Heffner, C. C., Jaekel, B. N., Newman, R. S., & Goupell, M. J. (2021). Accuracy and cue use in word segmentation for cochlear-implant listeners and normal-hearing listeners presented vocoded speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(4): 2936-2951.

Heffner, C. C., & Myers, E. B. (2021). Individual differences in phonetic plasticity across native and non-native contexts. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64(10): 3720-3733.

Heffner, C. C., Newman, R. S., & Idsardi, W. J. (2021). Action at a distance: Long-distance rate adaptation in event perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(2): 312-325.

Heffner, C. C., Idsardi, W. J., & Newman, R. S. (2019). Constraints on learning disjunctive, unidimensional auditory and phonetic categories. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 81(4): 958-980.

Liter, A., Huelskamp, A., Heffner, C. C., & Schmitt, C. (2018). Grammaticalized number, implicated presuppositions, and the plural. Glossa, 3(1): 39.

Liter, A., Heffner, C. C., & Schmitt, C. (2017). The interpretation of plural morphology and (non-)obligatory number marking: An argument from artificial language learning. Language Learning and Development, 13(4): 451-480.

Heffner, C. C., Newman, R. S., & Idsardi, W. J. (2017). Support for context effects on segmentation and segments depends on the context. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 79(3): 964-988.

Neufeld, C., Kramer, S. E., Lapinskaya, N., Heffner, C. C., Malko, A., & Lau, E. F. (2016). The electrophysiology of basic phrase building. PLoS ONE, 11(10): e0158446.

Heffner, C. C., & Slevc, L. R. (2015). Prosodic structure as a parallel to musical structure. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1962.

Morrill, T. H., Baese-Berk, M., Heffner, C. C., & Dilley, L. C. (2015). Interactions between distal speech rate, linguistic knowledge, and speech environment. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 22(5): 1451-1457.

Heffner, C. C., Newman, R. S., Dilley, L. C., & Idsardi, W. J. (2015). Age-related differences in speech rate perception do not necessarily entail age-related differences in speech rate use. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(4): 1341-1349.

Baese-Berk, M., Heffner, C. C., Dilley, L. C., Pitt, M. A., Morrill, T., & McAuley, J. D. (2014). Long-term temporal tracking of speech rate affects spoken-word recognition. Psychological Science, 25(8): 1546-1553.

Heffner, C. C., Dilley, L. C., McAuley, J. D., & Pitt, M. (2013). When cues combine: How distal and proximal acoustic cues are integrated in word segmentation. Journal of Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(9): 1275-1302.

Dilley, L. C., & Heffner, C. C. (2013). The role of F0 alignment in distinguishing categories in American English intonation: Evidence from American English. Journal of Speech Sciences, 3: 3-67.

Book Chapters

Dilley, L., Wallace, J., & Heffner, C. (2012). Perceptual isochrony and fluency in speech by normal talkers under varying task demands. In Prosodies: Context, Function, and Communication, O. Niebuhr and H. Pfitzinger (Eds.), Language, Context, and Cognition series, Walter deGruyter.

Conference Presentations

Research Focused

Heffner, C. C. (2024, May). Can aliens found in museums teach us about learning sound categories. Lay language paper presented at the one-hundred-and-eighty-sixth meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Heffner, C. C., & Myers, E. B. (2019, November). Good (explicit) learners are good adapters: Cross-task correlations in phonetic plasticity. Poster presented at the sixtieth meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montréal, QC, Canada.

Heffner, C. C., & Myers, E. B. (2019, August). Behavioral and neural correlates of phonetic plasticity. Poster presented at the eleventh annual meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Helsinki, Finland.

Heffner, C. C., & Myers, E. B. (2019, May). Variability in context effects on rate adaptation within individuals. Talk presented at the one-hundred-and-seventy-seventh meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Louisville, KY.

Heffner, C. C., & Myers, E. B. (2018, November). Reliability and individual differences in phonetic learning and adaptation. Poster presented at the fifty-ninth annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.

