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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

The Role of Contextual Variation in Learning Cantonese Tones from Naturalistic Speech

2025

Unpredictable Temporal Auditory Feedback Perturbation Induces Lengthening, Not Compensation

2025

Polylect: how do dialects form?

2024


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Our Students

Xinyi (Melinda) Zhang

Grad Student

203 Morrill Hall

Faolán Boyd

Grad Student

203 Morrill Hall

Tran Ta-Tran

Grad Student

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6th May 2026 10:00 AM

Phonetics Lab Meeting - Lecture by Dr. Jiahong Yuan on Tone Recognition

Phonetics Lab alumnus Dr.  Jiahong Yuan (PhD 2004)  will give a talk titled:   From Speech Analysis to Model-Brain Alignment: The Case of Tone Recognition

 

Abstract:


The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence in recent years has created new op...


Location: Room B11, Morrill Hall, 159 Central Avenue, Morrill Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA

5th June 2026 10:00 AM

Voiceprints and Voice Disguises

Every person has a unique voice.

 

In this presentation, Professor Sam Tilsen (Director of the Cornell Phonetics Lab) and Ph.D. Student  Annabelle di Lustro will t...


Location: Room 106, Morrill Hall, 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.