Marie Engemann

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf | HHU · Department of English and American Studies

Recent work on the acoustic properties of complex words has found that morphological information may influence the phonetic properties of words, e.g. acoustic duration. Paradigm uniformity has been proposed as one mechanism that may cause such effects. In a recent experimental study Seyfarth et al. (2017) found that the stems of English inflected w...

What happens phonetically in the production of stems in words such as days and daze? Do inflectional stems differ phonetically from monomorphemic words? Can these differences be perceived? This volume aims to answer these questions in a replication project by investigating data from two corpora and a production experiment, as well as by extending t...

Recent research has shown that phonologically identical morphological entities in English show systematic differences in their phonetic realization. For example, word-final /s/ is longest in non-morphemic contexts, shorter with suffixes, and shortest in clitics (e.g. Plag et al. 2017, Schmitz et al. 2021) and the stems of morphologically complex wo...

In language comprehension research there is a debate whether (or if so, how) subsegmental information may influence lexical access (e.g. Cho et al. 2007, Christophe et al. 2004, Goldinger 1996). Recent evidence from studies investigating the phonetic realization of complex words suggest that this debate needs to be extended to the role of subphonem...

Recent research has shown that phonologically identical morphological entities in English show systematic differences in their phonetic realization. For example, stems of morphologically complex words are longer than stems of mono-morphemic words (Engemann & Plag, 2021; Seyfarth et al., 2017), and word-final /s/ is longest as a non-morphemic segmen...

Recent research has shown that phonologically identical morphological entities in English show systematic differences in their phonetic realization. For example, word-final /s/ is longest in non-morphemic contexts, shorter with suffixes, and shortest in clitics (Plag et al., 2017; Schmitz et al., 2020), while stems of morphologically complex words...

In my master's thesis I performed a perception experiment in which participants listened to homophone sentences such as "The roof's/roofs collapsed" and were then asked to evaluate whether "roof" is singular or plural. I did not find any significant results for a duration of the word-final s. Rather, participants tended to decide on singular or plu...