Presentations

2019

    • Katharine Graf Estes and Georgia Zellou . “Prosodic variation in infant-directed speech” Oral Presentation at the Society for Research in Child Development, March 2019, Baltimore, MD.
    • Georgia Zellou and Bruno Ferenc Segedin. “The distribution of phonetic variation influences patterns of perceptual adaptation” Poster presentation at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2019, New York, NY.
    • Michelle Cohn, Bruno Ferenc Segedin, and Georgia Zellou. “Phonologically motivated phonetic repair strategies in Siri- and human-directed speech” Oral presentation at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2019, New York, NY.
    • Chloe Brotherton, Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou and Santiago Barreda. “Regional variation in vowel positioning and diphthongization in TRAP allophones in California” Oral Presentation at the American Dialect Society Meeting, January 2019, New York, NY.
    • Michelle Cohn, Bruno Ferenc Segedin, and Georgia Zellou. “Phonologically motivated phonetic repair strategies in Siri- and human-directed speech” "Five-Minute Linguist" general audience talk at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2019, New York, NY.
    • Bruno Ferenc Segedin and Georgia Zellou. “Lexical Frequency mediated compensation for coarticulation: are the seeds of sound change word-specific?” "Five-Minute Linguist" general audience talk at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2019, New York, NY.

2018

      • Georgia Zellou and Katharine Graf Estes. “Variability in vowel-to-vowel coarticulation influences statistical word segmentation” Poster Presentation at the 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, June 20, Lisbon, Portugal.
      • Anne Pycha and Georgia Zellou. “What do listeners do with co-articulatory information? The “Use it or Lose it” problem” Oral Presentation at the 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, June 20, Lisbon, Portugal.
      • Rebecca Scarborough and Georgia Zellou. “Neighborhood-conditioned phonetic enhancement of an allophonic vowel split” Poster Presentation at the 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, June 19, Lisbon, Portugal.
      • Anne Pycha and Georgia Zellou. “What do listeners do with co-articulation? The “Use it or Lose it” problem” Oral Presentation at the 36th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics April 20, 2018, UCLA.
      • Georgia Zellou and Katharine Graf Estes. “Enhanced coarticulation facilitates statistical learning of continuous speech in adults.” Oral Presentation at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 6, 2018, Salt Lake City, Utah.
      • Zion Mengesha and Georgia Zellou. “The interaction between phonological and lexical variation on word recall in African American English.” Poster Presentation at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 6, 2018, Salt Lake City, Utah.
    • "Five-Minute Linguist" general audience talk: "Enhanced coarticulation facilitates statistical learning of continuous speech in adults" at the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America: [can be viewed on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJN1-1x8neE]

2017

      • Invited Talk: University California, Santa Cruz, Phlunch Colloquium Series, May 19, 2017
      • Anne Pycha and Georgia Zellou. “Listeners misattribute coarticulation on lax vowels to speaker height.” Poster presentation at the 4th Workshop on Sound Change, April 19-22, 2017, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
      • Invited Talk: City University of New York, The Graduate Center, Speech-Language-Hearing-Sciences Colloquium Series, April 5, 2017.
      • “The Social Status of Nasality and its Effect on Perceptual Compensation for Nasal Coarticulation.” Oral Presentation at the 91st Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 6, 2017, Austin, TX.

2016

    • Georgia Zellou and Renee Kemp. "Pre-nasal short-a in Northern California: Merged in formant space with /ɛ/, but distinct in duration and degree of nasal coarticulation." Poster at 5th Joint meeting of Acoustical Society of American and Acoustical Society of Japan, November 30, 2016.
      • Georgia Zellou, Santiago Barreda, Nancy McIntyre, Lindsay Swain-Lerro, Matthew Zajic, and Peter Mundy. “The role of fundamental and formant frequency information on voice and speaker perception in children with Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity.” Poster Presentation at 15th Laboratory Phonology Conference (LabPhon 15), July 17-19, Ithaca, NY.
      • “Individual differences in production and perception of nasal coarticulation: implications for sound change.” Oral Presentation at IPS Workshop on How Words Emerge and Dissolve, Center for Advanced Studies, Munich Germany, May 17-18, 2016.
    • Invited Talk. Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, Munich, Germany, May 12, 2016.

2015

      • Invited Talk. University of California, Berkeley Linguistics Department. Phorum Seminar Series. November 9, 2015.
    • Invited Talk, Stanford University Linguistics Department, P-Interest Seminar Series. October 16, 2015.
    • Santiago Barreda and Georgia Zellou. Speaker identity and spectral changes in word recognition. Oral Presentation to appear at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII), Glasgow, UK.
      • Meredith Tamminga and Georgia Zellou. Cross-dialectal differences in nasality and nasal coarticulation. Poster to appear at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII), Glasgow, UK.
    • Georgia Zellou and Rebecca Scarborough. “Comparing lexical age-of-acquisition effects in infant-directed and adult-directed speech.” Oral Presentation at Linguistic Society of America Meeting, Jan. 10, 2015. Portland, OR.
    • Georgia Zellou and David Embick. “Abstraction of Phonetic Detail: Lexicality and Phonetic Imitation.” Oral Presentation at Linguistic Society of America Meeting, Jan. 10, 2015. Portland, OR.

