Papers

Anne Pycha & Georgia Zellou. (2024). The influence of accent and device usage on perceived credibility during interactions with voice-AI assistants. Frontiers in Computer Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2024.1411414


Georgia Zellou & Nicole Holliday. (2024). Linguistic analysis of human-computer interaction. Frontiers in Computer Science 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2024.1384252


Jules Vonessen, Nicholas B. Aoki, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou. (2024). Comparing perception of L1 and L2 English by human listeners and machines: Effect of interlocutor adaptations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155, 3060–3070. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025930


Nynaeve Perkins Booker, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou. (2024). Linguistic Patterning of Laughter in Human-Socialbot Interactions. Frontiers in Communication 9:1346738. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1346738


Georgia Zellou & Michelle Cohn. (2024). Apparent-time change in the use of multiple cues for perception of anticipatory nasal coarticulation in California English. Glossa 9(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10831


Nicholas B. Aoki & Georgia Zellou. (2024). When “clear speech” is not more clear: Intelligibility of hard-of-hearing-directed and non-native-directed speech for L1- and L2-English listeners. Journal of Phonetics,104, 101328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101328


Georgia Zellou & Mohamed Lahrouchi. (2024). Linguistic disparities in cross-language Automatic Speech Recognition transfer from Arabic to Tashlhiyt. Nature Scientific Reports 14(313). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50516-3


Georgia Zellou, Mohamed Lahrouchi, & Karim Bensoukas. (2024). The perception of vowelless words in Tashlhiyt. Glossa 9(1), 1-14 https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10438


Michelle Cohn & Georgia Zellou. (2023). Selective tuning of nasal coarticulation and hyperarticulation across slow-clear, casual, and fast-clear speech styles. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters 3(12). https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0023841


Georgia Zellou, Anne Pycha, & Ioana Chitoran. (2023). Use of gradient anticipatory nasal coarticulatory cues for lexical perception in French. Laboratory Phonology, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.10479


Nicholas B. Aoki & Georgia Zellou. (2023). Visual information affects adaptation to novel talkers: ethnicity-specific and ethnicity-independent learning of L2-accented speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154, 2290–2304. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0021289


Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn, & Anne Pycha. (2023). The effect of listener beliefs on perceptual learning: Comparing adaptation to a vowel shift across device and human guises. Language 99(4). https://muse.jhu.edu/article/914191


Georgia Zellou & Ioana Chitoran. (2023). Lexical competition influences coarticulatory variation in French: comparing competition from nasal and oral vowel minimal pairs. Glossa 8(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9801


Jakub Gwizdzinski, Santiago Barreda, Chris Carignan, & Georgia Zellou. (2023). Perceptual identification of oral and nasalized vowels across American English and British English listeners and TTS voices. Frontiers in Communication, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1307547


Michelle Cohn, Ashley Keaton, Jonas Beskow, & Georgia Zellou. (2023). Vocal accommodation to technology: The role of physical form. Language Sciences 101567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101567


Nicole Dodd, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou. (2023) Comparing alignment toward American, British, and Indian English text-to-speech (TTS) voices: Influence of social attitudes and talker guise. Frontiers in Computer Science, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2023.1204211


Georgia Zellou, Anne Pycha, & Michelle Cohn. (2023). The perception of nasal coarticulatory variation in face-masked speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153, 1084–1093. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017257


Georgia Zellou, Mohamed Lahrouchi, & Karim Bensoukas. (2022). Clear speech in Tashlhiyt Berber: The perception of typologically uncommon word-initial contrasts by native and naive listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(6), 3429-3443. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0016579


Michelle Cohn, Santiago Barreda, & Georgia Zellou. (2022). Differences in a musicians’ advantage for speech-in-speech perception based on age and task. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 66(2), 545-564. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00259


Georgia Zellou. (2022). Coarticulation in Phonology. Cambridge Elements in Phonology Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009082488


Nicholas B. Aoki, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou. (2022). The clear speech intelligibility benefit for text-to-speech voices: Effects of speaking style and visual guise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0010274


Aleese Block, Kristin Predeck, & Georgia Zellou. (2022). The perception of word-final devoicing in German in natural and synthetic speech. Languages, 7(4), 270. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040270


