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Research

  1. Speech reduction across languages and dialects. NSF project #1022313 (Jan. 2011 - Dec. 2013; $227,001). N. Warner & M. Simonet (Tucson, Arizona, Co-PIs). Collaborators: B. Tucker (Edmonton, Canada), S. Bird (Victoria, Canada), M. Ernestus (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), J. Hay (Canterbury, New Zealand). Consultant: *S. Guion (Eugene, Oregon). Production and perception of spontaneous speech in English, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese by monolingual and bilingual speakers. (In progress.)
  2. Deaccenting in Spanish interrogatives: production and perception. (F. Torreira [Max Planck Institute], J.I. Hualde [Illinois], M. Simonet. In progress.)
  3. Production, perception and processing (lexical) of voiced and voiceless Spanish and English stops by early and late Spanish-English bilinguals. (M. Simonet, J. Casillas, M. Amengual. In progress.)
  4. Production and perception of Catalan-specific consonant and vowel contrasts by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals. (M. Simonet, M. Amengual.)
  5. Production, perception and processing (lexical) of English-specific vowel contrasts by early Spanish-English bilinguals. (M.A. thesis, J. Casillas, dir. by M. Simonet. In progress.)
  6. Hiatus resolution in Mexican and Mexican-American Spanish: experimental sociophonetics. (M.A. thesis, B. Funck, dir. by M. Simonet. In progress.)
  7. Merger of lateral and fricative palatals in Majorcan Catalan: acoustics, perception and social meaning. (M.A. thesis, M. Ramírez, dir. by Simonet. In progress.)
  8. Production of English intonation by native speakers of Mandarin and Taiwanese. (Ph.D. dissertation, K. Barto-Sisamout, dir. by M. Simonet. In progress.)
  9. Sound changes affecting voiced and voiceless stop consonants in (various dialects of) Spanish and Catalan. (J.I. Hualde, M. Nadeu [Illinois], P. Carrasco [Roanoke College], M. Simonet; articles published and others submitted. Finished.)
  10. Prosodically conditioned gliding of postvocalic Galician nasals. (S. Colina and M. Simonet, article submitted. Finished)
  11. The acquisition of Portuguese vowels by native speakers of English with and without Spanish language experience. (M. Díaz, dir. by M. Simonet and N. Warner; Ph.D. dissertation defended in June 2010. Finished.)