Papers – Northern Arizona Speech Communication Laboratory

Perry, S. J., Holko, G., Kelley, M. C., & Tucker, B.V. (2021). Consonants, vowels, and lexical representations: evidence from auditory lexical decision. In Angelica Hernández & Chris Plyley (ed.) Proceedings of the 2021 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. 1-12.

Schnoor, T. T., Kelley, M. C., & Tucker, B. V. (2022). Automatic accentedness rating using deep neural networks. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 45(1), 060013.

Terblanche, C., Harty, M., Pascoe, M., & Tucker, B. V. (2022). A Situational Analysis of Current Speech-Synthesis Systems for Child Voices: A Scoping Review of Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence. Applied Sciences, 12(11), 5623.

Ford, C., Tucker, B. V., & Ono, T. (2022). Voiceless nasals in the Ikema dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1–18.

Kelley, M.C. & Tucker, B.V. (2022). The recognition of spoken pseudowords. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 1-22. Online

Phillips, A. & Tucker, B.V. (2022). Context effects on the acoustic realization of stops and affricates in Northern Pwo Karen. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 52(1), 1–32.

Kelley, M. C., & Tucker, B. V. (2022). Using acoustic distance and acoustic absement to quantify lexical competition. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(2), 1367–1379.

Marcoux, K., Cooke, M., Tucker, B. V., & Ernestus, M. (2022). The Lombard intelligibility benefit of native and non-native speech for native and non-native listeners. Speech Communication, 136, 53–62.

Morin, G. & Tucker, B.V., The acoustic characteristics of um and uh in spontaneous Canadian English, in The 10th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2021), St. Denis, France, August 2021, pp. 53-58.

Tomaschek, F., & Tucker, B.V. (2021). The role of coarticulatory acoustic detail in the perception of verbal inflection. JASA Express Letters, 1(8), 085201.

Suleman R., Tucker B.V., Dursun S.M., Demas M.L. (2021) Neurostimulation of the Brain in Depression (NESBID) Trial: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Treatment-Resistant Depression. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(3), e22805.

Lohmann, A. & Tucker, B.V. (2021) Testing the storage of prosody-induced phonetic detail via auditory lexical decision – a case study of noun/verb homophones. Mental Lexicon. 16(1). 132-163

Nenadić, F., Milin, P., & Tucker, B.V., (2021) Relative Entropy Effects on the Processing of Spoken Romanian Verbs. Mental Lexicon. 16(1), 22-47.

Tomaschek, F., Tucker, B.V., Ramscar, M., & Baayen, R.H. (2021). Paradigmatic enhancement of stem vowels in regular English inflected verb forms. Morphology, 31(2), 171–199.

Tucker B.V., Ford C., Hedges S. (2021). Speech aging: Production and perception. WIREs Cogn Sci. 2021; e1557.

García-Vega, M., & Tucker, B. V. (2021). Acoustic properties of vowels in Upper Necaxa Totonac. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1–20.

Tomaschek, F., Tucker, B. V., Ramscar, M., & Baayen, R.H. (2021). Paradigmatic enhancement of stem vowels in regular English inflected verb forms. Morphology, 31(2), 171–199.

Edgson, M. R., Tucker, B. V., Archibald, E. D., & Boliek, C. A. (2021). Neuromuscular and biomechanical adjustments of the speech mechanism during modulation of vocal loudness in children with cerebral palsy and dysarthria. Neurocase, 0(0), 1–9.

Langlois, C., Tucker, B. V., Sawatzky, A. N., Reed, A., & Boliek, C. A. (2020). Effects of an intensive voice treatment on articulatory function and speech intelligibility in children with motor speech disorders: A phase one study. Journal of Communication Disorders, 106003.

Nenadić, F. & Tucker, B. V. (2020). Computational modelling of an auditory lexical decision experiment using jTRACE and TISK. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 35(10), 1326–1354.

Kelley, M. C., & Tucker, B. V. (2020). A comparison of four vowel overlap measures. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(1), 137–145.

Nenadic, F., Kelley, M. C., Podlubny, R. G., & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Speech Perception and The Role of Semantic Richness in Processing. Canadian Acoustics, 47(3), 96-97.

Backstrom, D. A., Tucker, B. V., & Kelley, M. C. (2019). Forced-alignment of the sung acoustic signal using deep neural nets. Canadian Acoustics, 47(3), 98-99.

Perry, S. J., & Tucker, B. V. (2019). L2 Production of American English Vowels in Function Words by Spanish L1 Speakers. Canadian Acoustics, 47(3), 94-95.

Wittrock, B. J., & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Canadian prairie dialects: An exploration of Alberta and Saskatchewan vowels. Canadian Acoustics, 47(3).

Tucker, B.V. (2019). Psycholinguistic approaches to morphology: production. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press.

