On Dec 16, 2024, Ph.D. student  Nielson Hul successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, which is titled "Implosives in Khmer".

Shown in the picture, from left - dissertation Committee member Dr. Sam Tilsen, Nielson Hul, Committee Chair Dr. Abby Cohn, and Committee member Dr. John Whitman.
 

Phonetics lab grad student Yao Zhang presented a paper at the 30th Annual Conference of International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL 2024), held at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea on May 25-27, 2024.

Her paper was titled:  Tonal contrastive hierarchy in Beijing Mandarin.  

The Cornell Linguistics department had a strong showing at the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 19) , hosted by HIPCS (Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language) at Hanyang University on June 27-29, 2024.

The following papers were presented by:

• -Faculty member and Phonetics Lab director Dr. Sam Tilsen
• -Current grad students Chloe Kwon and Fengyue Zhao
• -Phonetics Lab alumni Dr. Seung-Eun Kim and Dr. Francesco Burroni

---- Dr. Sam Tilsen ----

Sam Tilsen (Cornell University)
Is prosodic phrase structure planned? Evidence from phrasal lengthening, autocorrelation, and Markov statistics in spontaneous speech

Mark Tiede, Sam Tilsen (Yale University; Cornell University)
Temporal flexibility of articulation within syllables

---- Chloe Kwon & Fengyue Lisa Zhao  ----

Chloe D. Kwon, Sam Tilsen (Cornell University)
Phonetic evidence for compound tensification in Korean as a function of morphological context

Fengyue Lisa Zhao, Sam Tilsen (Cornell University)
Syllable Position Prominence in Unsupervised Neural Network Segment Categorization

---- Cornell Phonetics Lab Alumni Seung-Eun Kim and Francesco Burroni ----

Seung-Eun Kim, Qingcheng Zeng, Bronya R. Chernyak, Joseph Keshet, Matthew Goldrick, Ann R. Bradlow (Northwestern University; Northwestern University; Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Northwestern University; Northwestern University) - Quantifying perceptual similarity of connected speech

Seung-Eun Kim, Matthew Goldrick and Ann R. Bradlow (Northwestern U) Large-scale assessment of speech intelligibility

Angelo Dian, Francesco Burroni (University of Melbourne; Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, LMU Munich)
A machine learning investigation of durational and non-durational cues to stop gemination in Italian across regional varieties and speaking rates

Phonetics Lab member Nielson Hul has accepted a faculty position at the University of Washington at Seattle, in the Department of Asian Languages & Literature.

Nielson - a PhD candidate in Phonetics - will be the program head for the university's Khmer Language Program, and will teach all three levels of Khmer - beginning, intermediate, and advanced.    

Nielson accepted this position because of his enthusiasm for Khmer language education, and the fact that Seattle has the third-largest Cambodian population in the United States.  This community's presence will greatly aid Nielson's ongoing research on how English has affected Khmer language in the diaspora.

Nielson plans to complete his dissertation this fall, then will move his family to Seattle in December & start his new position in January, 2025.   We are sorry to see Nielson depart, but we are also happy that he's found a position doing the teaching and research that he loves.