Project Objectives Major depressive disorder is a significant public health concern due to its
high prevalence, high disease burden, and common comorbidity. One promising approach …

Foreign-accented speech of second language learners is often difficult to understand for
native listeners of that language. Part of this difficulty has been hypothesized to be caused …

This paper compares anticipatory nasal coarticulation in American English, French, and
German. These languages differ in whether nasality is contrastive (French), phonologized …

This study reports an exploratory analysis of the acoustic characteristics of second language
(L2) speech which give rise to the perception of a foreign accent. Japanese speech samples …

Research on various languages shows that dynamic approaches to vowel acoustics–in
particular Vowel-Inherent Spectral Change (VISC)–can play a vital role in characterising and …

Lakota (Siouan) has both contrastive and coarticulatory vowel nasality, and both nasal and
oral vowels can occur before or after a nasal consonant. This study examines the timing and …

Anticipatory contextual nasalization, whereby an oral segment (usually a vowel) preceding a
nasal consonant becomes partially or fully nasalized, has received considerable attention in …

This study compares prosodic structural effects on nasal (N) duration and coarticulatory
vowel (V) nasalization in NV (Nasal-Vowel) and CVN (Consonant-Vowel-Nasal) sequences …

An essential characteristic of continuous speech is the great articulatory and acoustic
variability of sounds, owing to the influence of surrounding segments. This segmental …

This paper investigates to what extent speakers adapt to unfamiliar consonant cluster timing
patterns. We exploit naturally occurring consonant overlap differences between German and …