News from the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory
Congratulations to Peggy Renwick!
Peggy Renwick has just completed her dissertation, entitled "Vowels of Romanian: Historical, Phonological and Phonetic Studies." Peggy will be leaving the lab in May, to join the Phonetics Lab at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher on the Word Joins project.Sam Tilsen, Peggy Renwick, Christina Bjorndahl, and Becky Butler at LabPhon 13 (July 27-29, 2012)
Sam will present a paper entitled "Articulatory gestures are individually selected in production." Becky will present a poster entitled "Intrusive Schwa in Khmer." Peggy will present a poster entitled "Phonological Effects on Vowel Coarticulation and Variability."Becky Butler at Chicago Linguistic Society meeting, CLS 48 (Apr 19-21, 2012)
Becky will give a talk on "A Gestural Account of Minor Syllables: Evidence from Khmer."Phonetics Lab hike at Treman State Park
Several members of the lab got together for a hike along the beautiful Rim Trail at Treman State Park on October 16th.
Peggy Renwick and Sam Tilsen at ASA San Diego (Nov 4, 2011)
Peggy Renwick i and Sam Tilsen will be presenting in a special session on speech rhythm at the fall meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, in San Diego, on November 3-7. Peggy's paper is etitled "Quantifying Rhythm: Interspeaker Variation in %V". Sam is presenting a paper entitled "Speech rhythm analysis with empirical mode decomposition" and is giving a joint presentation with Prof. Amalia Arvaniti, entitled "Comparing envelope- and interval-based rhythm metrics."Becky Butler at SEALS 21 in Bangok (May 11-13, 2011)
At the 21st meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS 21) at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, May 11-13, Becky presented a paper called: "A reanalysis of minor syllables: The interaction of word maximality and positional faithfulness".Seongyeon at CUNY (Jan 9-12, 2011)
Seongyeon Ko (with Hijo Kang) is presenting a poster at CUNY Conference on the Phonology of Endangered Languages with pretty much the same topic as at LSA 2011 in Pittsburgh (see below).Cornell Ph-ers at LSA 2011 (Jan 6-9, 2011)
Our colleagues in the Plab are presenting papers and posters at LSA 2011 annual meeting which will be held in Pittsburgh, PA.- Abigail C. Cohn (with Anastasia Riehl of Queens University), "Variation in the phonetic microtiming of nasal-obstruent sequences" (poster)
- Adam Cooper, "Syllable-informed phonotactics and the outcome of *tj in Ancient Greek" (paper)
- Jonathan Howell, "Focus on adnominal emphatic reflexives is predictable (if you're a mind reader)" (poster)
- Seongyeon Ko (with Hijo Kang of Stony Brook University), "A phonetic study of the tongue root contrast in Buriat and Ewen" (poster)
- Peggy Renwick, "Phonetic and phonologcal manifestations of metaphony in Romanian" (paper)
Dr. Jonathan! Yay! (Nov 19, 2010)
Jonathan Howell passed his "B" exam on November 19, 2010. Congratulations, Dr. Jonathan!The title of his dissertation was "Meaning and Intonation: On the Web, in the Lab, and in the Theorist's Armchair."
His next step will be a postdoctoral fellowship at the prosody.lab at McGill University. We all wish you good luck, Jonathan!
Triphthongs at Spelling Bee (Nov 14, 2010)
Adam Cooper, Ed Cormany, and Peggy Renwick participated in the Ithaca Public Education Initiative's 12th Annual Adult Spelling Bee.For more information, read this article.