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Laboratory Phonology @LabPhon

This is the official twitter account of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.

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We're delighted to announce that #LabPhon20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in the (North American) summer of 2026, with the theme “Looking back and looking forward.” Dates, thematic sessions, invited speakers, and more will be announced by the organizers. #LabPhon
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How marginal can phonological contrasts be? In Zongozotla #Totonac, phonation type and glottal stops are phonologically contrastive, but they are weakly differentiated phonetically and the glottal stops only surface phrase-finally. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labphon.109…

At the margins: phonology and phonetics of Zongozotla Totonac glottalization

Glottal stops and glottalized (“laryngealized”) vowels in Totonac and Tepehua languages are crucial for historical reconstructions, but their phonological and phonetic properties have often posed...

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Vowel & consonant duration vary inversely in Australian #Yolngu language Djambarrpuyŋu, so what’s contrastive? A pair of production & perception studies show that V length is contrastive, though both V & C duration influence perception #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labphon.101…

Contrastive vowel length and segment duration in production and perception in Djambarrpuyŋu

This paper deals with segment duration and phonological length in production and perception in the Australian language Djambarrpuyŋu. It provides an acoustic phonetic account of vowel and consonant...

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How is #pharyngealization implemented? In #Tashlhiyt, it's signaled in #coronals by a lowered tongue body and lowered F2 in nearby vowels, which can extend into larger phonetic domains. doi.org/10.16995/labphon.167… #openaccess #LabPhon @phbuech @dejliglejlighed @rachid_ridouane

Pharyngealization in Tashlhiyt from kinematic and acoustic perspectives

This study investigated the implementation of pharyngealization in Tashlhiyt, across various linguistic contexts VCV, VCCV, VCCV, and VCCCV. We analyzed articulatory and acoustic data from six male...

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Most models of #word recognition assume that the input is faithful to the #phonological specifications in the #lexicon, but this is not always the case. How does word recognition work in such unusual cases? #Mawng #Iwaidja #lenition #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labphon.153…

Lenition, fortition, and lexical access in Iwaidja and Mawng

Many models of word recognition assume that spoken words are faithful to their phonological shape in the lexicon and that word recognition begins with the first incoming segment and proceeds linear...

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How does dialect exposure affect perceptual adaptation to a novel vowel shift? New results from regional US dialects explore listeners' behaviors via lexical decision tasks to understand the mechanisms governing generalization ability. #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/labphon.115…

The effect of listener dialect experience on perceptual adaptation to and generalization of a novel...

When adapting to novel vowel shifts, listeners rely on the systematicity of novel variants across vowel categories (e.g., parallel shifts), even when only part of a novel system is presented. We...

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In #Chicago the #vowels LOT/THOUGHT are in flux—how do speakers maintain their contrast? Articulatory & perceptual results show that lip rounding, not necessarily tongue position, provides auditory & visual differentiation. @jhavenhill #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/labphon.110…

Audiovisual enhancement of vowel contrast: Production and perception of the cot-caught contrast in...

This paper considers whether vowel systems are organized not only around principles of auditory-acoustic dispersion, but also around non-auditory perceptual factors, specifically vision. Three...

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Linguists have often observed prosody-syntax interactions in #informationstructure marking, but do speakers rely less on #prosody when #clefting can mark focus? In #Mandarin, such tradeoffs aren't found in production or perception: doi.org/10.16995/labphon.115… #LabPhon #openaccess

No prosody-syntax trade-offs: Prosody marks focus in Mandarin cleft constructions

In line with the idea that language has evolved to be efficient and to avoid redundancy, syntactic means of marking information structure have been derived from prosodic ones, and vice versa, for...

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In word shadowing tasks, do participants imitate formant frequencies or vowel shifts? Given the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, talkers imitate normalized phonetic properties of NCVS vowels, not the model talker's high F1,F2 frequencies. #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/labphon.108…

Raw acoustic vs. normalized phonetic convergence: Imitation of the Northern Cities Shift in the...

Word shadowing tasks elicit phonetic convergence to the stimulus model talkers, suggesting a tight perception-production link. The magnitude of this convergence is affected by linguistic and social...

