Please note: We are in the process of setting up open access to as many of these publications as possible. We are also looking into mechanisms for making datasets and code available. Stay tuned.
2023
Strauss, D. J., Francis, A. L., Vibell, J., & Corona-Strauss, F. I. (2023). The Role of Attention in Immersion: The Two-Competitor Model. bioRxiv, 2023-07.
Exner, A. H., Francis, A. L., MacPherson, M. K., Darling-White, M., & Huber, J. E. (2023). The Effects of Speech Task on Lexical Stress in Parkinson’s Disease. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(2), 506-522.
2022
Francis, A.L. (2022). Adding noise is a confounded nuisance. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152, 1375. Published online Sept. 2, 2022. DOI: 10.1121/10.0013874
Drown, L., Philip, B., Francis, A. L., & Theodore, R. M. (2022). Revisiting the left ear advantage for phonetic cues to talker identification. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(5), 3107-3123. DOI: 10.1121/10.0015093
2021
Love, J., Sung, W., & Francis, A. L. (2021). Psychophysiological responses to potentially annoying heating, ventilation, and air conditioning noise during mentally demanding work. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4), 3149-3163. DOI: 10.1121/10.0006383
Keehn, B., Kadlaskar, G., Bergmann, S., McNally Keehn, R., & Francis, A. (2021). Attentional disengagement and the locus coeruleus – norepinephrine system in children with autism spectrum disorder. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2021.716447
Xu, D., Newell, M., & Francis, A.L. (2021). Fall-related injuries mediate the relationship between self-reported hearing loss and mortality in middle-aged and older adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Medical Sciences, 76(9), e213–e220.
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glab123
Francis, A. L., Bent, T., Schumaker, J., Love, J., & Silbert, N. (2021). Listener characteristics differentially affect self-reported and physiological measures of effort associated with two challenging listening conditions. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(4), 1818-1841.DOI: 10.3758/s13414-020-02195-9
Law, W.L., Dmitrieva, O., & Francis, A.L. (2021). Language attitudes modulate phonetic interactions between languages in bilingual speakers in diglossic settings. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 11(3), 289-322.
2020
Francis, A.L. & Love, J. (2020). Listening Effort: Are we measuring cognition, affect, or both? Invited review article, WIREs Cognitive Science. e1514
2019
Xu, D., & Francis, A.L. (2019) Psychological distress mediates the relationship between hearing impairment and cardiovascular disease. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research; 62(8), 2872-2881.
Keehn, B., Kadlaskar, G., NcNally Keehn, R., & Francis, A.L. (2019). Auditory attentional disengagement in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Available online June, 4 2019.
2018
Francis, A.L. & Oliver, J. (2018). Psychophysiological measurement of affective responses during speech perception, Hearing Research, 369, 103-119.
Francis, A.L., Tigchelaar, L.J., Zhang, R., & Zekveld, A.A. (2018). Effects of second language proficiency and linguistic uncertainty on recognition of speech in native and nonnative competing speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, epub, 1-16.
2017
Strauss, D.J. & Francis, A.L. (2017). Toward a taxonomic model of attention in effortful listening. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neurosciences, , 17(4), 809-825.
2016
Francis, A.L., MacPherson, M.K., Chandrasekaran, B., & Alvar, A.M. (2016). Autonomic nervous system responses during perception of masked speech may reflect constructs other than subjective listening effort. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognitive Hearing Mechanisms of Language Understanding: Short- and Long-term Perspectives, 7(263), 1-15.
Llanos, F. & Francis, A.L. (2016). The effects of language experience and speech context on the phonetic accommodation of English-accented Spanish voicing. Language & Speech, 60(1), 3-26.
2015
Dmitrieva, O., Llanos, F., Shultz, A.A., & Francis, A.L. (2015). Phonological status, not voice onset time, determines the acoustic realization of onset f0 as a secondary voicing cue in Spanish and English. Journal of Phonetics, 49, 77-95.
2014
Lin, M. & Francis, A.L. (2014). Effects of language experience and expectations on attention to consonants and tones in English and Mandarin Chinese. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(5), 2827-2838.
2013
Llanos, F., Dmitrieva, O., Shultz, A.A., & Francis, A.L. (2013). Auditory enhancement and second language experience in Spanish and English weighting of secondary voicing cues. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(3), 2213-2224.
Roberts, F. & Francis, A.L. (2013). Identifying a temporal threshold of tolerance for silent gaps after requests. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(6), EL471-EL477. 2012.
2012
Shultz, A.A., Francis, A.L., & Llanos, F. (2012). Differential cue weighting in perception and production of consonant voicing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132(2), EL95-EL101.
2011
Cristià, A., McGuire, G., Seidl, A., & Francis, A. (2011). Effects of the distribution of cues on infants’ perception of speech sounds. Journal of Phonetics, 39, 388-402.
