Square.

Friday 11th December: No meeting

November 2009

Friday 27th November (4pm, S38)

Roberts, P. M., Meltzer, A., & Wilding, J. (2009). Disfluencies in non-stuttering adults across sample lengths and topics. Journal of Communication Disorders, 42, 414-427.

Monday 23rd November

Ed Conture will be visiting Queen Margaret and Edinburgh Universities, including a talk at QMU at lunchtime. For more details of Conture's visit and talk, see this page.

Friday 20th November (4pm, S38)

Anderson, J. D. & Conture, E. G. (2004). Sentence-structure priming in young children who do and do not stutter. Journal Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47, 552-571.
NB This paper will be sent by email since UoE members do not have access to the e-journal.

Friday 13th November (4pm, S38)

Karass, J., Walden, T.A., Conture, E.G., Graham, C.G., Arnold, H.S., Hartfield, K.N., Schwenk, K.A. (2006). Relation of emotional reactivity and regulation to childhood stuttering. Journal of Communication Disorders, 39, 402-423.

Friday 6th November (4pm, S38)

Barr, D. J. & Seyfeddinipur, M. (in press). The role of fillers in listener attributions for speaker disfluency. Language and Cognitive Processes.

October 2009

Friday 30th October (4pm, S38)

Planned research: Presentations by final-year students at Edinburgh of designs for their dissertations on disfluency, intentionality, and FOAK. Please come along and give some feedback!

Friday 23rd October (meet at 4pm prompt, S38)

this week we are touring the PPLS EEG lab. Come along for an insight into how ERPs are obtained.

Friday 16th October (4pm, S38)

Ingham, R. J. et al. (2009). Measurement of speech effort during fluency-inducing conditions in adults who do and do not stutter. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 52, 1286-1301.

Friday 9th October (4pm, S38)

Planning Meeting. Please come along to help plan future EDG meetings! All welcome.

Friday 2nd October (4pm, S38)

Huettig, F., & Hartsuiker, R. J. (in press). Listening to yourself is like listening to others: External, but not internal, verbal self-monitoring is based on speech perception. Language and Cognitive Processes.

September 2009

Friday 25th September (4pm, S38)

We will be discussing a recently-submitted article on tonguetwisters.
Please email ku.ca.de.sms|tsruhelkcorB.H.P#luaP for a copy.

EDG will be taking a hiatus in September to allow for conference
travel and the start of the new semester.

August 2009

Friday 28th August meeting postponed

Friday 21st August: no meeting

Friday 14th August (4pm, S38)

Bajaj, A. (2007). Working memory involvement in stuttering: Exploring the evidence and research implications. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 32, 218-238.

Friday 7th August: no meeting

July 2009

Friday 31st July (4pm, S38)

Martin Corley and Sonja Schaeflerwill be describing a new experimental paradigm looking at the influence of L1 on L2 articulation, using ultrasound imaging. No preparation required but questions and comments very welcome. (Slides available on the handouts page.)

Friday 24th July (4pm, S38)

Rochester, S.R. (1973). The Significance of Pauses in Spontaneous Speech. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2, 51-81.

Friday 17th July (4pm, S38)

Nooteboom, S., & Quené, H. (2009). On the phonetic structure of inner speech Submitted for publication.

Friday 10thJuly (4pm, S38)

Severens, E., & Hartsuiker, R.J. (2009). Is there a lexical bias effect in comprehension monitoring? Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 910-927.

Friday 3rd July (4pm, S38)

Byrd, C. T., Conture, E. G., & Ohde, R.N. (2007). Phonological Priming in Young Children Who Stutter: Holistic Versus Incremental Processing. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 16, 43–53.

June 2009

Friday 26th June (4pm, S38)

An informal planning and discussion meeting.

June 2009

Friday 19th June (4pm, S38)

Paul Brocklehurst will be presenting some new data from the latest tongue-twister experiment- for discussion.

Friday 12th June: no meeting

Friday 5th June (4pm, S38)

Ziegler, W. (2009). Modelling the architecture of phonetic plans: Evidence from apraxia of speech. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 631-661.

May 2009

Friday 29th May (4pm, S38)

Cholin, J. & Levelt, W.J.M. (2009). Effects of syllable preparation and syllable frequency in speech production: Further evidence for syllabic units at a post-lexical level. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 662-684.

Friday 22nd May: no meeting

Friday 15th May (4pm, S38)

Warriner, A.B., & Humphreys, K.R. (2008). Learning to fail: Reoccurring tip-of-the-tongue states. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 535-542.

Friday 8th May (4pm, S38)

Warker, J.A., Xu, Y., Dell, G.S., & Fisher, C. (In press). Speech errors reflect the phonotactic constraints in recently spoken syllables, but not in recently heard syllables. Cognition.

Friday 1st May (4pm, S38)

Loucks, T.M.J. & De Nil, L.F. (2006). Oral kinesthetic deficit in adults who stutter: A target-accuracy study. Journal of Motor Behavior, 38, 238-246.

April 2009

Next meeting on Friday 24 April

EDG is taking an Easter break. When we meet on Friday 24th we will discuss Nozari, N. & Dell, G. S. (2009). More on lexical bias: How efficient can a “lexical editor” be? Journal of Memory and Language, 60, 291-307.

March 2009

No meeting on Friday 27th March

Members of EDG will be presenting at the Perth Disfluency Special Interest Group (handouts can be found here)

Monday 23rd March (4pm, IN THE COFFEE ROOM)

Acheson, D.J. & MacDonald, M.C. (2009). Twisting tongues and memories: Explorations into the relationship between language production and verbal working memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 60, 329-350.

No meeting on Friday 20th March

Friday 13th March (4pm, S38)

Burke, D.M. & Shafto, M.A (2004). Aging and Language Production. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 21–24.

Friday 13th March, 11am, room S1, 7 George Square

Phil Collard's viva talk: Attention and the comprehension of disfluent speech

Friday 6th March

Alm, P. (2007). A new framework for understanding stuttering: The dual premotor model. In J. Au-Yeung & M. Leahy (Eds.). Research, treatment, and self-help in fluency disorders: New horizons (pp.77-83). Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress on Fluency Disorders, Dublin, Ireland.
This article is not available online. Please contact Martin if you need a copy (see above).

Friday 27 February

An opportunity for EDG members to informally report/discuss their own recent experimental work and findings. So if you have any experimental results you would like to talk about or anything else you think may be of interest, this is your chance.

Friday 20 February

Kazanina, N., Phillips, C., & Idsardi, W. (2006). The influence of meaning on the perception of speech sounds. PNAS, 103, 11381-11386.

Details of Previous Meetings

the list of previous meetings has been archived from the previous wiki, to provide links to literature etc.