Sneak peek! Cross-linguistic lip rounding across 86 speakers and three languages shows evidence for a trading relation between protrusion and area, regardless of the phonological status of vowel rounding. So much time, effort, and computation for the six numbers in this graph!

SPECIAL ISSUE: ACOUSTIC CUE–BASED PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION OF SPEECH This study using a speech inversion system confirms the relationship between articulation and acoustics for nasality: doi.org/10.1121/10.002… #acoustics ECE at UMD @UCAlliedHealth Yale Psychiatry Yale Linguistics

My lab (BITS Lab @ NYU) is looking to admit a new student this cycle. Please share with anyone interested in sensorimotor control of speech in children & adults / tech development for speech applications / biofeedback for speech sound disorder and gender-affirming voice training!

Fresh off the press: Hu & Arvaniti, 2024, Individual variability in the use of tonal and non-tonal cues in intonation, JASA-EL doi.org/10.1121/10.002…

Oh the many facets of deixis… With Christopher Carignan, N. Esteve Gibert, Mariapaola D’Imperio & M. Dohen, we show that pointing is not only a manual and vocal gesture, but can also be conveyed with a nod of the head! LPNC Grenoble CNRS GIPSA-lab Laboratoire Parole et Langage

Currently reading a student's thesis that describes research in the 20th century as if it were in the distant past

Using electromagnetic articulography to track head nods that accompany speech, researchers have found evidence that French speakers use head movements to emphasize word focus doi.org/10.1121/10.002… Christopher Carignan Hélène Lœvenbruck Mariapaola D’Imperio

Nothing quite as satisfying as submitting my overseas ballot while finishing my morning coffee ☕🇺🇸 govote.org

Our new paper “Towards a dynamical model of English vowels” is out now in Journal of Phonetics! doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn…

Out now in Journal of Phonetics! In comparing nasal coarticulation across three languages, our results suggest that vowel nasalization has become a *source* of coarticulation in English, adding further evidence of an ongoing sound change in the language. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I’ve submitted my PhD thesis for examination today! Let’s see how the viva will go! 今朝、審査に向けて博論を提出しました！残すは口頭試問！

praatpicture 1.3.0 is on CRAN!! HYPE THREAD 💯🔥🧨 (really, it's mostly small things and bug fixes)

New article published today with @clairelnance in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition! ➡️ What happens when a bilingual speaker has a larger sub-system in their L1 than their L2? How are L1 categories mapped to L2 categories? Find out below! doi.org/10.1017/S13667…

Filming is officially underway for our upcoming promotional video for the SHaPS department and MSc Language Sciences programme!

Speech science meets Hollywood 🎬

Currently updating the slides for the debugging lecture in my Star-Wars-meme-laden "Programming in R" module to discuss using LLMs in the debugging process. The prompt was to "create a function in R that plots vowels in different colors".

One more cohort of PALS0047 R programmers receives their rubber ducks! Everyone say, "Hello World!"

Thrilled to assist Takayuki Nagamine / 長峯貴幸 in streamlining an EMA experiment and to get a glimpse of the ‘behind the scenes’ in a speech production study! 😆 Excited for more opportunities to contribute to such fascinating research in the near future! SHaPS