KUPPL research at the spring 2024 ASA meeting

KUPPL will be well represented at the Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Ottawa, Canada from May 13-17, 2024:

An Acoustic Analysis of French Contrast-Specific Clear-Speech Productions

Morgan Robertson*¹, Allard Jongman^2
1Linguistics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States

A new experimental design to study speech adaptations in spontaneous human-computer conversations

Jetic Gu*¹, Fenqi Wang², Ivan Fong², Samuel To², Dawn Behne⁴, Allard Jongman³, Joan Sereno³, Yue Wang^2
1School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; ²Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; ³Department of Linguistics, The University of Kensas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States; ⁴Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Speech adaptation in conversation: Effects of segment cue-weighting strategy for non-native speakers

Han Zhang*¹, Morgan Glover¹, Fenqi Wang¹, Xizi Deng¹, Dawn Behne², Allard Jongman³, Joan Sereno³, Yue Wang^1
1Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; ²Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; ³Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States

Phonetic adaptation in conversation: The case of Cantonese tone merging

Ivan Fong*¹, Fenqi Wang¹, Kira Chan¹, Tyne Johnson-Dhillon¹, Jadeyn Trasolini¹, Dawn Behne², Allard Jongman³, Joan Sereno³, Yue Wang^1
1Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; ²Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; ³Department of Linguistics, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States

Real-time speech adaptations in conversations between human interlocutor and AI confederate

Fenqi Wang*¹, Jetic Gu², Meagan Durana¹, Chihiro Mabohang¹, Dawn Behne⁴, Allard Jongman³, Joan Sereno³, Yue Wang^1
1Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; ²School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; ³Department of Linguistics, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States; ⁴Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway