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ONGOING PROJECTS

Online processing of phonetic and prosodic cues to code-switching in bilingual.

Funding: Insight grant, SSHRC

Role: Co-principal investigator with S. Baum

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The role of phrase final lengthening in speech parsing and its interaction with stress-timed, syllable-timed, and mora-timed language structure.

Funding: Insight development grant, SSHRC

Role: Co-principal investigator with S. Baum

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Phonetic processing in bilingualism

Role: In collaboration with S. Baum

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Contraintes neurocognitives à l'origine des groupements rythmiques de la parole: étude de la planification de la parole en temps réel.

Role: Principal investigator, in collaboration with D. Titone

SKILLS

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Software

- Acoustical analyses:

  Praat,

  MultiSpeech,

  WinPitchPro.

 

- Acoustic stimuli creation:

  TandemStraight (Matlab toolbox),

  Goldwave.

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- Stimuli presentation / experiment design
  E-Prime,

  Inquisit,

  Experiment Builder.

- Electrophysiological signal analysis:

  Matlab toolboxes: EEGLab, FieldTrip,

  BrainVision Analyzer2, 

  Cognitrace, 

  EEProbe,

  BioProc.

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- Statistics and graphics:

  R-studio,

  SPSS,

  Illustrator,

  Grapher.

Techniques

- Electroencephalography (EEG): active or passive electrodes, signal analysis.


- Electromyography (EMG): mono or bipolar surface electrodes, signal analysis.

 

Articulatory kinematics: measurement of lip and jaw displacement using strain gauges, measurement of lip compression, electromagnetic articulography, data processing and analysis.

 

Articulatory aerodynamics: measurement of intra-oral pressure and data analysis, pneumotachography, abdominal plethysmography (breathing).

 

Electroglottography (EGG): installation of electrodes, data collection and analysis.

 

Controlled audio recording: prosodic entrainment technique.

 

Audiometric Hearing Level screening (ANSI)

 

- Basic eye-tracking (visual world paradigms)

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PUBLICATIONS

Peer Reviewed Papers / Articles avec comité de lecture

Colasante Lew, E., Sares, A. G., Gilbert A. C., Zhang, Y., Lehmann, A., & Deroche, M. (2024). Differences between French and English in the use of prosodic cues for the short-term recall of word lists. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. doi: 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-23-00655

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Morningstar, M., Billetdeaux, K. A., Mattson, W. I., Gilbert A. C., Nelson, E. E., & Hoskinson, K. R. (2024). Neural response to vocal emotional intensity in youth. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. doi: 10.3758/s13415-024-01224-6

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Gilbert A. C., Gullifer, J., Kousaie, S., Wolpert, M. A., Titone, D., & Baum, S. R. (Revised 2024). Finding the Key in Kiwi During L2 Spoken Production: Low Proficiency Speakers Sound More Native-Like if they Live in Mixed-Language Environments. 

 

​Gilbert A. C., Lee, J. G., Wolpert, M. A., & Baum, S. R. (2023). Phrase parsing in a second language as indexed by the Closure Positive Shift: The impact of language experience and acoustic cue salience. European Journal of Neuroscience. doi: 10.1111/ejn.16134 

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Sares A. G., Gilbert A. C., Zhang Y., Iordanov M., Lehmann A., Deroche M. L. D. (2023) Grouping by time and pitch facilitates free but not cued recall for word lists in normally-hearing listeners. Trends in Hearing, 27, doi:10.1177/23312165231181757

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Grant, A., Kousaie, S., Coulter, K., Gilbert, A. C., Baum, S. R., Gracco, V., Titone, D., Klein, D., & Phillips, N. A. (2022). Age of acquisition modulates alpha power during bilingual speech comprehension in noise. Frontiers in Psychology.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.865857

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Gilbert, A. C., Honda, C., Phillips, N. A., & Baum, S. R. (2021). Near native-like stress pattern perception in English-French bilinguals as indexed by the mismatch negativity. Brain and Language, 213, 104892. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104892

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Gilbert, A. C., Lee, J. G., Coulter, K., Wolpert, M. A., Kousaie, S., Gracco, V., Klein, D., Titone, D., Phillips, N. A., & Baum, S. R. (2021). Spoken word segmentation in first and second language: When ERP and behavioral measures diverge. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 3974. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.705668

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Morningstar, M., Gilbert, A. C., Burdo, J., Leis, M., & Dirks, M. A. (2021). Recognition of vocal socio-emotional expressions at varying levels of emotional intensity. Emotion, 21 (7), 1570-1575. doi: 10.1037/emo0001024.

