The University of Kansas Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Laboratory (KUPPL) provides an integrated environment for the experimental study of speech and language, including its production, perception, and acquisition. Primary research areas are acoustic and auditory phonetics as well as spoken and written word recognition, all across a variety of languages.

Current and recent grant support

Sereno, J. The contribution of speaking rate, talker and coarticulation to lexical tone processing: Effects of language background and training. National Science Foundation, 2009-12. Abstract

Herd, W. The perceptual and production (re)training of allophones and phonemes in L2 Spanish.. National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2009-2010. Abstract

Zhang, A. Testing the productivity of Chinese tone sandhi. National Science Foundation, 2008-11. Abstract

Jongman, A. Acoustic and perceptual correlates of emphasis in Arabic. National Science Foundation, 2005-08. Abstract

Recent publications

Dmitrieva, O., Jongman, A., and Sereno, J. (2010). Phonological neutralization by native and non-native speakers: The case of Russian final devoicing. Journal of Phonetics 38, 483-492.

Ferguson, S. H., Jongman, A., Sereno, J., and Keum, K.A. (2010). Intelligibility of foreign-accented speech for older adults with and without hearing loss. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 21, 153-162.

Herd, W., Jongman, A., and Sereno, J. (2010). An acoustical and perceptual analysis of /t/ and /d/ flaps in American English. Journal of Phonetics 38, 504-516 .

Jongman, A., Herd, W., Al-Masri, M., Sereno, J., and Combest, S. (2011). Acoustics and perception of emphasis in Urban Jordanian Arabic. Journal of Phonetics 39. 85-95.

Lai, Y., Huff, C., Sereno, J., and Jongman, A, (2009). The raising effect of aspirated prevocalic consonants on F0 in Taiwanese. In Brooke, J., Coppola, G., Görgülü, E., Mameni, M., Mileva, E., Morton, S., and Rimrott, A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, Simon Fraser University Working Papers in Linguistics.

Maniwa, K., Jongman, A., and Wade, T. (2009). Acoustic characteristics of clearly spoken English fricatives. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125, 3962-3973

Maniwa, K., Jongman, A., and Wade, T. (2008). Perception of clear English fricatives by normal-hearing and simulated hearing-impaired listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 1114-1125.

McMurray, B., and Jongman, A. (2011). What information is necessary for speech categorization? Harnessing variability in the speech signal by integrating cues computed relative to expectations. Psychological Review 118, 219-246.

Reetz. H., and Jongman, A. (2009). Phonetics: Transcription, Production, Acoustics, and Perception. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.

Vitevitch, M., Stamer, M., and Sereno, J.A. (2008). Word length and lexical competition: Longer is the same as shorter. Language and Speech, 51(4), 361-383

Zhang, J., Lai, Y., and Sailor, T. (accepted).  Modeling Taiwanese speakers’ knowledge of tone sandhi in reduplication.  Accepted for publication in Lingua.

Zhang, J., and Lai, Y. (2010).  Testing the role of phonetic naturalness in Mandarin tone sandhi.  Phonology 27.1:  1-49.

Zhang, J. (2009).  Contour tone distribution is not an artifact of tonal melody mapping. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 33.1/2: 73-132.

Zhang, J. and Lai, Y. (2008). Phonological knowledge beyond the lexicon in Taiwanese double reduplication.  In Yuchau E. Hsiao, Hui-Chuan Hsu, Lian-Hee Wee, and Dah-An Ho (eds.), Interfaces in Chinese Phonology: Festschrift in Honor of Matthew Y. Chen on His 70th Birthday.  Academia Sinica, Taiwan.  183-222.