Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

Beguš published in Language

March 23, 2022

An article by Gašper Beguš(link is external) titled "Distinguishing cognitive from historical influences in phonology" has just been published in Language. Click here(link is external) to read it. Congratulations, Gašper!

Russell published in Languages

March 15, 2022

Katie Russell(link is external)'s article "Interactions of Nasal Harmony and Word-Internal Language Mixing in Paraguayan Guaraní(link is external)" was just published in the journal Languages as part of a special issue on "Word Formation and Language Contact: A Formal Perspective." Congratulations, Katie!

Helms, Licata, and Weiher published in Estudios de Fonética Experimental

March 1, 2022

Annie Helms(link is external), Gabriella Licata(link is external), and Rachel Weiher(link is external)'s article "Influence of orthography in production and perception of /b/ in US Spanish(link is external)" has just been published in Estudios de Fonética Experimental. Congrats, all!

Helms published in Isogloss

February 27, 2022

Annie Helms(link is external)'s article "Bay Area Spanish: Regional sound change in contact languages(link is external)" has been published in Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, as part of the special issue Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 17 with selected papers from the Going Romance conference in 2020. Congratulations, Annie!

Search for a phonetics lecturer

February 23, 2022

The Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley is seeking a lecturer in Phonetics. The job ad and link to apply are available here: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03347(link is external)

Dąbkowski published in Phonology

February 21, 2022

Congratulations to Maksymilian Dąbkowski(link is external), whose article "Dominance is non-representational: Evidence from A'ingae verbal stress"(link is external) has just been published in Phonology!

Speech Production Patterns in Producing Linguistic Contrasts are Partly Determined by Individual Differences in Anatomy.

Keith Johnson
2019

This study explored correlations between (a) measures of vocal tract anatomy and (b) measuresof articulatory/linguistic contrasts in vowels and coronal fricatives. The data for the study comefrom the Wisconsin X-Ray MicroBeam Database (Westbury, 1994). The anatomical measuresincluded vocal tract length, oral cavity length, palate size and shape, as well as measures ofmaximal tongue protrusion and jaw wagging amplitude. Measures of the articulatory vowelspace included the range of x and y location at vowel midpoints for...

Head correction of point tracking data

Keith Johnson
Ronald L. Sprouse
2019

This is a short paper comparing two approaches to head correction for Electro-MagneticArticulography (EMA) data collected with the Northern Digital Instruments “Wave” system. Inboth of these approaches, it is necessary to translate and rotate the sensor locations to theocclusal coordinate system. We found that point tracking error is greater by as much as doublewith the built-in NDI head correction method, compared to a three-sensor head correctionalgorithm. However, we conclude that the data are comparable, and that the two-sensor NDImethod is acceptable for phonetic research. A Python...

Individual differences in speech production: What is "phonetic substance"?

Keith Johnson
2019

Phonetic feature encoding in human superior temporal gyrus.

Nima Mesgarani
Connie Cheung
Keith Johnson
Edward F. Chang
2014

During speech perception, linguistic elements such as consonants and vowels are extracted from a complex acoustic speech signal. The superior temporal gyrus (STG) participates in high-order auditory processing of speech, but how it encodes phonetic information is poorly understood. We used high-density direct cortical surface recordings in humans while they listened to natural, continuous speech to reveal the STG representation of the entire English phonetic inventory. At single electrodes, we found response selectivity to distinct phonetic features. Encoding of acoustic properties was...