Congrats to Nick Aoki and Dr. Georgia Zellou for having the following paper accepted to Language and Speech: Apparent talker variability and speaking style similarity can enhance comprehension of novel L2-accented talkers.
Congrats to Mohamed Afkir and Dr. Georgia Zellou for publishing the following paper in JASA Express Letters: Vowelless word forms in Tarifit are produced with longer voiceless aspiration intervals.
Congrats to Dr. Tyler Méndez Kline and Dr. Georgia Zellou for publishing the following paper in Frontiers in Computer Science: The Perception of Code-Switched vs Monolingual Sentences in TTS Voices.
Congratulations to all of our research assistants who presented at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Conference at UC Davis! Here is a list of all the presenters, all of whom were sponsored by Dr. Georgia Zellou:
We hosted families at the UC Davis Phonetics Lab for the 2025 Take Our Children to Work Day on April 24th, organized by Dr. Michelle Cohn. Children and adults participated in a real speech science experiment and learned more about the research we do at the PhonLab!
Congrats to Dr. Santiago Barreda for publishing the following paper in Journal of Phonetics: Normalization, essentialization, and the erasure of social and linguistic variation.
The UC Davis Phonetics Lab and Language Learning Lab hosted our Speech Science booth at the 2025 UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 12th at the Children's Discovery Fair!
Congrats to Nick Aoki and Dr. Georgia Zellou for publishing the following paper in Glossa Psycholinguistics: When multiple talker exposure is necessary for cross-talker generalization: Insights into the emergence of sociolinguistic perception.
Congrats to Dr. Georgia Zellou and Dr. Michelle Cohn for publishing the following paper in JASA Express Letters: Variation in the production of nasal coarticulation by speaker age and speech style.
Along with co-authors Dr. Mohamed Lahrouchi and Dr. Karim Bensoukas, congrats to Dr. Georgia Zellou and Mohamed Afkir for publishing the following paper in Frontiers in Communication: Cross-language variation in the acceptability of vowelless nonwords.
