UCD PhonLab Presentations at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting in New Orleans!

Research from the PhonLab was well represented at the 2026 LSA Annual meeting in New Orleans! Four abstracts were accepted for oral or poster presentations!

• Ashley Keaton & Georgia Zellou. Computers across the lifespan: Age effects in the perception of linguistic variation in voice-AI.
• Mohamed Afkir & Georgia Zellou. Vowelless words are allophonic in Tarifit: Evidence from production and perception.
• Nicholas Aoki & Georgia Zellou. Apparent talker variability and speaking style similarity can enhance comprehension of novel L2-accented talkers: Evidence for numerosity and similarity accounts of cross-talker generalization.
• Michelle Cohn & Georgia Zellou. Perception of a sound change in progress: Comparing human and machine listeners.