Prof. Dr. Andrea Weber

2024

• Chalyvidou, D., & Weber, A. (submitted). The role of grammatical gender and gender stereotypes in noun processing: A tug of war in Greek.

• Beck, S. D., & Weber, A. (2024). Who said it? Native and non-native listeners' source memory for object-speaker associations. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2:1296945. 
• Sprenger, S. A., Beck, S. D., & Weber, A. (2024). What fires together, wires together: the effect of idiomatic co-occurrence on lexical networks. Languages 9:105
• Truong, T. L., & Weber, A. (2024). Investigating the effect of nativeness and speaker age on the credibility of spoken sentences. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2:1292344. 
• Truong, T. L., & Weber, A. (2024). Ethnolinguistic identification of Vietnamese-German heritage speech. Interspeech 2024.

2023

• Broersma, M., & Weber, A. (2023). Spoken word recognition in bilingualism. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2nd edition, 1-8.
• Truong, T. L., & Weber, A. (2023). The influence of face masks on native and non-native memory recall of spoken sentences. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 4017-4022). Prague, Czech Republic.

2022

• Beck, S. D., & Weber, A. (2022). Unlocking the key to L2 idiomatic processing: non-native listeners’ idiomatic processing is not immediately affected by the idiomatic key. In R. Hörnig, S. von Wietersheim, A. Konietzko, & S. Featherston (Eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020 (pp. 97-112). Tübingen: University of Tübingen.
• Cutler, A., Ernestus, M., Warner, N., & Weber, A. (2022). Managing big data in speech perception. In A. Berez-Kroeker, B. McDonnell, E. Koller & L. Collister (Eds.), The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management (pp.565-573). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Truong, T. L., & Weber, A. (2022). Trust issues: the effect of speaker age on credibility. In R. Hörnig, S. von Wietersheim, A. Konietzko, & S. Featherston (Eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020 (pp. 351-361). Tübingen: University of Tübingen.

2021

• Beck, S. D., & Weber, A. (2021). Phrasal learning is a horse apiece: no memory advantages for idioms in L1 and L2 adult learners. Frontiers in Psychology,12, 591364.
• Truong, T. L., Beck, S. D., & Weber, A. (2021). The impact of face masks on the recall of spoken sentences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149, 142-144.
• Truong, T. L., & Weber, A. (2021). Intelligibility and recall of sentences spoken by adult and child talkers wearing face masks. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150, 1674-1681.
• Kessler, R., Weber, A., & Friedrich, C. K. (2021). Activation of literal word meanings in idioms: evidence from eye-tracking and ERP experiments. Language & Speech, 64(3), 594-624.

2020

• Asano, Y., Yuan, C., Grohe, A.-K., Weber, A., Antoniou, M., & Cutler, A. (2020). Uptalk interpretation as a function of listening experience. In N. Minematsu, M. Kondo, T. Arai, & R. Hayashi (Eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020 (pp. 735-739). Tokyo: ISCA.
• Beck, S. D., & Weber, A. (2020). Context and literality in idiom processing: evidence from self-paced reading. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 49(5), 837-863.

2019

• Beck, S. D., & Weber, A. (2019). Context matters, figuratively, for L2 readers: evidence from self-paced reading. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 1, e057

2018

• Grohe, A.-K., & Weber, A. (2018). Memory advantage for produced words and familiar native accents. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 30(6), 570-587.
• Weber, A., & Broersma, M. (2018). Die Erkennung gesprochener Wörter in einer L2. In S. Schimke & H. Holger (Hrsg.), Sprachverarbeitung im Zweitspracherwerb (pp. 55-74). Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter.

2017

• Kember, H., Grohe, A.-K., Zahner, K., Braun, B., Weber, A., & Cutler, A. (2017). Similar prosodic structure perceived differently in German and English. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, (pp. 1388-1392). Stockholm, Sweden.

2016

• Asano, Y., & Weber, A. (2016). Listener sensitivity to foreign-accented speech with grammatical errors. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1775 - 1780).
• Beck, S. D., & Weber, A. (2016a). Bilingual and monolingual idiom processing is cut from the same cloth: the role of the L1 in literal and figurative meaning activation. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1350.
• Beck, S. D., & Weber, A. (2016b). L2 Idiom Processing: Figurative Attunement in Highly Idiomatic Contexts. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1817-1822).
• Bien, H., Hanulíková, A., Weber, A. & Zwisterlood, P. (2016). A neurophysiological investigation of non-native phoneme perception by Dutch and German listeners. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 56.
• Grohe, A.-K., Downing, M., & Weber, A. (2016). Similarity in global accent promotes generalized learning of accent markers. Proceedings of the 16th Speech Science and Technology Conference, (pp. 61-64). Sydney, Australia.
• Grohe, A.-K., & Weber, A. (2016a). The Penefit of salience: salient accented, but not unaccented words reveal accent adaptation effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 864.
• Grohe, A.-K., & Weber, A. (2016b). Learning to comprehend foreign-accented speech by means of production and listening training. Language Learning, 66, 187-209.
• Grohe, A.-K., & Weber, A. (2016c). Speaking aloud improves recall for words with familiar and unfamiliar accents. Proceedings of the 16th Speech Science and Technology Conference (pp. 61 - 64.) Sydney, Australia.

