Great job to Ph.D students Aleese Block, Tyler Kline, and Bruno Ferenc Segedin for presenting at the 2020 Linguistic Society of America annual Meeting in New Orleans!

Thanks to Daan van Esch (Google) for coming to visit the Phonetics Lab, going out to lunch with us, and giving a guest lecture this Thursday! 

Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn, & Bruno Ferenc Segedin presented 4 papers at Interspeech in Graz, Austria. 

Dr. Georgia Zellou and Dr. Michelle Cohn gave invited talks at the June 2019 Voice User Interface (VUI) Summit at the Amazon headquarters. 
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• Zellou, G. Exploring human “speech rules” during vocal interactions with voice-AI. 
• Cohn, M. Exploring cognitive-emotional expression: The impact of voice “emojis” in human-Alexa interaction.

Undergraduate researcher, Melina Sarian, did a fantastic job presenting her research with collaborators Dr. Georgia Zellou and Dr. Michelle Cohn at the 'Most Innovative Research' Panel

Bruno Ferenc Segedin and Michelle Cohn presented two talks in our 'Dynamics of Voice-AI Interaction' ​panel

See below for the recording for the 5 Minute Linguist (5ML) competition, emceed by John McWhorter, at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting in New York City. The aim of the competition to communicate a research project to a general audience in just 5 minutes (and with no notes!). 

We are thrilled that two talks selected as finalists were from our lab!

Talk 1 (0:00 - 8:22)
Michelle Cohn (University of California, Davis): Phonologically motivated phonetic repair strategies in Siri- and human-directed speech

Talk 2 (9:45 - 15:43) 
Bruno Ferenc Segedin (University of California, Davis) & Georgia Zellou (University of California, Davis): Lexical frequency mediates compensation for coarticulation: Are the seeds of sound change word-specific?


Congratulations to the other presenters, as well!

• Andrew Cheng (University of California, Berkeley): Style-shifting, Bilingualism, and the Koreatown Accent
• Bruno Ferenc Segedin (University of California, Davis) & Georgia Zellou (University of California, Davis): Lexical frequency mediates compensation for coarticulation: Are the seeds of sound change word-specific?
• Kristin Denlinger (University of Texas, Austin) & Michael Everdell (University of Texas, Austin): A Mereological Approach to Reduplicated Resultatives in O’dam
• Jessi Grieser (University of Tennessee): Talking Place, Speaking Race: Topic-based style shifting in African American Language as an expression of place identity
• Kate Mesh (University of Haifa): Gaze decouples from pointing as a result of grammaticalization: Evidence from Israeli Sign Language
• Jennifer Schechter (University at Buffalo): What Donald Trump’s ‘thoughts’ reveal: An acoustic analysis of 45’s coffee vowel
• Ai Taniguchi (Carleton University): Why we say stuff