Email:        

benjamin.tucker@nau.edu

Address:

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Northern Arizona University

208 E. Pine Knoll Dr. PO Box: 15045

Flagstaff, AZ 86011

Phone:

928-523-2969

Fax:

928-523-0034

Website:

https://nascl.rc.nau.edu/benjamin-v-tucker/

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8965-7890

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jAcBEoQAAAAJ&hl

2007

Ph.D. Linguistics, Major in Phonetics; Minor in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona.

Diss: Spoken word recognition of the reduced American English flap.

Supervisor: Natasha Warner

2005

M.A. Linguistics, University of Arizona.

Masters paper topic: A descriptive study of devoiced nasals in Romanian.

Supervisor: Natasha Warner

2002

B.A. Major in Linguistics, Minor in Russian, University of Arizona.

2023 –

Associate Professor

Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders

Northern Arizona University

2019 – 2022

Professor

Department of Linguistics

University of Alberta

2013 – 2019

Associate Professor

Department of Linguistics

University of Alberta

2007 – 2013

Assistant Professor

Department of Linguistics

University of Alberta

2023 –

Adjunct Professor

Linguistics

University of Alberta

2020 – 2021

Mercator Fellow

Quantitative Linguistics Group, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

2018 –

Affiliated Researcher

Sound Studies Institute

University of Alberta

2013 – present

Adjunct Associate Professor

Communication Sciences and Disorders

University of Alberta

2011 – 2019

Researcher

Quantitative Linguistics Group, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

2013 – 2014

Visiting Scholar

Department of Linguistics

University of Arizona

2025

Nenadić, F., Bujandrić, K., Kelley, M. C., & Tucker, B. V. (2025). SingleMALD: Investigating practice effects in auditory lexical decision. Behavior Research Methods, 57(5), 136.

Tucker, B. V., & Wright, R. A. (2025). Welcome (Editorial). Phonetica, 82(1), 5–7.

Warner, N., Brenner, D., Tucker, B. V., & Ernestus, M. (2025). Non-Native Listeners’ Use of Information in Parsing Ambiguous Casual Speech. Languages, 10(1), Article 1.

2024

Kelley, M.C. Perry, S.J. & Tucker, B.V. (2024). The Mason-Alberta Phonetic Segmenter: A forced alignment system based on deep neural networks and interpolation. Phonetica. 81:5, 451-508.

Terblanche, C., Schnoor, T.T., Harty, M., & Tucker, B. V. (2024). The Development of Synthetic Child Speech in Three South African Languages. Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 1-12.

Perry, S. J., Kelley, M. C., & Tucker, B. V. (2024). Documenting and modeling the acoustic variability of intervocalic alveolar taps in conversational Peninsular Spanish. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(1), 294–305.

Alarifi, A. & Tucker, B.V. (2024). Orthographic influence in the distributional learning of nonnative speech sounds. Second Language Research, 40 (4), 833-863.

Nenadić, F., Podlubny, R.G., Schmidtke, D., Kelley, M.C., & Tucker, B.V. (2024). Semantic richness effects in isolated spoken word recognition: Evidence from massive auditory lexical decision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 50(4), 650–673.

2023

Kharlamov, V., Brenner, D., & Tucker, B. V. (2023). Examining the effect of high-frequency information on the classification of conversationally produced English fricatives. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(3), 1896–1902.

Ford, C., Tucker, B. V., & Ono, T. (2023). Voiceless nasals in the Ikema dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 53:3, 694-711.

Milin, P., Tucker, B.V., & Divjak, D. (2023). A learning perspective on the emergence of abstractions: the curious case of phonemes. Language and Cognition. 15:4, 740-762.

Winn, M.B., Wright, R.A., & Tucker, B.V. (2023). Reconsidering Classic Ideas in Speech Communication. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153, no. 3 (March 2023): 1623–25.

Mukai, Y., Järvikivi, J., and Tucker, B.V. (2023) The Role of Phonology-to-Orthography Consistency in Predicting the Degree of Pupil Dilation Induced in Processing Reduced and Unreduced Speech. Applied Psycholinguistics, 44:5, 784-815.

Coretta, S., Casillas, J.V., […] Tucker, B.V. […], & 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.

Nenadić, F., Podlubny, R. G., Schmidtke, D., Kelley, M. C., & Tucker, B. V. (2022). Semantic richness effects in isolated spoken word recognition: Evidence from massive auditory lexical decision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Lõo, K., Tomaschek, F., Lippus, P., & Tucker, B. V. (2023). Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Effects in Estonian Spontaneous Speech. Language and Speech, 66(2), 474–499.