2015

• Grohe, A.-K., Poarch, G., Hanulíková, A, & Weber, A. (2015). Production inconsistencies delay adaptation to foreign accents. Proceedings of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2015, (pp. 3115-3119).
• Wieling, M., Veenstra, P., Adank, P., Weber, A., & Tiede, M. (2015). Comparing L1 and L2 speakers using articulography. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2015. Glasgow, Scotland.
• Witteman, M. J., Bardhan, N.P., Weber, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2015). Automaticity and stability of adaptation to foreign-accented speech. Language & Speech. 52(2), 168-189.

2014

• Scharenborg, O., Weber, A., & Janse, E. (2014). The role of attentional abilities in lexically guided perceptual learning by older listeners. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 77, 493-507.
• Weber, A., Di Betta, A. M., & McQueen, J. M. (2014). Treack or trit: adaptation to genuine and arbitrary foreign accents by monolingual and bilingual listeners. Journal of Phonetics, 46, 34-51.
• Witteman, M. J., Weber, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2014). Tolerance for inconsistency in foreign-accented speech. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 512-519.

2013

• Eisner, F., Melinger, A., & Weber, A. (2013). Constraints on the transfer of perceptual learning in accented speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 148.
• Reinisch, E., Weber, A., & Mitterer, H. (2013). Listeners retune phoneme categories across languages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 75-86.
• Witteman, M. J., Weber, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2013). Foreign accent strength and listener familiarity with an accent co-determine speed of perceptual adaptation. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 75, 537-556.

2012

• Hanulíková, A., & Weber, A. (2012). Sink positive: linguistic experience with th substitutions influences nonnative word recognition. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 74(3), 613-629.
• Hanulíková, A., Van Alphen, P. M., Van Goch, M. M., & Weber, A. (2012). When one person’s mistake is another’s standard usage: the effect of foreign accent on syntactic processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(4), 878-887.
• Reinisch, E., & Weber, A. (2012). Adapting to suprasegmental lexical stress errors in foreign-accented speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132, 1165-1176.
• Scharenborg, O., Janse, E., & Weber, A. (2012). Perceptual learning of /f/-/s/ by older listeners. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2012), (pp. 398-401).
• Scharenborg, O., Witteman, M., & Weber, A. (2012). Computational modelling of the recognition of foreign-accented speech. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2012), (pp. 882-885).
• Weber, A., & Broersma, M. (2012). Spoken word recognition in second language acquisition. In C.A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Bognor Regis: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Weber, A., & Crocker, M. W. (2012). On the nature of semantic constraints on lexical access. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 41, 195-214.
• Weber, A., & Scharenborg, O. (2012). Models of spoken-word recognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 3, 387-401.
• Hanulíková, A., Van Alphen, P. M., Van Goch, M. M., & Weber, A. (2012). When one person's mistake is another's standard usage: the effect of foreign accent on syntactic processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(4), 878-887.

2011

• Reinisch, E. & Weber, A. (2011). Adapting to lexical stress in foreign accents. W.-S. Lee, & E. Zee (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2011 (pp. 1678-1681). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong.
• Weber, A., Broersma, M., & Aoyagi, M. (2011). Spoken-word recognition in foreign-accented speech by L2 listeners. Journal of Phonetics, 39, 479-491.
• Witteman, M. J., Weber, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2011). On the relationship between perceived accentedness, acoustic similarity, and processing difficulty in foreign-accented speech. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp. 2229-2232), Florence, Italy.

2010

• Broersma, M., Aoyagi, M., & Weber, A. (2010). Cross-linguistic production and perception of Japanese- and Dutch-accented English. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan, 14, 60-75.
• Hanulíková, A. & Weber, A. (2010). Production of English interdental fricatives by Dutch, German, and English speakers. K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, M. Wrembel, & M. Kul (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, Poznań, Poland, 1-3 May 2010, (pp. 173-178). Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University.
• Weber, A. & Pöllmann, K. (2010). Identifying foreign speakers with an unfamiliar accent or in an unfamiliar language. New Sounds 2010: Sixth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, 536-541. Poznan, Poland: Adam Mickiewicz University.
• van Rees Vellinga, M., Hanulíková, A., Weber, A., & Zwitserlood, P. (2010). A neurophysiological investigation of processing phoneme substitutions in L2. New Sounds 2010: Sixth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, 518-523. Poznan, Poland: Adam Mickiewicz University.

2009

• Weber, A., Crocker, M., & Knoeferle, P. (2009). Conflicting constraints in resource adaptive language comprehension. In M. Crocker & J. Siekmann (Eds.), Resource Adaptive Cognitive Systems (pp. 119-141). Berlin: Springer Verlag.

