ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Phonetics Lab

Current lab members

  • Dr. Nancy Hall, Dept. of Linguistics
  • Dr. Lei Sun, Dept. of Speech Language Pathology
  • Vincent Miramontes-Andrade, BUILD student
  • Barbara Rios-Garcia, UROP student
  • Alondra Gonzalez, UROP student
  • Jia Chen, volunteer
  • Carissa Lam, volunteer
  • Emy Nguyen, volunteer
  • Liana Bozorgi, high school student
  • Neel Byrappagari, high school student
  • Rehan Babu, high school student

Eligible students can be employed in the lab through ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú BUILD, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú McNair Scholars, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú UROP, or ORSP summer research assistantships. Alternatively, students can do research for elective course credit by registering for LING 499 or LING 597. Contact Dr. Hall if interested.

Current Projects

Development of liquid sounds in Spanish-English bilingual children

In collaboration with Dr. Lei Sun (ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú Speech Pathology), we are studying bilingual children’s productions of ‘r’ and ‘l’ sounds in each language. These sounds are among the most difficult for children to pronounce, and bilingual children have the added challenge that English’s ‘r’ sound is phonetically different from the two ‘r’ sounds (tap and trill) of Spanish. Our study looks at the pronunciation of these sounds in a variety of matched phonetic environments, such as onset clusters, coda clusters, and syllabic position. We hope that the results will contribute to a better understanding of normal developmental patterns in bilingual children. Data collection began in Fall 2018. In 2019-2020, this research is supported by an ORSP Multidisciplinary Research Grant.

Dissimilation and long-range coarticulation

Americans tend to drop one ‘r’ from many words that contain two ‘r’s, such as su(r)prise, be(r)serk, temp(er)ature, tu(r)meric, and barbitu(r)ate. There is little agreement as to why this happens. We are exploring a theory that this r-dropping originates from listener errors.

  • Nancy Hall, Bianca Godinez, Megan Walsh, Sarah Garcia, Araceli Carmona (2020). . Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2020. pp 446-459.
  • Bianca Godinez, Megan Walsh, Sarah Garcia, Araceli Carmona, & Nancy Hall (2019). Experimental evidence for perceptual hypercorrection in American r-dissimilation. Poster at SoCal Hearing Conference, UC Irvine.
  • Nancy Hall, Bianca Godinez, Megan Walsh (2019). Experimental evidence for perceptual hypercorrection in American r-dissimilation. Poster at Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2019 (HisPhonCog). Seoul, South Korea.
  • Nancy Hall, Bianca Godinez, Megan Walsh, Irene Orellana, Coleen Villegas (2019). . Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, [S.l.], v. 4, p. 52:1-12.
  • Nancy Hall, Nancy Vasquez, Muhammad Damanhuri, Francisco Aguirre, Connor Tree (2017). . Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology 2016.
  • Brianna Maloney, Louise Barbosa, Nancy Hall (2016). . Proceedings of the 30th Annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research (University of North Carolina Asheville)
  • Nancy Hall (2012). . Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 8-10, 2008. pp. 133-144.

Analyzing archival recordings of Hocank

Hocank (Ho-Chunk, Hocak, HoocÄ…k) is a Siouan language spoken in Wisconsin and Nebraska. We are annotating and analyzing recordings made in 1974-1975 by the . In 2017-2018, Elica Sue, Irene Orellana, Nancy Hall and Miles Haisley created Praat textgrids that mark the location of over 7,800 words and phrases in the recordings. Each word is phonetically transcribed. In 2018-2019, Cameron Duval, Andie Niederecker and Sean Panick began morpho-phonological analysis of complex noun and verb forms, and Molly Rosenfeld and Alejandra Juarez began orthographic transcription of English conversations between the linguist and Hocank speakers. Molly Rosenfeld and Coleen Villegas also began annotation of a set of . Academic or tribal researchers interested in accessing any of these annotations should contact Nancy Hall.

