Grants

The Phonetics Lab is currently engaged in a perceptual project supported by National Institute of Health Grant 5R01DC006241, 2004-2007. An application for renewal has been submitted.

This project tests the hypothesis that incoming speech signals pass through a stage of linguistically naive, auditory processing before undergoing linguistically informed processing. It thus tests a model of speech perception which is autonomous rather than than interactive.

Three papers have been submitted for publication - all are being revised for resubmission - and a fourth is in preparation. Pre-prints will be made available here once the papers are accepted.


Publications and Posters

Key, Michael (to appear). Modelling the relation between phonological and phonetic encoding in perception: Interactive or autonomous? In: Suzi Lima, Kevin Mullin, and Brian Smith (eds.) Proceedings of NELS 39.

Kingston, John, Shigeto Kawahara, Della Chambless, Daniel Mash and Eve Brenner-Alsop (to appear) Contextual effects on the perception of duration. Journal of Phonetics.

Kawahara, Shigeto and Kazuko Shinohara (2009). The role of psychoacoustic similarity in Japanese puns: A corpus study. Journal of Linguistics 45.1: 111-138.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2008). Phonetic naturalness and unnaturalness in Japanese loanword phonology. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 17.4: 317-330.

Kawahara, Shigeto and Takahito Shinya (2008) The intonation of gapping and coordination in Japanese: Evidence for Intonational Phrase and Utterance. Phonetica 65.1-2: 65-102.

Key, Michael (2008). Interactive and autonomous modes of speech perception: Phonological discrimination in English and French listeners. Paper presented at LabPhon11, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 30 June 2008.

Kingston, John, Kawahara, Shigeto, Chambless, Della, Key, Michael and Sarah Watsky (2008). The independence of auditory and categorical effects on speech perception. Poster presented at LabPhon11, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 30 June - 2 July 2008.

Kingston, J., Diehl, R. L., Kirk, C. J., & Castleman, W. A. (2008). On the internal perceptual structure of distinctive features: The [voice] contrast" Journal of Phonetics, 36, 28-54.

Kingston, John (2007)."The phonetics-phonology interface," Paul de Lacy (ed.), The Handbook of Phonology, (pp. 401-434), Cambridge: UK, Cambridge University Press.

Kawahara, Shigeto (2006). A faithfulness ranking projected from a perceptibility scale: The case of [+voice] in Japanese. Language 82.3: 536-574.

Kingston, John (2006). "Lenition," L. Colantoni & J. Steele (eds.) Proceedings of the Third Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology, Cascadilla Press.

Kingston, John (2005). "The phonetics of Athabaskan tonogenesis," S. Hargus & K. Rice (eds.), Athabaskan Prosody, John Benjamins Press.

Kingston, John (2004). "Segmental influences on F0: Controlled or automatic?" C. Gussenhoven & T. Riad, (eds.), Tones and Tunes, v. 2, (pp. 171-210), Mouton de Gruyter, (2007).