Books
Mohamed Afkir & Georgia Zellou. 2026. The phonetics of Tarifit: Variation and change in a Moroccan Amazigh language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Mohamed Afkir & Georgia Zellou. (2026). Variation in Rhoticity in Tarifit: evidence from production, perception, and imitation. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100325100911
Mohamed Afkir & Georgia Zellou. (2026). Phonetic and phonological enhancement strategies in Tarifit robot-directed speech. Phonetica. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2025-0069
Mohamed Afkir & Georgia Zellou. (2026). Phonological complexity, speech style, and individual differences influence ASR performance for Tarifit. Nature Sci Rep (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/ s41598-026-43245-w
Mohamed Afkir & Georgia Zellou. (2025). Vowelless word forms in Tarifit are produced with longer voiceless aspiration intervals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters. doi.org/10.1121/10.0039470
Georgia Zellou, Mohamed Afkir, Mohamed Lahrouchi, and Karim Bensoukas. (2025). Cross-language variation in the acceptability of vowelless nonwords. Frontiers in Communication. doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1518754
Georgia Zellou & Mohamed Afkir. (2025). Social factors condition consonant separation in Moroccan Arabic word-initial clusters: Amazigh-Arabic bilingualism, region, and speaking style. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 157, 845–856. doi.org/10.1121/10.0035641
Conference Presentations
Mohamed Afkir & Georgia Zellou. (2026). Vowelless forms are allophonic variants of some words in Tarifit: Evidence from production and perception of triconsonantal words. 100th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Mohamed Afkir & Georgia Zellou. (2025). Vowelless forms are allophonic variants of some words in Tarifit: Evidence from production and perception of triconsonantal words. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology, Berkeley.
Mohamed Afkir & Georgia Zellou. (2025). Vowelless forms are allophonic variants of some words in Tarifit: Evidence from production and perception of triconsonantal words. 22èmes Rencontres du Réseau Français de Phonologie.
Post-vocalic r-dropping is socially conditioned in Tarifit: Evidence from production and perception. 22èmes Rencontres du Réseau Français de Phonologie.