Articles
Vargo, J., Schroeter, N., & Petersen, F. (In review). The Phonetics and Phonology of Kalaallisut Vowel Alternations.
Vargo, J. & Schroeter, N. (In review). Vowel Nasalization in Judeo-Spanish: Introducing the Fast Acoustic Nasalance Score for Small-scale Linguistic Datasets. To appear in Isogloss Special Issue on Phonological Variation across Dialects of Judeo-Spanish.
Kirschen, B. & Vargo, J. (In review). Ladino and Spanish in Contact: Vowel Dispersion and Merger in the United States. To appear in Isogloss Special Issue on Phonological Variation across Dialects of Judeo-Spanish.
Vargo, J. (In review). Dynamic Measures of Diphthongization: Trajectory length and velocity in Spanish and English Bilinguals. To appear in the University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Selected Proceedings of NWAV 53.
Amengual, M., Kim, J. Y., Davidson, J., & Vargo, J. (Accepted). The Multilingual Hispanic Speech in California (MuHSiC) Corpus: A Large-Scale Open-Access Spanish–English Bilingual Corpus. International Journal of Bilingualism.
Fleisig, E., Vargo, J., Schwarz, N., Grajeda, V., Roberts, A., Asmah, R., & Holliday, N. (2026). Identity and Personality in the Social Perception of Synthesized Voices: Perceptions of OpenAI's Text-to-Speech Technology. Phonetica. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2025-0065
Vargo, J. (2025). Orthographic effects on vowel contrast in language acquisition. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 10(1), 5930-5930. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5930
Conference Presentations & Workshops
Vargo, J. & Davidson, J. S. Californian Spanish Rhotic Coarticulatory Resistance Differs by Language Dominance. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 54. November, 2026, Boulder, CO.
Vargo, J. Bilingual Vowel Nasalization Varies by Type of Language Dominance. NWAV 54. October, 2026, Montreal, QB.
Vargo. J. & Ginsberg-Margo, B. Prosodic Variation in Turkish and Greek Ladino: Bayesian and unsupervised machine-learning approaches for endangered-language data. NWAV 54. October, 2026, Montreal, QB.
Vargo, J. Anticipatory and Regressive Vowel Nasalization in Romanian. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. May 2026, East Lansing, MI. Slides Here.
Vargo, J. How Does Font Support Vary? Unicode Technical Committee Meeting. New Orleans, LA. April 2026, Berkeley, CA. Slides Here
Schroeter, Naomi & Vargo, J. Suprasegmental and Vocalic Variation in Ladino. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2026, New Orleans, LA. Slides Here
Vargo, J. Anticipatory Vowel Nasalization in Catalan. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2026, New Orleans, LA. Slides Here
Vargo, J. Acoustical Diphthongal Trajectory Variation in Hispanic Californian English. NWAV 53, November 2025, Ann Arbor, MI. Poster Here
Vargo, J. & Akul Shivkumar. Multidimensional Vowel Dispersion as a Cue to Stylistic Variation. NWAV 53, November 2025, Ann Arbor, MI.
Vargo, J. & Tyler Thornley. Asymmetrical Reinforcement of Nasalized Vowels in Spanish-English Bilinguals. Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, November 2025, Tucson AZ.
Vargo, J. Introduction to Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Speech and Text Corpora: Resources, Processing, and Analysis [Workshop]
Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group, October 2025. Slides Here
Vargo, J. Orthographic Variation of Ladino Vowels. [Working Group Talk] Ladino/Judeo-Spanish Working Group, March 2025, Paper Here
Vargo, J. Evidence for the Effect of Visual Input on L2-Learner Vowel Production. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2025, Philadelphia, PA.
Vargo, J. Obligatory Pronoun Dropping: Distinctiveness in Spanish Syntax. UC Davis Language Symposium, June 2023, Davis, CA.
Editorial Responsibilities
Vargo, J., Bradley, T. G., & Peck, J. (Forthcoming) Editor. Special Issue on Phonological Variation across Dialects of Judeo-Spanish. Isogloss.
Amengual, M., Kim, J. Y., Davidson, J. (PIs), & Vargo, J. (project manager). Multilingual Hispanic Speech in California [corpus]. https://muhsic.ucsc.edu/
Software
Vargo, J. (2026). Praat Mass Analyzer [Praat Program]. https://github.com/julian-vargo/Praat-Mass-Analyzer
Vargo, J. (2026). Romanian Montreal Forced Alignment Bundle. https://berkeley.box.com/s/6wzfd6yzzybqzx3u1fpvjabv05jjlblh
Vargo, J. (2026). Teklado Ladino (Ladino Keyboard). Keyman https://keyman.com/keyboards/install/ladino?lang=en
Vargo, J. (2026). Teklado Ladino (Ladino Keyboard). Keyman https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/julian-vargo/linguistics-software/mam-keyboard
Vargo, J. (2025). Catalan Montreal Forced Alignment Bundle. https://berkeley.box.com/s/j4uvhvni0cxjmi12z8dsi3jz9ebcx1kt
Vargo, J. & Schroeter, N. (2025). Ladino Montreal Forced Alignment Bundle. https://berkeley.box.com/s/gp524sgmp23ak6idxw2e4ig95hh2jwak
Vargo, J. (2025). 3D Vowel Space Volume Calculator [R Script]. https://github.com/julian-vargo/3D_Vowel_Space_Density
In the pipeline...
Vargo, J. (In prep) A Trajectory-Velocity Approach to Vowel Variation: Gradient Diphthongization in Bilingual Hispanic Speech in California.
Vargo, J. (In prep) Phonetic Evidence for a Morphosyntactically-Conditioned Vowel Alternation in Kalaallisut.