This study explores the question of how phoneme-specific shadowing effects are. When shadowing a vowel from another known dialect, are the effects limited to the specific vowel to which the speaker is...

This paper investigates how speakers of Wubuy (Nunggubuyu) process two linked morphophonological alternations—phonological hardening and ŋu-insertion—using two Two-Alternative Forced Choice experiment...

We present articulatory data regarding how Tokyo Japanese speakers produce consonantal lengthcontrasts. Six speakers produced 15 mimetic items across bilabial, alveolar, palatal, and dorsalplaces as s...

This paper explores deliberative and automatic processes in phonetic imitation across geographic dialects. 136 American English speakers shadowed an Australian model talker and were instructed to imit...

Phonological contrasts in speech production and perception are frequently studied with acoustic and/or auditory cues. Less is known about how visual properties are incorporated in a contrast and how/i...

Please wait a moment while we ensure the security of your connection.

A number of studies in recent years have shown that, at least for English and typologically similar languages, the perception of phrase-level prosodic prominence reflects a combination of phonological...

This article presents an acoustic experiment describing the effects of word-initial stop consonantvoicing on the realization of the following vowel in Polish. We provide data from 30 speakersand inclu...

This study examines the production of the  te reo Māori opening vowel sequences /ia/ /ea/ /oa/ and /ua/, which  have been  described as hiatuses. We re-examine this classification through acoustic pho...

In many languages, vowels are longer before voiced consonants than before voiceless consonants. A substantial body of work addresses voicing-conditioned vowel duration, including other factors with wh...

First language (L1) phonological knowledge may influence second language (L2) processing at different levels. The current study disentangles L2 low-level perception and a higher level of phonological ...

A key function of focus is to highlight what is said in relation to what could be said, or alternatives to the focus. This plays a crucial role in conveying implied meaning in discourse. Psycholinguis...

Though predictability has been found to play an important role in reduction processes in speech, its role in conditioning co-speech gestures has not been explored. Co-speech gestures are known to be c...

Using a changing-state oddball paradigm, in which auditory sequences of sequentially ordered ascending numbers (standards; e.g., 21 22 23 24 25 26...) are occasionally interspersed with an out-of-the-...

This paper explores cue-weighting in the production of vowel height contrasts in children’s first words. Specifically, it investigates the role of the first formant (F1) and the fundamental frequency ...

This study tests the hypothesis that timing lag is part of phonological knowledge, investigating Georgian speakers’ perceptual recoverability of C1 consonantal gestures in stop-stop sequences. We hypo...

Listeners use their knowledge about a talker to guide speech perception. In the present study,we manipulated both the familiarity and predictability of this talker-specific knowledge. Twenty-two liste...

Studies show that phonetic detail signals morphological structure. Previous studies of English prefixes examined one dialect and speech style, and/or measured only duration. This study examines phonet...

Creaky voice has historically been associated with men’s speech, supported by acoustic studies. Since around 2010, however, sociolinguistic work alongside public discourse has perpetuated greater crea...

In conversational speech, it has been observed that speakers tend to reuse the variant that they have recently used. This recency effect, also called 'persistence' or 'repetitiveness', has often been ...

Clusters of New Zealand English (NZE) monophthongs systematically covary across speakers (Brand et al., 2021; Hurring et al., 2025), meaning information about how a speaker realises one vowel also giv...

Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon) | An international body of scholars committed to advancing knowledge on the phonetics and phonology of human languages | The Association for Laboratory P...

The study explores phonetic recalibration as a novel method for investigating sound-category linkages across languages, by examining cross-linguistic generalization of phoneme retuning among Spanish-E...

The glottal stop is a speech sound with varying functions. It can occur as a phoneme in its own right, as a marker of prosodic boundaries, as a replacement of oral stops, and as the replacement for le...