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The UC Davis Phonetics Lab and Language Learning Lab hosted a joint Speech Science Booth at this year's Picnic Day, a campus-wide open house. Children and adults tried examples of experiments and learned about how we produce, perceive, and learn speech patterns. Thanks to all who came by the booth and our fantastic group of postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduate research assistants who helped out! 

Congratulations to PhonLab grad student, Dr. Aleese Block, for filing her dissertation, Cue weighting and enhancement in systems of contrast: vowel quantity in Norwegian. 

We are thrilled that Dr. Block has accepted a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for the Phonetic Sciences at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.
 

The lab has a new paper now in press in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR) by Michelle Cohn, Santiago Barreda, & Georgia Zellou: "Differences in a Musician's Advantage for Speech-in-Speech Perception Based on Age and Task". [doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00259]

Congrats to Georgia Zellou, Anne Pycha, & Michelle Cohn for their recently accepted paper in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA): "The perception of nasal coarticulatory variation in face-masked speech". [https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017257]

We are thrilled to have a fantastic new cohort of undergraduate research assistants (RAs) helping on a variety of PhonLab projects. 

• Grisha Bandodkar
• Nishchala Beeram
• Benjamin Getz
• Mercedes Herrrera
• Lauren Kim
• Mira Kren
• Jasmine Muñoz
• Elizabeth Tedrow
• Alexander Tse

Five talks by several PhonLab members at the Annual Linguistics Society of America (LSA) conference in Denver:

1. Register adaptations toward Alexa: Comparing children and adults; Michelle Cohn, Santiago Barreda, Katharine Graf Estes, Zhou Yu, & Georgia Zellou

2. Perceptually-motivated influences on nasal coarticulatory variation in French; Georgia Zellou & Ioana Chitoran