Natasha Warner

About

Natasha Warner is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona, where she also serves as the Department Head. She holds appointments in the Cognitive Science Program and the Department of East Asian Studies. Her research focuses on phonetics, experimental phonology, and psycholinguistics, with a particular emphasis on reduced, spontaneous speech. Warner directs the Douglass Phonetics Lab, contributing to the study of speech patterns and phonetic phenomena. In addition to her work in phonetics and linguistics, Warner is engaged in language revitalization efforts for the dormant Native American language Mutsun (Costanoan), which was formerly spoken in coastal California. Her language interests include Japanese, Dutch, and Mutsun. She is actively involved in academic and community initiatives related to East Asian studies and language education.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Statistics
• Data science
• Epistemology
• Mathematics
• Econometrics
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Individual differences in perceptual adaptability of foreign sound categories

  Attention Perception & Psychophysics · 2015-09-24 · 60 citations

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• Stress Effects in Vowel Perception as a Function of Language-Specific Vocabulary Patterns

  Phonetica · 2016-10-06 · 46 citations

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  BACKGROUND/AIMS: Evidence from spoken word recognition suggests that for English listeners, distinguishing full versus reduced vowels is important, but discerning stress differences involving the same full vowel (as in mu- from music or museum) is not. In Dutch, in contrast, the latter distinction is important. This difference arises from the relative frequency of unstressed full vowels in the two vocabularies. The goal of this paper is to determine how this difference in the lexicon influences…

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• Reduced speech: All is variability

  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science · 2019-02-27 · 41 citations

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  Humans often communicate through reduced speech, where many sounds are altered or deleted. Even whole syllables or occasionally whole words can be deleted, as in the production [t h j y t h ɛ̃m] for do you have time shown in the visual abstract. Such reduction is more common in spontaneous, casual, conversational speech, but it occurs in connected speech in formal settings, and rarely even in careful word‐list reading. Such speech poses challenges for phonetic transcription, since it contains ma…

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• Multidimensional Signals and Analytic Flexibility: Estimating Degrees of Freedom in Human-Speech Analyses

  Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science · 2023 · 32 citations

  Recent empirical studies have highlighted the large degree of analytic flexibility in data analysis that can lead to substantially different conclusions based on the same data set. Thus, researchers have expressed their concerns that these researcher degrees of freedom might facilitate bias and can lead to claims that do not stand the test of time. Even greater flexibility is to be expected in fields in which the primary data lend themselves to a variety of possible operationalizations. The mult…

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• Lexical representation and processing of word-initial morphological alternations: Scottish Gaelic mutation

  Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology · 2017-04-12 · 7 citations

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  <p class="p1">When hearing speech, listeners begin recognizing words before reaching the end of the word. Therefore, early sounds impact spoken word recognition before sounds later in the word. In languages like English, most morphophonological alternations affect the ends of words, but in some languages, morphophonology can alter the early sounds of a word. Scottish Gaelic, an endangered language, has a pattern of ‘initial consonant mutation’ that changes initial consonants: <em>P</em>òg ‘kiss’…

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Frequent coauthors

• Anne Cutler

  Western Sydney University

  32 shared

• Benjamin V. Tucker

  Northern Arizona University

  18 shared

• James M. McQueen

  Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

  18 shared

• Andréa Weber

  16 shared

• Allard Jongman

  University of Kansas

  11 shared

• Mirjam Ernestus

  10 shared

• Takayuki Arai

  Chiba University

  10 shared

• Dan Brenner

  University of Arizona

  9 shared

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