Allard Jongman


Portrait of Allard Jongman
  • Professor
  • Department of Linguistics

Contact Info

Blake Hall, 422
Lawrence
1541 Lilac Lane
Lawrence, KS 66045

Education —

B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Amsterdam, 1980, The Netherlands
M.A. in Linguistics , University of Amsterdam, 1982, The Netherlands
M.A. in Linguistics, Brown University, 1985
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Brown University, 1986

Research —

  • Acoustic phonetics: mapping between acoustic properties and linguistic features across languages
  • Speech perception and auditory word recognition
  • Phonetics of second language learning
  • Experimental psycholinguistics

Teaching —

  • Phonetics

Selected Publications —

Book: Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics and Perception. Wiley-Blackwell (2nd edition), 2020.

Selected Presentations —

2026

Timing the message: Reweighting temporal and spectral cues in native-nonnative conversational speech adaptation. Speech Prosody 2026, Philadelphia, PA. Zhang, H., Ruan, H., Behne, D. M., Jongman, A., Sereno, J. A., Tupper, P., & Wang, Y. (2026, May).

I don't have grudges, I have a wish: Cantonese suprasegmental adaptation in conversations. Speech Prosody 2026, Philadelphia, PA. Fong, I., Ruan, H., Behne, D. M., Jongman, A., Sereno, J. A., Tupper, P., & Wang, Y. (2026, May).

2025

I mean "ship" not "sheep": Intelligibility-based phonetic adaptation in native-nonnative conversation. 189th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI. Zhang, H., Ruan, H., Tupper, P., Jongman, A., Sereno, J. A., Behne, D. M., & Wang, Y. (2025, December).

Segmental constraints limit the impact of communicative factors on English CV coarticulation. 30th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon 30), Bloomington, IN. Wang, C., & Jongman, A. (2025, October).

Intelligibility and listening effort for native and non-native French. 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA. Robertson, M., & Jongman, A. (2025, May).

Stressing the suprasegmentals: L2 phonetic training of Spanish stress. 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA. McCulloch, C., & Jongman, A. (2025, May).

Neural responses to human versus AI interlocutors: An MEG study. 188th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA. Clarke, M., Gu, J., Durana, M., Zhang, H., Sereno, J. A., Wang, Y., & Jongman, A. (2025, May).

Non-native clear speech as an insight into L2 category formation. New Sounds 2025: 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, Toronto, Canada. Robertson, M., & Jongman, A. (2025, April).

Native-nonnative speech adaptations in conversation: Effects of L1 background. New Sounds 2025: 11th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, Toronto, Canada. Zhang, H., Deng, X., Tupper, P., Sereno, J. A., Jongman, A., Behne, D. M., & Wang, Y. (2025, April).

2024

Phonetic drift in Mandarin sibilants: Effects of phonetic space. 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon 29), Urbana-Champaign, IL. Yang, T.-Y., & Jongman, A. (2024, October).

General clear-speech vs. contrast enhancement: Production of the French oral-nasal vowel distinction. 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon 29), Urbana-Champaign, IL. Robertson, M., & Jongman, A. (2024, October).

What are an invariant's properties? A test of positional assimilation patterns under PAM. 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon 29), Urbana-Champaign, IL. McCulloch, C., & Jongman, A. (2024, October).

An acoustic analysis of French contrast-specific clear-speech productions. 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, Canada. Robertson, M., & Jongman, A. (2024, May).

A new experimental design to study speech adaptations in spontaneous human-computer conversations. 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, Canada. Gu, J., Wang, F., Fong, I., To, S., Behne, D. M., Jongman, A., Sereno, J. A., & Wang, Y. (2024, May).

Real-time speech adaptations in conversations between human interlocutor and AI confederate. 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, Canada. Wang, F., Gu, J., Durana, M., Mabohang, C., Behne, D. M., Jongman, A., Sereno, J. A., & Wang, Y. (2024, May).

Speech adaptation in conversation: Effects of segment cue-weighting strategy for non-native speakers. 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, Canada. Zhang, H., Glover, M., Wang, F., Deng, X., Behne, D. M., Jongman, A., Sereno, J. A., & Wang, Y. (2024, May).

Phonetic adaptation in conversation: The case of Cantonese tone merging. 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ottawa, Canada. Fong, I., Wang, F., Chan, K., Johnson-Dhillon, T., Trasolini, J., Behne, D. M., Jongman, A., Sereno, J. A., & Wang, Y. (2024, May).

