English /l/ is a multi-gestural segment produced with dorsal retraction and lowering and a central alveolar closure. In coda position, the tongue dorsum gesture precedes the tongue tip gesture, placing it temporally closer to the vowel gesture. In many varieties of English, including Australian English (AusE), the tongue dorsum gesture has been shown to influence the preceding vowel whereas the tongue tip gesture has been show to be lenited. This project examines the production and perception of lateral-final rimes in AusE, the effect of coda /l/ on the preceding vowel, and /l/ vocalisation.
Publications from this project:
Piyadasa, T., Proctor, M., Gully, A., Yue, Y., Ballard, K., Sanaei, N., Foster, S.,Szalay, T., Waddington, D., & Jin, C. (2024). Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Production Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In Maxwell, Olga and Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke (Eds.) Proceedings of the 19th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, (pp. 52-56). PDF :: BIB
Szalay, T., Proctor, M., Gully, A., Piyadasa, T., Jin, C., Waddington, D., Sanaei, N., Yue, Y., Foster, S., & Ballard, K. (2024). Lateral articulation across vowel contexts: insights from Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In Maxwell, Olga and Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke (Eds.) Proceedings of the 19th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, (pp. 7-11). PDF :: BIB
Szalay, T. Benders, T., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2023). Prelateral vowel change in Australian English pool-pull trajectories. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154( 4_supplement), A205-A205. BIB :: DOI
Szalay, T. Benders, T., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2023). Pre-/l/ vowel change in Australian English pool-pull. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2976-2980). Guarant International. PDF :: BIB
Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2022). Vowel merger in Australian English lateral-final rimes: /æɔ-æ/. In Rosey Billington (Ed.) Proceedings of the 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, (pp. 106-110). PDF :: BIB
Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2022). Reconsidering lateral vocalisation: Evidence from perception and production of Australian English /l/. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(4): 2106-2116. (© 2022 Acoustical Society of America) PDF :: BIB :: DOI
Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2021). Perceptual vowel contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes. Laboratory Phonology, 12(1): 9 PDF :: BIB :: DOI
Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F., Palethorpe, S. & Proctor, M. (2021). Spectral contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(2): 1183–1197 (© 2021 Acoustical Society of America) PDF :: BIB :: DOI
Szalay, T. Benders, T., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2019). Lingual configuration of Australian English /l/. In: Calhoun, Sasha, Escudero, Paola, Tabain, Marija and Warren, Paul (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2816–2819). PDF :: BIB
Proctor, M., Walker, R., Smith, C., Szalay, T., Goldstein, L., & Narayanan, S. (2019). Articulatory Characterization of English Liquid-Final Rimes. Journal of Phonetics, 77: 100921. PDF :: BIB :: DOI
Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2018). Production and perception of length contrast in lateral-final rimes. In Epps, Julien, Wolfe, Joe, Smith, John, and Jones, Caitlin (Eds.) Proceedings of the 17th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, (pp. 127–132). PDF :: BIB
Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2016). Disambiguation of Australian English vowels. In Carignan, Christopher & Tyler, Michael D. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 16th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, (pp. 73–76). PDF :: BIB