2014

  • Georgia Zellou and Delphine Dahan. “Gradient perception of within-category vowel nasality.” Poster at 55th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Nov. 20-23, Long Beach, CA.
  • Georgia Zellou, Rebecca Scarborough, and Eric Doty. “The role of lexical age-of-acquisition on phonetic variation in natural infant-directed speech.” Oral Presentation at 14th Laboratory Phonology Conference (LabPhon 14), July 25, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Georgia Zellou and David Embick. “Interaction of memory and specificity in auditory repetition priming.” Poster at 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, May 9, Providence, RI.
  • Georgia Zellou and Delphine Dahan. “Gradient perception of within-category nasality in English vowels.” Poster at 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, May 6, Providence, RI.
    • invited and highlighted as “newsworthy” for the 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI; posted at ASA’s ‘World Wide Press Room’ [http://acoustics.org/pressroom/httpdocs/167th/2aSC1_Zellou.html]
  • Georgia Zellou. “Abstraction and auditory short-term memory interactions in phonetic imitation.” Oral presentation at Linguistic Society of America Meeting, January 2, 2014, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Georgia Zellou and Meredith Tamminga. “Change over time in nasal coarticulation: Independent socio-dialectal and frequency effects on nasality.” Oral presentation Linguistic Society of America Meeting, January 5, 2014, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Georgia Zellou, Rebecca Scarborough and Kuniko Nielsen. “The imitability of coarticulation: influences of phonological naturalness and lexical neighborhood density.” Oral presentation Linguistic Society of America Meeting, January 4, 2014, Minneapolis, MN.

2013

  • Georgia Zellou, Rebecca Scarborough and Kuniko Nielsen. “Imitability of contextual vowel nasalization and interactions with lexical neighborhood density.” Poster presentation at the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, June 3, 2013, Montreal, Canada.
  • Georgia Zellou. “Consonant Harmony in Moroccan Arabic: Similarity and Incomplete Neutralization.” Poster presentation at the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, June 7, 2013, Montreal, Canada.
  • Georgia Zellou. “Categorization and Discrimination of Vowel Nasality.” Talk at IGERT Common Ground Speaker Series (Institute for Research in the Cognitive Sciences, Penn), April 10.
  • Georgia Zellou. “Similarity Avoidance at the Phonetics-Phonology Interface: Moroccan Arabic Pharyngeals and Nasals.” Oral presentation at the 87th Linguistic Society of America Meeting, January 3-6 2013, Boston, MA.
  • Rebecca Scarborough and Georgia Zellou. “Perceiving Listener-directed Speech: Effects of Authenticity and Neighborhood Density.” Oral presentation at the 87th Linguistic Society of America Meeting, January 3-6 2013, Boston, MA.

2012

  • Georgia Zellou. “Perceiving non-contrastive phonetic detail in English”. Talk at IGERT Common Ground Speaker Series (Institute for Research in the Cognitive Sciences, Penn), October 17.
  • Georgia Zellou. “Moroccan Arabic pharyngeal and nasal nasality: Coarticulation and the Phonetics-Phonology Interface.” Invited Talk at Penn Linguistics ‘Thursday Thoughts’ Speaker Series, October 4.
  • Georgia Zellou. “Nasality from Moroccan Arabic Nasal and Pharyngeal Consonants: Patterns of Airflow and Nasalance.” Oral presentation at Interspeech 2012, Portland, OR, September 9-13.
  • Georgia Zellou and Rebecca Scarborough. “Nasal Coarticulation and Contrastive Stress.” Oral presentation at Interspeech 2012, Portland, OR, September 9-13.
  • Rebecca Scarborough and Georgia Zellou. “Acoustic and Perceptual Contrast in Coarticulatorily Nasalized Vowels.” Oral presentation at Interspeech 2012, Portland, OR, September 9-13.
  • Rebecca Scarborough and Georgia Zellou. “Continua of Clarity: Lexical Neighborhoods and Clear Speech.” Poster presentation at the 13th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 13), Stuttgart, Germany, July 27-29.
  • Georgia Zellou. “Coarticulation in Perception: Evidence from Vowel Nasality as Perceptually Associated with Pharyngeal and Nasal Consonants in Moroccan Arabic.” Oral presentation at the 13th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 13), Stuttgart, Germany, July 27-29. [Best Student Paper Award]

2011

  • Georgia Zellou. “Vowel Nasality Adjacent to Nasal and Pharyngeal Consonants in Moroccan Arabic.” Invited Talk presented at the Linguistics Circle Series, University of Colorado, Boulder, November 14.
  • Georgia Zellou. “Vowel Nasality as a Perceptual Cue to Pharyngeal Consonants in Moroccan Arabic.” Poster presented at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA, November 1–4.
  • Will Styler, Rebecca Scarborough and Georgia Zellou. “Use of Waveform Mixing to Synthesize a Continuum of Vowel Nasality in Natural Speech.” Poster presented at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA, November 1–4.
  • Rebecca Scarborough, Will Styler, and Georgia Zellou. “Nasal Coarticulation in Lexical Perception: The Role of Neighborhood-Conditioned Variation.” Talk presented at the 17th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII). Hong Kong, August 17–21. (Presenter).
  • Rebecca Scarborough, Georgia Zellou, and Will Styler. “Nasal Coarticulation in Lexical Perception: Testing the Role of Neighborhood-Conditioned Variation.” Poster presented at Workshop on Testing Models of Phonetics and Phonology, LSA Linguistic Institute, Boulder, Colorado, July 13.

2007

  • Georgia Zellou. “Moroccan Arabic Consonant Harmony.” Oral presentation at the CUNY Phonology Conference on Precedence Relations, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, NY, January 22-26.