Gully, A., Tucker, B.V. 2019. Modeling Voiced Stop Consonants using the 3D Dynamic Digital Waveguide Mesh Vocal Tract Model. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 477-481).

Li, B., Kelley, M.C., Aalto, D., Tucker, B.V. 2019. Automatic speech intelligibility scoring of head and neck cancer patients with deep neural networks. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 3016-3020).

Knight, E. C., Hernandez, S. P., Bayne, E. M., Bulitko, V., & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Pre-processing spectrogram parameters improve the accuracy of bioacoustic classification using convolutional neural networks. Bioacoustics, 0(0), 1–19.

Porretta, V., & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Eyes Wide Open: Pupillary Response to a Foreign Accent Varying in Intelligibility. Frontiers in Communication, 4. 1-12.

Lorentzen, P., Nenadić, F., Kelley, M. C., & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Massive auditory lexical decision: Investigating performance in noisy environments. Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 1, e127. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-hrnv-sn79

Nenadić, F. & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Computational modeling of an auditory lexical decision task using jTRACE. Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 1, e123. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-kbxa-eq02

Feeny, G. T., Järvikivi, J., & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Emotion and lexical effects in an auditory lexical decision task with vocal affect. Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 1, e082. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-fn84-db59

Ford, C., Nenadić, F., Brenner, D., & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Shorter phone duration facilitates isolated spoken word recognition. Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 1, e059. https://doi.org/10.7939/R3V11W29B

Tucker, B.V., Brenner, D., Danielson, D.K., Kelley, M.C., Nenadić, F., Sims, M.N. (2019). The Massive Auditory Lexical Decision Database. Behavior Research Methods. 51(3), 1187–1204.

García-Vega, M., & Tucker, B.V. (2019). Acoustic properties of vowels in Upper Necaxa Totonac. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-20.

Mukai, Y., Järvikivi, J. & Tucker, B. V. (2018). The effect of phonological-orthographic consistency on the processing of reduced and citation forms of Japanese words: Evidence from pupillometry. In Emily Dmyterko (ed.), Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.

Tomaschek, F., Tucker, B. V., Fasiolo, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2018). Practice makes perfect: the consequences of lexical proficiency for articulation. Linguistics Vanguard, 4(s2).

Kelley, M.C., Tucker, B.V. (2018). A comparison of input types to a deep neural network-based forced aligner. Interspeech 2018.

Podlubny, R. G., Nearey, T. M., Kondrak, G., & Tucker, B. V. (2018). Assessing the importance of several acoustic properties to the perception of spontaneous speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(4), 2255–2268. PDF

Schmidtke, D., Gagné, C. L., Kuperman, V., Spalding, T. L., & Tucker, B. V. (2018). Conceptual relations compete during auditory and visual compound word recognition. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.

Lõo, K., Järvikivi, J., Tomaschek, F., Tucker, B. V., & Baayen, R. H. (2018). Production of Estonian case-inflected nouns shows whole-word frequency and paradigmatic effects. Morphology, 1–27.

Hawthorne, K., Järvikivi, J., Tucker, B.V. (2018). Finding word boundaries in Indian English-accented speech, Journal of Phonetics, 66, 145-160.

Pham, H., Tucker, B.V., and Baayen, R. H. (2017). Morphological effects in reading aloud Vietnamese compounds. Language and Life, 13 (267), 11-24

Mukai, Y., & Tucker, B. V. (2017). The phonetic reduction of nasals and voiced stops in Japanese across speech styles. Proceedings of the 31th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, Tokyo: The Phonetic Society of Japan

Warner, N., & Tucker, B. V. (2017). An effect of flaps on the fourth formant in English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 47(1), 1–15.

Tucker, B.V. & Ernestus, M. (2016). Why we need to investigate casual speech to truly understand language production, processing and the mental lexicon. Mental Lexicon. 11(3), 375-400.

Mrigen, A., Brenner, D., & Tucker, B.V. (2016). What do forced alignment likelihood scores tell us about the aligned speech? Canadian Acoustics. 44(3): 232-233.

Porretta, V., Tucker, B. V., & Järvikivi, J. (2016). The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition. Journal of Phonetics, 58, 1–21.

Harrigan, A.G., Tucker, B.V. (2015). Vowels spaces and reduction in Plains Cree. Canadian Acoustics. 43(3): 124-125.

Bernhard, D., Tucker, B.V. (2015). The effects of duration on human processing of reduced speech. Canadian Acoustics. 43(3): 122-123.

Mukai, Y. & Tucker, B.V. (2015). Rhythm metrics of spontaneous speech and accent. Canadian Acoustics. 43(3): 120-121.

