Some Examples of Past Topics for the
Research Article Critique Assignment

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• Categorical perception (and CP combined with nearly any of the items below)

• Tone languages

• Bilingualism: incl phonetic drift, L1-L2 interaction, code-switching, bimodal bilingualism, bilingualism and ASL, bilingualism and indexical (personal) information

• Inter-speaker convergence/accommodation/entrainment/attunement

• Emotive speech

• Performative speech, such as public speaking, singing, acting

• Sine wave speech

• Speech under the influence; speech and smoking and vaping

• McGurk effect; audio-visual speech

• Infant language acquisition

• Musical training and speech

• Mathematical/computational modeling of language evolution/extinction, acoustic-articulatory mapping

• Perception with cochlear implants

• Signed languages and multimodal processing

• Gender, sexual-orientation and speech

• Speech and hearing disorders and production or perception

• Menstruation  and speech

• Craniofacial abnormality and speech

• ASR techniques for speech in noise

• Relationship of speech/voice acoustics to personal demographic information like height, sex, or age