UCSD Phonetics Lab

Current grants (2021)

Will Styler and Marc Garellek are co-PIs on NSF BCS grant 2048381 "Self-comprehension as a window on perception-production relationships", led by PI Sarah Creel (UCSD Cognitive Science).

Sharon Rose received a UCSD Academic Senate Grant in 2020 "Vowel perception in a Ghanaian language" that supported joint work with Sarah Creel and Michael Obiri-Yeboah on the perception of Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) vowels by speakers of Akan.

Marc Garellek received a UCSD Social Sciences Grant in 2020 that supported joint work with Yuan Chai, Yaqian Huang, and Maxine Van Doren and led to the publication of a recent JIPA paper: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100321000116.


Previous grants

Nina Hagen Kaldhol received a Fulbright Flagship Stipend from the US-Norway Fulbright Foundation for Educational Exchange for 2018-2019.

Eric Baković, Anna Mai, Adam McCollum, and Eric Meinhardt received both a Social Sciences Divisional Research Grant and an Academic Senate grant for 2018-19, to support their ongoing research on phonological complexity and its relation to learnability.

Marc Garellek received a UCSD Academic Senate grant for 2018 towards further development of the San Diego Hmong Language Project.

Amanda Ritchart received NSF grant BCS-1627041 to Marc Garellek (as dissertation advisor), "Doctoral Dissertation Research: The production and perception of breathy voice during nasal sounds" for 2016-2017.

Marc Garellek received a Hellman Fellowship for 2015-2016. Funds went towards creation of the ongoing San Diego Hmong Language Project.


Journal articles, book chapters, and other published work (since 2013)

Chai, Yuan, Titus Kubri Kajo Kunda, Alejandro Rodríguez & Sharon Rose. to appear. The prosody of declaratives and questions in Rere. In Haruo Kubuzono, Junko Ito & Armin Mester (eds.) Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces. Oxford University Press

Caballero, Gabriela, Yuan Chai, & Marc Garellek. to appear. Stress, tone, and intonation in Choguita Rarámuri. In Haruo Kubuzono, Junko Ito & Armin Mester (eds.) Prosody and Prosodic Interfaces. Oxford University Press

Garellek, Marc, Yuan Chai, Yaqian Huang & Maxine Van Doren. (2021-online first). Voicing of glottal consonants and non-modal vowels. Journal of the International Phonetic Association: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100321000116.

Garellek, Marc, & Christina M. Esposito. (2021-online first). Phonetics of White Hmong vowel and tonal contrasts. Journal of the International Phonetic Association: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100321000104.

Nip, Ignatius S. B., & Marc Garellek. (2021). Voice quality of children with cerebral palsy. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 64, 3051-3059.

Seyfarth, Scott, & Marc Garellek. (2020). Physical and phonological causes of coda /t/ glottalization in the mainstream American English of central Ohio. Laboratory Phonology 11, 24.

Garellek, Marc, & Marija Tabain. (2020). Tongan (Illustration of the IPA). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 50, 406-416.

Garellek, Marc. (2020). Phonetics and phonology of schwa insertion in Central Yiddish. Glossa 66, 1-25

Garellek, Marc. (2020). Acoustic discriminability of the complex phonation system in !Xóõ. Phonetica 77, 131-160.

Caballero, Gabriela & Matthew Gordon. (2020). Prosody in North American Indian languages. In C. Gussenhoven & A. Chen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody, 396-407.

Seyfarth, Scott, Jozina Vander Klok, & Marc Garellek. (2019). Evidence against interactive effects on articulation in Javanese verb paradigms. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 26, 1690-1696.

Seyfarth, Scott, & Marc Garellek. (2018). Plosive voicing acoustics and voice quality in Yerevan Armenian. Journal of Phonetics 71, 425-250.

Hout, Katherine. (2019.) Dominance-as-markedness: Evidence from Bari. Studies in African Linguistics 48(2).

