We investigate speech perception and production using approaches in:
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Selected publications
Cohn, M., Ferenc Segedin, B.*, & Zellou, G. (2022). Acoustic-phonetic properties of Siri-and human-directed speech. Journal of Phonetics, 90, 101123. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101123]
Barreda, S. (2021). Perceptual validation of vowel normalization methods for variationist research. Language Variation and Change, 33 (2021), 27–53.
Zellou, G., Cohn, M., & *Kline, T. (2021). The Influence of Conversational Role on Phonetic Alignment toward Voice-AI and Human Interlocutors. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-15.
Zellou, G., Cohn, M., *Block, A. (2021). Partial compensation for coarticulatory vowel nasalization across concatenative and neural text-to-speech. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 149(5), 3424-3436.
Zellou, G., Cohn, M., *Ferenc Segedin, B. (2021). Age- and gender-related differences in speech alignment toward humans and voice-AI. Frontiers in Communication 5, 600361.
Cohn, M., Pycha, A., Zellou, G. (2021). Intelligibility of face-masked speech depends on speaking style: Comparing casual, smiled, and clear speech. Cognition 210, 104570.
Barreda, S. (2020). Vowel Normalization as Perceptual Constancy. Language, 96:2, 1-31.
Zellou, G., Barreda, S., *Ferenc Segedin, B. (2020). Partial perceptual compensation for nasal coarticulation is robust to fundamental frequency variation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(3), EL271-EL275.
Asadi, S., Wexler, A. S., Cappa, C. D., Barreda, S., Bouvier, N. M., Ristenpart, W. D. (2019). Aerosol emission and superemission during human speech increase with voice loudness. Scientific Reports.
*Ferenc Segedin, B. Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2019). Perceptual adaptation to device and human voices: learning and generalization of a phonetic shift across real and voice-AI talkers. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH.
*Snyder, C. Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2019). Individual variation in cognitive processing style predicts differences in phonetic imitation of device and human voices. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH.
Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2019). Expressiveness influences human vocal alignment toward voice-AI. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH.
Cohn, M., Zellou, G., Barreda, S. (2019) The role of musical experience in the perceptual weighting of acoustic cues for the obstruent coda voicing contrast in American English. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH.
Cohn, M., *Ferenc Segedin, B., Zellou, G. Imitating Siri: Socially-mediated vocal alignment to device and human voices. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).
*Brotherton, C., Cohn, M., Zellou, G., Barreda, S. Sub-regional variation in positioning and degree of nasalization of /æ/ allophones in California. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).
Barreda, S., & *Liu, Z. Y. (2018). Apparent-talker height is influenced by Mandarin lexical tone. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(2), EL61-EL66.
*Zion Mengesha and Georgia Zellou. (2018). The interaction between phonological and lexical variation on word recall in African American English. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Zellou, G., & Pycha, A. (2018). The gradient influence of temporal extent of coarticulation on vowel and speaker perception. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 9(1).
Zellou, G. (2017). Individual differences in the production of nasal coarticulation and perceptual compensation. Journal of Phonetics, 61, 13-29.
Barreda, S., & Zellou, G. (2015) Speaker identity and spectral changes in word recognition. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII), August, Glasgow, UK
*Student authors
Barreda, S. (2021). Perceptual validation of vowel normalization methods for variationist research. Language Variation and Change, 33 (2021), 27–53.
Zellou, G., Cohn, M., & *Kline, T. (2021). The Influence of Conversational Role on Phonetic Alignment toward Voice-AI and Human Interlocutors. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-15.
Zellou, G., Cohn, M., *Block, A. (2021). Partial compensation for coarticulatory vowel nasalization across concatenative and neural text-to-speech. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 149(5), 3424-3436.
Zellou, G., Cohn, M., *Ferenc Segedin, B. (2021). Age- and gender-related differences in speech alignment toward humans and voice-AI. Frontiers in Communication 5, 600361.
Cohn, M., Pycha, A., Zellou, G. (2021). Intelligibility of face-masked speech depends on speaking style: Comparing casual, smiled, and clear speech. Cognition 210, 104570.
Barreda, S. (2020). Vowel Normalization as Perceptual Constancy. Language, 96:2, 1-31.
Zellou, G., Barreda, S., *Ferenc Segedin, B. (2020). Partial perceptual compensation for nasal coarticulation is robust to fundamental frequency variation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(3), EL271-EL275.
Asadi, S., Wexler, A. S., Cappa, C. D., Barreda, S., Bouvier, N. M., Ristenpart, W. D. (2019). Aerosol emission and superemission during human speech increase with voice loudness. Scientific Reports.
*Ferenc Segedin, B. Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2019). Perceptual adaptation to device and human voices: learning and generalization of a phonetic shift across real and voice-AI talkers. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH.
*Snyder, C. Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2019). Individual variation in cognitive processing style predicts differences in phonetic imitation of device and human voices. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH.
Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2019). Expressiveness influences human vocal alignment toward voice-AI. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH.
Cohn, M., Zellou, G., Barreda, S. (2019) The role of musical experience in the perceptual weighting of acoustic cues for the obstruent coda voicing contrast in American English. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH.
Cohn, M., *Ferenc Segedin, B., Zellou, G. Imitating Siri: Socially-mediated vocal alignment to device and human voices. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).
*Brotherton, C., Cohn, M., Zellou, G., Barreda, S. Sub-regional variation in positioning and degree of nasalization of /æ/ allophones in California. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).
Barreda, S., & *Liu, Z. Y. (2018). Apparent-talker height is influenced by Mandarin lexical tone. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(2), EL61-EL66.
*Zion Mengesha and Georgia Zellou. (2018). The interaction between phonological and lexical variation on word recall in African American English. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Zellou, G., & Pycha, A. (2018). The gradient influence of temporal extent of coarticulation on vowel and speaker perception. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 9(1).
Zellou, G. (2017). Individual differences in the production of nasal coarticulation and perceptual compensation. Journal of Phonetics, 61, 13-29.
Barreda, S., & Zellou, G. (2015) Speaker identity and spectral changes in word recognition. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII), August, Glasgow, UK
*Student authors
Presentations
Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting 2021 (San Francisco, CA)
- Aleese Block. Cue weighting and phoneme-specific patterns in systems of quantity contrast: the case of Norwegian vowels"
- Eleonora Beier, Michelle Cohn, Fernanda Ferreira, & Georgia Zellou. Prosodic focus in human- versus voice-AI-directed speec
- Kristin Predeck, Aleese Block. Problematic phonemes” and German /ɛ:/: An acoustic analysis
- Riley Stray, Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou. The Interaction between Phonological and Semantic Usage Factors in Dialect Intelligibility in Noise
Interspeech 2019 (Graz, Austria)
- Cathryn Snyder, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou. Individual variation in cognitive processing style predicts differences in phonetic imitation of device and human voices.
- Michelle Cohn & Georgia Zellou Expressiveness influences human vocal alignment toward voice-AI.
- Bruno Ferenc Segedin, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou. Perceptual adaptation to device and human voices: learning and generalization of a phonetic shift across real and voice-AI talkers.
- Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou, Santiago Barreda. The role of musical experience in the perceptual weighting of acoustic cues for the obstruent coda voicing contrast in American English.
2019 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) (Melbourne, Australia)
- Imitating Siri: Socially-mediated vocal alignment to device and human voices (Michelle Cohn; Bruno Ferenc Segedin; Georgia Zellou)
- The distribution of coarticulatory variation influences perceptual adaptation (Georgia Zellou; Bruno Ferenc Segedin)
- Sub-regional variation in positioning and degree of nasalization of /æ/ allophones in California (Chloe Brotherton; Michelle Cohn; Georgia Zellou; Santiago Barreda)
2019 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting (New York City, NY)
- Santiago Barreda. A Theoretical and Statistical Investigation of Vowel Normalization Procedures
- Michelle Cohn, Bruno Ferenc Segedin, & Georgia Zellou. Phonologically motivated phonetic repair strategies in Siri- and human- directed speech
- Georgia Zellou & Bruno Ferenc Segedin. The distribution of phonetic variation influences patterns of perceptual adaptation
- Santiago Barreda & Zoey Liu. The Effect of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Talker Height from Speech
2019 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 5 Minute Linguist Finalists
- Phonologically motivated phonetic repair strategies in Siri- and human-directed speech. Presenter: Michelle Cohn
- Lexical frequency mediates compensation for coarticulation: Are the seeds of sound change word-specific? Presenters: Bruno Ferenc Segedin & Georgia Zellou.
2019 American Dialect Society (ADS) Annual Meeting (New York City, NY)
- Chloe Brotherton, Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou, Santiago Barreda. Regional Variation in Vowel Positioning and Diphthongization inTRAP Allophones in California
2018 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Zion Mengesha & Georgia Zellou. The interaction between phonological and lexical variation on word recall in African American English
Georgia Zellou & Katharine Graf Estes. Enhanced coarticulation facilitates statistical learning of continuous speech in adults
Michelle Cohn. Investigating a possible “musician advantage” for speech-in-speech perception: the role of f0 separation
Zion Mengesha & Georgia Zellou. The interaction between phonological and lexical variation on word recall in African American English
Georgia Zellou & Katharine Graf Estes. Enhanced coarticulation facilitates statistical learning of continuous speech in adults
Michelle Cohn. Investigating a possible “musician advantage” for speech-in-speech perception: the role of f0 separation
2018 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Five Minute Linguist
Georgia Zellou. Enhanced coarticulation facilitates statistical learning of continuous speech in adults
Georgia Zellou. Enhanced coarticulation facilitates statistical learning of continuous speech in adults
