Research
My research centres on how linguistic systems exploit speech sounds to convey different types of meaning. My focus is primarily on prosody: intonation, accentuation, rhythm, and phrasing.
Drawing on a variety of disciplines (phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and computational linguistics), this research addresses questions like:
- How do prosodic structures differ cross-linguistically, and how do linguistic systems constrain prosodic structure?
- What cross-linguistic variation can we expect to observe in the phonetic realisation of prosodic structure?
- What are the neural and cognitive underpinnings of prosody?
- How do children acquire the relevant mappings between phonetics, phonology, and other parts of the linguistic system that are at play?
- What role does prosody play in language learning in early and late bilinguals?
Publications
Post, Brechtje, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Iwo Bohr, Francis Nolan, and Chris Cummins (2015). Categories and gradience in intonation. An fMRI study. In J. Romero and M. Riera (eds.) The Phonetics/Phonology Interface: Sounds, representations, methodologies. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 259 – 284. doi 10.1075/cilt.335-13pos
Delais-Roussarie, Élisabeth, Brechtje Post, Mathieu Avanzi, Caroline Buthke, Albert Di Cristo, Ingo Feldhausen, Sun-Ah Jun, Philippe Martin, Trudel Meisenburg, Annie Rialland, Rafèu Sichel-Bazin, and Hi-Yon Yoo (2015). Developing a ToBI system for French. In Frota, Sonia and Pilar Prieto (eds.) Intonational Variation in Romance. Oxford University Press, 63 – 100.
Schmidt, Anke-Elaine, and Brechtje Post (2015). The development of prosodic features and ambient language effects in simultaneous bilinguals. Language and Speech 58(1), 24 - 47. (doi:10.1177/0023830914565809)
Zellers, Meg and Brechtje Post (2012). Combining Formal and Functional Approaches to Discourse Structure. Language and Speech, 55: 119-139.
Post, Brechtje and Francis Nolan (2012). Data collection for prosodic analysis of continuous speech and dialectal variation. In Abigail C. Cohn, Cécile Fougeron, and Marie Huffman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 538-547.
Payne, Elinor, Brechtje Post, Pilar Prieto, Maria del Mar Vanrell and Lluïsa Astruc (2012). Measuring child rhythm. Language and Speech. DOI: 10.1177/0023830911417687.
Delais-Roussarie, Élisabeth, Hi-Yon Yoo and Brechtje Post (2011). Quand frontières prosodiques et frontières syntaxiques se rencontrent. Langue Française, 170: 29-44.
Post, Brechtje (2011). The multi-faceted relation between phrasing and intonation in French. In Lleo, C. and C. Gabriel Hamburger Studies in Multilingualism 10. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 44-74.
Post, Brechtje, William Marslen-Wilson, Billi Randall and Lorraine K. Tyler (2008). The processing of English regular inflections: Phonological cues to morphological structure. Cognition, 109, 1–17.
Publications (from Symplectic)
2024
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.67.07sim
2021
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198832232.013.15
2020 (No publication date)
2018
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.23.07pos
2017
2016
Doi: http://doi.org/10.21832/ISAACS6848
2015 (Published online)
Doi: 10.1075/cilt.335.13pos
2015
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199685332.003.0003
2013
2012 (No publication date)
2012
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199553426.003.0004
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199575039.013.0019
2011
Doi: 10.1075/hsm.10.04pos
2010
2005
2003
2002
2001
1995
2023
Doi: 10.1177/00238309221143719
Doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112422
Doi: 10.1080/23273798.2023.2227297
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000375
Doi: 10.1017/S1366728923000871
2022 (Accepted for publication)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221090068
2022
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.879156
2021
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000920000069
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.688002
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000593
2020
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/0023830918819573
2019
Doi: 10.1159/000497439
2018
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2017.08.002
2016
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3917/lf.191.0005
2015
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/0023830914565809
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00495
2014
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263113000752
2013
2012 (No publication date)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/0023830911417687
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/0023830912460494
2012
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2011.12.001
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/0023830911428872
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2011.12.001
2011
Doi: 10.3917/lf.170.0029
2010
2009
2008
Doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.06.011
2006
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/00238309060490040501
2005
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.03.008
2003
2000
Doi: 10.1006/jpho.2000.0111
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/prbs.2000.12.1.127
1999
1998
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1177/002383099804100104
2022
Doi: http://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10697
2020
Doi: http://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-26
2018
Doi: http://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2018-12
2016
Doi: http://doi.org/10.21437/speechprosody.2016-50
Doi: http://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2016-19