The Phonetics Lab
Research
A list of current or ongoing research projects in the Linguistics Phonetics Lab by our research groups and people we collaborate with.
- McDonough, J. 2003. The Navajo Sound System. Kluwer Academic Press.
- K.Iskarous, J. McDonough, D.Whalen, 2010 ''A gestural account of velar contrast in a coronal heavy inventory: the back fricatives in Navajo"LabPhon 12 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- J. McDonough and R. Sussman. 2005. "A preliminary methodology for the investigation of speaker's knowledge of structure in Athabaskan'' BLS 2004
- Adina Rubinoff
- Kate Kelliher
- Joyce McDonough, "Language documentation: Experimental and instrumental data collection in the field" Invited Symposium: Documentary Linguistics, LSA, 2010, Baltimore.
- B. Tucker and J. McDonough, "Experimental field phonetics: Replicating Goddard's 1905 kymographic study of the sounds of Dene Suline'' NAAHoLS, LSA 2010, Baltimore
- J. McDonough and V. Wood. 2008. "The stop contrasts of the Athabaskan languages" Journal of Phonetics. V36.3, 427-449.
- J. McDonough, D. Whalen. "The phonetics of native North American languages" Journal of Phonetics. V36.3, 427-449.
- Bardi (an IPA illustration) with Claire Bowern, Kate Kelliher
- Sherpa tone with Rebecca Baier
- Heike Lehnert-LeHouiller, Neil Bardhan and J McDonough, 2010, "The importance of the acoustic realization of pronunciation variation in lexical activation", LSA, 2010 Baltimore.
- H. Lehnert-LeHouillier, J. McDonough, 2010 ''Is longer also stronger? The relationship between temporal and spatial expansion in domain-initial prosodic strengthening of vowels'''LabPhon 12 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- H. Lehnert-LeHouillier, J. McDonough and S. McAleavey, 2010. "Prosodic Strengthening in American English Domain-initial Vowels", Speech Prosody Chicago.
- Jacob, M., H. Lehnert-LeHouillier, S. Bora, S. McAleavey, D. Dialecki, J. McDonough. 2008. "Speckle Tracking for the Recovery of Displacement and Velocity Information from Sequences of Ultrasound Images of the Tongue", Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production, Strasbourg France, 53-57, Strasbourg, France.
- Joyce McDonough, Heike Lenhert-LeHouiller & Neil Bardhan, 2009, "The Perception of Cues to Nasality vs Place of Articulation in Vowels", Nasal 2009, Montpellier, France.
- Michael A. Berger, 2008 "Measurement of vowel nasalization by multi-dimensional acoustic analysis" WLS:UR 4.1
- M. Berger, M. Clayards, N. Bardhan, & J. McDonough. June 2006. 'An automated measure of nasality over time in vowels'. JASA 119 (5), 3338 (A)
- McDonough, J., H. Danko, J. Zentz. 2007. ``Rhythmic structure of music and language: an empirical investigation of American jazz masters Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton''. University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences (WPLS: UR) Volume 3:1. P 45-56.
- Joyce McDonough, Harold Danko, Jason Zentz Workshop on Speech Rhythm, UCLondon March 2008
- Joyce McDonough, Harold Danko, Mannes Institute
Documentary Linguistics
Navajo
Morphology
- Publications, conference papers, presentations
Phonetics and Instrumental Fieldwork
- Publications, conference papers, presentations
Dene (Athabaskan)
Dene Speech Atlas (DSA)
A collaborative team of tribal and academic linguists and educators are developing an online interactive speech atlas of the Dene speech communities in the Mackenzie Basin, funded by the NSF. The Dene Speech Atlas focuses on phonetic structure, documenting the speech and sound patterns of the Dene language in individual communities via sound files and descriptions. The Dene Speech Atlas will localized the language data to its specific community, reflecting the way the strongly community based Dene people identify themselves This presentation will highlighting points of variation and stability across the language communities.- Students on the project
- Publications, conference papers, presentations
Other languages
Bardi (Nyulnyulan)
Sino-Tibetan
Laboratory Phonology
Phonetic structure and the lexicon
- Publications, conference papers, presentations
Ultrasound Project
Lab members Heike Lehnert-LeHouiller and Joyce McDonough in collaboration with colleagues in BME BioMedical Engineering, are setting up an ultrasound project for collecting and analyzing data on tongue movement during speech. BME collaborators include: Steven McAleavey, Mathews Jacob, Diane Dialecki.- Publications, conference papers, presentations
Nasality in Vowels
A research project investigating the perception and production of nasality in vowels. Collaborators include Heike Lehnert-LeHouiller, Joyce McDonough, Neil Bardhan, Michael Berger, Meghan Clayards.- Publications, conference papers, presentations
Language and Music
Collaboration between Joyce McDonough and jazz pianist Harold Danko, Eastman School of Music (ESM), investigating the relationship between rhythm in speech and music.This collaboration is part of the larger Sound and Music Initiative under development at the University, involving College faculty in Engineering, BCS, Linguistics, Music and faculty from the Eastman School of Music, with the intent of developing curriculum and facilitating research among faculty and students in Music Cognition, Music Engineering, Language and Music.
- Publications, conference papers, presentations
Speech and Prosody Group
A weekly or biweekly meeting of members of the CLS community interested in speech research, for the purpose of discussion and readings. If you are interested in this group, please contact Joyce McDonough or Heike Lehnert-LeHouiller.Current and recent Speech Group members
- Dick Aslin
- Neil Bardhan
- Michael Berger
- Meghan Clayards
- Austin Frank
- Heike Lehnert-LeHouiller
- Mike Tanenhaus
- Anne-Pier Salverda
- Mohinish Shukla
- Katherine White
Equipment and software
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main software on three Intel Macs
- Microsoft Office
- SPSS
- R
- Matlab
- Dell running Kay Elemetrics CLS for Phonetic Database, realtime spectrogram
- Linguistics Department: 2 portable macBooks, portable projector
- sound and image editing
- Photoshop
- Final Cut Pro
- Waveform editor, Sound studio
- freeware imaging (NIH Image)
- various freeware from Praat, MPI-PL Tools, LaTeX
fonts: Henry Rogers' IPAPhon, SIl fonts
- recording: portable Marantz PDM 660, Tascam digital, microphones
tape copying, format conversion and other services available at MutliMedia Center.
Ultrasound is housed in Steven McAleavey's lab in BME
equipment for airflow collection: Macquirer SciConRD
Data back up, removable drives.
Rochester Center for Brain Imaging (RCBI). Other special resources, such as MRI machines, are available for research use in the RCBI through the membership of Linguistics in CLS. The RCBI includes a research-dedicated state-of-the-art 3T magnet equipped for conducting fMRI during a wide range of cognitive and perceptual tasks.
If you are interested in speech research using MRI technology, please contact Joyce McDonough or Richard Aslin, Director, RCBI.