Publications and Presentations from the Child Phonology Lab
Forthcoming
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- Anne-Michelle Tessier (to appear). Phonological interfaces in language learnability. In A. Fabregas et al (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Interfaces.
2025
- Moore-Cantwell, Claire, Anne-Michelle Tessier and Ashley Farris-Trimble. (2025). Learning Accurate Onset Clusters: Perception Lags Behind Production. Language and Speech online, Oct 2025. doi: 10.1177/00238309251362881.
- Vesik, Kaili (2025). Gradual error-driven learning and typology of Finnic vowel interactions. Doctoral dissertation, UBC.
- Khalaji Pirbaluti, Zara (2025). Learning morpho-phonological alternations like Liaison: an artificial language learning study. MA thesis, UBC.
- Vesik, Kaili (2025) “General-over-specific markedness bias as a balancing force in GLA-style learning”. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Philadelphia.
2024
- Anne-Michelle Tessier & Sijia Zhang. (2024). Modeling the consequences of an L1 grammar for L2 production: simulations, variation, and predictions. Frontiers in Language Sciences: Bilingualism. In the Research Topic: Formal Approaches to Multilingual Phonology. https://doi.org/10.3389/flang.2024.1327600
- Khalaji Pirbaluti, Zara and Anne-Michelle Tessier (2024). Artificial morpho-phonological learning: a study based on French Liaison. Talk presented at the Canadian Linguistics Association Meeting, Ottawa.
2023
- Rennie Pasquinelli, Anne-Michelle Tessier, Zachary Karas, Xiaosu Hu & Ioulia Kovelman. (2023). The Development of Left Hemisphere Lateralization for Sentence-Level Prosodic Processing. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(4), 1365-1377. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00103
- Anne-Michelle Tessier, Karen Jesney, Kaili Vesik, Roger Lo & Marie-Eve Bouchard. (2023). The productive status of French liaison in Canada. In Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meetings on Phonology. https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v10i0.5447
- Sijia Zhang. (2023). First Language Effects on Second Language Perception: Evidence from English Low-vowel Nasal Sequences Perceived by L1 Mandarin Chinese Listeners. Proc. INTERSPEECH 2023, 4184-4188, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1123
. - Kail Vesik. (2023). Vowel harmony in the Kihnu variety of Estonian: A corpus study. Linguistica Uralica, 59(3), 181-199. https://dx.doi.org/10.3176/lu.2023.3.02
- Kaili Vesik. (2023). The Calibrated Error-Driven Ranking Algorithm as a Solution to Oscillation in Antagonistic Constraints: A Necessary Bias for Algorithmic Learning of Kihnu Estonian. In N. Elkins, B. Hayes, J. Jo, & J. L. Siah (Eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2022 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. https://doi.org/10.3765/amp.v10i0.5429
2022
- Vesik, K. (2022). Perception of vowel quantity in sung Estonian. In Proceedings of the Fifty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, 433-444.
- Kathleen Currie Hall, Yurika Aonuki, Kaili Vesik, April Poy & Nico Tolmie. (2022). Sign Language Phonetic Annotator-Analyzer: Open-Source Software for Form-Based Analysis of Sign Languages. Proceedings of the LREC 2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, Marseille, France, 59-66. https://aclanthology.org/2022.signlang-1.10/
- Kira Bondi, Danica Reid, Sahibnoor Dhami, Allyson Ugalde, Sydney Walton, Yimin Wang, Anne-Michelle Tessier & Ashley Farris-Trimble. (2022). Alienology: Learning Opaque Phonology. Talk presented virtually at LabPhon18, June 2022.
2021
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Claire Moore-Cantwell, Anne-Michelle Tessier, Danica Reid & Ashley Farris-Trimble. (2021). ‘The perception of consonant cluster mispronunciations, for adult listeners and learners‘. Talk presented virtually at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, North America (GALANA9), May 2021.
- Anne-Michelle Tessier & Karen Jesney. (2021). Learning French liaison with Gradient Symbolic Representations: Errors, Predictions, Consequences. Proceedings of AMP2020
2020
- Wendy Amoako, Joseph Stemberger, Barbara Bernhardt & Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2020). Acquisition of consonants among typically developing Akan-speaking children. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
- Kaili Vesik, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed & Miikka Silfverberg (2020). One Model to Pronounce Them All: Multilingual Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion With a Transformer Ensemble. Proceedings of the 17th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology.
2019
- Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2019). U-shaped development in error-driven child phonology. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, 10(6):e1505
- Ashley Farris-Trimble & Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2019). The effect of allophonic processes on word recognition: Eye-tracking evidence from Canadian raising. Language, 95(1). e136-e160.
Previous Child Phonology Publications
2018
- Gregory Basura, Xiao-Su Hu, Juan San Juan, Anne-Michelle Tessier & Ioulia Kovelman. (2018). Human central auditory plasticity: A review of functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure cochlear implant performance and tinnitus perception. Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 3(6): 463-472.
2017
- Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2017). Learnability and Learning Algorithms in Phonology. Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Linguistics.
2016
- Tara McAllister & Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2016). Motor influences on grammar in an emergentist model of phonology. Language and Linguistics Compass, 10(9).
- Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2016). Morphophonological acquisition. Handbook of Developmental Linguistics, Oxford University Press.
2015
- Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2015). Phonological Acquisition: Child Language and Constraint-Based Grammar. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Saliu Shittu & Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2016). Perceptual Attrition of Lexical Tone among L1 Yoruba-speaking Children in Canada. Proceedings of BUCLD39 – Online Supplement.
2014
- Anne-Michelle Tessier & Karen Jesney. (2014). Learning in Harmonic Serialism and the necessity of a Richer Base. Phonology, 31(1): 155-178.
- Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2014). The nature of regressions in the acquisition of phonological grammars. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Phonology 2013, 2014.
2013
- Anne-Michelle Tessier, Tamara Sorenson Duncan & Johanne Paradis. Developmental trends and L1 effects in early L2 learners onset cluster production. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 16(3): 663-681.
2012
- Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2012). Testing for OO-faithfulness in the acquisition of consonant clusters. Language Acquisition, 19(2): 144-173.
- Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2012). Error-driven learning in Harmonic Serialism. Proceedings of NELS42.
2011
- Karen Jesney & Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2011). Biases in Harmonic Grammar: the road to restrictive learning. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 29(1): 251-290.
- Michael Becker & Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2011). Trajectories of faithfulness in child-specific phonology. Phonology, 28(2): 163-196.
2009
- Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2009). UseListedError: a grammatical account of lexical exceptions in phonological acquisition. Proceedings of NELS39, 2009.
- Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2009). Frequency of violation and constraint-based phonological learning. Lingua, 119(1): 6-38.
2008
- Karen Jesney & Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2008). Gradual learning and faithfulness: consequences of ranked vs. weighted constraints. Proceedings of NELS38, 2008.
2005
- Joe Pater & Anne-Michelle Tessier. (2005). Phonotactics and alternations: Testing the connection with artificial language learning. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers, 31.