| Year | Publication | Topic(s) | Method(s) | Language(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi, Rahul Sengupta, & Lori Altmann. From sonority hierarchy to posterior probability as a measure of lenition: The case of Spanish stops. JASA. https://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/df8ru | Spanish, Lenition, Spirantization, Phonet, Deep learning, Neural networks | Big data, Speech corpora, Statistical modeling, Neural network | Spanish | |
| 2023 |  | Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi & Rahul Sengupta. Quantitative acoustic versus deep learning metrics of lenition. Languages. https://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/df8ru | Spanish, Lenition, Spirantization, Phonet, Deep learning, Neural networks | Big data, Speech corpora, Statistical modeling, Neural network | Spanish |
| 2023 | Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi & Rahul Sengupta. Neural networks’ posterior probability as measure of effects of alcohol on speech. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. https://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/df8ru | Drunk speech, Acoustics, Artificial neural networks, Psychoactive drugs, Central nervous system | Big data, Speech corpora, Statistical modeling, Neural network | English | |
| 2023 | | Tang, Kevin & Dinah Baer-Henney. Disentangling L1 and L2 effects in artificial language learning. Laboratory Phonology. https://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/df8ru | Mental Lexicon, Artificial Language Learning, L1-L2 effects, Learning models | ALL, Lexical statistics, Model comparisons | German, Mandarin |
| 2022 | Ratree Wayland, Kevin Tang, Fenqi Wang, Sophia Vellozzi & Rahul Sengupta. Lenition measures: Neural networks’ posterior probability vs. acoustic cues. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. https://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/df8ru | Spanish, Lenition, Spirantization, Phonet, Deep learning, Neural networks | Big data, Speech corpora, Statistical modeling, Neural network | Spanish | |
| 2021 | | Wayland, R. (Ed.). Second Language Speech Learning. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886901 | Second language, Speech learning, Phonetics, Phonology | Acoustics, Perception | English |
| 2021 | | Lucrecia Rallo Fabra, Xialin Liu, Si Chen, Ratree Wayland. Production of Mandarin tones by L1-Spanish early learners in a classroom setting. Chapter 10 in Second Language Speech Learning, Ratree Wayland (Ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 273-289. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886901.011 | Mandarin tones, Speech production, L2 learners | Acoustics, Production | Mandarin, Spanish |
| 2021 | | Takeshi Nozawa, Ratree Wayland. Effects of the Postvocalic Nasal on the Perception of American English Vowels by Native Speakers of American English and Japanese. Chapter 8 in Second Language Speech Learning, Ratree Wayland (Ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 228-246. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886901.009 | Postvocalic nasal, Speech perception, L2 learners | Acoustics, Perception | English, Japanese |
| 2021 | | Tang, Kevin & Jason A. Shaw. Prosody leaks into the memories of words. Cognition. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104601 [bib] | Mental Lexicon, Informativity, Probablistic Reduction, Prosody | Big data, Speech corpora, Statistical modeling | Mandarin |
| 2020 | | Razdan, Rahul, Ford, Ken, Mason, Justin, Ranka, Sanjay, Reimer, Brian, Sell, Raivo, Straub, Edward & Tang, Kevin. Unsettled topics concerning human and autonomous vehicle Interaction. SAE EDGE™ Research Reports. 2020. https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/epr2020025/ [bib] | Language Architecture, Autonomous Vehicle, Human-Machine Interaction | Framework design | Language of Driving |
| 2020 | | Wiltshire, C. Uniformity and Variability in the Indian English Accent. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913768 | Phonology | Acoustics, Perception, Phonological analysis | Indian English |
| 2020 | | Pandey, Ayushi, Gogoi, Pamir , and Tang, Kevin. Understanding forced alignment errors in Hindi-English code-mixed speech -- a feature analysis. Proceedings of First Workshop on Speech Technologies for Code-switching in Multilingual Communities 2020 [bib] | Code-mixed speech, acoustic variation, Error analyses | Forced alignment, error analyses | Hindi, English |
