Production and Perception of Linguistic Voice Quality

UCLA Linguistics Department
3125 Campbell Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543

Publications




2015


Conference presentations and posters:


P. Keating and M. Garellek (2015). Acoustic analysis of creaky voice. Poster presented in special session on creaky voice at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR. 

J. Kuang (2015). The covariation between phonation and pitch: creaky voice in Mandarin tones. Poster presented in special session on creaky voice at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR.


2014


Publications in journals:


J. Kuang & P. Keating (2014). Vocal fold vibratory patterns in tense versus lax phonation contrasts. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 136: 2784-2797. [link] [ms.] [supplemental materials]

K. M. Yu & H. W. Lam (2014). The role of creaky voice in Cantonese tonal perception. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 136: 1320-1333. [link]

Conference proceedings:


M. Garellek, P. Keating & C.M. Esposito (2014). Relative importance of phonation cues in White Hmong tone perception. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: 179-189 

2013


Publications in journals:


J. Kuang (2013). The tonal space of contrastive five level tones. Phonetica 70, No. 1-2: 1-23

M. Garellek, C. Esposito, P. Keating & J. Kreiman. (2013). Voice quality and tone identification in White Hmong. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 133: 1078–1089. [sample audio files]

Theses:


M. Garellek (2013).Production and perception of glottal stops. PhD dissertation, UCLA.

J. Kuang (2013). Phonation in tonal contrasts. PhD dissertation, UCLA.  

Conference presentations and posters:


J. Kuang and P. Keating (2013). Glottal articulations in tense vs. lax phonation contrasts. Talk at the Fall meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco, December 2013.

J. Kuang (2013). Phonation effects on tonal contrasts. Poster presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA.

2012


Publications in journals:


S. Khan (2012). The phonetics of contrastive phonation in Gujarati. Journal of Phonetics 40: 780-795.

C. Esposito (2012). An acoustic and electroglottographic study of White Hmong tone and phonation. Journal of Phonetics 40(3): 466-476.

C. Esposito & S. Khan (2012). Contrastive breathiness across consonants and vowels: A comparative study of Gujarati and White Hmong. Journal of the IPA, 42(2): 123 - 143. Earlier version presented in Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences: 1054-1057.

J. Bishop & P. Keating (2012). Perception of pitch location within a speaker's range: fundamental frequency, voice quality and speaker sex. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 132: 1100-1112. Earlier version presented in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 108: 113-140.

M. Garellek (2012). The timing and sequencing of coarticulated non-modal phonation in English and White Hmong. Journal of Phonetics 40(1): 152-161. [Ancillary materials]

P. Keating & G. Kuo (2012). Comparison of speaking fundamental frequency in English and Mandarin. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 132: 1050-1060. Earlier version presented in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 108: 164-187.

J. Kreiman, Y.-L. Shue, G. Chen, M. Iseli, B. Gerratt, J. Neubauer & A. Alwan (2012). Variability in the relationships among voice quality, harmonic amplitudes, open quotient, and glottal area waveform shape in sustained phonation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 132: 2625-2632.

Conference proceedings and working papers:


J. Kuang (2012). Registers in tonal contrasts. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages. Longer version in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 110: 46-64. [link] (slides of oral presentation)

M. Garellek, C. Esposito, P. Keating, J. Kreiman (2012). Perception of spectral slopes and tone identification in White Hmong, UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 110: 123-161

J. Kuang & P. Keating (2012). Glottal articulations of phonation contrasts and their acoustic and perceptual consequences. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 111: 123-161.

Conference presentations and posters (not included in previous section):


M. Garellek, P. Keating & C. M. Esposito (2012). Relative importance of phonation cues in White Hmong tone perception. Presentation, BLS 38. (paper published in 2014)

M. Garellek, C. M. Esposito, P. Keating & J. Kreiman (2012). Relative role of pitch vs. phonation cues in White Hmong tone identification. Poster presented at the Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Hong Kong, May 2012.

P. Keating, J. Kuang, C. Esposito, M. Garellek & S. Khan (2012). Phonation in Nine Languages. Poster presented at the Spring (163rd) meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Hong Kong, May 2012.

P. Keating, J. Kuang, C. Esposito, M. Garellek & S. Khan (2012). Multi-dimensional phonetic space for phonation contrasts. Poster presented at LabPhon13 in Stuttgart, Germany, July 2012; earlier version presented at May 2012 ASA in Hong Kong.

J. Kuang (2012). Perception and production of a five-level-tone language. Oral presentation at the Spring (163rd) meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Hong Kong. [slides]

2011


Publications in journals:


M. Garellek & P. Keating (2011). The acoustic consequences of phonation and tone interactions in Jalapa Mazatec. Journal of the IPA, (41): 185-205. Earlier version presented in UCLA Working Papers, 108, 141-163.

Conference proceedings and working papers:


M. Garellek (2011). Lexical effects on English vowel laryngealization. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences: 727-730.

P. Keating, C. Esposito, M. Garellek, S. Khan and J. Kuang (2011). Phonation contrasts across languages. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences 2011: 1046-1049. Earlier version presented as poster at LabPhon12 in Albuquerque NM, July 2010, and in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 108: 188-202.

