Chelsea Sanker successfully defended her dissertation, entitled "Patterns of Misperception of Arabic Guttural and Non-guttural Consonants" and is headed to Rutgers University to teach for the upcoming year.
Posted: August 24, 2015
Hao Yi was recently awarded the Hsien and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarship. Congratulations!
More information about the scholarship:
https://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/announcement/hsien-and-daisy-yen-wu-s...
Posted: June 18, 2015
The following PLab members will be presenting at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015) in Glasgow, UK, Aug 10th--14th:
Jixing Li (with Sam Tilsen), Phonetic evidence for two types of disfluency.
Abby Cohn and Sam Tilsen: Relation between syllable count judgments and durations of English liquid rimes.
Sam Tilsen: Structured nonstationarity in articulatory timing.
Posted: June 6, 2015
Robin Karlin, Jixing Li, Yanyu Long, and Hao Yi will be attending the 2015 Linguistic Summer Institute, held at University of Chicago, from July 6-31, 2015
Posted: June 5, 2015
Okki Kurniawan, co-authored with Abby Cohn, is presenting their paper "The status of schwa in Jakarta Indonesian: Corpus and phonetic evidence" at The 13th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (13-ICAL). Okki will also be presenting his paper "Investigating Colloquial Indonesian: Nasal assimilation differences in Betawi Malay and Jakarta Indonesian". 13-ICAL this year will be held at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, from July 18-23, 2015.
Posted: May 27, 2015
Okki Kurniawan will be presenting his paper "Nasal Assimilation and Substitution in Standard Indonesian: Evidence from Production Task in Loanwords" at International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL) 19 in Jambi, Indonesia, June 12-14, 2015.
Posted: May 27, 2015
Anca Chereches will be presenting her paper, Some clustering with k-means: acoustics of a prosodic contrast in a corpus of spontaneous speech, at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) 3 at UIUC May 28th--30th. See abstract.
Posted: May 26, 2015
David Lutz will be presenting his paper with Sam Tilsen, Semantic expectation affects prosodic prominence perception, at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) 3 at UIUC May 28th--30th.
Posted: May 25, 2015
Chelsea Sanker was just at the 169th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Pittsburgh on May 21st to present her paper "Phonetic Convergence in Multiple Features," which compares patterns of convergence across different phonetic features.
Posted: May 23, 2015
Abby Cohn's research on minority languages in Indonesia which are in imminent danger of becoming extinct was the subject of an article in the Cornell Chronicle.
Posted: March 2, 2015