Posters and Talks

2022

Aleese Block, Kristin Predeck, Georgia Zellou. "The perception of German word-final devoicing in naturally-produced and TTS speech". Oral presentation at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies Departmental Seminar, May 2020, Oslo, Norway.

2021

Aleese Block, Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou. "Listeners’ use of vowel-to-vowel and nasal coarticulation on schwa to make predictions about upcoming phoneme identity". Oral presentation at Interspeech, August 2021, Brno, Czechia.

Kristin Predeck, Aleese Block, Carlson Arnett. "“Problematic phonemes” and German /ɛ:/: An acoustic analysis”. Oral presentation at Interfaces of Phonetics, May 2021, Oldenburg, Germany.

Aleese Block. "Cue weighting and phoneme-specific patterns in systems of quantity contrast: the case of Norwegian vowels”. Oral presentation at Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2021, San Francisco, CA. Watch the talk here!

Kristin Predeck, Aleese Block, Carlson Arnett. "“Problematic phonemes” and German /ɛ:/: An acoustic analysis”. Poster Presentation at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2021, San Francisco, CA.

2020

Aleese Block. "Phoneme-specific patterning in the production and perception of vowel quantity". Oral presentation at the Acoustical Society of America's Virtual Student Summer Talks, August 2020, Online (Covid-19).

Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn, and Aleese Block. "Top-down effects of speaker age guise on perceptual compensation for coarticulatory /u/-fronting". Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 2020, Online (Covid-19).

Aleese Block, Michelle Cohn, and Georgia Zellou. "California listeners’ patterns of partial compensation for coarticulatory /u/ fronting is influenced by the apparent age of the speaker". Oral presentation at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2020, New Orleans, LA.

Chloe Brotherton and Aleese Block. "Soft-d in Danish: its acoustic characteristics and issues in transcription". Poster presentation at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2020, New Orleans, LA.

Aleese Block. “Acoustic cues in the production and perception of Norwegian vowel quantity”. Poster presentation at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January 2020, New Orleans, LA.

2019 and before

Aleese Block, Michelle Cohn, and Georgia Zellou. "California listeners’ patterns of partial compensation for coarticulatory /u/ fronting is influenced by the apparent age of the speaker". Oral presentation at the California Annual Meeting of Psycholinguistics, October 2019, Santa Cruz, CA.

Aleese Block. "Research in vowel phonology and quantity perception in Norwegian". Guest Lecture, Norwegian Phonology, University of Oslo, September 2019, Oslo, Norway.

Chloe Brotherton and Aleese Block. "Is /ð/ in Danish a lower-dental velarized lateral? Typological and theoretical considerations". Poster presentation at the Workshop on Sound Change, June 2019, Davis, CA.

Aleese Block. "Changes in Off-glide Realization in Wisconsin English Diphthongs Within the Northern City Vowel Shift". Poster Presentation at the Workshop on Sound Change, June 2019, Davis, CA.

Aleese Block. "Cue interaction in contrastive Norwegian quantity". Oral Presentation at the Symposium on Language Research, May 2019, Davis, CA.

Aleese Block. “Acoustic cues in the production and perception of Norwegian vowel quantity". Oral Presentation at the California Annual Meeting of Psycholinguistics, December 2018, Los Angeles, CA.