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Coulter, K., Gilbert, A. C., Kousaie, S., Baum, S. R., Gracco, V. L., Klein, D., Titone, D., & Phillips, N. A. (2021). Bilinguals benefit from semantic context while perceiving speech in noise in both of their languages: Electrophysiological evidence from the N400 ERP, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 24 (2), 344-357

doi: 0.1017/S1366728920000516

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Gullifer, J., Kousaie, S., Gilbert, A. C., Grant, A., Giroud, N., Coulter, K., Klein, D., Baum, S., Phillips, N., Titone, D. (2021) Bilingual language experience as a multidimensional spectrum: Associations with objective and subjective language proficiency. Applied Psycholinguistics, 42 (2), 245-278. doi : 10.1017/S0142716420000521

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Gilbert, A. C., Cousineau-Perrusse, M., & Titone, D. (2020). L2 exposure modulates the scope of planning during first and second language production. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23 (5), 1093-1105, 1-13. doi: 10.1017/S1366728920000115

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Giroud, N., Baum, S. R., Gilbert, A. C., Phillips, N. A., & Gracco, V. (2020). Earlier age of second language learning induces more robust speech encoding in the auditory brainstem in adults, independent of amount of language exposure during early childhood. Brain and Language, 207, 104815. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2020.104815

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Gilbert, A. C., Wolpert, M., Saito, H., Kousaie, S., Itzhak, I., & Baum, S. R. (2019). Adaptive and selective production of syllable duration and fundamental frequency as word segmentation cues by French-English bilinguals. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146 (6)4255-4272. doi:10.1121/1.5134781
 

Boucher, V. J., Gilbert, A. C., & Jemel, B. (2019). The Role of Low-frequency Neural Oscillations in Speech Processing: Revisiting Delta Entrainment. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31 (8), 1205-1215. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01410

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Boucher, V. J., Gilbert, A. C., & Rosier-Bisaillon, A. (2018). The Structural effects of modality on the rise of symbolic language: A Rebuttal of evolutionary accounts and a laboratory demonstration. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(2300), 1-13

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02300

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Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2015). The perceptual chunking of speech: A demonstration using ERPs. Brain Research, 1603, 101-113. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2015.01.032.

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Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2014). Perceptual chunking and its effect on memory in speech processing: ERP and behavioral evidence. Frontiers in Psychology : Language Sciences, 5(220), 1-9. doi : 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00220.

Peer Reviewed Proceedings / Actes de colloque avec comité de lecture

(Also listed under "talks" or "poster presentations")

Gilbert, A. C., Honda, C. T., & Baum, S. R. (2023). Prosodic cue weighting in the perception of lexical stress by French-English bilinguals: Preliminary behavioural data, In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2785–2789). Guarant International.

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Musiliyu, O., Gilbert, A. C., Baum, S. R., & Oliveira, M. (2019). Electrophysiological correlates of prosodic boundaries at different levels in brazilian Portuguese. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 2951-2955). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

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Gilbert, A. C., Wolpert, M., Kousaie, S., & Baum, S. R. (2017). Producing appropriate prosodic cues in a non-dominant language: preliminary results from French-English bilinguals. In. Botinis, A. (Ed.) Proceedings of 8th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics. Heraklion, Greece: University of Athens.


Boucher, V. J., Gilbert, A. C., & Jemel, B. (2017). The entrainment of EEG delta oscillations in speech listening. In. Botinis, A. (Ed.) Proceedings of 8th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics. Heraklion, Greece: University of Athens.

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Gilbert, A. C., Itzhak, I., & Baum, S. (2016). A cross-language investigation of word segmentation by bilinguals with varying degrees of proficiency: Preliminary results. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, MA.

