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Allison Blodgett
Assistant Research Scientist

Area: Second Language Acquisition, Technology Use

Education:
  • BA, University of New Hampshire, 1992
  • MA, Ohio State University, 1998
  • PhD, Ohio State University, 2004

Research Interests:
  • The role of prosody and argument status in sentence comprehension
  • The acquisition and performance of second language intonation
  • Evaluations of transcripts, translations, and translation aids

CASL Research Projects:

Task-based NLP Evaluation for Multi-Media Environments

Selected Publications:

An Initial Account of the Intonation of Emirati Arabic

Argument status and PP-attachment

Functions of intonation boundaries during spoken language comprehension in English

The interaction of prosodic phrasing, verb bias, and plausibility during spoken sentence comprehension

Differences in the timing of implausibility detection for recipient and instrumental prepositional phrases

Whenever the psycholinguistic checks, prosodic phrasing and verb bias interact

Readers cling to poor recipients and quickly reject poor instruments

A comparison of native speaker and American adult learner Vietnamese lexical tones

Vietnamese monophthong vowel production by native speakers and American adult learners

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