Yale Linguistics was well represented at the Sixth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan held from December 1st–5th, 2025. Speakers included graduate students Finn Amber, Manasvi Chaturvedi, Alessandra Pintado-Urbanc, Michael Stern, as well as professors Jason Shaw and Doug Whalen.
Presentations Include:
- Cross-linguistic variation in the articulatory expression of focus: a mini-typology based on English, Mandarin, Medumba, and Dangme (Finn Amber, Manasvi Chaturvedi, Alessandra Pintado-Urbanc, Michael Stern, Xiaotian Wang, Kathryn Franich, Enoch Adibuer, Rachael Agyeman, David Kloteye, Jason Shaw)
- Articulatory control parameters underlying speech rate variation (Michael Stern, Mark Tiede, Sam Tilsen)
- Articulatory and acoustic characteristics of devoiced high vowels in Tokyo Japanese (Rion Iwasaki, Jason Shaw, Mark Tiede, Max Blechman, Doug Whalen)
- Voicing patterns in Tokyo, Tohoku, and Osaka Japanese: A dynamical systems perspective (Ai Mizoguchi, Chuyu Huang, Naoya Watabe, Jason Shaw)
- Speech synthesis at Haskins Laboratories: From the Pattern Playback to Articulatory Synthesis (Doug Whalen, Philip Rubin)Progress in using ultrasound for observing, quantifying and remediating speech articulation (Doug Whalen, Laura Koenig, Mark Tiede)
- The L1–L2 acoustic measure as a reliable quantification of the second passaggio transition of professional sopranos (Richard Lissemore, Christine Shadle, Kevin Roon, Ronald Scherer, Doug Whalen)
- Vibrotactile enhancement of Mandarin speech perception for cochlear implant users (Wei-Rong Chen, Doug Whalen, Yu-Fu Chen)