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Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2015). Individual differences in working memory capacity and their effect on speech processing. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, UK.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2012). Effects of temporal chunking on speech recall. In Q. Ma, H. Ding, & D. Hirst (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody (Vol. 2, pp. 524-527). Shanghai, China: Tongji University Press.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2011). The role of rhythmic chunking in speech: Synthesis of findings and evidence from statistical learning. In W.-S. Lee & E. Zee (Eds.), Proceeding of The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp.747-750). Hong Kong, China: City University of Hong Kong.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2010). Exploring the rhythmic segmentation of heard speech using evoked potentials. Speech Prosody 2010, 100 334, 1-3.

 

Boucher, V. J. & Gilbert, A. C. (2009). The physiology and acoustics of vocal fatigue I: New findings of criterion-based signs for the prevention of acquired voice disorders. In J. I. Godino-Llorente & P. Gomez-Vilda (Eds.), 3rd Advanced Voice Function Assessment International Workshop (pp. 97-100). Madrid, Spain: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

 

Boucher, V. J. & Gilbert, A. C. (2009). The physiology and acoustics of vocal fatigue II: What software designers need to know about signs of potential vocal fold lesions. In J. I. Godino-Llorente & P. Gomez-Vilda (Eds.), 3rd Advanced Voice Function Assessment International Workshop (pp. 101-104). Madrid, Spain: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2008). Size of rhythm-groups affects the memory trace of heard words in utterances: Results from a pilot study using evoked potentials. In P. A. Barbosa, S. Madureira, & C. Reis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference (pp. 379-382). Campinas, Brazil: Editora RG/CNPq.

 

Boucher, V. J. & Gilbert, A. C. (2008). Investigations of speech segmentation: Addressing the writing bias in language research. In A. Botinis (Eds.) Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics 2008 (pp.45-48), Athens, Greece: University of Athens.

 

Gilbert, A. C. & Boucher, V. J. (2007). What do listeners attend to in hearing prosodic structures? Investigating the human speech-parser using short-term recall. In H. van Hamme & R. van Son (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech2007) (pp. 430-433), Antwerp, Belgium: ISCA.

 

Gilbert, A. C. & Boucher, V. J. (2006). Syntax and syllable count as predictors of French tonal groups: Drawing links to memory for prosody. In R. Hoffmann & H. Mixdorff (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody (pp. 289-292). Dresden, Germany: TUD press.

 

Boucher, V. J. & Gilbert, A. C. (2005). Constraints on immediate memory for prosody: Evidence of a correspondence with the prosodic organization of speech. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the XXVIIth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 328-330). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

COMMUNICATIONS

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Talks / Présentations orales

Gilbert, A. C., Friedland-Yust, L., Sorin, C. & Baum, S. R. (Accepted 2024). Investigating the Role of Individual Differences in Bilingual Language Experience on Code-Switching Processing Ability: Preliminary ERP Results. Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

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Gilbert, A. C., Gullifer, J., Wolpert, M., Saito, H., Kousaie, S., Gracco, V. L., Klein, D., Phillips, N. A., Titone, D., Baum, S. R. (2023). Effect of linguistic environment on second language speakers' prosodic production over and above proficiency effects, The 84th Annual National Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, On.

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Rossier-Bisaillon. A, Boucher, V. J., Martin, P., Gilbert, A. C., & Jemel, B. (2021). Effects of chunking on eye movements in text recitation. Eighth annual Summer Neurolinguistics School, Moscow, Russia.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Gullifer, J., Wolpert, M., Saito, H., Kousaie, S., Itzhak, I., Gracco, V. L., Klein, D., Phillips, N. A., Titone, D., & Baum, S. R. (2019). Language dominance and entropy as predictors of word segmentation cue production in bilinguals. 60th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montréal, Qc.

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Grant, A., Kousaie, S., Coulter, K., Gilbert, A. C., Baum, S. R., Gracco, V., Klein, D., Titone, D., Phillips, N. (2019). From structure to function: A multimodal analysis of bilingual speech in noise processing. Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.

