Englisches Seminar

Prof. Dr. Andrea Weber

Chair of Psycholinguistics and Applied Language Studies

Andrea Weber conducted the research for her PhD in the Comprehension Group of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen under the supervision of Anne Cutler and Natasha Warner. Her research was awarded in 2001 with the prestigious Otto-Hahn medal of the Max Planck Society. After receiving her PhD from the Radboud University, postdoctoral fellowships followed at the City University of New York and Saarland University. In 2007, Weber was granted the Max Planck W2 Minerva program which allowed her to lead an independent research group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. In 2012, she took up a full-time professorship at Tübingen University. Weber’s research has focused primarily on how our experience with languages shapes our perception of spoken language. Specifically, how we learn the sounds and words of our languages, and how to store and access them when needed for language use.


Publications

Recent Publications

2024

  • 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

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

  • Mitterer, H., & Weber, A. (submitted). Word-final obstruent voicing in L2 English by German and Maltese learners.
  • 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. 
  • 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. 

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 America149, 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 & Speech64(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 Research49(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

Older Publications

2018

  • Grohe, A.-K., & Weber, A. (2018). Memory advantage for produced words and familiar native accents. Journal of Cognitive Psychology30(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

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 Neuroscience24(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.

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