Research

 

We investigate speech perception and production using a variety of approaches

  • acoustic phonetics
  • articulatory phonetics
  • psycholinguistics
  • laboratory phonology

Research specializations

  • Phonetic variation (production, perception)​
  • Vowel perception (models, mechanisms)​
  • Coarticulation, acoustic nasality
  • Human-voice AI interaction
  • Perception of apparent speaker characteristics
  • Speaker production adaptations (clear speech, child-DS)
  • ​Social factors in phonetic imitation
  • ​Mechanisms of sound change

 

Selected Publications 

 

  • *Keaton, A. & Zellou, G. (2026). Exploring variation in sociolinguistic evaluation across human and machine talkers. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2025-0101
  • *Afkir, M., & Zellou, G. (2026). Variation in rhoticity in Tarifit: Evidence from production, perception, and imitation. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100325100911
  • *Afkir, M., Zellou, G. (2026). Phonological complexity, speech style, and individual differences influence ASR performance for Tarifit. Scientific Reports, 16, 13879. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-43245-w
  • *Afkir, M. & Zellou, G. (2026). Phonetic and phonological enhancement strategies in Tarifit robot-directed speech. Phonetica. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2025-0069
  • Zellou, G., Rácz, P., & Barreda, S. (2026). Social associations between voices and words affect learning. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 5(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/g6011.47021
  • *Aoki, N. B., & Zellou, G. (2025). Apparent talker variability and speaking style similarity can enhance comprehension of novel L2-accented talkers. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309251390505
  • *Barajas, A. R., Cohn, M., Zellou, G., & Estes, K. G. (2025). “Es una pelota, do you like the ball?”: Pitch in Spanish-English bilingual infant directed speech. Language Learning and Development, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2025.2575381
  • *Afkir, M., & Zellou, G. (2025). Vowelless word forms in Tarifit are produced with longer voiceless aspiration intervals. JASA Express Letters, 5(10), 105201. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0039470
  • Barreda, S. & Jaeger, T. (2025). Reintroducing and testing the Probabilistic Sliding Template Model of vowel perception. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0239
  • *Méndez Kline, T., & Zellou, G. (2025). The perception of code-switched vs monolingual sentences in TTS voices. Frontiers in Computer Science, 7, 1565604. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2025.1565604
  • Barreda, S. (2025). Normalization, essentialization, and the erasure of social and linguistic variation. Journal of Phonetics, 110, 101409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101409
  • Beier, E., Cohn, M., Trammel, T., Ferreira, F., & Zellou, G. (2025). Marking prosodic prominence for voice assistant and human addressees. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 51(6), 986-1003. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001396
  • *Aoki, N. B., & Zellou, G. (2025). When multiple talker exposure is necessary for cross-talker generalization: Insights into the emergence of sociolinguistic perception. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 4(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.5070/G6011.21217
  • Zellou, G., *Afkir, M., Lahrouchi, M., & Bensoukas, K. (2025). Cross-language variation in the acceptability of vowelless nonwords. Frontiers in Communication, 10, 1518754. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1518754
  • Zellou, G., & Cohn, M. (2025). Variation in the production of nasal coarticulation by speaker age and speech style. JASA Express Letters, 5(3), 035204. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0036227
  • Zellou, G., & *Afkir, M. (2025). Social factors condition consonant separation in Moroccan Arabic word-initial clusters: Amazigh-Arabic bilingualism, region, and speaking style. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 157(2), 845-856. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035641
  • Persson, A., Barreda, S., & Jaeger, T. F. (2025). Comparing accounts of formant normalization against US English listeners' vowel perception. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 157(2), 1458-1482. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035476
  • *DiStefano, J., Cohn, M., Zellou, G., & Graf Estes, K. (2025). Prosodic variation between contexts in infant-directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000709
  • *Afkir, M., & Zellou, G. (2025). The phonetics of Tarifit: Variation and change in a Moroccan Amazigh Language. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009661218
  • Lilley, K. D., Dossey, E., Cohn, M., Clopper, C. G., Wagner, L., & Zellou, G. (2025). Social evaluation of text-to-speech voices by adults and children. Speech Communication, 166, 103163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2024.103163
  • Zellou, G., & Speeter Beddor, P. (2024). On (mis)aligned innovative perception and production norms. In F. Kleber & T. Rathcke (Ed)., Speech Dynamics: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change (pp. 343-368). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110765328-012
  • *Jones, A., & Zellou, G. (2024). Voice accentedness, but not gender, affects social responses to a computer tutor. Frontiers in Computer Science, 6, 143641. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2024.1436341
  • Zellou, G., Barreda, S., Lahrouchi, M., & Smiljanić, R. (2024). Learning a language with vowelless words. Cognition, 251, 105909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105909
