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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

Xiaotian Liu

Grad Student

203 Morrill Hall

Elina Hannecart

Exchange Grad Student from École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (ENS Paris-Saclay)

203 Morrill Hall

Xinyi (Melinda) Zhang

Grad Student

203 Morrill Hall


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14th September 2026 12:20 PM

Phonetics Lab Meeting

We will discuss this paper by Caleb Belth - "When are Alternations Learned" - abstract below:

 

Abstract:

 

Because the acquisition of phonotactics begins before the acquisition of mo...


Location: B11 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.