2023

Audio-visual clear speech: Articulation, acoustics and perception of segments and tones. 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL. Wang, Y., Jongman, A., & Sereno, J. A. (2023, May).

Speech-in-speech perception: The role of F0, rate, and rhythm. 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL. Fishero, S., Jongman, A., & Sereno, J. A. (2023, May).

2022

Cues, cues, and more cues. Workshop Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning in Phonetics, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada. Jongman, A. (2022, November).

L2 perception of nasal contrasts in unfamiliar positions: A test of SLM & PAM. 27th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon 27), St. Louis, MO. McCulloch, C., & Jongman, A. (2022, October).

Transfer and proficiency effects on L2 French perception of nasal vowels. 27th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon 27), St. Louis, MO. Robertson, M., & Jongman, A. (2022, October).

The role of proficiency in the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit. 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Denver, CO. Fishero, S., Jongman, A., & Sereno, J. A. (2022, May).

Rapid speech adaptation in younger and older normal-hearing adults: Distributional and lexically-guided learning. 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Denver, CO. Cheng, R., & Jongman, A. (2022, May).

Transmission of airborne pathogens through expiratory activities. AAAS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Gick, B., & Jongman, A. (2022, February).

Grants & Other Funded Activity —

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (P.I., graduate student Corey McCulloch, 2025-2027, $12,072). L2 Phonetic Training of Spanish Stress

Global Research Excellence Institute, University of British Columbia Language Sciences (collaborator; P.I. H.Y. Im, 2025-2026, $5,200). Decoding the social brain in conversation: How perceived agency of a speaking partner shapes neural speech comprehension

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (P.I., graduate student Morgan Roberston, 2024-2026, $16,998). Clear speech productions and intelligibility benefit for native and non-native French speakers and listeners

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (collaborator; P.I. Y. Wang, 2023-2028, $195,000). Adaptations in conversation: Engaging voices, faces, brains and machines

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (P.I., graduate student Ruoqian Lucy Cheng, 2022-2023, $13,778). Speech perception in younger and older adults: Cue weighting and contextual information.

NBQ grant, Simon Fraser University Big Data Initiative (collaborator; P.I. Y. Wang, 2019-2020, $25,000). Automated lip reading; Extracting speech from video of a talking face.

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (P.I., graduate student Charles Redmon, 2019-2021, $9,923). Lexical acoustics.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (collaborator; P.I. Y. Wang, 2019-2024, $235,000). Hyperarticulation in auditory-visual speech communication

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (collaborator; P.I. Y. Wang, 2017-2022, $125,000). Communicating pitch in clear speech: articulation, acoustics, intelligibility, neuro-processing, and computational modeling

University of Kansas General Research Fund Award (co-P.I. with J. Sereno and J. Zhang, 2015-2016, $5,200). The role of variability in speech categorization

Frontiers Pilot and Collaborative Studies Funding Program (co-P.I. with R. Fiorentino, U. Minai, and J. Sereno, 2013-2014, $30,000). Pre-birth assessment of language ability: A fetal MEG study

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (P.I., graduate student Wendy Herd 2009-2010, $10,000). The perceptual and production (re)training of allophones and phonemes in L2 Spanish.

NSF (P.I., 2005-2008, $230,000). Acoustic and perceptual correlates of emphasis in Arabic.

University of Kansas Research Development Fund Award (co-P.I. with M. Rice, 2003, $89,000). Neuroimaging in the Center for Biobehavioral Neurosciences in Communication Disorders.

University of Kansas General Research Fund Award (2000-2001, $6,800). Restoration of the Anechoic Chamber.

University of Kansas Research Development Fund Award (co-P.I. with T. Schreiber, A. Agah, F. Brown, J. Gauch, J. Sereno, and S. Speer, 1999-2000, $61,548). Kansas University Cognitive Robotics Group.

NIH FIRST Award, (P.I., 1995-2001, $504,531). Acoustic and perceptual properties of English fricatives.

NSF ILI grant (co-P.I. with B. Lust and J. Lantolf, 1995-97, $184,629). Interdisciplinary approaches to the scientific study of language knowledge and acquisition: Cornell University Cognitive Studies.

Memberships —

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Fellow, Acoustical Society of America

Fellow, Psychonomic Society