2024-03-04 — June poster presentations at LabPhon 19 in Seoul, Korea
- Sijia Zhang, Molly Babel and Christopher Hammerly: “The online processing of non-native phonological contrasts in L2: from acoustics to lexicon”
- Anne-Michelle Tessier, Claire Moore Cantwell and Ashley Farris-Trimble: “The Later Stages of Onset Cluster Development: Production Errors vs. Perceptual Judgments”
2024-03-01 — Anne-Michelle Tessier at the University of Southern California in March
In March, Anne-Michelle Tessier will give an invited colloquium talk at the University of Southern California (USC). The talk will be about “Modeling the development of variable French liaison knowledge using UR constraints.”
2024-02-28 — QP2 completed for Sijia Zhang!
By mid-February 2024, Sijia Zhang’s 2nd Qualifying Paper was completed and approved. The paper is titled: “Processing spoken words with a non-native phonological contrast: An eye-tracking study”. Congrats!
2024-02-27 — The Lab ends its Fall semester on skates at Robson Sq.
The Child Phonology Lab ended its 2023 Winter Term1 semester with a Field Trip to skating at Robson Square!
As shown in photos: the lighting was epic, and nobody fell down. A great success!
2024-02-26 — Zara Khalaji Pirbaluti at ICSNL58
In July 2023, Zara Khalaji Pirbaluti gave a talk at the 58th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL 58) at the Snuneymuxw Learning Centre in Nanaimo. The talk titled “Vowel variation in Nɬeʔkepmxcín: An acoustic study of coarticulation” was also published as a paper in the ICSNL58 proceedings volume. See the full paper =>HERE<=
Zara Khalaji Pirbaluti. (2023). Vowel variation in Nɬeʔkepmxcín: An acoustic study of coarticulation. In D. K. E. Reisinger, Laura Griffin, Gloria Mellesmoen, Sander Nederveen, Julia Schillo, Bailey Trotter (eds.), Papers for the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 58. Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL
2023-09-21 — Talk at the 2023 CLA Conference
In May 2023, Karen Jesney, Anne-Michelle Tessier, and Marie-Eve Bouchard gave a talk at the 2023 CLA conference. The talk was titled “The acceptability of exceptional and innovative liaison in Canadian varieties of French.”
2023-09-21 — Congratulations Alex Ayala on winning the UBC Linguistics Departmental TA Award!
In April 2023, Alex Ayala won the UBC Linguistics Departmental TA Award for 2022/2023. Congratulations!
2023-03-24 — New Publication: The Development of Left Hemisphere Lateralization for Sentence-Level Prosodic Processing
On Christmas Eve 2022 (!) a paper on prosodic processing in kids and adults by Rennie Pasquinelli, Anne-Michelle Tessier, Ioulia Kovelman, and others at UMichigan was accepted by the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research!
The paper, published in March 2023, can be found here!
2023-03-24 — Poster presentation by Kaili at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Phonology
In October 2022, Kaili Vesik gave a poster presentation at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Phonology. Her presentation was titled: “Necessary biases for algorithmic learning of Kihnu Estonian vowel harmony.”
2023-03-24 — Talk at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Phonology
In October 2022, Anne-Michelle Tessier, Karen Jesney, Roger Lo, and Marie-Eve Bouchard gave a talk at the 2022 Annual Meeting of Phonology. The talk was titled “The Productive Status of French Liaison in Canada: Variation across Words and Grammar.”
2023-03-24 — Congratulations Kaili Vesik on advancing to candidacy!
Kaili Vesik has advanced to candidacy as of August 2022. Congratulations!
2023-03-24 — Virtual talk by Sijia Zhang at LabPhon18
In June 2022, Sijia Zhang and Michael Wagner presented at the Biennial Conference on Laboratory Phonology on Mandarin tone sandhi and speech segmentation.
2020-10-09 — New Publication: One Model to Pronounce Them All
In May 2020, Kaili Vesik submitted a deep-learning model to a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion task as part of the 17th SIGMORPHON (ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology) workshop.This model takes as input orthography from any of fifteen unrelated languages and produces its IPA transcription, with a word error rate of 14.99%. The associated conference proceedings paper, co-authored with Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed and Dr. Miikka Silfverberg, is published in the ACL 2020 anthology. To read this publication check out the lab research and publications.
2020-06-30 — Virtual Talk by Anne-Michelle at the Annual Meeting of Phonology
Anne-Michelle gave an invited talk at the virtual Annual Meeting of Phonology in September, 2020, reporting recent and ongoing work with Karen Jesney on French liaison, nonce word judgments and gradient symbolic representations (Smolensky and Goldrick, 2016).
2020-06-30 — Congratulations Kaili Vesik CGS-M Award Winner
Congratulations to Kaili Vesik (Ph.D. student in Linguistics), who was awarded a CGS-M award from SSHRC to study how gradual learning algorithms can model the process of acquiring the phonology of a second dialect of a given language (specifically, a Standard Estonian speaker learning Kihnu Estonian). We look forward to seeing how many unrelated projects she can move forward simultaneously, and whether the number is finite.
2020-06-30 — Congratulations Lauren Denusik, Enjoy Graduate School
Congratulations to Honours student Lauren Denusik (B.A. in Speech Sciences with a Minor in Commerce, 2020) who will be starting her PhD in in Speech and Language Science while completing the professional qualifications to practice as a registered Speech-Language Pathologist (MCISc) at the University of Western Ontario in September. The lab particularly thanks all her efforts in recruiting Mandarin-speaking children to an ongoing part of her Honours project, even if they all turned out to speak Korean instead.
2020-06-28 — Congratulations Wendy Amoako on Starting your Ph.D
Congratulations to former lab member Wendy Amoako (M.A. in Linguistics, 2020) who will be starting her Ph.D in Rehab Medicine at the University of Alberta in September. Double congrats for her having survived the department’s first 100% virtual Master’s thesis defense.