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Gilbert, A. C., Wolpert, M., Saito, H., Kousaie, S., & Baum, S. R. (2018). Relative language dominance influences the use of fundamental frequency and duration to signal word boundaries in English and French. 37th Second Language Research Forum (SLRF 2018), Montréal, Qc.

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Gilbert, A. C., Wolpert, M., Kousaie, S., & Baum, S. R. (2017). Producing appropriate prosodic cues in a non-dominant language: preliminary results from French-English bilinguals. 8th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2017), Heraklion, Greece.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Cousineau-Perusse, M., & Titone, D. (2017). Planification des énoncés chez les locuteurs bilingues : impact des variables individuelles sur la production en langue maternelle et en langue seconde. Colloque: Le rôle des habiletés perceptuelles et cognitives dans le langage oral et écrit, 85e Congrès de l'ACFAS, Montréal, Qc.

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Gilbert, A. C., Cousineau-Perusse, M., & Titone, D. (2017). Est-ce que les locuteurs bilingues utilisent les mêmes stratégies de planification en langue maternelle et en langue seconde? Colloque: Plasticité, musique et langage, 85e Congrès de l'ACFAS, Montréal, Qc.

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Boucher, V. J., Gilbert, A. C., & Jemel, B. (2017). The entrainment of EEG delta oscillations in speech listening. 8th Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics (ExLing 2017), Heraklion, Greece.

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Morningstar, M., Gilbert, A. C., Burdo, J., Leis, M., & Dirks, M. A. (2017). Recognition of vocal socio-emotional expressions at varying levels of emotional intensity. Presented at "Advances in Understanding the Recognition of Vocal Cues of Emotion", symposium part of the Association for Psychological Science conference, Boston, MA.

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Phillips, N., Coulter, K., Gonzalez Cautela, B., René, J.-L., Covey, A., Gilbert, A. C., Kousaie, S., Titone, D., Baum, S. R., Klein, D., & Gracco, V. (2017). L’influence du contenu et de la compétence linguistique sur le traitement de phrases dans le bruit chez les bilingues. Colloque: Plasticité, musique et langage », 85e Congrès de l’ACFAS, Montréal, Qc.

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Gilbert, A. C., Itzhak, I., Koussaie, S., Baum, S. R. (2016). Localisation des frontières lexicales chez les locuteurs bilingues : résultats préliminaires. Colloque: Impacts cognitifs et neurophysiologiques du bilinguisme, 84e Congrès de l’ACFAS, Montréal, Qc

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Gilbert, A. C. (2013). How do L2 ability and Cognitive Capacity Modulate L1 vs. Acoustic-Phonetic Realization. CRBLM/McGill Psychology DataStorm 2013, Montréal, Qc.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2012). The on-line “perceptual chunking” of speech: ERP evidence. CRBLM Workshop on Rhythm Perception and Production, Montréal, Qc.

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Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2011). The role of rhythmic chunking in speech: Synthesis of findings and evidence from statistical learning. 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, China.

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Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2010). Exploring the rhythmic segmentation of heard speech using evoked potentials. Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, IL.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., Jemel, B., & Lalonde, B. (2010). Segmentation de la parole : des groupes rythmiques et des énoncés, pas des mots et des phrases. 78e Congrès de l’ACFAS, Montréal, Qc.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2009). Le groupe rythmique comme indice de segmentation de la parole spontanée : résultats d’une étude pilote en électro-encéphalographie. 77e Congrès de l’ACFAS, Ottawa, Ont.

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Boucher, V. J. & Gilbert, A. C. (2009). The physiology and acoustics of vocal fatigue I: New findings of criterion-based signs for the prevention of acquired voice disorders. 3rd Advanced Voice Function Assessment International Workshop, Madrid, Spain.

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Boucher, V. J. & Gilbert, A. C. (2009). The physiology and acoustics of vocal fatigue II: What software designers need to know about signs of potential vocal fold lesions. 3rd Advanced Voice Function Assessment International Workshop, Madrid, Spain.

