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Recent posters:
Pitch patterns among female speakers in five dialects of English. 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2025). Palma de Mallorca, Spain. June 25-27, 2025. (poster)
Beyond VOT: f0 and spectral tilt as correlates of the voicing contrast among bilingual speakers of English and Arabic. Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians 2024 (BAAP 2024). Cardiff, March 2024. (poster)
Interactions of lexical stress, vowel length and pharyngealisation in Palestinian Arabic. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague,
August 2023. (poster)
The acoustic correlates of stress and pharyngealisation in Palestinian Arabic. 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm). 25-27 May 2023. (pdf) (references)
Peak alignment, vowel length and onset type in Lebanese Arabic. LabPhon 18 (Online), June 23-25, 2022. (pdf)
Creating a new category over time: acquisition of voicing in English /z/ by an L1 Norwegian speaker in 25-year period. 29th Manchester Phonology Meeting. 25-27 May 2022. (Online.) (pdf)
Intonational changes in L2 English over time: a study of L1 Norwegian speaker Ole Gunnar Solskjær. Tone and Intonation 2021. (Online.) (pdf)
Compensatory shortening, semisyllables and mora-sharing in Lebanese Arabic. 28th Manchester Phonology Meeting. 26-28 May 2021. (Online.) (pdf)
Voice onset time in monolingual and codeswitching modes in Lebanese Arabic and English. ASA Fall 2020: Acoustics Virtually Everywhere. 7-11 December 2020. (Online.) (pdf)
Phrase-final lengthening and phonological vowel length in Lebanese Arabic. ASA Fall 2020: Acoustics Virtually Everywhere. 7-11 December 2020. (Online.) (pdf)
The voicing contrast in stops and affricates in the Western Armenian of Lebanon. Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria, September 15-19, 2019. (pdf)
Vowel length, tonal alignment and sentence position in Palestinian Arabic. ETAP 4 (Experimental and Theoretical Aspects of Prosody), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Oct 11-13, 2018. (pdf)
Truncation in the Intonation of Lebanese Arabic. LabPhon 16, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, June 19-22, 2018. (pdf)
Photo by Lara Keshishian, Interspeech 2019
Publications:
Kelly, Niamh E. (2024). The interaction of tonal alignment with vowel length and
syllable structure in Lebanese Arabic. Journal of Connected Speech. (link)
Seyfarth, Scott, Hossep Dolatian, Peter Guekguezian, Niamh Kelly & Tabita Toparlak.
(2023). Illustrations of the IPA: Armenian (Yerevan Eastern Armenian and Beirut
Western Armenian). Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-34.
Kelly, Niamh. (2022). Change across Time in L2 Intonation vs. Segments: A Longitudinal Study of the English of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Languages, 7(3), 210. (link)
Kelly, Niamh E. (2021). Syllable weight, vowel length and focus in Lebanese Arabic. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 6(1): 142, 1–31. (link)
Kelly, Niamh E. & Lara Keshishian. (2021). Voicing patterns in stops among heritage speakers of Western Armenian in Lebanon and the US. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Special issue on heritage languages & bilingualism, 44(2), 103-129. (link)
Kelly, Niamh E., Mia El Houry & Farah Ghamloush. (2021). Monolingual vs codeswitching modes: Voice onset time in Lebanese Arabic and English. ASA Proceedings of Meetings in Acoustics: Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 42, 2021. (link)
Kelly, Niamh E. Phrase-final intonation adjustment in Lebanese Arabic. (2021). Journal of the International Phonetic Association, (online first, April 2021). (link)
Kelly, Niamh E. (2021). Phrase-final lengthening across segments in Lebanese Arabic. ASA Proceedings of Meetings in Acoustics: Acoustical Society of America 179, Vol. 42, 2021. (link)
Mennen, Ineke, Niamh Kelly, Robert Mayr and Jonathan Morris. (2020). The Effects of Home Language and Bilingualism on the Realization of Lexical Stress in Welsh and Welsh English. Frontiers in Psychology, (online first, Jan 2020). (link)
Kelly, Niamh E. and Rajka Smiljanic. (2018). Perception of the Lexical Accent Contrast in One Variety of East Norwegian. Language and Speech, 61(3), 339-357. (link)
Kelly, Niamh E. (2019). The perception of dental and alveolar stops among speakers of Irish English and American English. English Language and Linguistics, 23 (2), 277-302. (link)
Kelly, Niamh E. and Rajka Smiljanic. (2017). The Effect of Focus and Phrase Position on East Norwegian Lexical Tonal Accents. Phonetica, 74 (4), 193-230. (link)
Crowhurst, Megan J., Niamh E. Kelly and Amador Teodocio. (2016). The influence of vowel laryngealisation and duration on the rhythmic grouping preferences of Zapotec speakers. Journal of Phonetics, 58, 48-70. (link)
Linguistics in the Media
Linguistics in the Media
National radio segment: Ask Me Anything, Dermot & Dave Show on Today FM Ireland (July 2021)
Podcast episode: Language Therapy with Dr. K: Multilingualism & the Case of Western Armenian. (July 2021; recorded July 2019)
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