  • Nancy Hall & Brigid Shanley (to appear) Word-initial allophones of r in Ho-Chunk (to appear in The Proceedings of the 42st and 43rd Siouan and Caddoan Conferences)
  • Andie Niederecker (2023)  [MA thesis]
  • Sean Panick (2021) [MA thesis]
  • Sean Panick & Nancy Hall (2022) . Linguistics Vanguard
  • Andie Niederecker, Cameron Duval, & Nancy Hall (2019). Morpho-phonological annotation of an archival corpus of Hocank (Winnebago) [poster]. Southern California Annual Meeting on Phonology (SCAMP).
  • Nancy Hall, Andie Niederecker, Elica Sue & Irene Orellana (2019). . In Katherine Hout, Anna Mai, Adam McCollum, Sharon Rose, Matthew Zaslansky (eds). Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Meeting on Phonology.
  • Nancy Hall & Elica Sue. . Talk at the 15th Old World Conference in Phonology, University College London, January 2018.
  • Molly Rosenfeld, Coleen Villegas & Nancy Hall (2018). The Fraenkel 1959 recordings: an unstudied corpus of Hocank. Poster presentation at the Southern California Annual Meeting on Phonology (SCAMP), University of Southern California, April 2018.

Arabic phonetics

  • Nancy Hall (2019). . In Amel Khalfaoui & Youssef Haddad, eds, Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXI. John Benjamins. (preprint available on request)
  • Nancy Hall (2017). . Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2(1): 48. 1–23.
  • Nancy Hall (2013). . Journal of Phonetics 41:2, pp 133-143.

Contact

Location: PSY 438
Phone: (562) 985-1898
Lab director e-mail: nancy.hall [at] csulb.edu
Lab e-mail (checked sporadically): ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúPhoneticsLab [at] gmail.com

Past lab members

  • Rochelle Vu, LAEP student
  • Del Navarro, LAEP student
  • Emiliano Benitez, BA student in Physics
  • Ashley Harris, BA student in Speech Language Pathology
  • Vivienne Nguyen, 2021 BA in Speech Language Pathology
  • Karla Aguirre, MA student in Linguistics
  • (UROP 2020-2021)
  • , BA Linguistics, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉú BUILD
  • Adrian Cortez, (UROP 2020-2021)
  • , Linguistics BA 2019; MA student in Linguistics, UC Davis
  • Stephanie Flores (UROP 2020-2021)
  • , MA student in Linguistics
  • Maria Bandala (UROP 2020)
  • Lauren Bray
  • Patricia Soto (2020 BA Speech Language Pathology)
  • (BUILD 2018-2020; 2020 BA Linguistics; MA student in Computational Linguistics, U of Colorado)
  • (BUILD 2019-2020; 2020 BA Speech-Language Pathology)
  • Megan Walsh (BUILD 2018-2019; 2019 BA Speech-Language Pathology)
  • Courtney Wilson (2020 BA Speech Language Pathology)
  • Alejandra Juarez (UROP 2018-2018)
  • (2019 BA Speech-Language Pathology)
  • (2019 BA Linguistics; MA student in Linguistics)
  • (BUILD 2016-2018; BA Speech-Language Pathology 2018)
  • (BUILD 2016-2018; BA Linguistics; masters student in Speech Language Pathology, Cal State East Bay)
  • (BUILD 2017-2018; MA in Forensic Linguistics, Hofstra University, 2021)
  • (UROP 2017-2018)
  • (BUILD 2016-2017, BA Linguistics 2018, MS student in Speech Language Pathology, CSU San Marcos)
  • Elica Sue (ORSP 2017 summer research fellow, MA 2018, PhD candidate UC Santa Barbara)
  • (2017 summer research fellow, MA 2018, ESL Coordinator at Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition)
  • Francisco Aguirre (ORSP 2016 summer research fellow)
  • (high school volunteer, summer 2016; BA University of Chicago)
  • (summer volunteer; BA)
  • Marilyn Santana (UROP 2016-2017; MA student in Marriage and Family Counseling, Fresno State)
  • (UROP 2015-2016)
  • Louise Barbosa (UROP 2015-2016)
  • (2015 MA Linguistics)
  • (2014 MA Linguistics)
  • (2020 PhD in Linguistics, UC Santa Cruz)
  • Essa Al-Faifi (PhD student, University of Arizona)
  • (software engineer, Google)
  • (2012 BA Linguistics)
  • Sean Panick (MA student in Linguistics)
  • (2016 MA Linguistics)
  • (MA student in Linguistics)
  • Sergio Sandoval
  • (2013 MA Linguistics)
  • Nour Kweider (PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Alexandra Daher (2012 MA Education)
  • (2010 MA; PhD candidate, University of Alabama)
  • Suzanne Yow (2008 MA Linguistics)
  • (2009 MA Linguistics)