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William Colvin Professor of Linguistics and the College

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Alan Yu is the William Colvin Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago Division of the Humanities, USA. His research focuses on phonetics, sociophonetics, and the dynamics of linguistic change, as evidenced by his recent articles exploring topics such as tonal perception in Cantonese and the interaction of voice characteristics in legal contexts. He investigates the effects of contextual factors on language processing and individual variability in neural encoding related to phonetic cues.

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Workshop on Sound Change 5: Sound Changes in Endangered or Small Speech Communities; June 20-22, 2019; Davis, CA

Open Date: 2018-09-15

Close Date: 2020-02-29

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Behavioral and neurophysiological investigations of individual variation in cue weighting strategies

Open Date: 2018-09-01

Close Date: 2022-02-28

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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Articulatory Dynamics of Sibilant Convergence & Change

Open Date: 2018-02-15

Close Date: 2020-07-31

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Doctoral Disseration Research: A multi-generational phonetic and sociolinguistic study of emphasis in Turoyo

Open Date: 2014-08-01

Close Date: 2018-07-31

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Doctoral Dissertation Research: The interaction between tone, prosody and accent

Open Date: 2014-08-01

Close Date: 2016-07-31

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Christian DiCanio

Assistant Professor

University at Buffalo

UNITED STATES

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Salikoko S. Mufwene

The Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College

University of Chicago

UNITED STATES

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Claire Bowern

Professor

Yale University

UNITED STATES

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Covering: Mutable Characteristics and Perceptions of Voice in the U.S. Supreme Court

Contextual and paradigmatic effects on suspended contrast across generations: The case of Cantonese pinjam revisited

Brief Report: Atypical Temporal Sensitivity in Coarticulation in Autism: Evidence from Sibilant–Vowel Interaction in Cantonese

Individual variability in subcortical neural encoding shapes phonetic cue weighting

Tonal context influences tone-duration interaction: Evidence from Cantonese

The Actuation Problem

Introduction to sound change in endangered or small speech communities

A New System of Cantonese Tones? Tone Perception and Production in Hong Kong South Asian Cantonese

Perceptual Cue Weighting Is Influenced by the Listener's Gender and Subjective Evaluations of the Speaker: The Case of English Stop Voicing

Neural correlates of individual differences in speech categorisation: evidence from subcortical, cortical, and behavioural measures

Individual Differences in Categorization Gradience As Predicted by Online Processing of Phonetic Cues During Spoken Word Recognition: Evidence From Eye Movements

Toward an individual-difference perspective on phonologization

Temporal Coordination and Prosodic Structure in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Timing Across Speech and Non-speech Motor Domains

Atypical context-dependent speech processing in autism

Collaborators (3)

Christian DiCanio

Salikoko S. Mufwene

Claire Bowern

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