[Research]

MacLeod, B. (2024). Variability and reliability in the AXB assessment of phonetic imitation. Laboratory Phonology, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.9379

Burness, P., MacLeod, B., Tahtadjian, T., & Ahn, S. (2023). Laxing harmony in Laurentian French: Coarticulation or phonological process? To be published in Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Coretta, S., Casillas, J.V., […], MacLeod, B., […], & Roettger, T.B. (2023). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: estimating degrees of freedom in human-speech analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 6(3), 25152459231162570. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231162567

MacLeod, B. & Di Lonardo Burr, S.M. (2022). Phonetic imitation of the acoustic realization of stress in Spanish: Production and perception. Journal of Phonetics, 92, 101139. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0095447022000146

MacLeod, B. (2021). Problems in the Difference-in-Distance measure of phonetic imitation.

Journal of Phonetics, 87, 101058.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101058

MacLeod, B. (2020). Place of articulation asymmetry in the lenition of voiced stops in Buenos Aires Spanish. Hispanic Studies Review, 4(2), 101-120. https://hispanicstudiesreview.cofc.edu/issues/vol4_no2_2020/hsr-vol-4-no-2-macleod.pdf

MacLeod, B. (2015). A critical evaluation of two approaches to defining perceptual salience. Ampersand, 2, 83-92 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2015.07.001.

MacLeod, B. (2014) “Investigating the effects of salience and regional dialect on phonetic convergence in Spanish” In M. Côté, & E. Mathieu (Eds.), Variation within and across Romance Languages (pp. 351-378) John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.333.24mac

MacLeod, B. (2012). Investigating L2 acquisition of Spanish vocalic sequences. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 5(1), 103-148 https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2012-1121

2023

(with Phillip Burness, Talia Tahtadjian, & Suzy Ahn) “Laxing harmony in Laurentian French: Coarticulation or phonological process?” International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech Republic, Aug 7-11, 2023

2022

(with Phillip Burness, Talia Tahtadjian, & Suzy Ahn) “An articulatory study of Laurentian French vowel laxing” Ultrafest X, Nov 3-4, 2022 *online*

[invited talk] “The other piece of the imitation puzzle: individual variation in the perception of phonetic imitation”, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Oct 28, 2022

(with Phillip Burness, Talia Tahtadjian, & Suzy Ahn) “Vowel laxing in Laurentian French: lowering, centralization, and individual variation” Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2022), Jun 1 - 4, 2022 *online*

“Individual listener variability and reliability in an AXB assessment of phonetic imitation”, 18th conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon18), Jun 23-25, 2022 *online*

“The variability and reliability of listener performance in an AXB assessment of phonetic imitation”, MOT Phonetics and Phonology Conference 2022 (MOT 2022), University of Ottawa, ON, Mar 25-26, 2022

2021

(with Sabrina M. Di Lonardo Burr) “Phonetic imitation of the acoustic realization of Spanish stress” 4th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2021), Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, June 21-23, 2021, *online*, July 9

(with Sabrina M. Di Lonardo Burr) “Imitation of the acoustic realization of Spanish stress: production and perception” Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2021) *online*, June 4-7, 2021

2020

[invited talk] “Phonetic convergence: What do speakers change and what can listeners hear?” York University, Toronto, ON, February 13 

“Collaborative laboratory phonology for second year undergraduates”, Satellite workshop of the conference of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 17: Pedagogical approaches to laboratory phonology (LabPhon 17), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC *online*, July 9, 2020

“Phonetic convergence in Mexican Spanish: combining acoustic and perceptual assessments”, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 50 (LSRL 50), University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX *online*, July 1-3, 6-8, 2020

**cancelled due to COVID 19**  “More evidence of bias in the difference-in-distance measure of phonetic imitation”, MOT Phonetics and Phonology Conference 2020 (MOT 2020), University of Ottawa, ON, Mar 27-29, 2020

2019

[invited talk] “Phonetic convergence and second language learning” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Gatineau, QC, November 29 

“Degree of voiced stop weakening depends on place of articulation in Buenos Aires Spanish”, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 49 (LSRL 49), University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, May 1-4

2017       

“Does phonological contrast mediate phonetic accommodation?” MOT Phonetics and Phonology Conference 2017, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, March 24-26, 2017

2016       

“A look at the Canadian Vowel Shift in Ottawa” MOLT Phonetics and Phonology Conference 2016, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, March 18-20, 2016

2015       

“Quantifying the perceptual salience of the differences between two dialects of Spanish,” Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2015), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, May 30-June 1, 2015 [poster]

2013       

(with Amanda Daniluk) “The effect of salience on the imitation of phonological dialectal variants in Spanish,” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2013), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, October 17-20, 2013

“What is the default behaviour in accommodation: convergence or maintenance?” 21st International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2013), Montréal, QC, June 2-7, 2013 [poster]

2012      

“Asymmetrical accommodation in cross-dialectal conversation and the role of phonological contrast,” Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2012), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, May 26-28, 2012

“Phonetic alignment and perceptual salience in spontaneous conversation in Spanish,” Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2012), Portland, OR, USA, January 5-8, 2012

2011      

“Investigating the effects of salience and regional dialect on phonetic convergence in Spanish,” 4th Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PaPI 2011), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, June 21-22, 2011

“Perceptual salience and cross-dialectal phonetic convergence in Spanish” Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2011), University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, May 28-30, 2011 Winner of best student paper competition

[invited talk] “The effect of perceptual salience on cross-dialectal phonetic convergence in Spanish,” Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 41 (LSRL 41), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, May 5-7, 2011

“Investigating the effects of salience and regional dialect on phonetic convergence in Spanish” Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research (WISSLR 2011), University of Western Ontario, London, ON, March 5-6, 2011

2010      

“Variable velar lenition and the perception and production of [w] in Buenos Aires Spanish” Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExApp 2010), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, November 11-12, 2010 [Poster]

(with Yasaman Rafat) “The effect of orthography on the formation of underlying representations in L2 Spanish” Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 4 (GALANA 4), University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, September 1-3, 2010 [Poster]

“El debilitamiento de la /g/ y el fortalecimiento de la [w] en el español de Buenos Aires” IX Congreso Internacional de Lingüística General, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain, June 21-23, 2010

2009      

“Gwhat did you say? Epenthetic velars in Costa Rican Spanish,” Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2009), Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, May 23-25, 2009

“The acquisition of the diphthong/hiatus contrast by English-speaking L2 learners of Spanish,” Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 39 (LSRL 39), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, March 26-29, 2009

“The effect of perception on production of English /w/ by Costa Rican Spanish speakers” Western Interdisciplinary Student Symposium on Language Research (WISSLR 2009), University of Western Ontario, London, ON, March 6-7, 2009

“The acquisition of vocalic sequences by English-speaking L2 learners of Spanish,” 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 35), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, February 14-16, 2009

2008      

“The perceptual basis of velar epenthesis in the production of English words by Costa Rican Spanish speakers,” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2008), Laval University, Québec, QC, October 23-26, 2008

“The perceptual basis of velar epenthesis in Costa Rican Spanish,” Acoustics Week in Canada 2008, Vancouver, BC, October 6-8, 2008

“The hierarchy of weakening in Buenos Aires Spanish,” Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA 2008), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, May 31-June 2, 2008 [Poster]

“The interaction between phonetics and phonology in Spanish spirantization” MOT Phonology Conference 2008, McGill University, Montreal, QC, March 15-16, 2008

2007      

“Velar insertion and deletion in Buenos Aires Spanish,” Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (HLS 2007), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA, November 1-4, 2007