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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 February 2026 03:00 PM

Cornell Spring Cognitive Science Colloquium: Mouse Songs & Squeaks: A Windows into Brain circuits for Vocal Communication

This is not a P-Lab lecture, but the topic is of interest to ongoing Linguistics research.

 

The Cornell Cognitive Science Colloquium presents Cornell's Dr. Katherine Tschida, Assistant Professor of Psychology.  She will give a talk titled: 

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Location: G90, Uris Hall, Cornell University

6th February 2026 04:30 PM

Classics Speaker Series - presents Sylvia Ferra: Where does writing come from? Inventing and deciphering ancient scripts

This is a talk from the Classics department, which may be of interest to linguists.

 

The Cornell Classics Speaker Series presents Dr. Silvia Ferrara, Pprofessor of Classic Philology and Italian Studies, University of Bologna, Italy who will give a talk titled:

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Location: G22, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

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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.