Garellek, Marc. (2019). Phonetics of voice. In W. Katz & P. Assmann (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics, 75-106.

Mai, Anna, Andrés Aguilar & Gabriela Caballero. (2019). Ja'a Kumiai. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 49, 231-244.

Chong, Adam & Marc Garellek. 2018. Online perception of glottalized coda stops in American English. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. 9(1), 4.

Seyfarth, Scott, Marc Garellek, Gwendolyn Gillingham, Farrell Ackerman, & Robert Malouf. 2018. Acoustic differences in morphologically-distinct homophones. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 33, 32-49.

Bennett, Wm. G. & Sharon Rose. 2017. Correspondence and Moro [-voice] dissimilation. Phonology 34

Hout, Katherine. 2017. Exceptions to Hiatus Resolution in Mushunguli (Somali Chizigula). In Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence (eds), Africa’s Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ritchart, Amanda & Sharon Rose. 2017. Moro vowel harmony: implications for transparency and representation. Phonology 34, 1–38.

Namboodiripad, S., & Marc Garellek. 2017. Malayalam (Namboodiri Dialect). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 47(1), 109–118.

Garellek, Marc, Amanda Ritchart, & Jianjing Kuang. 2016. Breathy voice during nasality: a cross-linguistic study. Journal of Phonetics, 59: 110–121.

Rose, Sharon & Page Piccinini. 2016. Intonation in the Thetogovela dialect of Moro. In Laura Downing & Annie Rialland (eds.) Intonation in African Tone Languages. Mouton, 19–50.

Chung, Younah, Page Piccinini & Sharon Rose. 2016. The interaction of polar question and declarative intonation with lexical tone in Moro. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 8, 615–619.

Garellek, Marc & Scott Seyfarth. 2016. Acoustic differences between English /t/ glottalization and phrasal creak. Proceedings of Interspeech 2016, 1054-1058.

Ritchart, Amanda, Grant Goodall, & Marc Garellek. (2016). Prosody and the that-trace effect: an experimental study. Proceedings of the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 320–328.

Garellek, Marc, Robin Samlan, Bruce R. Gerratt, & Jody Kreiman. (2016). Modeling the voice source in terms of spectral slopes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(3), 1404–1410.

Ritchart, Amanda & Sharon Rose. 2015. Schwas in Moro vowel harmony. In Ruth Kramer, Elizabeth Zsiga & One Tlale Boyer (eds.) Selected Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 231–242.

Garellek, Marc, & James White. 2015. Phonetics of Tongan stress. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 45(1): 13–34.

Garellek, Marc, Andrés Aguilar, Lucien Carroll, & Gabriela Caballero. 2015. Lexical and post-lexical tone in Choguita Rarámuri. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Seyfarth, Scott & Marc Garellek. 2015. Coda glottalization in American English. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Keating, Patricia, Marc Garellek, & Jody Kreiman. (2015). Acoustic properties of different kinds of creaky voice. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Piccinini, Page & Marc Garellek. 2014. Prosodic cues to monolingual versus code-switching sentences in English and Spanish. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, 885–889.


Dissertations (since 2013)

Michael Obiri-Yeboah (2021), Phonetics and phonology of Gua (pdf)>

Kati Hout (2020), Conspiratorial Exceptionality: A Case study of Mushunguli (pdf)

Andrés Aguilar (2020), Phonetics and phonology of laryngeal sounds in Chicontepec Nahuatl (pdf)

Adam McCollum (2019), Gradience and locality in phonology: Case studies from Turkic vowel harmony (pdf)

Bethany Keffala (2016), Learning to Share: Interaction in Spanish-English bilinguals' acquisition of syllable structure and positional phonotactics (pdf)

Scott Seyfarth (2016), Contextual and morphological effects in speech production (pdf)

Page Piccinini (2016), Cross-language activation and the phonetics of code-switching (pdf)

Lucien Carroll (2015), Ixpantepec Nieves Mixtec Word Prosody (pdf)

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