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- mcgill linguistics
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- crblm
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- crc
- fqrsc
- mcgill
- sshrc
associated with
- brams
output
2012
Wagner, Michael. Contrastive Topics Decomposed. Semantics & Pragmatics 5.8. 1-54. [doi]
Wagner, Michael. A Givenness Illusion. Language and Cognitive Processes. 27.10 1433-1458. [doi].
Wagner, Michael. Focus and Givenness: A Unified Approach. In: Ivona Kučerová and Ad Neeleman: Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure. Cambridge University Press. 102–148. [Paper]
Wagner, Michael. The locality of allomorph selection and production planning. In: A. McKillen & J. Loughran (eds.): Proceedings of the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto (MOT) Phonology Workshop 2011. Phonology in the 21st Century: In Honour of Glyne Piggott. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics 22(1). [paper]
2011
Wagner, Michael. Production planning constraints on allomorphy. Canadian Acoustics. 39.3. 160–161. [paper]
Gorman, Kyle, Jonathan Howell and Michael Wagner. Prosodylab-Aligner: A Tool for Forced Alignment of Laboratory Speech. Canadian Acoustics. 39.3. 192–193. [paper]
2010
Wagner, Michael and Katherine McCurdy. Poetic rhyme reflects cross-linguistic differences in information structure. Cognition 117. 166–175. [doi] [preprint] [items]
Wagner, Michael. Prosody and recursion in coordinate structures and beyond. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 28: 183–237 [doi] [preprint]
Breen, Mara, Evelina Fedorenko, Michael Wagner and Edward Gibson: Acoustic correlates of information structure. Language and Cognitive Processes25.7. 1044–1098. [doi] [preprint]
Wagner, Michael and Duane Watson: Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody: A review. Introduction to special issue of Language and Cognitive Processes. 25.7. 905–945. [doi] .
Wagner, Michael, Mara Breen, Edward Flemming, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel and Ted Gibson: Prosodic Effects of Discourse Salience and Association with Focus. Speech Prosody, University of Chicago. [4pp] [paper]
Wagner, Michael and Serena Crivellaro: Relative Prosodic Boundary Strength and Prior Bias in Disambiguation. Speech Prosody, University of Chicago. [4pp] [paper]
2009
Wagner, Michael. Focus, Topic, and Word order: A Compositional View. Alternatives to Cartography. Edited by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 53–86. [Preprint] [doi]
2008
Wagner, Michael. A compositional theory of contrastive topics. Muhammad Abdurrahman and Anisa Schardl and Martin Walkow: Proceedings of NELS 2007. Volume I. GLSA Publications. 415–428. [Paper]
Wagner, Michael. `And’, `or’, and ∅. Snippets 17. 11–12. [paper]
2007
Wagner, Michael. A note on stress in intransitives in English. Snippets 16. 19–20. [paper]
Wagner, Michael. Prosodic Evidence for Recursion? Posted on lingbuzz in December 2007. [paper]
Bachrach, Asaf & Michael Wagner. Syntactically Driven Cyclicity vs. Output-Output Correspondence: The Case of Adjunction in Diminutive Morphology. Posted on lingbuzz in January 2007. [paper]
2006
Wagner, Michael. Association by Movement. Evidence from NPI-Licensing. Natural Language Semantics. Natural Language Semantics 14. 297–324. [doi] [preprint]
Wagner, Michael. Givenness and Locality. In: M. Gibson & J. Howell (eds.): Proceedings of SALT XVI. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. 295–312. [doi]
2005
(2005) Prosody and Recursion. Ph.D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Techonology (Some typos corrected 2007). [Thesis]
Note: Some parts of the thesis have been superceded by the paper on Coordinate Structures and the Givenness Paper listed above!
Wagner, Michael. NPI-Licensing and Focus Movement. In: Effi Georgala and Jonathan Howell (eds.): Proceedings of SALT XV. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. [Paper]
Wagner, Michael. Asymmetries in Prosodic Domain Formation. In: Norvin Richards and Martha Mcginnis (eds.): Perspectives on Phases. Cambridge, MA: MITWPL 49. 329–367. [Paper]
2004
Wagner, Michael. Prosody as Diagonalization of Syntax. Evidence from Complex Predicates. In Keir Moulton and Matthew Wolf (eds.): Proceeding of NELS 34. SUNY Stony Brook, 2003. [15pp] [Paper]
Wagner, Michael. Asymmetries in the Syntax and Prosody of Verb-Intial Interpolated Clauses in German. Proceedings of Console XII 2003, University of Patras, Greece. [15pp.] [Paper]
2003
Jaeger, Florian and Michael Wagner. Association with Focus and Linear Order in German. Available on the Semantics Archive. [Paper]
2002
2002 The role of prosody in laryngeal neutralization. In: Aniko Csirmaz, Zhiqiang Li, Andrew Nevins, Olga Vaysman, and Michael Wagner (eds.): Phonological Answers. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 42. 357–376. [Paper]