Phonetics

The Phonetics Lab is the centre of research on the perception and production of speech sounds at the University of Calgary. It houses a wide variety of technologies for the production of high quality audio and video, for running experiments, and storing data. Visit the Phonetics Lab website for more information.

Director: Dr. Stephen Winters

Dr. Stephen Winters’ work focuses on the perception of speech, primarily from an exemplar theory-based point of view. Recently, he has worked with students on the perception of the “source” features of speech, including intonation, tone and voice quality. He has also collaborated with students on the development of exemplar-based computational models of lexical tone and intonation perception.

Students: Syed Sazzadul Alam (PhD Student), Brooklyn Sheppard (PhD Student), Charys Russell (MA Student)

Location: EDC 259

The Phonetics Lab

Phonetics Lab Recording Booth

The Phonetics/Phonology Reading Group

The phonetics/phonology reading group meets weekly to discuss recently published work and ongoing research in phonetics and phonology. Previous topics of discussion have included prosody, phonation, acoustic phonetics, and automatic speech recognition, among others. If you are interested in joining, contact Dr. Stephen Winters.

Publications

Articles

2019

Nikolić, D. (2019). Tone and break-index (ToBi) theoretical framework applications with EFL speakers. In Proceedings from Language, Literature, Theory. University of Nis, Serbia (27-28 April, 2018).

Rey, L., & Nagy, N. (to appear 2019). Documentation automatique de [i] en faetar : Une méthodologie pour la découverte de l’espace vocalique à l’aide de réseaux neuronaux artificiels. Géolinguistique.

2018

Nikolić, D. (2018). Empirical Analysis of Intonation Activities in EFL Student’s Books. International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 7(3), 181-187.

Windsor, J., Coward, S., & Flynn, D. (2018). Disentangling Stress and Pitch Accent in Munster Irish. In (Eds.) Wm. G. Bennett et al. Proceedings of the 35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. 430-437.

2017

Nikolić, D. (2017). Intelligibility within a Modified CLIL Framework. Glottodidactica. An International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 44(1), 119-130.

2016

Chow, U. Y., & Winters, S. J. (2016). Perception of intonation in Cantonese: Native listeners versus exemplar-based model. In Proceedings of the 2016 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.

Kabasele, P. M. (2016). Testing the Perceptual Contrast Between /o/and /ɔ/, and /e/ and /ɛ/in Kinshasa Lingala. In Proceedings of the 2016 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.

Nikolić, D. (2016). Acoustic analysis of English vowels produced by American speakers and highly competent Serbian l2 speakers. Facta Universitatis, Series: Linguistics and Literature, 85-101.

Rey, L. (2016). The Language Identification Problem: Formant Analysis and Cross-Linguistic Uniqueness. Western Papers in Linguistics / Cahiers linguistiques de Western, 3(1), 5.

2015

Greer, S., & Winters, S. (2015). The perception of coolness: differences in evaluating voice quality in male and female speakers. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Chow, U. Y., & Winters, S. (2015). Exemplar-Based Classification of Statements and Questions in Cantonese. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

2014

Greer, S., & Winters, S.(2014). A cross-generational investigation of voice quality in women. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 28, 24-48.

2013

Winters, S., & O’Brien, M. (2013). Perceived accentedness and intelligibility: the relative contributions of F0 and duration. Speech Communication, 55(3), 468-507.

Conferences

2018

Nikolic, D. (2018). ToBi Analysis of EFL Serbian Speakers’ Intonation Use. Presented at Alberta Conference on Linguistics. University of Calgary, Canada (27 October, 2018).

Nikolic, D. (2018) Contribution of Segmental and Intonation Features to the Perception of Foreign Accent. Presented at BIMEP (Belgrade International Meeting of English Phoneticians). University of Belgrade, Serbia (30 March, 2018).

2017

Nikolic, D. (2017). Communication: An Overview of CLIL and Non-CLIL Classroom Practices. Presented at Osterreichische Linguistiktagung. Alpen-Adrian University Klagenfurt, Austria (7-10 December, 2017).

Rey, L. (2017). Finding Hidden Patterns through Machine Learning: A Methodology Measuring Vowel Variation in Corpora of Untagged Speech. Presented at ABLT/BWTL 2017, University of Toronto.

Rey, L. (2017). A Neural Network Approach to Statistical Machine Learning, using Natural Speech. Presented at WISSLR 2017, Western University.

Rey, L. (2017). Quantifying Variation in Heritage Faetar Speakers: A Neural Network Approach. Presented at TULCON 2017, University of Toronto.

2016

Rey, L. (2016). Identifying Language Phonetically: Cross Linguistic Comparison of Vowel Vector Probability. Presented at CULC 10, Cornell University.

2013

Stephen Winters, Karen Lichtman and Silke Weber (2013). The role of linguistic knowledge on the encoding of words and voices in memory. Proceedings of the Second Language Research Forum 2011: Innovation in Second Language Acquisition Research: Converging Theory and Practice.