Current Projects
Phonetic perceptibility and phonological patterns (Kawahara)
How phonetic perceptibility relates to phonological patterns. Cross-linguistic investigations of perceptibility of contrasts.
Glossolalia (de Lacy)
Acoustic and phonological analysis of glossolalia ("speaking in tongues").
Cross-linguistic studies of intonation (de Lacy, Deprez, Kawahara)
Acoustic and perception studies of intonation in several languages, including French, Glossolalia, Maori, and Japanese.
Consonant-tone interactions in East Asian languages (Lee, Perkins)
Phonetic basis of consonant-tone interactions, focusing on Thai and Korean.
Morphology and phonological-input information in phonetics (Braver)
Determining what, if any, information from morphology and the phonological input affect phonetics.