Anne Pycha, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou. (2022). Face-masked speech intelligibility: The influence of speaking style, visual information, and background noise. Frontiers in Communication (Language Science). https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.874215


Michelle Cohn, Bruno Ferenc Segedin, & Georgia Zellou. (2022). The acoustic-phonetic properties of voice-AI- and human-DS: Differences by error type and rate. Journal of Phonetics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101123


Rebecca Scarborough & Georgia Zellou. (2022). Out of sight, out of mind: The influence of information load and phonological neighborhood density on phonetic variation in real listener-directed speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0009233


Georgia Zellou, Christian DiCanio, Anne Pycha, & Alan C.L. Yu. (2022). Introduction to Sound Change in Endangered or Small Speech Communities. Linguistics Vanguard.


Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn, & Tyler Kline. (2021). The Influence of Conversational Role on Speech Alignment toward Voice-AI and Human Interlocutors. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1931372


Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn, & Aleese Block. (2021). Perception of coarticulatory vowel nasality across concatenative and neural text-to-speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0004989


Michelle Cohn, Anne Pycha, & Georgia Zellou. (2021). Intelligibility of face-masked speech depends on speaking style: Comparing casual, smiled, and clear speech. Cognition.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104570


Georgia Zellou & Chloe Brotherton. (2021). Phonetic imitation of variation in primary and secondary acoustic features of the nasal split short-a system. Speech Communication, 135, 54-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2021.10.005


Michelle Cohn, Kristen Predeck, Melina Sarian, & Georgia Zellou. (2021). Prosodic alignment toward neutral and emotionally expressive speech interjections: Differences for human and device voices. Speech Communication.


Michelle Cohn & Georgia Zellou. (2021). Prosodic differences in human- and Alexa-directed speech, but similar local intelligibility adjustments. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 675704.


Michelle Cohn, Kai-Hui Liang, Melina Sarian, Georgia Zellou, & Zhou Yu. (2021). Prosodic entrainment toward an Alexa Prize socialbot: Situational and functional factors. Frontiers in Communication.


Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn, & Bruno Ferenc Segedin (2021). Age- and gender-related differences in speech alignment toward humans and voice-AI. Frontiers in Communication.


Michelle Cohn, Eran Raveh, Kristin Predeck, Iona Gessinger, Bernd Möbius & Georgia Zellou. (2020). Differences in Gradient Emotion Perception: Human vs. Alexa Voices. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020.

 

Michelle Cohn, Melina Sarian, Kristin Predeck, & Georgia Zellou. (2020). Individual variation in language attitudes toward voice-AI: The role of listeners’ autistic-like traits. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020.

 

Michelle Cohn & Georgia Zellou. (2020). Perception of concatenative vs. neural text-to-speech (TTS): Differences in intelligibility in noise and language attitudes. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020.

 

Georgia Zellou, Rebecca Scarborough & Renee Kemp. (2020). Secondary phonetic cues in the production of the nasal short-a system in California English. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020.

 

Georgia Zellou & Michelle Cohn. (2020). Social and functional pressures in vocal alignment: Differences for human and voice-AI interlocutors. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020.

 

Michelle Cohn, Patrik Jonell, Taylor Kim, Jonas Beskow, & Georgia Zellou. (2020). Embodiment and gender interact in alignment to TTS voices. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

 

Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn, & Aleese Block. (2020). Top-down effect of speaker age guise on perceptual compensation for coarticulatory /u/-fronting. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

 

Georgia Zellou & Michelle Cohn (2020). Top-down effects of apparent humanness on vocal alignment toward human and device interlocutors. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

 

Georgia Zellou, Santiago Barreda, & Bruno Ferenc Segedin. (2020). Partial perceptual compensation for nasal coarticulation is robust to fundamental frequency variation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

 

Michelle Cohn & Georgia Zellou. (2019). Expressiveness influences human vocal alignment toward voice-AI. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019, 41-45.

 

Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou, & Santiago Barreda. (2019). The role of musical experience in the perceptual weighting of acoustic cues for the obstruent coda voicing contrast in American English. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019, 2250-2254.

 

Bruno Ferenc Segedin, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou. (2019). Perceptual adaptation to device and human voices: learning and generalization of a phonetic shift across real and voice-AI talkers. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019, 2310-2314.