  • Zellou, G. (2024). The role of coarticulatory variation in speaker recognition. Revue Langues et Littératures, 29(1), 41-66. https://doi.org/10.34874/PRSM.r2l-v29.51155
  • *Vonessen, J., & Zellou, G. (2024). Perception of Mandarin tones across different phonological contexts by native and tone-naive listeners. Frontiers in Education, 9, 1392022. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1392022
  • Zellou, G., Kim, L., & Gendrot, C. (2024). Comparing human and machine's use of coarticulatory vowel nasalization for linguistic classification. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(1), 489-502. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0027932
  • Cohn, M., Barreda, S., Graf Estes, K., Yu, Z., & Zellou, G. (2024). Children and adults produce distinct technology- and human-directed speech. Scientific Reports, 14, 15611. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66313-5
  • Cohn, M., *Bandodkar, G., Sangani, R., Predeck, K., & Zellou, G. (2024). Do people mirror emotion differently with a human or TTS voice? Comparing listener ratings and word embeddings. Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 110. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3650757
  • Pycha, A., & Zellou, G. (2024). The influence of accent and device usage on perceived credibility during interactions with voice-AI assistants. Frontiers in Computer Science, 6, 1411414. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2024.1411414
  • Zellou, G., & Holliday, N. (2024). Linguistic analysis of human-computer interaction. Frontiers in Computer Science, 6, 1384252. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2024.1384252
  • *Vonessen, J., *Aoki, N. B., Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2024). Comparing perception of L1 and L2 English by human listeners and machines: Effect of interlocutor adaptations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(5), 3060–3070. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025930
  • *Booker, N. P., Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2024). Linguistic patterning of laughter in human-socialbot interactions. Frontiers in Communication, 9, 1346738. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1346738
  • Zellou, G., & Cohn, M. (2024). Apparent-time variation in the use of multiple cues for perception of anticipatory nasal coarticulation in California English. Glossa, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10831
  • *Aoki, N. B., & Zellou, G. (2024). Being clear about clear speech: Intelligibility of hard-of-hearing-directed and non-native-directed speech for L1- and L2-English listeners. Journal of Phonetics, 104, 101328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101328
  • 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
  • Barreda, S., & Predeck, K. (2024). Inaccurate but predictable: Vocal-tract length estimation and gender stereotypes in height perception. Journal of Phonetics, 102, 101290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101290
  • Zellou, G., M Lahrouchi, M., Bensoukas, K. (2024). The perception of vowelless words in Tashlhiyt. (2024). Glossa, 9(1).  https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10438
  • Zellou, G., Pycha, A., & Chitoran, I. (2023). Use of gradient anticipatory nasal coarticulatory cues for lexical perception in French. Laboratory Phonology, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.10479
  • Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2023). Selective tuning of nasal coarticulation and hyperarticulation across slow-clear, casual, and fast-clear speech styles. JASA Express Letters, 3(12), 125203. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0023841
  • Zellou, G., Cohn, M., & Pycha, A. (2023). Listener beliefs and perceptual learning: Differences
    between device and human guises. Language, 99(4), 692-725. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2023.a914191
  • Zellou, G., Chitoran, I., & Zhou, Z. (2023). Real-time intelligibility affects the realization of French word-final schwa. Speech Communication, 152, 102962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2023.102962
  • *Aoki, N.B., & Zellou, G. (2023). When clear speech does not enhance memory: Effects of speaking style, voice naturalness, and listener age. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 51(1), 060002. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001766
  • Gwizdzinski, J., Barreda, S., Carignan, C., G Zellou. (2023). Perceptual identification of oral and nasalized vowels across American English and British English listeners and TTS voices. Frontiers in Communication, 8, 1307547. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1307547
  • Cohn, M., *Keaton, A., Beskow, J., & Zellou, G. (2023). Vocal accommodation to technology: The role of physical form. Language Sciences, 99, 101567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101567
  • *Aoki, N.B., Zellou, G. (2023). Visual information affects adaptation to novel talkers: Ethnicity-specific and ethnicity-independent learning of L2-accented speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 154(4), 2290-2304. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0021289
  • *Aoki, N. B., & Zellou, G. (2023). Speakers talk more clearly when they see an Asian face: Effects of visual guise on speech production. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2294-2298). https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/45.pdf
  • Barreda, S., & Silbert, N. (2023). Bayesian multilevel models for repeated measures data: A conceptual and practical introduction in R. Routledge. https://www.santiagobarreda.com/bmmrmd/
