Publications

Selected list of peer-reviewed publications by lab members in journals, books, and international conferences

McCarthy, K.M. & de Leeuw, E. (2021). Prosodic patterns in Sylheti-English bilinguals. Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Kirkham, S. & McCarthy, K.M. (2020). Acquiring allophonic structure and phonetic detail in a bilingual community: The production of laterals by Sylheti-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 25(3), 531-547.

Chong, A.J., Risdal, M., Aly, A., Zymet, J. & Keating, P. (2020). Effects of consonantal constrictions on voice quality. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America-Express Letters, 148(1), EL65-EL71.

Mehrabi, A., Dixon, S., & Sandler, M. Vocal imitation of percussion sounds: On the perceptual similarity between imitations and imitated sounds. PLoS ONE 14.7 (2019): e0219955.

Lewis, S., Mehrabi, A. & de Leeuw, E. (2019). An articulatory-acoustic investigation into GOOSE-fronting in German-English bilinguals residing in London – UK. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019

Passoni, E., de Leeuw, E. & Levon, E. (2019). Two languages, two pitch ranges: The case of Japanese-English sequential bilinguals. Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019.

Chong, A. J. & German, J. S. (2019). Variability in tonal realisation in Singapore English intonation. Proceedings of International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2019.

de Leeuw, E. (2019). Native speech plasticity in the German-English late bilingual Stefanie Graf: A longitudinal study over four decades. Journal of Phonetics, 73, 24-39.

de Leeuw, E. (2020). Gendered attrition of pitch in the German – English heritage language community in Vancouver, Canada. In J. Treffers-Daller & D. Berndt (Eds.), Lost in Transmission. Studies in Bilingualism Series. London, UK: John Benjamins Publishing.

Chong, A. J. & Garellek, M. (2018). Online perception of glottalized coda stops in American English. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. 9(1), 4.

de Leeuw, E. (in press). Phonetic Attrition. In M. S. Schmid & B. Köpke with M. Cherciov, M. Keijzer, E. de Leeuw, T. Karayayla, & T. Mehotcheva (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Levon, E. (2018). Same difference: The phonetic shape of High Rising Terminals in London. English Language and Linguistics (online first).

Chong, A. J., Vicenik, C. & Sundara, M. (2018). Intonation plays a role in language discrimination by infants. Infancy, 23(6), 795-819.

de Leeuw, E., Tusha, A., Zhao, H., Helke, K., & Greenfield, A. (2018). A case study of extreme L1 attrition in the German rhotic. In C. Wright, T. Piske, & M. Young-Scholten (Eds.), Mind matters in SLA. (pp. 162–182). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

German, J. S. & Chong, A. J. (2018). Stress, tonal alignment, and phrasal position in Singapore English. Proceedings of Tonal Aspects of Language.

Sharma, D. & McCarthy, M. (2018). Cognitive load and style control. In J. Kodner and L. Arnold (eds.) Penn Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) 24:2.

Passoni, E., Mehrabi, A., Levon, E., de Leeuw, E. (2018) Bilingualism, pitch range and social factors: preliminary results from sequential Japanese-English bilinguals. Proc. 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, 384-388.

Mehrabi, A., Choi, K., Dixon, S., Sandler, M. (2018). Similarity measures for vocal-based drum sample retrieval using deep convolutional auto-encoders. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (Calgary, Canada).

Jack, R., Mehrabi, A., & Mcpherson, A. (2018). Action-sound Latency and the Perceived Quality of Digital Musical Instruments: Comparing Professional Percussionists and Amateur Musicians.

Chong, A. J. & German, J. S. (2017). The accentual phrase in Singapore English. Phonetica, 17(2), 63-80.

de Leeuw, E. (2017). How phonetics and phonology inform L1 attrition (narrowly defined) research. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 725-729.

de Leeuw, E., & Tusha, A. & Schmid, M. (2017). Individual phonological L1 attrition in Albanian-English late bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21(2), 278-295.

Holmes-Elliott, S. & Levon, E. (2017). The substance of style: Gender, social class and interactional stance in /s/-fronting in southeast England. Linguistics 55, 1045-1072.

Mehrabi, A., Dixon S., & Sandler, M. (2017) . Vocal imitation of synthesised sounds varying in pitch, loudness and spectral centroid. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141, (2) 783-796.

White, B., Mehrabi, A., & Sandler, M. (2017). An Archival Echo: Recalling the public domain through real-time query by vocalisation. 12th International Audio Mostly Conference on Augmented and Participatory Sound and Music Experiences (London, UK).

Mehrabi, A., Harte, C., Baume, C., & Dixon, S. (2017). Music Thumbnailing for Radio Podcasts: A Listener Evaluation. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 65 (6), 474-481.

de Leeuw, E. & Bogulski, C. A. (2016). Frequent L2 language use enhances executive control in bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19(5), 907-913.

Levon, E. (2016). Gender, interaction and intonational meaning: The discourse function of High Rising Terminals in London. Journal of Sociolinguistics , 20, 133-163

Mennen, I., & de Leeuw, E. (2014). Beyond Segments: Prosody in Second Language Acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 36, 183-194.

de Leeuw, E. (2014). Maturational constraints in bilingual speech. In E. Thomas & I. Mennen (Eds.), Advances in the study of bilingualism. (pp. 25-37). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

de Leeuw, E., Opitz, C., & Lubińska, D. (2013). The Dynamics of First Language Attrition across the Lifespan. International Journal of Bilingualism, 17(6), 667-674.

de Leeuw, E., Mennen, I., & Scobbie, J. (2013). Dynamic Systems, Maturational Constraints, and Phonetic Attrition. International Journal of Bilingualism, 17(6), 683-700.

Levon, E. & Holmes-Elliott, S. (2013). East End boys and West End girls: /s/-fronting in Southeast England. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 19(2): 111-120.

de Leeuw, E., Mennen, I., & Scobbie, J. (2012). Singing a different tune in your native language: L1 attrition of prosody.International Journal of Bilingualism, 16(1), 101-116.

de Leeuw, E., Schmid, M., & Mennen, I. (2010). The effects of contact on native language pronunciation in an L2 migrant context.Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 13, 33-40.

Mennen, I., Scobbie, J., de Leeuw, E., Schaeffler, S., & Schaeffler, F. (2009). Measuring language specific phonetic settings.Second Language Research, 25(4), 435–464.

de Leeuw, E. (2007). Hesitation markers in English, German and Dutch. Journal of Germanic Linguistics, 1, 85-114.