Jarema, G., Libben, G., & Tucker, B.V. (2015). The integration of phonological and phonetic processing: A matter of sound judgment. In G. Jarema, & G. Libben (Eds.). Phonological and phonetic aspects of lexical processing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ten Bosch, L., Boves, L., Tucker, B., & Ernestus, M. (2015). DIANA: Towards computational modeling reaction times in lexical decision in North American English. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2015: The 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp. 1576-1580).

Mills, T., Pollock, K., & Tucker, B. V. (2015). Laboratory activities for large and online phonetics classes. Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, 5-7 August 2015.

Porretta, V., Kyröläinen, A.-J., & Tucker, B. V. (2015). Perceived foreign accentedness: Acoustic distances and lexical properties. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. doi: 10.3758/s13414-015-0916-3.

Porretta, V., Tucker, B.V. (2015). Intelligibility of foreign-accented words: Acoustic distances and gradient foreign accentedness. Proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 10-14 August 2015.

Podlubny, R., Geeraert, K., Tucker, B.V. (2015). It’s all about, like, acoustics. Proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 10-14 August 2015.

Mills, T., Pollock, K., & Tucker, B. V. (2015). Laboratory activities for large and online phonetics classes. Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, 5-7 August 2015.

Porretta, V. & Tucker, B. V. (2015). Perception of non-native consonant length contrast: The role of attention in phonetic processing. Second Language Research, 31: 239-265.

Tomaschek, F., Tucker, B.V., Wieling, M., & Baayen, H. (2014). Vowel articulation affected by word frequency. Proceedings of the ISSP 2014, Köln

Chen, T. Y., & Tucker, B. V. (2013). Sonorant Onset Pitch as a Perceptual Cue of Lexical Tones in Mandarin. Phonetica, 70(3), 207-239.

Cox, C., Drieger, J.M., & Tucker, B.V., (2013). Illustrations of the IPA: Mennonite Plautdietsch (Canadian Old Colony). Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 43(2), 221-229

Porretta, V. & Tucker, B.V. (2013). Perception of non-native consonant length in naïve English listeners. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19(1), 060274

Tucker, B.V., Kryuchkova, T., Mackie, K. (2013). Effects of variation on processing of word-medial consonants. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19(1), 060256.

Chung, H., Nearey, T.M., Hodge, M., Pollock, K. & Tucker, B.V. (2012). Preliminary statistical pattern recognition methods in the study of vowels produced by children with and without speech sound disorders. Canadian Acoustics. 40(3), 18-19.

Kryuchkova, T. & Tucker, B.V. (2012). Emotion co-exists with lexical effects: A case-study. Canadian Acoustics. 40(3), 32-33.

Porretta, V. & Tucker, B.V. (2012). Predicting accentedness: Acoustic measurements of Chinese-accented English. Canadian Acoustics. 40(3), 34-35.

Sims, M., Tucker, B. V., Nearey, T. M. (2012). Modelling Vowel Inherent Spectral Change in Spontaneous Speech. Canadian Acoustics. 40(3), 36-37.

Kryuchkova, T, Tucker, B.V., Wurm, L.H., Baayen, R.H. (2012). Danger and usefulness are detected early in auditory lexical processing: Evidence from electroencephalography. Brain & Language. 122(2): 81-91.

McDonough, J, Tucker, B.V., Wood, V., Adams, H. (2011). Replicating Goddard: A contemporary airflow and EGG study of Dene Sųłiné. Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences. 6(1): 1-16.

Warner, N, Tucker, B.V. (2011). Phonetic variability of stops and flaps in spontaneous and careful speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(3): 1606-1617.Supplemental table

Penfield, S. D., & Tucker, B. V. (2011). From documenting to revitalizing an endangered language: where do applied linguists fit? Language and Education. 25: 291-305.

Tremblay, A., Tucker, B.V. (2011). The effects of N-gram probabilistic measures on the recognition and production of four-word sequences. The Mental Lexicon. 6(2): 302-324.

Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B.V, Ernestus, M. (2011). Semantic context effects in the comprehension of reduced pronunciation variants. Memory and Cognition. 39(7): 1301-1316.

Tucker, B. V. (2011). The effect of reduction on the processing of flaps and /g/ in isolated words. Journal of Phonetics, 39(3), 312-318.

Kanu, Sullay and Benjamin V. Tucker. (2010) Illustrations of the IPA: Temne. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

Tucker, Benjamin V. and Natasha Warner. (2010). What it means to be phonetic or phonological: The case of Romanian devoiced nasals. Phonology. 27(2): 289-324.

Lemke, Shannon F., Antoine Tremblay, Benjamin V. Tucker. (2009). Function words of lexical bundles: the relation of frequency and reduction. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 6(1), 060009-9.

Warner, Natasha, Amy Fountain, Benjamin V. Tucker. (2009) Cues to the perception of reduced flaps. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125(5) 3317-3327.

Tucker, Benjamin V., Warner, Natasha. (2007). Inhibition of processing due to reduction of the American English fla p. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, August 2007.