Q: How do speakers realize the iambic rhythmic pattern of Central #Alaskan Yup'ik? A: Duration, intensity, & F0 play acoustic roles in distinguishing vowel length & weight categories. journal-labphon.org/article/id/847… #LabPhon #openaccess #Yupik #prosody #metricalphonology #speechrhythm

How can researchers studying acoustics of vowel reduction & similar phenomena maximize data quality when recording remotely? Consider your choice of recording device, compression algorithm, & methods of analysis & formant extraction. journal-labphon.org/article/id/105… #openaccess #LabPhon

Do #French listeners use coarticulatory #vowel nasality during word perception? Yes: despite the relative weakness of cues to nasality in #coarticulation, French listeners can still use them when present. #LabPhon #openaccess #lexicalperception doi.org/10.16995/labph…

What is the extent of preboundary lengthening and articulatory strengthening in #Seoul #Korean, and how do they relate to prosodic prominence at phrase edges? A new #LabPhon article evaluates these effects using articulatory data. #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labph…

How is information structure communicated via #prosody? New results comparing the pre-nuclear domain vs. the nuclear accent in #German show that the phonetic manifestation of #informationstructure is distributed across larger domains. #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/labph…

How consistent is listener perception of phonetic imitation in an AXB task? New #LabPhon results by Beth MacLeod show listeners vary in their ability to perceive imitation, but consistency across sessions supports reliability of the AXB task. #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labph…

#LabPhon19 reminder: Early Registration ends April 30! The website now includes full programs for the main conference, pre-conference workshops, and a pre-conference lecture. Details about accommodations and travel have also been enriched! #LabPhon labphon.org/labphon19/home

Can motion capture reveal #lenition in speech? An investigation of lip aperture alongside #acoustics in bilabial stops of Canary Islands #Spanish finds that video-based measurements of lip opening correlate with consonant lenition. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labph…

Are ‘plain’ #Russian stops palatalized by a following palatal glide? A new paper in #LabPhon shows that although plain labial stops undergo palatalization, they retain distinct phonetic characteristics compared to inherently palatalized stops. #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labph…

How do speakers of #CanadianEnglish produce prosodic focus? A comparison of broad vs narrow focus across utterance locations finds that enhancement of acoustic correlates for focus doesn't involve f0, but focus-adjacent weakening does. #openaccess #LabPhon doi.org/10.16995/labph…

Looking to integrate articulatory measurement into #phonetics research done over the web? An open-source method can capture de-identified lip movements from participants' home webcams, via in-browser face-tracking. #LabPhon #openaccess #psycholinguistics doi.org/10.16995/labph…

Is prefix-controlled consonant harmony typologically absent because it's unlearnable? No: an artificial-grammar learning study demonstrates learnability of such harmony patterns, suggesting other causes explain its typological absence. #LabPhon #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labph…

In ongoing sound changes, a coarticulatory effect is often enhanced as the coarticulatory source that gives rise to it wanes. Pia Greca asks: How can #phonologization and these reciprocal coarticulatory changes be connected? doi.org/10.16995/labph… #LabPhon #openaccess #metaphony

How reliable are phonetic data collected online? To assess the reliability of online data collection methods, a new #LabPhon article examines the #acoustics of guttural fricatives in #CentralKurdish, #EmiratiArabic, and #WesternArmenian. #openaccess doi.org/10.16995/labph…

Do British choirs sing with an #SSBE accent? Dr Edward J. Marshall Jane Stuart-Smith & Timothy Dean 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/labph… #openaccess #labphon

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/labph…

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