We're delighted to report that Bihua Chen and I. Darcy just got a paper accepted in Journal of Phonetics!! Congratulations Bihua! What a great achievement! The paper will be out soon. Its title is "Effects of Sentential Context on Nonnative Recognition of Reduced Speech: Does Meaning Explain It All?"  In that study, we explore the processing mechanisms L2 listeners use to handle reduced speech, which - despite being extremely common in everyday speech - is quite challenging to decode. We'll post here links to the paper and to the data as soon as we can!

The lab is delighted to announce another PhD! Hunter Brakovec successfully passed his doctoral defense today! His dissertation is entitled Third Language Transfer and Development, and is available from his website [LINK]. Check it out! Congratulations Hunter!!  Click here for the official announcement and abstract.