Heffner, C., Saltzman, D., Formica, S., & Myers, E. (2018, August). Impaired incidental phonetic learning in people with aphasia. Poster presented at the tenth annual meeting of the Society for Neurobiology of Language, Québec City, QC, Canada.

Heffner, C. C, Newman, R. S., & Idsardi, W. J. (2017, November). Viewers adapt to rate changes in event perception. Poster presented at the fifty-eighth meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Heffner, C. C., & Slevc, L. R. (2017, August). Musical ability predicts the ability to learn novel speech sound categories. Poster presented at the 2017 Society for Music Perception and Cognition Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Dilley, L., Arjmandi, M. K., Ireland, Z., Heffner, C. C., & Pitt, M. (2016, December). Glottalization, reduction, and acoustic variability in function words in American English. Poster presented at the fifth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawai’i.

Heffner, C. C., Al-Thowaini, B., & Rytting, C. A. (2016, September). Context speech rate can affect Arabic geminate perception. Poster presented at the twenty-second International Congress on Acoustics, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Heffner, C. C., Jaekel, B., Newman, R. S., & Goupell, M. (2016, January). An exploratory study of word segmentation in CI users and vocoded speech. Paper presented at the Mid-Atlantic Seminar on Hearing (MASH), College Park, MD.

Heffner, C. C., Idsardi, W. J., & Newman, R. S. (2015, November). Support for a dual-systems model of speech sound category learning from goodness judgments. Poster presented at the fifty-sixth annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Liter, A., Huelskamp, A., Heffner, C. C., & Schmitt, C. (2015, October). Non-grammaticalized number entails an exclusive interpretation of plural morphology. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Quantification (LCQ 2015), Budapest, Hungary.

Heffner, C. C., & Newman, R. S. (2014, July). A more slowly ticking clock isn’t less useful. Paper presented at the 2014 Universitas 21 Graduate Research Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.

Heffner, C. C., & Idsardi, W. J. (2014, January). Limits on phonetic category learning. Paper presented at the eighty-eighth annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), Minneapolis, MN.

Heffner, C. C., & Newman, R. S. (2013, October). Differences in timing perception may not entail differences in timing use. Poster presented at the fifth international Aging and Speech Communication conference, Bloomington, IN.

Liter, A., Heffner, C. C., & Schmitt, C. (2013, October). Inclusive plural interpretations depend on grammaticalized number: An argument from artificial language learning. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Acquisition of Quantification, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.

Heffner, C. C., & Newman, R. S. (2013, June). Canadian oats and Canadian goats: Comparing distal cues to segmentation and segments. Poster presented at the twenty-first International Congress on Acoustics, Montréal, QC, Canada.

Pedagogy- and Outreach-Focused

Heffner, C. C. (2016, April). Turning students into researchers: Linguistics experiments in a collaborative classroom. Paper presented at the Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference, College Park, MD.

Lidz, J., Lau, E., Heffner, C., Dudley, R., & Phillips, C. (2015, January). Expanding our reach and theirs with linguistics research. Paper presented in the “Linguistics for everyone: Tips and tricks for do-it-yourself-ers” panel at the eighty-ninth annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), Portland, OR.

Invited Talks

Heffner, C. C. (2020, November). Phonetic Plasticity: Rate, Accent, and Learning. Presented at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Department of Linguistics Colloquium (Remotely)

Heffner, C. C. (2018, November). Plasticity in phonetic representations. Psycholinguistics lab meeting, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA.

Heffner, C. C. (2018, March). Plasticity in phonetic learning: Limits and linkages in categorization. Cognitive Science Colloquium, Villanova University, Villanova, PA.

Heffner, C. C. (2015, June). Why do Europeans think that I’m German? Studies of phonetic category learning. University of Tübingen Mini-Workshop, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Heffner, C. C. (2015, April). What’s the difference between a Spartan and a Wolverine? An interdisciplinary study of phonetic category learning. Michigan State Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (MSULC), East Lansing, MI