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A Group of People Curious About Patterns in Speech.

Speech is grounded in the relation between how we perceive sound and how we control articulation. Students and faculty in the Cornell Phonetics Lab conduct research to better understand how speech patterns arise and change over time.


Research Spotlight

Polylect: how do dialects form?

2024

Types of statistical knowledge in alternation learning: insights from artificial grammar learning

2024

Morpho-Phonological Effects on the Phonetic Characteristics of Tense Consonants in Korean Compounds

2023


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Tran Ta-Tran

Grad Student

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Leonardo Teixeira

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6th June 2025 10:00 AM

How we all use linguistics in our daily lives

As part of this year's Cornell Reunion weekend, Drs. Abby Cohen and Martin van Schijndel will give a talk on how linguistics is interwoven in our daily lives, in how we communicate, how we present ourselves to others, and how we interpret and understand the world.  

 

We will have an informal discussion with plenty ...


Location: 106 Morrill Hall, Cornell University, 159 Central Avenue, Morrill Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA

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The Cornell Phonetics Lab welcomes students with diverse backgrounds and interests. Prospective graduate students are encouraged to read more about the Cornell Linguistics Department application procedures.