| 2020 | | Peter Howell, Li Ying Chua, Kaho Yoshikawa, Hannah Tang, Taniya Welmillage, John Harris and Kevin Tang. Does Working-Memory Training given to Reception-Class Children Aid the Fluency of Children Experiencing Difficulty? Frontiers in Psychology, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568867 [bib] | Working-memory training, Developmental stuttering, Word finding difficulty, English as an Additional Language (EAL) | Working-memory training, Nonword repetition, in-school testing | Indoeuropean |
| 2020 | | Martin, Joshua and Kevin Tang. Understanding Racial Disparities in Automatic Speech Recognition: the case of habitual "be". Proceedings of Interspeech 2020 [bib] | Automatic Speech Recognition, Linguistic Bias, Syntax, Language Model | ASR, Syntactic parsing, Error analysis | African American English, English |
| 2020 | | Tang, K., Mellissa M. C. DeMille, Jan C. Frijters & Jeffrey R. Gruen. Accepted. DCDC2 READ1 regulatory element: how temporal processing differences may shape language. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 10.1098/rspb.2019.2712[bib] | Genetic variation, Language diversity, Auditory processing | Statistical modeling | 51 languages |
| 2019 | | Wayland, R., Chen, S., Guerra, C., and Zhu, Y. English Focus Perception by Mandarin Listeners. Languages, 4(4),91 | Prosody, Focus | Perception | English, Mandarin |
| 2019 | | Chen. S., He, Y., Wayland, R., Yang, Y., Li, B., and Yuan, C.W. Mechanism of Tone Sandhi Rule Application by Tonal and Non-tonal Non-Native Speakers. Speech Communication, 115, 67-77. | Tone, Sandhi | Production, Acoustics | Mandarin, Cantonese, English |
| 2019 | | Jangjamras, J., Wayland, R., and Chen, S. Acoustic Analysis of Lanu Ni Tone System. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2019 | Tone | Acoustics | Lahu Nyi |
| 2019 | | Flege, J.E. and Wayland, R. The role of input in native Spanish Late learners’ production and perception of English phonetic segments. Journal of Second Language Studies, 21, 1-44. | L2 vowel and consonant | Production and perception | English, Spanish |
| 2019 | | Kevin Tang and Ryan Bennett. Accepted. "Unite and conquer: bootstrap-ping forced alignment tools for closely-related minority languages (Mayan)" Proceedings of 19th ICPhS (2019) [bib] | Small data modeling, Forced alignment | Small data, Forced alignment | Kaqchikel (Mayan) |
| 2019 | | Wiltshire, Caroline. Phonology: English Sounds in Context: The Pronunciation of Phonemes and Morphemes (Allophones and Allomorphs), Chapter 13 in Applied Linguistics for Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners, Nabat Erdogan and Michael Wei, eds., IGI-Global Publishers, Hershey PA, pp. 303-324. | Phonology | Allophonics, Morpho-phonemics | English |
| 2019 | | Si Chen, Caroline Wiltshire, Bin Li and Ratree Wayland. “A quantitative analysis of tone sandhi in Mandarin and Nanjing Chinese based on surface pitch contours and underlying pitch targets” International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, (published by Benjamins). Vol 6:2, pp. 183-222. | Tone, sandhi | Acoustics, Statistical modeling | Mandarin, Nanjing Chinese |
| 2019 | | Chen, Si, Caroline Wiltshire, Bin Li, & Ratree Wayland. “Analyzing Nanjing Tones and Sandhi: statistical modelling methods.” In Katherine Hout, Anna Mai, Adam McCollum, Sharon Rose & Matt Zaslansky (eds), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. URL: http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/amphonology/issue/view/165 | Tone, sandhi | Acoustics, Statistical modelling | Mandarin, Nanjing Chinese |
| 2019 | | Congchao Hua, Bin Li and Ratree Wayland. Assessing production of nucleus stresses by Chinese EFL learners. A Sound Approach to Language Matters: In honor of Ocke-Schwen Bohn, pp 187-110. | L2, Nucleus Stress | Acoustics, Perception | English, Mandarin |
| 2019 | | Wiltshire, Caroline. “Number and Gender Allomorphy”, The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Phonology, ed. by Fernando Martinez-Gil and Sonia Colina. London: Routledge, pp. 205-322. | Phonology | Morpho- phonemics, Optimality Theory | Spanish |
| 2018 | | Wayland, R. Phonetics: A Practical Introduction. Cambridge University Press | Phonetics | N/A | N/A |
