ICPhS 2019

This year's International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019) is taking place in Melbourne, Australia, from August 5 through 9. Our current departmental members and alumni are very well-represented, across a range of subfields that intersect with phonetics:

• Alexei Kochetov (faculty), Laura Colantoni (faculty), Yoonjung Kang (faculty), and Jeffrey Steele (faculty, Department of French): "Linguopalatal contact differences between /n/ and /t/ across six languages."
• Yoonjung Kang (faculty), Na-Young Ryu (Ph.D. 2019, now at Pennsylvania State University), and Suyeon Yun (former postdoc, now at Ewha Womans University): "Contrastive hyperarticulation of vowels in two dialects of Korean."
• Alexei Kochetov (faculty) and Kiranpreet Nara (Ph.D.), with colleague Matthew Faytak (University of California, Los Angeles): "Manner differences in the Punjabi dental-retroflex contrast: An ultrasound study of time-series data."
• Na-Young Ryu (Ph.D. 2019, now at Pennsylvania State University) and Yoonjung Kang (faculty): "Web-based high variability phonetic training on L2 coda identification."
• Alexei Kochetov (faculty), Paul Arsenault (Ph.D. 2012, now at Tyndale University College), and Jan Heegård Petersen (University of Copenhagen): "A preliminary acoustic investigation of Kalasha retroflex (rhotic) vowels."
• Alexei Kochetov (faculty) with Mayuki Matsui (University of Amsterdam): "Laryngeal coarticulation in two types of devoicing: An electroglottographic study of Russian and English."
• Alexei Kochetov (faculty) with Jason Shaw (Yale University) and Karthik Durvasula (Michigan State University): "The temporal basis of complex segments."
• Angelika Kiss (Ph.D.), with Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo (University of British Columbia) and Maxime Tulling (New York University): "The prosodic properties of the Cantonese sentence-final particles aa1 and aa3 in rhetorical wh-questions."
• Maida Percival (Ph.D.) has a poster: "Contextual variation in the acoustics of Hul'q'umi'num' ejective stops."
• Juli Cebrian (Ph.D. 2002, now at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), with Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona colleagues Zhao Liu and Celia Gorba: "Effects of learning an additional language on VOT perception."
• Nicole Rosen (Ph.D. 2007, now at the University of Manitoba) with Sky Onosson (University of Victoria) and Lanlan Li (University of Manitoba): "Ethnolinguistic differentiation and the Canadian Shift."
• Nicole Rosen (Ph.D. 2007) with Jesse Stewart (University of Saskatchewan), Michele Pesch-Johnson (University of Manitoba) and Olivia Sammons (University of Alberta): "VOT in Michif."
• Phil Howson (Ph.D. 2018, now at the University of Oregon) with Melissa Redford (University of Oregon): "Listener preference is for reduced determiners that anticipate the following noun."
• Gloria Mellesmoen (MA 2016, now at the University of British Columbia) and Marianne Huijsmans (University of British Columbia): "The relationship between pronunciation and orthography: Using acoustic analysis as a practical illustration of ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Comox-Sliammon) vowel quality."
• Gloria Mellesmoen (MA 2016, now at the University of British Columbia) with Molly Babel (University of British Columbia): "Perceptual adaptation to stereotyped accents in audio-visual speech."