Khan, S.D. & C.M. Esposito (2011). Breathiness contrasts across consonants and vowels : A comparative study of Gujarati and White Hmong. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences: 1054-1057. Later version published in JIPA, 2012.

J. Kuang (2011). Phonation contrast in two register contrast languages and its influence on vowel and tone. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences: 1146-1149.

J. Kuang (2011). Production and perception maps of the multidimensional register contrast in Yi. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 109: 1-30.

Y.-L. Shue, P. Keating, C. Vicenik, K. Yu (2011). VoiceSauce: A program for voice analysis. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences: 1846-1849. (slides of oral presentation)

K.M. Yu & H.W. Lam (2011). The role of creaky voice in Cantonese tonal perception. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences: 2240-2243.

M. Garellek (2011). Lexical effects on English vowel laryngealization. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences: 727-730.

Theses:


J. Kuang (2011). Production and perception of phonation contrast in Yi. MA thesis. UCLA.

K. Yu (2011). The learnability of tones from the speech signal. PhD dissertation. UCLA.

Conference presentations and posters (not included in previous section):


P. Keating & J. Kuang (2011). Electroglottographic and acoustic measures of phonation across languages. Talk in special session at the Fall meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego, Nov. 2011.


2010


Publications in journals:


J. Kreiman, B.R. Gerratt & S. Khan (2010). Effects of native language on perception of voice quality. Journal of Phonetics, 38(4): 588-593.

Y.-L. Shue, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, M. Iseli, S.-A. Jun, N. Veilleux & A. Alwan (2010). On the acoustic correlates of high and low nuclear pitch accents in American English. Speech and Communication, 52(2): 106-122.

J. Kreiman & B. Gerratt (2010). Perceptual sensitivity to first harmonic amplitude in the voice source. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128: 2085-2089.

Conference proceedings and working papers:


J. Bishop & P. Keating (2010). Perception of pitch location within a speaker's own range: fundamental frequency, voice quality and speaker sex. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 108: 113-140. Later version published in JASA 2012.

M. Garellek & P. Keating (2010). The acoustic consequences of phonation and tone interactions in Jalapa Mazatec. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 108: 141-163. Later version published in JPhon 2012.

P. Keating & G. Kuo (2010). Comparison of speaking fundamental frequency in English and Mandarin. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 108: 164-187. Later version published in JASA 2012.

P. Keating, C. Esposito, M. Garellek, S. Khan & J. Kuang (2010). Phonation contrasts across languages. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 108: 188-202. Later version presented in Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences. Earlier version presented at LabPhon 12, July 2010.

M. Garellek (2010). The acoustics of coarticulated non-modal phonation. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 108, 66-112.

Y.-L. Shue, G. Chen & A. Alwan (2010). On the Interdependencies between Voice Quality, Glottal Gaps, and Voice-Source related Acoustic Measures. Proceedings of Interspeech 2010.

K. M. Yu. (2010). Laryngealization and features for Chinese tonal recognition. Proceedings of Interspeech 2010.

G. Chen, X. Feng, Y.-L. Shue & A. Alwan, (2010). On Using Voice Source Measures in Automatic Gender Classification of Children's Speech.Proceedings of Interspeech 2010: 673-676.

Y.-L. Shue & A. Alwan (2010). A new voice source model based on high-speed imaging and its application to voice source estimation. ICASSP 2010: 5134-5137.

Theses:


M. Garellek (2010). The acoustics of coarticulated non-modal phonation. MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, UCLA. Also presented in UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 108, 66-112.

Y.-L. Shue (2010). The voice source in speech production: Data, analysis and models. PhD Dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA.

Conference presentations and posters (not included in previous section):


J. Kuang (2010). An acoustic and electroglottographic study of phonation contrast in Yi. Poster presented in 159th ASA meeting, Baltimore, MD.

2009


Conference presentations and posters:


P. Keating (2009). Fundamental frequency in English and Mandarin. Poster presented at the Spring meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Portland, May 2009

P. Keating & Y.-L. Shue (2009). Voice quality variation with fundamental frequency in English and Mandarin. Poster presented at the Fall meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Antonio, Oct. 2009

Y.-L. Shue, P. Keating & C. Vicenik (2010). VoiceSauce: A program for voice analysis. Poster presented at the Fall meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in San Antonio, Oct. 2009

Y.-L. Shue, J. Kreiman, and A. Alwan, (2010). A Novel Codebook Search Technique for Estimating the Open Quotient. Interspeech 2009: 2895-2898.

2008


Conference proceedings and working papers:


Y. Shue, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel, M. Iseli, S. Jun, N. Veilleux & A. Alwan (2008). Effects of Intonational Phrase Boundaries on Pitch-Accented Syllables in American English. Interspeech 2008: 873-876.

J.Kreiman, B. R. Gerratt, M. Iseli, J. Neubauer, Y.-L. Shue & A. Alwan (2008). The relationship between open quotient and H1*-H2*. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Voice Physiology & Biomechanics. Tampere, Finland .

2007


Conference proceedings and working papers:


Y. Shue, M. Iseli, N. Veilleux & A. Alwan (2007). Pitch Accent versus Lexical Stress: Quantifying Acoustic Measures Related to the Voice Source. Proceedings of Interspeech 2007: 2625-2628.