| 2018 | | Wiltshire, Caroline. “Sonority Waves in Syllabification”, in Shaping Phonology, ed. by Diane Brentari and Jackson Lee, University of Chicago Press, pp. 182-200. | Phonology | Allophonics, Phonotactics | Spanish, Indonesian, Malayalam, Indian English |
| 2018 | | Batais, Saleh and Caroline Wiltshire. “Indonesian borrowing as Evidence for Harmonic Grammar”, Journal of Linguistics, Volume 54, Issue 2 (April 1, 2018), pp. 231-262. | Phonology | Optimality Theory, Harmonic Grammar | Indonesian |
| 2018 | | Chen, Si, Caroline Wiltshire and Bin Li. “An Updated Typology of Tonal Coarticulation Properties”, Taiwan Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 16.2, 79-114 | Tone, co-articulation | Acoustics, Statistical modelling | Nanjing Chinese |
| 2018 | | Ryan Bennett, Kevin Tang and Juan Ajsivinac Sian. 2018. Statistical and acoustic effects on the perception of stop consonants in Kaqchikel (Mayan). Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 9(1). 9. [bib] | Phoneme perception, Top-down lexical factors | ABX discrimination | Kaqchikel (Mayan) |
| 2018 | | Mellissa M. C. DeMille, Kevin Tang, Chintan M. Mehta, Christopher Geissler, Jeffrey G. Malins, Natalie R. Powers, Beatrice M. Bowen, Andrew K.Adams, Dongnhu T. Truong, Jan C. Frijters and Jeffrey R. Gruen. 2018. World-wide distribution of the DCDC2READ1 regulatory element and its relationship with phoneme variation across languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [bib] | Genetic variation, Language diversity, Auditory processing | Statistical Modeling | 43 languages |
| 2018 | Si Chen, Yiqing Zhu, Ratree Wayland, and Yike Yang. Effects of Stimulus Duration and Vowel Quality in Tone Perception by English Musicians and Non-musicians. Proceedings of the 32nd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, December 1-3, 2018 at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. | Tone, musicality | Perception | English | |
| 2018 | | Kevin Tang and Ryan Bennett. 2018. Contextual predictability influences word and morpheme duration in a morphologically complex language (Kaqchikel Mayan). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144(2) [bib] | Mental Lexicon, Morpheme duration, Probablistic Reduction, | Small data, Corpus phonetics, Lexical statistics | Kaqchikel (Mayan) |
| 2017 | | Wiltshire, Caroline. “Emergence of the unmarked in Indian Englishes with different substrates”, book chapter for The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes, eds. Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma, Oxford Press. pp. 599-620 | Phonology, SLA | Optimality Theory, Phonotactics | Indian English |
| 2017 | | McLaughlin, Fiona and Caroline Wiltshire. “Syllable weight and reduplication in Pulaar” in Syllable Weight in African Languages, edited by Paul Newman, John Benjamins; 161-176. | Phonology, Stress, Weight | Acoustics, Reduplication, Morpho-phonemics | Pulaar |
| 2017 | | Si Chen, Yiqing Zhu and Ratree Wayland. Effects of stimulus duration and vowel quality in cross-linguistic categorical perception of pitch directions. PloS one, 12(7), e0180656. | Pitch perception | Categorical perception | English, Mandarin |
| 2017 | | Chen, Si, Caicai Zhang, Adam McCollum and Ratree Wayland. Statistical Modeling of Phonetic and Phonologised Perturbation Effects in Tonal and Non-Tonal Languages. Speech Communication, 88, 17-38 | F0 perturbation | Acoustics, Statistical Modeling | Japanese, Chongming Chinese |
| 2017 | | Chen, Si, Caroline Wiltshire and Bin Li. “ Statistical Modeling of Mandarin Tone Sandhi: Neutralization of Underlying Pitch Targets”, International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering, Vol 11: 5; pp. 1096-1101. | Tone, sandhi | Acoustics, statistical modelling | Mandarin Chinese |
| 2017 | | Peter Howell, Kevin Tang, Outi Tuomainen, Sin Kan Chan, Kirsten Beltran, Avin Mirawdeli & John Harris. 2017. Identification of fluency and word-finding difficulty in samples of children with diverse language backgrounds. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 52(5). 595–611. [bib] | Stuttering | Nonword repetition | Indoeuropean |
| 2017 | | Peter Howell, Kaho Yoshikawa, Kevin Tang, John Harris & Clarissa Sorger. 2017. Intervention for word-finding difficulty for children starting school who have diverse language backgrounds. In Robert Eklund & Ralph Rose (ed.), Proceedings of Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech, 8th workshop, vol. 58, 33–36. Stockholm, Sweden: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, TMH-QPSR [bib] | Word finding difficulty | Nonword repetition | English, Polish, Urdu |
