Congrats to Allie Jones and Dr. Georgia Zellou for publishing the following paper in Frontiers in Computer Science: Voice accentedness, but not gender, affects social responses to a computer tutor.

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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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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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Congrats to Drs. Georgia Zellou, Lila Kim, and Cédric Gendrot for publishing the following paper in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: Comparing human and machine's use of coarticulatory vowel nasalization for linguistic classification.

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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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The UC Davis Phonetics Lab and Language Learning Lab hosted our Speech Science booth at the 2024 UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 20th at the Children's Discovery Fair!

Congrats to Julia Vonessen, Nicholas Aoki, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou for their accepted paper to JASA: 

• Comparing perception of L1 and L2 English by human listeners and machines: Effect of interlocutor adaptations. 

This paper is part of a special issue: Acoustic Cue–Based Perception and Production of Speech by Humans and Machines.

Congrats to Eve Perkins Booker, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou for their accepted paper to Frontiers in Communication: 

• Linguistic Patterning of Laughter in Human-Socialbot Interactions

Congrats to Dr. Georgia Zellou and postdoc Michelle Cohn for a recently accepted paper to Glossa: Apparent-time change in the use of multiple cues for perception of anticipatory nasal coarticulation in California English. 

Congrats to PhD student, Nicholas Aoki, and Dr. Georgia Zellou for their recently accepted paper to the Journal of Phonetics: Being clear about clear speech: Intelligibility of hard-of-hearing-directed, non-native-directed, and casual speech for L1- and L2-English listeners. 

Congratulations to Georgia Zellou for being selected as a 2024 Chancellor's Fellow, "a title given to early career academics doing exemplary work".

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https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/new-chancellors-fellows-make-even-200

Congrats to Santiago Barreda and PhonLab alum, Kris Predeck, for publishing a paper in the Journal of Phonetics:

• Barreda, S., & Predeck, K. (2024). Inaccurate but predictable: Vocal-tract length estimation and gender stereotypes in height perception. Journal of Phonetics 1 (1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101290

Congrats to Georgia Zellou and her co-author, Mohamed Lahrouchi (CNRS & Université Paris 8) for publishing their paper in Scientific Reports:

• Zellou, G., & M Lahrouchi, M. (2024). Linguistic disparities in cross-language automatic speech recognition transfer from Arabic to Tashlhiyt. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 313. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50516-3

Congratulations to grad student, Nicholas Aoki, who was one of the winners of the POMA Student Paper Competition from the 184th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). As part of his award, he was featured on Across Acoustics, the official podcast of the Acoustical Society of America!

Research from the PhonLab was well represented at the 2024 LSA Annual meeting in NYC! Five abstracts were accepted for oral or poster presentations!