Coarticulation guides sound change: An acoustic-phonetic study of real-time change in word-initial /l/ over four decades of Glaswegian

Journal of Phonetics Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children ’ s and adults ’ production of complex – simplex stop contrasts in Gã

Babble and First Word Learning: The Articulatory Filter Revisited

Production and perception of speech develop in tandem during the first year of life, shaping one another in ways that have only recently been experimentally tested. Canonical babbling, which emerges robustly between 6 and 8 months across languages, is grounded in neuromotor maturation but also depends critically on aud...

Lip Tracking and Acoustics at the Phonetics–Phonology Interface: Coronal Stop Deletion in American English

American English is well-known for optional /t d/ deletion in clusters, as in best [bes] man, kept [khep] going or whipped [wɪp] butter. However, research shows that even in the absence of an acoustic trace of /t d/, articulatory gestures related to the alveolar constriction are still there, although they may be of a s...

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Toolkit for acoustic–phonetic analysis of naturalistic speech data

This work demonstrates TAPA on the 2016 U.S. presidential debate, and suggests that TAPA can be used to increase access to naturalistic speech data and speed up the processing timeline with experts' supervision.

How Language-specific Perceptual Cues Can Explain Differences in Onset Clusters: The Case of /tr/ in Polish and English

/tr/ onset clusters in Polish and English show different phonetic realizations. Contra previous accounts locating the cause for this in a different gestural timing or a different phonological representation, we propose the two languages employ different perceptual cues necessary for the perception of consonants in lang...