Speech Learning Lab

Department of Linguistics & School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

McGill University

Research

In the Speech Learning lab, we investigate phonetic variability - how pronunciations change from instance to instance - and how this shapes speech perception. We're also interested in how listeners and learners adapt to the phonetic patterns of their linguistic environment and what happens when those patterns change. We have a special interest in how individuals differ in both patterns of production and perception abilities.

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Lab Members

Dr. Meghan Clayards
Dr. Meghan Clayards
Associate Professor
Linguistics   SCSD
Kuilin Li
PhD student
 
Marcelo Vieira
PhD student
 
Connie Ting
PhD student
 
Xuanda Chen
PhD student
 
Alex Zhai
PhD student
 

Recent Graduates

Dr. Claire Honda
PhD 2024
Dr. Wei Zhang
PhD 2024
 
Dr. Alvaro Iturralde Zurita
PhD 2024
Dr. Bing'er Jiang
PhD 2021
 

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Publications

Papers

Proceedings

  • Honda, C., Clayards, M., Baum, S. (2023). Individual differences in non-native phonetic perception: potential links to native perception, attention, & memory. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 172–176). Guarant International. [download]
  • Chen, X., Clayards, M., Goad, H., Kim, D. (2023). L1 effects on naive perception and production of [0] by mandarin and italian speakers. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2492–2496). Guarant International. [download]
  • Zhai, A., Clayards, M., Goad, H. (2023). Individual variability in l1 category compactness on l2 production compactness and accuracy. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2880–2884). Guarant International. [download]
  • Zurita, A.M.I., Clayards, M. (2022) Lexical stress in Spanish word segmentation. Proceedings of Interspeech 2022, 1866-1870, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-11185

Presentations

  • Clayards, M., Amir, N., Otto, R. (2021, November) Individual variation in top-down effects is domain specific. Talk presented virtually at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.[talk]
  • Vieira, M., Clayards, M., Auclaire Oulette, N. (2020) Acoustic correlates of laryngeal control: Parkinson's and healthy older adults. Poster presented virtually at Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
  • Jiang, B., Clayards, M., Ravanelli, M. & O'Donnell, T.J. (2019) A neural network approach to investigate tone space in Mandarin Chinese". Poster presentation at the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Louisville, Kentucky, May, 2019.[Poster]

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Contact

Meghan Clayards

Email: meghan.clayards [at] mcgill.ca

Department of Linguistics

1085 Ave Dr. Penfield, Montréal, Quebec

School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

2001 McGill College, 8th floor, Montréal, Quebec

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Resources

Michael McAuliffe's STRAIGHT tutorial for stimulus synthesis          


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