UCD PhonLab PhD student Nicholas Aoki has been selected as a winner of the POMA Student Paper Competition for his paper and presentation at the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Chicago Meeting titled “When clear speech does not enhance memory: Effects of speaking style, voice naturalness, and listener age.” https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001766

Nick also is first author on a paper just accepted in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) titled “Visual information affects adaptation to novel talkers: ethnicity-specific and ethnicity-independent learning of L2-accented speech,” which will appear in an upcoming issue of JASA.