Vicenik, C. and M. Sundara. (Under review). "The role of rhythm and intonation in language and dialect discrimination by adults.” Submitted to Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Vicenik, C. and S. Jun. (In press). "Intonational Phonology of Georgian," in Prosodic Typology II: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing, edited by Sun-ah Jun. Oxford University Press.
Vicenik, C. (2010). "An Acoustic Study of Georgian Stop Consonants." Journal of the International Phonetic Alphabet. 40(1), p. 59-92.[Link]
Vicenik, C. (2008). “An Acoustic Analysis of Georgian Stops.” Unpublished UCLA Masters Thesis. [PDF]
Jun, S., C. Vicenik & I. Lofstedt. (2007). “Intonational Phonology of Georgian.” UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 106, pg. 41-57. [Link]
Presentations
Vicenik, C & G. Kuo. 2010. “Tongan Intonation.” Poster at the 160th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, Mexico.
Vicenik, C. & M. Sundara. (2010). “Language discrimination by infants: discriminating within the native language rhythm class.” Poster at 2010 International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, Maryland.
Shue, Y.-L., P. Keating & C. Vicenik. (2009). “VOICESAUCE: A program for voice analysis.” Poster at the 158th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Antonio, Texas.
Vicenik, C. & M. Sundara. (2009). “Language and dialect discrimination by five-month-olds.” Poster at the 158th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Antonio, Texas.
Vicenik, C. and M. Sundara. (2009). "Role of Rythmic Cues in Language Discrimination." Poster presented at 2nd special workshop on speech: cross-language speech perception and linguistic experience, the 157th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon. [Poster;Sample Stimuli]
Jun, S., C. Vicenik, and I. Lofstedt. (2008). "Intonational Phonology of Georgian", given at the Special Session on Phonetics and Phonology, organized by Donca Steriade, the 18th meeting of International Congress of Linguists, Seoul, Korea.
Vicenik, C. & Sundara, M. (2008). "Role of segmental and intonational cues in dialect discrimination." Poster at Acoustics’08, the 155th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Paris. [Poster;Sample Stimuli]
Jun, S., C. Vicenik & I. Lofstedt. (2007). “Intonational Phonology of Georgian.” Poster presented at Workshop on Intonational Phonology: Understudied or Fieldwork Languages. A satellite meeting of ICPhS, Saarbruecken, Germany.
Pre-linguistics:
Vicenik, C. J., Strelnitski, V. 2003. “Radio Spectra and Variability of IRAS 19312+1950.” Poster presented at the American Astronomical Society Meeting 203, #07.11. [Link]
Current Projects
Vicenik, C. & Sundara, M. (In preparation). “The use of prosody in language discrimination by infants.”
Vicenik, C. & Kuo, G. (In preparation). “Tongan Intonation.”
Vicenik, C. (In preparation). “How stress cues facilitate word segmentation.”
Teaching
Summer 2010: Special Workshop on Intonation for Maria Luisa Zubizarreta at USC. (Instructor)
Spring 2010: Ling. 1 Introduction to the Study of Language. (TA for Ingvar Lofstedt)
Summer 2009: Ling. 103 Introduction to General Phonetics. (Instructor)
Spring 2009: Ling. 495 College Teaching of Linguistics. (Instructor)
Winter 2009: Ling. 120A Phonology I. (TA for Aaron Kaplan)
Fall 2008: Ling. 105 Morphology. (TA for Russ Schuh)
Spring 2008: HC. 56 Language as a Window to the Mind. (TA for Susie Curtiss)
Winter 2008: Ling. 20 Introduction to Linguistics. (TA for Carson Schütze)
Fall 2007: Ling. 103 Introduction to General Phonetics. (TA for Bruce Hayes)
Winter 2007: Ling. 104/204 Experimental Phonetics. (TA for Sun-Ah Jun)
Fall 2006: Ling. 103 Introduction to General Phonetics. (TA for Sun-Ah Jun)
2005-2007: Tutor (Calculus), Now Tutoring, Los Angeles.
2004-2005: Tutor (Calculus, Physics), University of Texas Learning Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. program in Linguistics, 2005-present (M.A. 2008; Ph.D. expected 2011).
University of Texas at Austin
B.S., summa cum laude, Physics, 2001-2005.
B.S., summa cum laude, Astronomy, 2001-2005.
Fellowships
UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship (2009-2010)
UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (Megha Sundara, 2008)
UCLA Eugene-Cota Robles Fellowship (2005-2009)
UCLA Chancellor's Summer Scholarship (2005-2007)
Service
Graduate Linguistics Circle - President (2007-2008)
Dept. Linguistics Open House Committee (2007-2009)