| 2016 | Yunjuan He, Qian Wang and Ratree Wayland. Effect of Different Teaching Methods on Production of Mandarin Tone 3 by English Speaking Learners. The Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA, 51(3), 252-265. | Tone | L2 production | Mandarin, English | |
| 2015 | | Wiltshire, Caroline. “Dravidian varieties of Indian English”, in Studies on Indian Languages and Cultures. G.K. Panikkar, B. Ramakrishna Reddy, K. Rangan, and B.B. Rajapurohit, eds., International School of Dravidian Linguistics: Thiruvananthapuram, pp. 49-63. | Phonetics, phonology | Acoustics, Allophonics, Phonotactics | Indian English, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada |
| 2015 | | Gogoi, Divya, Jimmy Harnsberger, and Caroline Wiltshire, “Perceptual Training of Novel Speech Contrasts in L3 Acquisition: The Effect of Multilingual Benefit”, Crosslinguistic influence and crosslinguistic interaction in multilingual language learning, ed. By Gessica De Angelis, Ulrike Jessner, and Marijana Kresic, Bloomsbury. pp. 119-147. | Language Acquisition | Perception | Bengali, Spanish, English |
| 2015 | | Batais, Saleh & Caroline Wiltshire. “Word and syllable constraints in Indonesian adaptation: OT analysis”. LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts. | Phonotactics, borrowing | Optimality Theory | Indonesian |
| 2015 | Ratree Wayland, Yiqing Zhu and Edith Kaan Perception of Pitch Contours by Native and Non-native Tone Listeners. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow. | Pitch | Perception | English, Mandarin | |
| 2015 | Shuang, Lu, Ratree Wayland, and Edith Kaan. Effects of Production Training and Perception Training on Lexical Tone Perception - A Behavioral and ERP Study. Brain Research, DOI information: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.07.014 | Tone | Perception, Production, EEG/ERPs | Mandarin, English | |
| 2015 | | Andrew Nevins, Cilene Rodrigues and Kevin Tang. 2015. The rise and fall of the L-shaped morphome: diachronic and experimental studies. Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics 27(1). 101–155. [bib] | Morpheme productivity | Wug test | Spanish, Italian, Portuguese |
| 2013 | Edith Kaan, Ratree Wayland, and Andreas Keil. Changes in Oscillatory Brain Networks after Lexical Tone Training. Brain Sciences, 3(2), 757-780; doi:10.3390/brainsci3020757 | Tone | EEG/ERPs | Mandarin, English, Thai | |
| 2008 | Edith Kaan, Christopher Barkley, Mingzhen Bao and Ratree Wayland. Thai lexical tone perception in native speakers of Thai, English and Mandarin Chinese: An Event-Related Potentials training study. BioMed Central Neuroscience, 9:53. | Tone | EEG/ERPs | Thai, English, Mandarin | |
| 2008 | Ratree Wayland and Bin Li. Effects of Two Training Procedures in Cross-language Perception of Tones. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 250-267. | Tone | Perception | Thai, Mandarin | |
| 2007 | Edith Kaan, Ratree Wayland, Mingzhen Bao, Christopher Barkley. Effects of native language and training on lexical tone perception: An event-related potential study. Brain Research, 1148, 113-122 | Tone | EEG/ERPs | English, Mandarin, Thai | |
| 2006 | | Wiltshire, Caroline and James D. Harnsberger, “The influence of Gujarati and Tamil L1s on Indian English: A preliminary study”, World Englishes, 25.1: 91-104. | Phonetics, Phonology | Acoustics, Allophonics | Indian English, Tamil, Gujarati |
| 2005 | | Wiltshire, Caroline. “The “Indian English” of Tibeto-Burman language speakers” English World-Wide, 26:3, 275-300. | Phonetics, Phonology | Acoustics, Allophonics | Indian English, Ao, Angami, Mizo |
| 2004 | Susan Guion, J.J. Clark, Tetsuo Harada and Ratree Wayland. Factors affecting stress patterns for English non-words include syllabic structure, lexical class, and stress patterns of lexical neighbors. Language and Speech, 46(4), 403-427. | Lexical stress | Production, Perception | English | |
| 2003 | Ratree Wayland and Allard Jongman. Acoustic and Perceptual Correlates of Breathy Vowels in Khmer. Journal of Phonetics, 31, 181-121. | Phonation/breathy voice | Acoustics | Khmer | |
| 2000 | | Pickering, Lucy and Caroline Wiltshire. “The prosody of Indian-English TAs’ Teaching Discourse”, World Englishes. Vol 19, No. 2. pp. 173-183. | Stress | Acoustics | Indian English, Bengali, Tamil, Hindi |