Presentations
Peer Reviewed
2019 Listener preference is for reduced determiners that anticipate the following noun. The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia. August 5-9. With Melissa Redford.
2019 Liquids coarticulation in child and adult speech. The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia. August 5-9. With Melissa Redford.
2018 Gestural lenition of rhotics captures variation in Brazilian Portuguese. Interspeech 2018. Hyderabad, India. September 2-6. With Alexei Kochetov.
2018 Perceptual motivation for rhotic class membership. The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Salt Lake City, Utah. January 4-7. With Philip J. Monahan.
2017 Coarticulation effects for dental, retroflex, and alveolopalatal fricatives, affricates and rhotics in Beijing Mandarin. The 11th International Seminar on Speech Production. Tianjin, China. October 16-19. With Richard Gananathan.
2017 Mandarin speakers’ perception of rhotics. The 11th International Seminar on Speech Production. Tianjin, China. October 16-19. With Richard Gananathan.
2017 An ultrasound investigation of Upper Sorbian rhotics. Ultrafest VIII. Potsdam, Germany. October 4-6.
2016 Formant trajectories in the realization of 3 Malayalam rhotics. The 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan. Honolulu, Hawaii. November 28-December 2. With Alexei Kochetov.
2016 A preliminary ultrasound examination of Upper Sorbian rhotics. The 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan. Honolulu, Hawaii. November 28-December 2.
2016 A preliminary ultrasound study of liquids in Upper Sorbian. The 11th Slavic Society Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada. September 23-25.
2016 An acoustic examination of laterals in Lower Sorbian. The 22nd International Congress on Acoustics. Buenos Aries, Argentina. September 5-9. With Alexei Kochetov.
2016 When dynamics conflict: flap dynamics and taps in Japanese. The 15th Laboratory Phonology Conference. Ithaca, New York. July 13-16. With Noriko Yamane, Masaki Noguchi, & Bryan Gick.
2016 Adaptive dispersion: a perceptual motivation for sound change. The 15th Laboratory Phonology Conference. Ithaca, New York. July 13-16. With Philip J. Monahan.
2015 An ultrasound investigation of palatalized taps in Japanese. Ultrafest VII. Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong. December 8-10. With Noriko Yamane.
2015 On the incompatibility of trilling and palatalization: a single-subject study of sustained apical and uvular trills. Interspeech 2015. Dresden, Germany. September 6-10. With Alexei Kochtov.
2015 An acoustic examination of the three-way sibilant contrast in Lower Sorbian. Interspeech 2015. Dresden, Germany. September 6-10.
2015 An ultrasound examination of taps in Japanese. The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, Scotland. August 10-14. With Noriko Yamane & Po-Chun Wei.
2015 An EMA examination of liquids in Czech. The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, Scotland. August 10-14. With Alexei Kochetov.
2014 Palatalization and uvulars: an acoustic examination of Upper Sorbian. Palatalization Conference. University of Trosmø/CASTL, Norway. December 4-5.
2014 The story of ř: and ultrasound examination. 22nd Czech-German Workshop on Speech Communication. Prague, Czech Republic. September 25-27. With Ekaterina Komova.
2014 An acoustic analysis of Czech alveolar and post-alveolar fricatives. 22nd Czech-German Workshop on Speech Communication. Prague, Czech Republic. September 25-27. With Philip J. Monahan.
2014 Palatalization and sound change: an ultrasound examination of trills in Russian and Czech. Phonetic Building Blocks of Speech, in Honor of Professor John Esling. Victoria, Canada. September 18-20. With Ekaterina Komova.
2014 An EMA investigation of Czech post-alveolar and palatal consonants. The 14th Laboratory Phonology Conference. Tokyo, Japan. July 25-28. With Alexei Kochetov.
2014 An EMA investigation of the Czech alveolar and post-alveolar fricatives. The 10th International Seminar on Speech Production. Cologne, Germany. May 5-8. With Alexei Kochetov.
Invited Talks
2018 A Phonetic Basis for Contrast in Phonology. University of Oregon Colloquium Series. Eugene, Oregon. October 19.
2016 An ultrasound examination of liquids in Upper Sorbian: a preliminary study. Sorbian Research Group. Leipzig, Germany. April 19.
Non-Peer Reviewed
2018 The role of F2 and F3 in the perception of liquids for Hindi and Mandarin listeners. 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Victoria, British Columbia. November 5-9. With Jessamyn Schertz & M. Irfana.
2018 l-vocalization as gestural lenition: evidence from Brazilian Portuguese. QODAS 2018. April 24. Toronto, Canada. With Marzena Żygis.
2018 Rhotic typologies as a product of class perception. MOT 2018 Phonology Workshop. Hamilton, Canada. March 24-25. With Philip J. Monahan.
2017 A cross-linguistic examination of l-vocalization. MOT 2017 Phonology Workshop. Montreal, Canada. March 24-26.
2015 The acoustic profile of a natural class: the rhotics. CRC Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop. Toronto, Canada. June 8.
2015 An acoustic examination of Upper Sorbian: a reexamination of the feature specification for uvulars. MOLT. Toronto, Canada. March 13-15.
2014 An electroglottography examination of fricative and sonorous segments. 168th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Indianapolis, USA. October 27-31.
2014 An airflow examination of Czech trills. 168th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Indianapolis, USA. October 27-31. With Ekaterina Komova.
2013 Electropalatography examination of groove width in Russian. 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. San Francisco, USA. December 5. With Alexei Kochetov.
2013 An EMA investigation of the Czech trill-fricative: source and filter. CRC Workshop. The University of Toronto, Canada. August 15.
2013 Electromagnetic articulometer investigation of the Czech trill-fricative. The 21st International Congress on Acoustics. Montreal, Canada. June 2-7. With Chris Neufeld & Alexei Kochetov.
2012 Czech Trills Revisited: an Ultrasound, EGG and Acoustic Study. LGCU Welcome Workshop. The University of Toronto, Canada. October 2.
2011 EGG and Acoustic Study of Czech Phoneme /ř/. Meeting of the Canadian Acoustic Association. Quebec City, Canada. October 12-14. With Ekaterina Komova & Bryan Gick.
2011 Ultrasound Analysis of the Czech Phoneme /ř/. Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Seattle, USA. May 23-27. With Ekaterina Komova & Bryan Gick.
Media Appearances
2014 MDR 1 Radijo Saska, 100.4 FM. Serbski Rozhłós (Sorbian Radio Station). Bautzen, Germany. May 30.