  • Zellou, G., Pycha, A., & Cohn, M. (2023). The perception of nasal coarticulatory variation in face-masked speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(2), 1084–1093. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017257
  • Cohn, M., Barreda, S., & Zellou, G. (2023). Differences in a musician's advantage for speech-in-speech perception based on age and task. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(2), 545-564. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_jslhr-22-00259
  • Zellou, G., & Chitoran, I. (2023). Lexical competition influences coarticulatory variation in French: Comparing competition from nasal and oral vowel minimal pairs. Glossa, 8(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9801
  • *Dodd, N, Cohn M., & Zellou, G. (2023). Comparing alignment toward American, British, and Indian English text-to-speech (TTS) voices: Influence of social attitudes and talker guise. Frontiers in Computer Science, 5, 1204211. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2023.1204211
  • Zellou, G. (2022). Coarticulation in phonology. Cambridge University Press. 
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082488
  • *Aoki, N. B., Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2022). The clear speech intelligibility benefit for text-to-speech voices: Effects of speaking style and visual guise. JASA Express Letters, 2(4), 045204. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0010274
  • Zellou, G., Lahrouchi, M., & Bensoukas, K. (2022). Clear speech in Tashlhiyt Berber: The perception of typologically uncommon word-initial contrasts by native and naive listeners. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(6), 3429-3443. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0016579
  • *Block, A., *Predeck, K., & Zellou, G. (2022). German word-final devoicing in naturally-produced and TTS speech. Languages, 7(4), 270. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040270
  • Cohn, M., *Ferenc Segedin, B., & Zellou, G. (2022). Acoustic-phonetic properties of Siri-and human-directed speech. Journal of Phonetics, 90, 101123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101123
  • *Keaton, A., & Zellou, G. (2022). Investigating the effect of synthetic voice naturalness on gist memory. In J. Culbertson, A. Perfors, H. Rabagliati & V. Ramenzoni (Eds.), Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3db7z218
  • Pycha, A., Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2022). Face-masked speech intelligibility: The influence of speaking style, visual information, and background noise. Frontiers in Communication, 7, 874215. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.874215
  • Zellou, G., & *Brotherton, C. (2021). Phonetic imitation of multidimensional acoustic variation of the nasal split short-a system. Speech Communication, 135, 54-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2021.10.005
  • Cohn, M., *Predeck, K., *Sarian, M., & Zellou, G. (2021). Prosodic alignment toward emotionally expressive speech: Comparing human and Alexa model talkers. Speech Communication, 135, 66-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2021.10.003
  • Barreda, S. (2021). Perceptual validation of vowel normalization methods for variationist research. Language Variation and Change, 33(1), 27–53. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394521000016
  • Barreda, S., & Assmann, P. F. (2021). Perception of gender in children's voices. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(5), 3949-3963. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006785
  • Barreda, S. (2021). Fast Track: fast (nearly) automatic formant-tracking using Praat. Linguistics Vanguard, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2020-0051
  • Zellou, G., Cohn, M., & *Kline, T. (2021). The influence of conversational role on phonetic alignment toward voice-AI and human interlocutors. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 36(10), 1298-1312. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1931372
  • Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2021). Prosodic differences in human- and Alexa-directed speech, but similar local intelligibility adjustments. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 675704. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.675704
  • Cohn, M., & Liang, K-H., Sarian, M., Zellou, G., & Yu, Z. (2021). Speech rate adjustments in conversations with an Amazon Alexa socialbot. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 671429. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.671429
  • Zellou, G., Cohn, M., *Block, A. (2021). Partial compensation for coarticulatory vowel nasalization across concatenative and neural text-to-speech. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, 149(5), 3424-3436. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0004989
  • Zellou, G., Cohn, M., *Ferenc Segedin, B. (2021). Age- and gender-related differences in speech alignment toward humans and voice-AI. Frontiers in Communication, 5, 600361. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.600361
  • Cohn, M., Pycha, A., Zellou, G. (2021). Intelligibility of face-masked speech depends on speaking style: Comparing casual, smiled, and clear speech. Cognition, 210, 104570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104570
  • *Block, A., Cohn, M., Zellou, G. (2021). Variation in perceptual sensitivity and compensation for coarticulation across adult and child naturally-produced and TTS voices. Proceedings of Interspeech 2021 (pp. 521-525). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-228
  • Barreda, S. (2020). Vowel normalization as perceptual constancy. Language, 96(2), 224-254. http://doi.org/10.1353/lan.0.0242