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Prosody encodes multiple types of information simultaneously. How do focus & constituency interact to shape prosody in speech production? Results from #Mandarin & #English suggest they are encoded orthogonally via F0, duration, dB. #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/labphon.970…

Prosodic Effects of Focus and Constituency in Mandarin and in English

The prosody of an utterance encodes multiple types of information simultaneously, including information status of constituents—for example, by modulations in prosodic prominence to encode focus—and...

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How is phonological alternation represented in the brain? Analysis of brain event-related potentials during processing of lexical tone alternations in #Cantonese and #Mandarin links cross-linguistic differences to lexical distribution. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labphon.102…

Neural processing of Mandarin and Cantonese lexical tone alternations: implications for the nature...

This study provides neurocognitive evidence to shed further insight into the architecture of phonological representations. We tap into these representations by focusing on the neural processing of...

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Is Lyman’s Law sensitive to a distance-and-decay effect, as observed for dissimilation in other languages? New research by @PhoneticsKeio shows #rendaku in #Japanese is sensitive to a locality effect, despite an absence of lexical evidence. doi.org/10.16995/labphon.108… #openaccess

The nonlocal nature of Lyman’s Law revisited

Past studies (Vance, 1979; Kawahara, 2012) of rendaku, a morphonological alternation in Japanese, have produced conflicting results about the sensitivity of Lyman’s Law to a locality effect in nonce...

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How can researchers diagnose whether word #stress is stored lexically? A comparison of listeners' stress recall ability across #PapuanMalay and #German highlights perceptual differences in fixed-stress and free-stress systems. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labphon.116…

When recall gets stressful: comparing Papuan Malay and German listeners' lexical storage of word...

Recent studies indicated that Papuan Malay, spoken in the Eastern provinces of Indonesia, has regular penultimate word stress. Only when schwa occurs in the penultimate syllable, stress is ultimate,...

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Is #wordstress stored as an abstract structure in our minds, or instead as #phonetic detail? In this #LabPhon article, speakers choosing #stress for novel words are influenced by abstract, not phonetic, stress patterns of previous novel words. #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labphon.957…

Production priming of stress in nonwords

In this study, we demonstrate production-to-production priming of stress in nonwords, when participants must assign a stress pattern without reference to lexical information. This priming effect is...

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Can syllable weight & word minimality distinguish metrical structure in #English & #Portuguese? Experimental analysis reveals significant representational differences, w/robust support for metrical feet in English but not Portuguese. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labphon.642…

Weight effects and the parametrization of the foot: English versus Portuguese

This article explores the possibility that even though English and Portuguese present similar stress patterns on the surface, the two languages may be formally different: whereas English offers...

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How reliable is #remote recording for #prosody research? @congprosody's new #LabPhon study compares acoustic features over time for a lab-quality recorder vs three #remote options using #dynamic methods. Read more to learn its recommendations! #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labphon.104…

Investigating differences in lab-quality and remote recording methods with dynamic acoustic measures

Increasingly, phonetic research uses data collected from participants who record themselves on readily available devices. Though such recordings are convenient, their suitability for acoustic...

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Can we signal prosodic #prominence when we speak loudly? A new #LabPhon article by members of the @SpeeDy_Lab explores the flexibility and robustness of #articulatory and #acoustic signatures of focus structure across speaking styles. doi.org/10.16995/labphon.109… #openaccess

The encoding of prominence relations in supra-laryngeal articulation across speaking styles

Speakers modify their supra-laryngeal articulation on the one hand as a function of prosodic prominence and on the other hand as a function of speaking style. Articulatory movements are spatio-temp...

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How much do you know about an utterance before you speak it? An eye-tracking study shows that #Estonian speakers' knowledge includes phrasal structure & words, enabling them to adjust pitch in long utterances even on the first word. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labphon.872…

Planning sentences and sentence intonation in Estonian

The notion of advance planning of sentence intonation is grounded in the positive correlation between the sentence-initial intonation peaks and sentence duration. This study examined real-time...

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Do British choirs sing with an #SSBE accent? @E_JMarshall @jhstuartsmith & @Beniskeys analyze #classical #choral #singing to show that front vowels lower & retract over the 20th century, while Scottish choirs use SSBE vowel phonology. doi.org/10.16995/labphon.101… #openaccess #labphon
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