Publications and Presentations from the Child Phonology Lab
Forthcoming
- Anne-Michelle Tessier (submitted). Phonological interfaces in language learnability. Chapter submitted to Cambridge Handbook of Interfaces.
2025
- Vesik, Kaili (2025) “General-over-specific markedness bias as a balancing force in GLA-style learning”. Talk to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Philadlephia.
- Anne-Michelle Tessier (2025) “What can acquisition data tell us about our morpho-phonological learning theories?” Talk to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Philadlephia. (Part of the organized session Computational Models of Learnability and Acquisition of Morphology and Phonology.)
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.