Phonetics Seminar: Fernando Llanos (U of Texas, Austin), “Reopening the sensitive period in adult learners of lexical tones”
Abstract: Humans are excellent learners. Yet, a notable and well-documented exception is the acquisition of non-native speech categories by adults. Speech category learning is supported by multiple systems and, as...
Phonetics Seminar: Matthew Faytak & Bowei Shao (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), “Fricative noise targets for vowels: a comparative acoustic study”
Abstract: The so-called "fricative" and "apical" vowels, which occur throughout the Chinese languages, are known to have constriction locations more anterior than those of high front vowels, and are canonically...
Hironori Katsuda & Jeremy Steffman Practice talk TAI / LSA
Campbell Hall 2122A"Prominence-boundary interactions in speechperception: evidence from Japanese vowel length"
Hironori Katsuda & Jeremy Steffman Practice talk
Campbell Hall 2122ATAI “"Prominence-boundary interactions in speech perception:evidence from Japanese vowel length"
Jahnavi Narkar on Auto VOT; Christine Prechtal practice talk for TAI
"Lexical Stress Strength vs Macro-RhythmStrength: An Inverse Relationship Between Prominence Cues."
Canaan Breiss practice talk for LSA
“Multiply-conditioned vowel assimilation in Yembaimperatives”