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Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2008). Effet de la longueur des groupes rythmiques sur la trace mnésique de mots entendus : résultats d’une étude pilote en potentiels évoqués. 76e Congrès de l’ACFAS, Québec, Qc.

 

Boucher, V. J. & Gilbert, A. C. (2008). Investigations of speech segmentation: Addressing the writing bias in language research. ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics 2008, Athens, Greece.

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Gilbert, A. C. (2007). Comparaison des facteurs prédictifs de la prosodie en parole spontanée et dirigée. 75e Congrès de l'ACFAS, Trois-Rivières, Qc.

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Gilbert, A. C. & Boucher, V. J. (2006). Structure syntaxique et longueur des constituants comme prédicteurs du groupe intonatif en Français : confirmation du rôle des contraintes sur la mémoire immédiate. 74e Congrès de l'ACFAS, Montréal, Qc.

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Gilbert, A. C. & Boucher, V. (2005). Contrainte sur la mémoire immédiate des groupes intonatifs comme principe de structuration de la prosodie. 73e Congrès de l'ACFAS, Chicoutimi, Qc.

Poster Presentation / Présentation par affiche

Gilbert, A. C., Honda, C. T., & Baum, S. R. (2023). Prosodic cue weighting by French-English bilinguals when assigning lexical stress in English: Preliminary ERP and behavioural results. The 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language,

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Gilbert, A. C., Honda, C. T., & Baum, S. R. (2023). Prosodic cue weighting in the perception of lexical stress by French-English bilinguals: Preliminary behavioural data, The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences,

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Gilbert, A. C., Gullifer, J., Wolpert, M., Saito, H., Kousaie, S., Itzhak, I., Gracco, V.

L., Klein, D., Phillips, N. A., Titone, D., Baum, S. R. (2021). Predictors of word segmentation cue production in bilinguals: Language dominance, exposure, and entropy. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Montréal, Qc.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Lee, J., Coulter, K., Wolpert, M., Kousaie, S., Gracco, V., Klein, D., Titone, D., Phillips, N., & Baum, S. (2020). Addressing the discrepancy between online and offline measures of word segmentation in L2: ERP and accuracy measures. Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Philadelphia, PA.

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Honda, C. T., Gilbert, A. C., Phillips, N. A., & Baum, S. R. (2020). Electrophysiological correlates of lexical stress perception in bilinguals. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, Providence, RI.

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Lee, J., Gilbert, A. C., Kousaie, S., Klein, D., & Baum, S. R. (2020) Exploring the Relationship Between Prosodic Cue Production and  Functional Connectivity in the Bilingual Brain. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, Providence, RI.

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Lee, J. G., Gilbert, A. C., Kousaie, S., Klein, D., & Baum, S. R. (2020) Language Production in English-French Bilinguals: Structural Findings Beyond the Cortex. Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Montréal, Qc.

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Gullifer, J., Kousaie, S., Gilbert, A. C., Grant, A., Giroud, N., Coulter, K., Klein, D., Baum, S. R., Phillips, N., & Titone, D. (2020). Quantifying bilingual language experience as a complex, socially dynamic spectrum. 26th Architectures and mechanisms for language processing conference, Potsdam, Germany.

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Gullifer, J. W., Kousaie, S., Gilbert, A. C., Grant, A., Giroud, N., Coulter, K., Klein, D., Baum, S. R., Phillips, N., & Titone, D. (2020). Quantifying bilingual language experience as a complex and dynamic spectrum: Associations with objective and subjective language proficiency. 61st Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Austin, TX.

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Gilbert, A. C., Itzhak, I., Wolpert, M., Lee, J., & Baum, S. R. (2019). Phrase-Final Lengthening as a Word Segmentation Cue in French: A Bilingual ERP Investigation. Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.

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Morin-Lessard, E., Gilbert, A. C., Titone, D. & Byers-Heinlein, K. (2019). Production of speech disfluencies in English-French bilingual adults. 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Edmonton, Canada.

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Musiliyu, O., Gilbert, A. C., Baum, S. R., & Oliveira, M. (2019). Electrophysiological correlates of prosodic boundaries at different levels in brazilian Portuguese. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia.