 

Cathryn Snyder, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou. (2019). Individual variation in cognitive processing style predicts differences in phonetic imitation of device and human voices. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019, 116-120.

 

Michelle Cohn, Bruno Ferenc Segedin, & Georgia Zellou. (2019). Imitating Siri: Socially-mediated vocal alignment to device and human voices. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

 

Georgia Zellou & Bruno Ferenc Segedin. (2019). The distribution of coarticulatory variation influences perceptual adaptation. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

 

Chloe Brotherton, Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou, & Santiago Barreda. (2019). Sub-regional variation in positioning and degree of nasalization of /æ/ allophones in California. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

 

Georgia Zellou & Delphine Dahan. (2019). Listeners maintain uncertainty over time and across words: the case of vowel nasality in English. Journal of Phonetics, 76.

 

Georgia Zellou & Rebecca Scarborough. (2019). Neighborhood-conditioned phonetic enhancement of an allophonic vowel split. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(6), 3675-3685.

 

Alan C.L. Yu & Georgia Zellou. (2019). Individual differences in language processing: phonology. Annual Review of Linguistics, Vol 5.

 

Zion Mengesha & Georgia Zellou. (2018). The interaction between phonological and lexical variation on word recall in African American English. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

 

Georgia Zellou & Anne Pycha. (2018). The gradient influence of temporal extent of coarticulation on vowel and speaker perception. Laboratory Phonology.

 

Marit MacArthur, Georgia Zellou, & Lee Miller. (2018). Beyond poet voice: Sampling the (non-)performance style of 100 American poets. Journal of Cultural Analytics.

 

Georgia Zellou. (2017) Specificity for coarticulatory vowel nasality in lexical representations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(4), 375-381

 

Georgia Zellou, Delphine Dahan, & David Embick. (2017). Imitation of coarticulatory vowel nasality across words and time. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 32(6), 776-791.

 

Georgia Zellou. (2017). Individual differences in the production of nasal coarticulation and perceptual compensation. Journal of Phonetics, 61, 13-29.

 

Georgia Zellou, Rebecca Scarborough, & Kuniko Nielsen. (2016). Phonetic imitation of coarticulatory vowel nasality. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(5), 3560-3575.

 

Santiago Barreda & Georgia Zellou. (2015). Speaker identity and spectral changes in word recognition. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII).

 

Meredith Tamminga & Georgia Zellou. (2015). Cross-dialectal differences in nasality and nasal coarticulation. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII).

 

Georgia Zellou & Rebecca Scarborough. (2015). Lexically conditioned phonetic variation in motherese: age-of-acquisition and other word-specific factors in infant- and adult-directed speech. Laboratory Phonology, 6(3-4), 305-336.

 

Rebecca Scarborough, Georgia Zellou, Armik Mirzayan, & David Rood. (2015). Phonetic and phonological patterns of nasality in Lakota vowels. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 45(3), 289-309.

 

Georgia Zellou & Meredith Tamminga. (2014). Nasal coarticulation changes over time in Philadelphia English. Journal of Phonetics, 47, 18-35.

 

Scarborough, Rebecca & Georgia Zellou. (2013). Continua of clarity: “clear” speech authenticity and lexical neighborhood density effects in production and perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(5), 3793-3807.

 

Georgia Zellou, Rebecca Scarborough & Kuniko Nielsen. (2013). Imitability of contextual vowel nasalization and interactions with lexical neighborhood density. Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics 2013 (POMA), 19.

 

Georgia Zellou. (2013). Consonant harmony in Moroccan Arabic: Similarity and incomplete neutralization. Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics 2013 (POMA), 19. 

 

Georgia Zellou. (2012). Nasality from Moroccan Arabic nasal and pharyngeal consonants: patterns of airflow and nasalance. Proceedings of Interspeech 2012.

 

Georgia Zellou & Rebecca Scarborough. (2012). Nasal coarticulation and contrastive stress. Proceedings of Interspeech 2012.

 

Rebecca Scarborough & Georgia Zellou. (2012). Acoustic and perceptual contrast in coarticulatorily nasalized vowels. Proceedings of Interspeech 2012.

 

Rebecca Scarborough, Will Styler & Georgia Zellou. (2011). Nasal coarticulation in lexical perception: The role of neighborhood-conditioned variation. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), pp. 1750-1753.