  • Zellou, G., Barreda, S., *Ferenc Segedin, B. (2020). Partial perceptual compensation for nasal coarticulation is robust to fundamental frequency variation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(3), EL271-EL275. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0000951
  • Zellou, G., & Cohn, M. (2020). Social and functional pressures in vocal alignment: Differences for human and voice-AI interlocutors. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020 (pp. 1634-1638). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1335
  • Cohn, M., Sarian, M., Predeck, K., & Zellou G. (2020). Individual variation in language attitudes toward voice-AI: The role of listeners' autistic-like traits. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020 (pp. 1813-1817). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1339
  • Cohn, M., Raveh, E., Predeck, K., Gessinger, I., Möbius, B., & Zellou, G. (2020). Differences in gradient emotion perception: Human vs. Alexa voices. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020 (pp. 1818-1822). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1938
  • Zellou, G., Scarborough, R., & Kemp, R. (2020). Secondary phonetic cues in the production of the nasal short-a system in California English. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020 (pp. 631-635). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1322
  • Zellou, G., Cohn, M., & Block, A. (2020). Does top-down information about speaker age guise influence perceptual compensation for coarticulatory /u/-fronting? Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k76040r
  • Cohn, M., Jonell, P., Kim, T., Beskow, J., & Zellou, G. (2020). Embodiment and gender interact in alignment to TTS voices. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1dx8f8bj
  • Zellou, G., & Cohn, M. (2020). Top-down effect of apparent humanness on vocal alignment toward human and device interlocutors. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hk1q3q3
  • Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2020). Perception of concatenative vs. neural text-to-speech (TTS): Differences in intelligibility in noise and language attitudes. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020 (pp. 1733-1737). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2020-1336
  • Asadi, S., Wexler, A. S., Cappa, C. D., Barreda, S., Bouvier, N. M., Ristenpart, W. D. (2019). Aerosol emission and superemission during human speech increase with voice loudness. Scientific Reports, 9, 2348. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38808-z
  • *Ferenc Segedin, B., Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2019). Perceptual adaptation to device and human voices: Learning and generalization of a phonetic shift across real and voice-AI talkers. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019 (pp. 2310-2314). http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2019-1433
  • *Snyder, C., Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2019). Individual variation in cognitive processing style predicts differences in phonetic imitation of device and human voices. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019 (pp. 116-120). http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2669
  • Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2019). Expressiveness influences human vocal alignment toward voice-AI. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019 (pp. 41-45). http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2019-1368
  • Cohn, M., Zellou, G., & Barreda, S. (2019) The role of musical experience in the perceptual weighting of acoustic cues for the obstruent coda voicing contrast in American English. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019 (pp. 2250-2254). http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2019-3103
  • *Brotherton, C., Cohn, M., Zellou, G., & Barreda, S. (2019). Sub-regional variation in positioning and degree of nasalization of /æ/ allophones in California. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2373-2377). https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2019/papers/ICPhS_2422.pdf
  • Cohn, M., *Ferenc Segedin, B., & Zellou, G. Imitating Siri: Socially-mediated vocal alignment to device and human voices. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1813-1817). https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2019/papers/ICPhS_1862.pdf
  • Zellou, G., & Ferenc Segedin, B. (2019). The distribution of coarticulatory variation influences perceptual adaptation. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 393-397). https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2019/papers/ICPhS_442.pdf
  • ​Barreda, S., & *Liu, Z. Y. (2018). Apparent-talker height is influenced by Mandarin lexical tone. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(2), EL61-EL66. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5022156
  • *Mengesha, Z. & Zellou, G. (2018). The interaction between phonological and lexical variation on word recall in African American English. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gx404cj
  • Zellou, G., & Pycha, A. (2018). The gradient influence of temporal extent of coarticulation on vowel and speaker perception. Laboratory Phonology, 9(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.118
  • Zellou, G. (2017). Individual differences in the production of nasal coarticulation and perceptual compensation. Journal of Phonetics, 61, 13-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2016.12.002
  • Barreda, S. (2017). An investigation of the systematic use of spectral information in the determination of apparent-talker height. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(6), 4781-4792. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4985192