 

Gullifer, J., Kousaie, S., Gilbert, A. C., Giroud, N., Grant, A., Coulter, K., Klein, D., Baum, S. R., Phillips, N., & Titone, D. (2019). Language entropy: A novel quantification of language experience among bilinguals. Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.

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Grant, A. M., Kousaie, S., Coulter, K., Gilbert, A. C., Baum, S. R., Gracco, V., Klein, D., Titone, D., & Phillips, N. A. (2019). Individual Differences in Gray Matter Volume Predict Bilingual Speech Perception in Noise. 60th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montréal, Qc

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Gilbert, A. C., Lee, J., Wolpert, M., Baum, S. R. (2018). Perceptual processing of pre-boundary lengthening during phrase segmentation in English: Preliminary ERP evidence.10th Anniversary of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Québec, Canada.

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Gilbert, A. C. & Titone, D. (2018). Second-Language Exposure Impacts the Scope of Speech Planning During First- and Second-Language Picture Naming. 59th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.

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Coulter, K., Gilbert, A.C., Kousaie, S., Baum, S., Gracco, V., Klein, D., Titone, D., & Phillips, N.A. (2018). The Impact of Context and Age of Acquisition on Bilingual Speech Perception in Noise: An ERP Study. 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Québec, Canada.

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Grant, A., Coulter, K., Kousaie, S., Gilbert, A. C., Baum, S. R., Gracco, V., Klein, D., Titone, D., Phillips, N. (2018). Age of acquisition of L2 affects alpha power during bilingual speech in noise processing. 10th Anniversary of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Québec, Canada.

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Gilbert, A. C., Kousaie, S., Wolpert, M., Klein, D. & Baum, S. R. (2017). How experience with different prosodies shapes the bilingual brain: preliminary connectivity analyses from English-French bilinguals.  9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Baltimore, MD.

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Gilbert, A. C., Cousineau-Perusse, M., & Titone, D. (2016). Are Bilinguals More "Risk-Averse" in their Scope of Planning During Second vs. First Language Production? Mental Lexicon 2016, Ottawa, Canada.

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​​Gilbert, A. C., Itzhak, I, & Baum, S. (2016). Bilingual word segmentation: A cross-language ERP investigation. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

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Gilbert, A. C., Itzhak, I., & Baum, S. (2016). A cross-language investigation of word segmentation by bilinguals with varying degrees of proficiency: Preliminary results. Speech Prosody 2016, Boston, MA.

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Boucher, V. J., Gilbert, A. C., & Jemel, B. (2016). The impact of eurhythmic structures on speech processing: ERPs attest to effects on sensory memory. 23rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.

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Gonzalez, E., Itzhak, I., Gilbert, A. C., & Titone, D. (2016). How does Word Concreteness and Cognate Status Independently Affect Bilingual Semantic Processing? Mental Lexicon 2016, Ottawa, Canada.

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Gilbert, A. C., Pivneva, I., & Titone, D. (2015). Individual Differences in Executive Control and Second Language Exposure Modulate the Acoustic Realization of Phonological Cues in Highly Proficient Bilingual Speakers. 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

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Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2015). Individual differences in working memory capacity and their effect on speech processing. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Pivneva, I., & Titone, D. (2014). Lexical quality and the acoustic-phonetic realization of bilingual speech. 9th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Niagara on the Lake, Ont.

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Gilbert, A. C., Pivneva, I., & Titone, D. (2013). Individual Differences in Second Language Ability and Executive Control Modulate Voice Onset Time During Bilingual Speech. 2013 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ont.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Pivneva, I., & Titone, D. (2013). Individual Differences in Executive Control and Second Language Ability Modulate Voice Onset Time During Bilingual Speech. International Conference on Multilingualism, Montréal, Qc.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2013). Input chunking and its effect on speech processing. 11th Symposium of Psycholinguistics, Tenerife, Spain.

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Khawajkie, Y., Gilbert, A. C., Pivneva, I., & Titone, D. (2013). Cross-Language VOT Differences in Spontaneous Speech, L2 Proficiency, and Cognitive Control. 2013 Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop, Hamilton, Ont.

