Publications
Breen, M., Van Dyke, J. Krivokapić, J., & Landi, N. (2024) Prosodic features in production reflect reading comprehension skill in high school students. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. pdf
Breen, M., Garcia, S., Franck, G., & Fitzroy, A.B. (2024) Adult readers signal metric and rhyme structure through acoustic variation in a Spanish children’s book. To appear in Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. Leiden, Netherlands. pdf
Brugos, A., Breen, M., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., Veilleux, N., & Barnes, J. (2023). Marking prominence: Towards cue-based annotation of prosodic prominence. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1673-1677). Guarant International. pdf
White, C.W., Pater, J. & Breen, M. (2022). A Comparative Analysis of Melodic Rhythm in Two Corpora of American Popular Music. Journal of Mathematics and Music, 16 (2), 160-182. pdf
Tierney, A., Patel, A. D., Jasmin, K., & Breen, M. (2021). Individual differences in perception of the speech-to-song illusion are linked to musical aptitude but not musical training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 12, 1681. pdf
Breen, M. & Fitzroy, A. B. (2021). Pitch cues to hierarchical metric structure in children’s poetry. In Proceedings of Future Directions of Music Cognition, Columbus, Ohio. pdf
Fitzroy, A. B., & Breen, M. (2019). Metric structure and rhyme predictability modulate speech intensity during child-directed and read-alone productions of children's literature. Language and Speech. pdf
Breen, M., Fitzroy, A.B., & Oraa Ali, M. (2019). ERP evidence of implicit metric structure during silent reading. Brain Sciences. pdf
Breen, M. (2018). Effects of metric hierarchy and rhyme predictability on word duration in The Cat in the Hat. Cognition, 174. pdf
Tierney, A., Patel, A. & Breen, M. (2018). Acoustic foundations of the speech-to-song illusion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 147(6), 888. pdf
Tierney, A., Patel, A. & Breen, M. (2018). Repetition enhances the musicality of speech and tone stimuli to similar degrees. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 35(5), 573-578. pdf
Dilley, L. & Breen, M. (2018). An enhanced autosegmental-metrical theory (AM+) facilitates phonetically transparent prosodic annotation. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language, Berlin, Germany. pdf
Brugos, A., Breen, M., Veilleux, N., Barnes, J., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2018). Cue-based annotation and analysis of prosodic boundary events. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Poznan, Poland. pdf
Breen, M., Kaswer L, Van Dyke JA, Krivokapic J and Landi N (2016). Imitated prosodic fluency predicts reading comprehension ability in good and poor high school readers.Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1026. pdf
Tierney, A., Patel, A. & Breen, M. (2016). Acoustic and musical foundations of the speech/song illusion. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco, CA. pdf
Weidman, S., Breen, M., & Haydon, K.C. (2016). Prosodic Speech Entrainment in Romantic Relationships. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, USA. pdf
Breen, M. (2014). Empirical investigations of the role of implicit prosody in sentence processing. Language and Linguistics Compass. 8(2) 37-50. pdf
Breen, M., Dilley, L.C., McAuley, J.D., and Sanders, L.D. (2014). Auditory evoked potentials reveal early perceptual effects of distal prosody on speech segmentation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. pdf
Breen, M., Weidman, S. & Guarino. K. (2014). Rhythm and Expression in The Cat in the Hat. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2014, Dublin, Ireland. pdf
Breen, M. and Clifton, C., Jr. (2013). Stress matters revisited: A boundary change experiment. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 66(10), 1896-1909. pdf
Breen, M., Kingston, J., and Sanders, L. D. (2013). Perceptual representations of phonotactically illegal syllables. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. 75(1) 101-120. pdf
Breen, M., Dilley, L.C., Kraemer, J., and Gibson, E. (2012). Inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: ToBI (Tones and Break Indices) and RaP (Rhythm and Pitch). Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 8 (2), 277-312. pdf
Levy, R., Fedorenko, E., Breen, M., and Gibson, E. (2012). The processing of extraposed structures in English. Cognition, 122, 12-36. pdf
Breen, M. and Clifton, Charles (2011). Stress Matters: Effects of Anticipated Lexical Stress on Silent Reading. Journal of Memory and Language, 64 (2), 153-170. pdf
Breen, M., Watson, D.G., and Gibson, E. (2011). Intonational phrasing is dependent on the length of semantic dependency. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26 (10), 1532-1562. pdf
Breen, M., Fedorenko, E., Wagner, M., Gibson, E., (2010). Acoustic correlates of information structure. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25 (7), 1044-1098. pdf
Watson, D., Breen, M., & Gibson, E. (2006). The role of syntactic obligatoriness in the production of intonational boundaries. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32(5), 1045-1056. pdf