Publications

Clapp, W., Vaughn, C., and Sumner, M. (under review). Asymmetries in the episodic encoding of individual talkers’ voices. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

Clapp, W., Todd, S., Vaughn, C., and Sumner, M. (2023). Talker-specificity and token-specificity in recognition memory.  Cognition, 237, 1 – 14.

Clapp, W., Vaughn, C., and Sumner, M. (2023). The episodic encoding of voice attributes across diverse talkers. Journal of Memory and Language Special Issue: Replicating Influential Findings in Memory and Language, 128, 1 – 36.

Hernandez, A., and Sumner, M. (2022). Semantic priming across speakers and listeners of Latino varieties of English. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 44, 3310 – 3317.

Sumner, M. and Kim, S. K. (2022). Psycholinguistic aspects of phonetics. In J. Setter & R.-A. Knight (Eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press.

Kim, S. K. and Sumner, M. (2017). Beyond lexical meaning: The effect of emotional prosody on spoken word recognition.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142, EL49 – EL55.

Voigt, R., Jurafsky, D. and Sumner, M. 2016. Between- and Within-Speaker Effects of Bilingualism on F0 Variation. Proc. Interspeech San Francisco, 1122-1126

Sumner, M. (2015). The social weight of spoken words. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 238-239.

Kim, S. K., and Sumner, M. (2015). Effects of emotional prosody on semantic priming. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1099 – 1104.

King, E., and Sumner, M. (2015). Voice-specific effects in semantic association. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1111 – 1116.

King, S., and Sumner, M. (2014). Voices and variants: Effects of voice on the form-based processing of words with different phonological variants. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2913 – 2918). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Sumner, M., Kim, S. K., King, E., and McGowan, K. (2014). The socially-weighted encoding of spoken words: A dual-route approach to speech perception.  Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 1 – 13.

Sumner, M., and Kataoka, R. (2013). Effects of phonetically-cued talker variation on semantic encoding. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, EL485–EL491.

Sumner, M. (2013). A phonetic explanation of phonological variant effects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, EL26 – EL32.

Moon, K., and Sumner, M. (2013). The learning and generalization of contrasts consistent or inconsistent with native biases. Interspeech 2013, 2103. – 2107.

Sumner, M., Kurumada, C., Gafter, R., and Casillas, M. (2013). Phonetic variation and the recognition of words with pronunciation variants. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the 35^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 3486 – 3491.

Samuel, A. G., and Sumner, M. (2012). Current directions in research on spoken word recognition.  In M. Spivey, M. Joanisse, and K. McRae (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics.  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sumner, M. (2011). The role of variation in the perception of accented speech. Cognition, 119, 131-36.

de Marneffe, M–C., Tomlinson, J., Tice, M., and Sumner, M. (2011). The interaction of lexical frequency and phonetic variability in the perception of accented speech.  In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Sumner, M., and Samuel, A. G. (2009). The effect of experience on the perception and representation of dialect variants.  Journal of Memory and Language, 60, 487 – 501.

Sumner, M. (2009). The learning and generalization of novel contrastive cues. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 412 – 418.

Sumner, M., and Samuel, A. G. (2007). Lexical inhibition and sub-lexical facilitation are surprisingly long lasting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33, 769 – 790.

Sumner, M., and Samuel, A. G. (2005). Perception and representation of regular variation: The case of final /t/. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 322 – 338. 

Sumner, M. (2003). A psycholinguistic approach to abstractness: The case of Hebrew.  In Arunachalam et al. (eds.), Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, v. 8.1. Philadelphia: Penn Linguistics Club, 150 – 159. 

Sumner, M. (2002). The reality of abstract representations in Modern Hebrew.  In L. Mikkelsen and C. Potts (eds.), Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, vol. 21. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 429 – 442.

Sumner, M. (1999). Compensatory lengthening as coalescence: Analysis and implications.  In A. Barss et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, vol. 18. Somerville, MD: Cascadilla Press, 532 – 544.

Sumner, M. (1999). Are you there? Self–interruption and the restructuring of conversation. In Verschueren (ed.), Pragmatics in 1998: Selected papers from the 6th International Pragmatics Conference, vol. 2. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, 536 – 546.