In languages like #Georgian, words can begin with complex C1C2 stop-stop sequences (gd, bg). Do their speakers rely on the timing of the 2 consonants to accurately recover C1? Results suggest timing lag is in #phonological grammar. #LabPhon #openaccess @efl-upcite.bsky.social doi.org/10.16995/lab...
Listeners use their knowledge about a speaker to guide #speechperception. How do familiarity with a speaker’s dialect & predictability of the dialect a speaker uses impact processing? ERP results show accent info is used to fine-tune speech recognition. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #openaccess #LabPhon
In ordinary conversation are 'mis' and 'dis' pronounced differently in prefixed than in nonprefixed words, like 'mistimes' vs. 'mistakes'? Yes! but phonetic details differ by dialect, syllable structure, stress patterns & other factors. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab... @jbhay.bsky.social
Women are often associated with #creakyvoice. Do listeners actually hear them as sounding creakier? A #matchedguise study finds that lower pitch makes voices sound creakier, but face gender has little effect, casting doubt on this posited perceptual bias. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...
Speakers often reuse the variant they've recently used in conversational speech. Does #priming drive this repetitiveness? A study on English ING demonstrates clear #phonological variant priming—but the effect decays rapidly, after only 1 intervening word. #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...
Pronunciation of New Zealand English monophthongs varies across speakers, distinguishing ‘leaders’ from ‘laggers’ of ongoing sound changes. But do listeners make social judgements based on these vowels? Yes! doi.org/10.16995/lab... @jbhay.bsky.social @joshwilsonblack.bsky.social #LabPhon #openaccess
Psyched for this #LabPhon workshop on language and music. And the deadline for submission has been extended to March 15th! labphon.org/labphon20/pi...
Dear #LabPhon20 organizers: Will there be a registration fee for online participants presenting a digital poster? And if so do you know the exact figure yet?
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Hey #LabPhon community, the Association is growing its social media offerings. Join us over on LinkedIn, as well!
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Are sound categories separate or integrated across languages in #bilingual speakers? Phonetic recalibration suggests asymmetrical linkages across languages, in this study of cross-linguistic generalization of phoneme retuning by #Spanish–English speakers. #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...
What happens when a speech sound is both everywhere and nowhere? @holmit.bsky.social shows that glottal stop /ʔ/ differently affects lexical access in #German and #Maltese, in ways that are counterintuitive to its phonemic status in those languages. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #LabPhon #openaccess
Without #prosody, cleft sentences hide an understudied ambiguity: "It was the man that fell" answers "Who fell?” but ALSO infinite competing questions like "Who cried?”. Prosody supports resolving such ambiguities in both #production and #comprehension. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #LabPhon #openaccess
Is there a rhetorical question “tune”? In an active-learning scenario testing relative cue weights, individual tonal cues have more impact on question interpretation in #German than tone combinations or non-tonal cues like voice quality or duration. #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...
“Morphological effects in speech reduction are speaker specific and may partly originate from the words’ most frequent phonological context” by Tim Zee et al.: doi.org/10.16995/lab... Published in @labphon.bsky.social / #LabPhon
Are morphological effects on phonetic #reduction byproducts of phonological context? Patterns of reduction by #Dutch final /ən/ show that some, not all, differences across #morphological categories can be explained by words' typical #phonological context. doi.org/10.16995/lab... #openaccess #LabPhon
In #speechperception, listener expectations, e.g. about how sounds produced by men & women differ, can influence phoneme categorization. Do #L2 listeners use expectations about speaker gender even for contrasts absent from their #L1? #LabPhon #openaccess @isf-oeaw.bsky.social doi.org/10.16995/lab...
Most languages phonologically restrict #contour #tones to more sonorous syllable types. How does #Split #Croatian, a language that permits contour tone crowding on all syllables, phonetically accommodate contours even for short vowels and obstruent codas? #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...
Complex onsets that begin with #sibilants differ from other complex onsets in their phonological properties, articulation, and acquisition. What makes them special?
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Can we reliably identify MERGED vs. DISTINCT speakers during ongoing sound change? #Acoustics + #perception data from #Norwegian /ʃ, ç/ show that a principled boundary between speaker groups does not exist. doi.org/10.16995/lab...
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Q: How does tonal coarticulation in disyllabic words of #Cantonese contribute to tone merging and inform research on #soundchange? A: The two interact dynamically, with carryover effects in extreme tonal contexts emerging as an important source of change. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...
When a tone in #Huaiyuan #Chinese changes to sound like another is it a perfect copy, or can listeners still hear a difference? An investigation of tone sandhi suggests that neutralization of perceptual categories can override subtle acoustic differences. doi.org/10.16995/lab...
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Convening for #LabPhon20 in Montreal is an opportunity to celebrate 40 years of #LabPhon.
We invite the ALP community to gather videos, pictures, memories, & artifacts from the last 4 decades, for presentation in Montreal. To help curate and organize materials, please contact labphon20@gmail.com.
The conference website for #LabPhon20 is now live: labphon.org/labphon20/home
#LabPhon 20 will happen in #Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 26–28, 2026, with additional pre-conference events on June 25. The call for papers and proposals for satellite workshops will be circulated in late August 2025.
We are excited to announce our #LabPhon Association's 2025 off-season programming, a series of three events on #prosody and #suprasegmentals. All events are scheduled during July and August, and they're FREE for ALP members. 😎 🌞 Info and registration are available here: labphon.org/content/summ...
How do rare sound changes, like the development of rhotic vowels, actuate and spread? @massimolipari.github.io and @msonderegger.bsky.social show that rhotacization of 3 #QuebecFrench vowels emerges from an interplay of social + phonological pressures. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...
New insights into German #prosody! How do speakers & listeners distinguish utterance-medial vs. utterance-final #intonation boundaries in #German? Subtle differences in intonation, particularly in the rhyme's f0, are key cues for listeners. #LabPhon #openaccess #kinematics doi.org/10.16995/lab...
Is final devoicing as well-understood as we think? A new #LabPhon paper uses large #French corpora + Bayesian modeling to show its phonetic precursors fit typology better when viewed as multidimensional contrast neutralization. #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...
New in #LabPhon: How well do adult language learners acquire new sound contrasts, in remote vs. in-laboratory environments? Results show that both paradigms result in learning, but there are trade-offs in both protocol types. @m2b2.bsky.social @spplab.bsky.social #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/lab...
New in @labphon.bsky.social / #LabPhon > “Linguistic experience and social factors in speech perception: the case of merged speakers of Mandarin sibilants” by Sang-Im Lee-Kim and Hsiang-Yu Tung: doi.org/10.16995/lab...
How are social expectations employed in cases of mergers in progress? A study of #TaiwanMandarin #sibilants finds that merged speakers may be somewhat desensitized to acoustic cues, but they readily employ social cues in speech perception. #sociophonetics #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/lab...