2010
Kondaurova, M.V. & Francis, A.L. (2010). The role of selective attention in the acquisition of English tense and lax vowels by native Spanish listeners: comparison of three training methods. Journal of Phonetics, 38(4), 569-587.
Zhang, Y. & Francis, A.L. (2010). The weighting of vowel quality in native and non-native listeners’ perception of English lexical stress. Journal of Phonetics, 38(2), 260-271.
Francis, A.L. (2010). Improved segregation of simultaneous talkers differentially affects perceptual and cognitive capacity demands for recognizing speech in competing speech. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 72(2), 501-516.
2009
Francis, A.L., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2009). Effects of intelligibility on working memory demand for speech perception. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics,71(6), 1360-1374.
Finneran, D., Francis, A.L., & Leonard, L. (2009). Sustained attention in preschool-age children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 52, 915-929.
2008
Kondaurova, M.V., & Francis, A.L. (2008). The relationship between native allophonic experience with vowel duration and perception of the English tense/lax vowel contrast by Spanish and Russian listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124(6), 3959-3971.
Francis, A.L., Kaganovich, N., & Driscoll-Huber, C.J. (2008). Cue-specific effects of categorization training on the relative weighting of acoustic cues to consonant voicing in English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124 (2), 1234-1251.
Zhang, Y., Nissen, S.L., & Francis, A.L. (2008). Acoustic characteristics of English lexical stress produced by native Mandarin speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(6), 4498-4513.
Francis, A.L., Ciocca, V., Ma, L., & Fenn, K. (2008). Perceptual learning of Cantonese lexical tones by tone and non-tone language speakers. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 268-294.
2007
Tong, Y., Francis, A.L. & Gandour, J.T. (2007). Perceptual processing dependencies between segmental and suprasegmental features of a tone language. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23(5), 689-708.
Francis, A.L., Nusbaum, H.C., & Fenn, K. (2007). Effects of training on the acoustic phonetic representation of synthetic speech. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 50(6), 1445-1465.
2006
Francis, A.L., Ciocca, V., Wong, V.K.M., & Chan, J.K.L. (2006). Is fundamental frequency a cue to aspiration in initial stops? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120(5), 2884-2896.
Kaganovich, N., Francis, A.L., & Melara, R.D. (2006). Electrophysiological evidence for early interaction between talker and linguistic information during speech perception. Brain Research, 1114, 161-172.
Francis, A.L., & Driscoll, C.J. (2006). Training to use voice onset time as a cue to talker identification induces a left ear/right hemisphere processing advantage. Brain and Language, 98, 310–318.
Xu, Y., Gandour, J.T., & Francis, A.L. (2006). Effects of language experience and stimulus complexity on the categorical perception of pitch direction. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120(2), 1063-1074.
Roberts, F., Francis, A.L., & Morgan, M. (2006). The interaction of inter-turn silence with prosodic cues in listener perception of ‘trouble’ in conversation. Speech Communication, 48, 1079-1093.
Francis, A.L., Ciocca, V.C., Wong, N.K.U., Leung, W.H.Y., & Chu, P.C.Y. (2006). Extrinsic context affects perceptual normalization of lexical tone. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119(3), 1712-1726.
2003
Francis, A.L., Ciocca, V.C., & Ng, B.K.C. (2003). On the (non)categorical perception of lexical tones. Perception & Psychophysics, 65(6), 1029-1044.
Francis, A.L. & Ciocca, V. (2003). Stimulus presentation order and the perception of lexical tones in Cantonese. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114(3), 1611-1621.
Francis, A.L., & Ho, D.W.L. (2003). Acquisition of three spoken languages by a child with a cochlear implant. Cochlear Implants International, 4(1), 31-47.
Francis, A.L., Ciocca, V., & Yu, J.M.C. (2003). Accuracy and variability of acoustic measures of voicing onset. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113(2), 1025-1032.
Whitehill, T.L., Francis, A.L., & Ching, C. K.-Y. (2003). Perception of stop placement by children with cleft palate and posterior placement. Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research,46, 451-461.
2002
Ciocca, V., Francis, A.L., Aisha, R., & Wong, L. (2002). The perception of Cantonese lexical tones by prelingually deaf cochlear implantees. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111(5), 2250-2256.
Francis, A.L,. & Nusbaum, H. C. (2002). Selective attention and the acquisition of new phonetic categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28(2), 349–366.
2000
Francis, A. L., Baldwin, K., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2000). Effects of training on attention to acoustic cues. Perception and Psychophysics,62(8), 1668-1680.
1999
Francis, A. L., & Nusbaum, H. C. (1999). The effect of lexical complexity on intelligibility. International Journal of Speech Technology, 3, 15-25.
1995
Nusbaum, H. C., Francis, A. L., & Henly, A.S. (1995). Measuring the naturalness of synthetic speech. International Journal of Speech Technology, 1, 7-19.
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