*Student authors

 

Selected presentations 

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2026 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA)

  • Computers across the lifespan: Age effects in the perception of linguistic variation in voice-AI. *Ashley Keaton & Georgia Zellou.
  • Vowelless words are allophonic in Tarifit: Evidence from production and perception. *Mohamed Afkir & 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. *Nicholas Aoki & Georgia Zellou.
  • Perception of a sound change in progress: Comparing human and machine listeners. Michelle Cohn & Georgia Zellou.

2025 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, PA)

  • Talking to voice assistants: Cross-disciplinary and industry collaborations. Michelle Cohn & Georgia Zellou.
  • Equitable automatic speech recognition (ASR): Collaboration with Google Research. Michelle Cohn, Zion Mengesha, Michal Lahav, & Courtney Heldreth.
  • When multiple talker exposure is necessary for cross-talker generalization: Social co-variation facilitates the emergence of sociolinguistic perception. *Nicholas Aoki & Georgia Zellou.
  • Sociolinguistic evaluations are mediated by listener belief about apparent humanness. *Ashley Keaton, Santiago Barreda, & Georgia Zellou.
  • Perception of Mandarin tones across different phonological contexts by native and tone-naive listeners. *Jules Vonessen & Georgia Zellou.

2024 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting (New York City, NY)

  • Ethnicity-specific and -independent learning: Effects of guise on adaptation to novel foreign-accented talkers. *Nicholas Aoki & Georgia Zellou.
  • Real versus imagined addressees: Prosodic differences across human- and device-directed speech. Michelle Cohn, Anne Pycha, & Georgia Zellou.
  • Differences in social perceptions of (ING) across human and device voices. *Ashley Keaton & Georgia Zellou.
  • Linguistic patterning of laughter in human-socialbot interactions. *Eve Perkins Booker, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou.
  • The perception of vowelless words in Tashlhiyt: Implications for phonological typology​. Georgia Zellou, Mohamed Lahrouchi, & Karim Bensoukas.

2023 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting (Denver, CO)

  • Register adaptations toward Alexa: Comparing children and adults. Michelle Cohn, Santiago Barreda, Katharine Graf Estes, Zhou Yu, & Georgia Zellou.
  • Perceptually-motivated influences on nasal coarticulatory variation in French. Georgia Zellou & Ioana Chitoran.
  • Non-uniform scaling of formant patterns is phonetically salient. Santiago Barreda.
  • There is no female vocal tract: Abandoning essentialist ideology in phonetics. Santiago Barreda & Michael T. Stuart.
  • Under-informative utterances can be more accepted from digital devices than humans. *Nicholas Aoki, Masoud Jasbi, & Georgia Zellou.

2021 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA)

  • Cue weighting and phoneme-specific patterns in systems of quantity contrast: The case of Norwegian vowels. *Aleese Block.
  • Prosodic focus in human- versus voice-AI-directed speech. *Eleonora Beier, Michelle Cohn, Fernanda Ferreira, & Georgia Zellou.
  • Problematic phonemes and German /ɛ:/: An acoustic analysis. ​*Kristin Predeck & *Aleese Block.
  • The interaction between phonological and semantic usage factors in dialect intelligibility in noise. *Riley Stray, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou.

2019 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting (New York City, NY) 

  • A theoretical and statistical investigation of vowel normalization procedures. Santiago Barreda.
  • Phonologically motivated phonetic repair strategies in Siri- and human-directed speech​. Michelle Cohn, *Bruno Ferenc Segedin, & Georgia Zellou.
  • The distribution of phonetic variation influences patterns of perceptual adaptation. Georgia Zellou & *Bruno Ferenc Segedin.
  • The effect of linguistic experience on the perception of talker height from speech. Santiago Barreda & *Zoey Liu. 

2019 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 5 Minute Linguist Finalists 

  • Phonologically motivated phonetic repair strategies in Siri- and human-directed speech. Michelle Cohn.
  • Lexical frequency mediates compensation for coarticulation: Are the seeds of sound change ​word-specific? *Bruno Ferenc Segedin & Georgia Zellou.

​2018 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Five Minute Linguist 

  • Enhanced coarticulation facilitates statistical learning of continuous speech in adults​. Georgia Zellou.

 

*Student presenters