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Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2012). Effects of temporal chunking on speech recall. 6th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Shanghai, China.

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Morier, L., Gilbert, A. C., & Titone, D. (2012). Can Incongruent Prosody Disrupt On-Going Interpretation of Idioms? 2012 Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop, Montréal, Qc.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2011). The role of rhythmic chunking in speech: synthesis of findings and evidence from statistical learning. Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody 2, Montréal, Qc.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Jemel, B., & Boucher, V. J. (2010). Closure Positive Shifts (CPS): evoked by prosodic rhythm-groups in meaningful and meaningless speech. 17th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, Montréal, Qc.

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Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V., & Jemel, B. (2010). Exploring the rhythmic segmentation of heard speech using evoked potentials. l’International summer school on multimodal approaches in neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany.

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Gilbert, A. C., Jemel, B., & Boucher, V. J. (2009). Closure Positive Shifts (CPS) as reflecting on-line segmentation of prosodic rhythm-groups in speech. First Neurobiology of Language Conference, Chicago, USA.

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Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2008). Size of rhythm-groups affects the memory trace of heard words in utterances: Results from a pilot study using evoked potentials. Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brazil.

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Gilbert, A. C. & Boucher, V. J. (2007). What do listeners attend to in hearing prosodic structures? Investigating the human speech-parser using short-term recall. Eighth Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech2007), Anvers, Belgium.

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Gilbert, A. C. & Boucher, V. J. (2006). Syntax and syllable count as predictors of French tonal groups: Drawing links to memory for prosody. 3rd International Conference on Speech Prosody, Dresden, Germany.

 

Gilbert, A. C. & Boucher, V. J. (2005). Constraints on memory for tonal patterns: A structuring principle of speech prosody. 9th European Congress of Psychology, Granada, Spain.

 

Gilbert, A. C. & Boucher, V. J. (2005). Size-constraints on intonation groups in speech: Evidence of an independent syllable-count principle. 149th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, BC.

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Boucher, V. J. & Gilbert, A. C. (2005). Constraints on immediate memory for prosody: Evidence of a correspondence with the prosodic organization of speech. the XXVIIth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy.

Invited Talks / Conférences invitées

Gilbert, A. C., Honda, C. T., & Baum, S. R. (2023). Impact de l’expérience linguistique sur l’utilisation des indices prosodiques associés à l’accent lexical en anglais. Colloque « Perspective multidisciplinaire sur le bilinguisme : aspects socioculturels et développementaux », 90e Congrès de l'Acfas, Montréal, Qc.

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Gilbert, A. C. & Gullifer, J. (2019). Language dominance and entropy as predictors of fundamental frequency modulations in bilingual production. Language Science: The Next Generation, Montréal, Qc.

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Gilbert, A. C. (2018). Bilingual speech production. Presented to PSYC341 : Psychology of bilingualism, McGill University, Montréal.

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Gilbert, A. C., Kousaie, S., Wolpert, M., Klein, D. & Baum, S. R. (2017). Exploration du lien entre la production d’indices prosodiques chez les bilingues français-anglais et la connectivité fonctionnelle cérébrale : résultats préliminaires. Presented at VocUM, Montréal.

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Gilbert, A. C. (2016). La prosodie comme outil de segmentation de la parole : Du chunking perceptif à la détection des frontières lexicales. Presented at Conférence linguistique de l’UQÀM, Montréal, Qc. March 16th.

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Gilbert, A. C. (2014). L’apport des approches émergentistes dans l’explication des processus langagiers : une nouvelle orientation de la recherche. Département de linguistique et de traduction, Université de Montréal.

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Boucher, V. J. & Gilbert, A. C. (2013). Brain waves and prosodic structure: Recent results and perspectives. Presented at Université Paris 7, Paris, France.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2012). Le chunking perceptif de la parole. Presented to ORT6030 : Méthodes de recherche en orthophonie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Qc.

 

Gilbert, A. C., Boucher, V. J., & Jemel, B. (2011). The role of rhythmic chunking in speech: synthesis of findings. Presented at the Center for Research on Language Mind and Brain, McGill University, Montréal, Qc.

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