2008

• Schulte im Walde, S., Melinger, A., Roth, M., & Weber, A. (2008). An empirical characterization of response types in German association norms. Research on Language and Computation, 6, 205-238.
• Weber, A. (2008a). What eye movements can tell us about spoken-language processing: a psycholinguistic survey. In C. Riehl & A. Rothe (Eds.), Was ist linguistische Evidenz. Reihe des Zentrums “Sprachenvielfalt und Mehrsprachigkeit” der Universität Köln (pp. 57-68). Aachen: Shaker Verlag.
• Weber, A. (2008b). What the eyes can tell us about spoken-language comprehension. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124, 2474.
• Weber, A. & Melinger, A. (2008). Name dominance in spoken-word recognition is (not) modulated by expectations: evidence from synonyms. Proceedings of the International Speech Communication Association workshop: Experimental Linguistics (pp. 205-208). Athens, Greece.

2007

• Cutler, A. & Weber, A. (2007). Listening experience and phonetic-to-lexical mapping in L2. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 43-48). Saarbrücken.
• Schulte im Walde, S., Melinger, A., Roth, M., & Weber A. (2007). An empirical characterization of response types in German association norms. Proceedings of the GLDV workshop on lexical-semantic and ontological resources (pp. 109-118). Tübingen.
• Strange, W., Weber, A., Levy, E., Shafiro, V., & Jenkins, J. (2007). Acoustic variability of German, French, and American vowels: effects of phonetic context. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122, 1111-1129.
• Weber, A., Melinger, A., & Lara Tapia, L. (2007). The mapping of phonetic information to lexical presentations in Spanish: evidence from eye movements. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1941-1944). Saarbrücken.

2006

• Cutler, A., Weber, A., & Otake, T. (2006). Asymmetric mapping from phonetic to lexical representations in second language listening. Journal of Phonetics, 34, 269-284.
• Melinger, A., Schulte im Walde, S., & Weber, A. (2006). Characterizing response types and revealing noun ambiguity in German association norms. Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 41-48). Turin, Italy.
• Weber, A., Braun, B., & Crocker, M. (2006). Finding referents in time: eye-tracking evidence for the role of contrastive accents. Language & Speech, 49, 367-392.
• Weber, A. & Cutler, A. (2006). First-language phonotactics in second-language listening. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 597-607.
• Weber, A., Grice, M., & Crocker, M. (2006). The role of prosody in the interpretation of structural ambiguities: a study of anticipatory eye movements. Cognition, 99, B63-B72.

2005

• Braun, B., Weber, A., & Crocker, M. (2005). Does narrow focus activate alternative referents? Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp. 1709-1711). Lissabon, Portugal.

2004

• Cutler, A., Weber, A., Smits, R., & Cooper, N. (2004). Patterns of English phoneme confusions by native and non-native listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 3668-3678.
• Weber, A. & Cutler, A. (2004). Lexical competition in non-native spoken-word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 1-25.
• Weber, A. & Müller, K. (2004). Word order variation in German main clauses: a corpus analysis. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp. 71-77). Genua, Italy.
• Weber, A. & Paris, G. (2004). The origin of the linguistic gender effect in spoken-word recognition: evidence from non-native listening. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1446-1451). Chicago, USA.

2003

• Weber, A. & Smits, R. (2003). Consonant and vowel confusion patterns by American English listeners. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1437-1440). Barcelona, Spain.

2002

• Warner, N. & Weber, A. (2002). Stop epenthesis at syllable boundaries. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 1121-1124). Denver, USA.
• Weber, A. (2002). Assimilation violation and spoken-language processing: a supplementary report. Language & Speech, 45, 37-46.

2001

• Warner, N. & Weber, A. (2001). Perceptual consequences of unintended epenthetic stops. Journal of Phonetics, 29, 53-87.
• Weber, A. (2001). Help or hindrance: how violation of different assimilation rules affects spoken-language processing. Language & Speech, 44, 95-118.
• Weber, A. (2001). Language-specific listening: the case of phonetic sequences. Dissertation, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Niederlande (Max Planck Institute series in Psycholinguistics, 16). Wageningen: Ponsen & Looijen bv.

2000

• Weber, A. (2000). Phonotactic and acoustic cues for word segmentation in English. In B. Yuan, T. Huang, & X. Tang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (Vol. 3, pp. 782-785). Beijing, China.
• Weber, A. (2000). The role of phonotactics in the segmentation of native and non-native continuous speech. In A. Cutler, J. McQueen, & R. Zondervan (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Spoken Access Processes (pp. 143-146). Nijmegen, Netherlands.

1998

• Weber, A. (1998). Listening to non-native language which violates native assimilation rules. In D. Duez (Ed.), Proceedings of the European Scientific Communication Association workshop: Sound patterns of Spontaneous Speech (pp. 101-104). Aix-en-Provence, France.