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Undergraduate Research Conference 2025!

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:

Take Our Children To Work Day 2025!

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!

Paper Published in Journal of Phonetics (Barreda)

Congrats to Dr. Santiago Barreda for publishing the following paper in Journal of Phonetics: Normalization, essentialization, and the erasure of social and linguistic variation.

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Paper published in Glossa Psycholinguistics (Aoki, Zellou)

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.

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Paper published in JASA Express Letters (Zellou, Cohn)

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.

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Paper published in Frontiers in Communication (Zellou, Afkir)

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.

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Paper published in Cognition (Zellou, Barreda)

Congrats to Dr. Georgia Zellou and Dr. Santiago Barreda for publishing the following paper in Cognition: Learning a language with vowelless words. The paper was also co-authored by Dr. Mohamed Lahrouchi and Dr. Rajka Smiljanić.

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Paper published in Frontiers in Education (Vonessen, Zellou)

Congrats to Jules Vonessen and Dr. Georgia Zellou for publishing the following paper in Frontiers in Education: Perception of Mandarin tones across different phonological contexts by native and tone-naive listeners.

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Paper published in Scientific Reports (Cohn, Barreda, Zellou)

Congrats to Drs. Michelle Cohn, Santiago Barreda, and Georgia Zellou for publishing the following paper in Scientific Reports: Children and adults produce distinct technology- and human-directed speech.

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