UC Berkeley Phonology Lab

2008 Annual Report

linguistics.berkeley.edu/phonlab

Phonology Lab

50-52 Dwinelle Hall
University of California
Berkeley

Preface
The Lombard Effect as a Communicative Process
Priscilla Lau
Multi-timescale Dynamical Interactions between Speech Rhythm and Gesture
Sam Tilsen
Phonetics vs. Phonology in Loanword Adaptation: Revisiting the Role of the Bilingual
(Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society)
Charles B. Chang
Variation in Palatal Production in Buenos Aires Spanish
(Selected Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics)
Charles B. Chang
A Tale of Five Fricatives: Consonantal Contrast in Heritage Speakers of Mandarin
(University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 15.1)
Charles B. Chang, Erin F. Haynes, Yao Yao, and Russell Rhodes
The Phonetic Space of Phonological Categories in Heritage Speakers of Mandarin
(Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society)
Charles B. Chang, Erin F. Haynes, Yao Yao, and Russell Rhodes
Issues in African Language Phonology
(to appear in Tom Gueldemann, ed., Africa, in the Fields of Linguistics series (Hans Hock, ed.)
Larry M. Hyman
"Perceiving the Advantage": The Effect of Prior L2 Exposure versus Perception Training on L1 English Speakers' Acquisition of Hindi Aspirated Consonants
(UCB Undergraduate Honors Thesis)
Anupama Bhatt
The Natural History of Verb-Stem Reduplication in Bantu
(submitted to Proceedings of 2nd Graz Conference on Reduplication, Sept. 30-Oct.2, 2007)
Larry M. Hyman
"Antihomorganicity" in Apinaye and Hayu:  Evidence for Closure Duration as a Phonotactic Variable
(UCB Undergraduate Honors Thesis)
Ian Coffman
Language-specificity at Early Levels of Mandarin Tone Perception by Chinese Listeners
Tsan Huang and Keith Johnson
Preliminary Results of a Stop-signal Experiment
Sam Tilsen
Tonal and Non-Tonal Intonation in Shekgalagari
(Submitted to the proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Tone and Intonation (TIE3), Laboratorio de Fonetica de FLUL, University of Lisbon, Sept. 15-17, 2008)
Larry M. Hyman and Kemmonye C. Monaka
A Discrete-Time Aerodynamic Model of the Vocal Tract
Ronald L. Sprouse
Oral Cavity Enlargement in Retroflex Stops
Ronald L. Sprouse, Maria-Josep Solé & John J. Ohala
Turbulence & Phonology
(Paper presented at the Conference on Turbulence. Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sptrachwissenschaft, Berlin. 13-14.10.2005)
John J. Ohala & Maria-Josep Solé
The Ethological Basis of Certain Signals of Affect and Emotion
(to appear in the proceedings of the International Conference on Prosody and Iconicity, Rouen, 9-10 April 2009)
John J. Ohala
Understanding Variability in Speech: A Brief Survey over 2.5 Millennia
(In honor of Wu Zong-yi on his 100th birthday)
John J. Ohala
Languages' Sound Inventories: The Devil is in the Details
(Presented at the conference on Phonological Universals, Lyon, 2005)
John J. Ohala
Enlarging the Scope of Phonologization
(Submitted to the Proceedings of the Symposium on Phonologization, University of Chicago, April 25-26, 2008)
Larry M. Hyman
The Linguistic Basis of Phonetic Coherence
(Presented at the 11th Laboratory Phonology Conference, June 30, 2008)
Keith Johnson
Syntactic Probabilities Affect Pronunciation Variation in Spontaneous Speech
Hal Tily, Susanne Gahl, Inbal Arnon, Neal Snider, Anubha Kothari & Joan Bresnan
Partial Compensation in Speech Adaptation
Shira Katseff & John Houde

PhD Dissertations

The Phonetics and Phonology of San Martin Itunyoso Trique
Christian DiCanio
Input-Driven Opacity
Marc Ettlinger
Morphological Sources of Phonological Length
Anne Pycha