2022

Nenadić, F., ten Bosch, L. & Tucker, B.V. (2022). Computational modelling of an auditory lexical decision experiment using DIANA. Language and Speech. 1-42.

Kelley, M.C. & Tucker, B.V. (2022). The recognition of spoken pseudowords. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 39(9), 1169-1190.

Kharlamov, V., Brenner, D., Tucker, B.V. (2022). Temporal and Spectral Characteristics of Conversational vs. Read Fricatives in American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 152(4), 2073-2081.

Warner, N., Brenner, D. Tucker, B.V., Ernestus, M. (2022) Native Listeners' Use of Information in Parsing Ambiguous Casual Speech. Brain Sciences, 12(7), 930.

Terblanche, C., Harty, M., Pascoe, M., & Tucker, B. V. (2022). A Situational Analysis of Current Speech-Synthesis Systems for Child Voices: A Scoping Review of Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence. Applied Sciences, 12(11), 5623.

Kelley, M. C., & Tucker, B. V. (2022). Using acoustic distance and acoustic absement to quantify lexical competition. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(2), 1367–1379.

Ford, C., Tucker, B. V., & Ono, T. (2022). Voiceless nasals in the Ikema dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1–18.

Marcoux, K.P., Cooke, M., Tucker, B.V., & Ernestus, M. (submitted). The Lombard intelligibility benefit of native and non-native speech for native and non-native listeners. Speech Communication, 136, 53–62.

Phillips, A. & Tucker, B.V. (accepted). Context effects on the acoustic realization of stops and affricates in Northern Pwo Karen. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-32.

2021

Morin, G. & Tucker, B.V. (2021). The Acoustic Characteristics of um and uh in spontaneous Canadian English. Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) 2021. Paris, France.

Lohmann, A. & Tucker, B.V. (2021) Testing the storage of prosody-induced phonetic detail via auditory lexical decision – a case study of noun/verb homophones. Mental Lexicon. 16(1). 132-163

Nenadić, F., Milin, P., & Tucker, B.V., (2021) Relative Entropy Effects on the Processing of Spoken Romanian Verbs. Mental Lexicon. 16(1), 22-47.

Tomaschek, F., & Tucker, B.V. (2021). The role of coarticulatory acoustic detail in the perception of verbal inflection. JASA Express Letters, 1(8), 085201.

Suleman R., Tucker B.V., Dursun S.M., Demas M.L. (in press) Neurostimulation of the Brain in Depression (NESBID) Trial: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Treatment-Resistant Depression. JMIR Research Protocols. 10(3), e22805.

Tomaschek, F., Tucker, B. V., Ramscar, M., & Harald Baayen, R. (2021). Paradigmatic enhancement of stem vowels in regular English inflected verb forms. Morphology, 31(2), 171–199. 

Tucker B.V., Ford C., Hedges S. (2021). Speech aging: Production and perception. WIREs Cogn Sci. 2021;e1557.

Tomaschek, F., Arnold, D., Sering, K., Tucker, B.V., van Rij, J., & Ramscar, M. (2020). Articulatory Variability is Reduced by Repetition and Predictability. Language and Speech. 64:3. 654-680.

Edgson, M. R., Tucker, B. V., Archibald, E. D., & Boliek, C. A. (2021). Neuromuscular and biomechanical adjustments of the speech mechanism during modulation of vocal loudness in children with cerebral palsy and dysarthria. Neurocase, 0(0), 1–9. 

García-Vega, M., & Tucker, B. V. (accepted). Acoustic properties of vowels in Upper Necaxa Totonac. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1–20.

2020

Nenadić, F., & Tucker, B. V. (2020). Computational modelling of an auditory lexical decision experiment using jTRACE and TISK. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(10), 1326–1354.

Tomaschek, F., & Tucker, B. V. (2020). A phonetic analysis of input to speech-to-text software in an attempt to improve on Upper’s (1974) unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer’s block.” Speculative Grammarian, CLXXXVIII(4).

Langlois, C., Tucker, B. V., Sawatzky, A. N., Reed, A., & Boliek, C. A. (2020). Effects of an intensive voice treatment on articulatory function and speech intelligibility in children with motor speech disorders: A phase one study. Journal of Communication Disorders, 86, 106003.

Tucker, B.V., & Wright, R. (2020). Speech Acoustics of the World’s Languages. Acoustics Today, 16(2).

Tomaschek, F., & Tucker, B. V. (2020). A phonetic analysis of input to speech-to-text software in an attempt to improve on Upper’s (1974) unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer’s block.” SpecGram, CLXXXVIII(4).

Tucker, B.V., & Wright, R. (2020). Introduction to the special issue on the phonetics of under-documented languages. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(4), 2741–2744.

Kelley, M. C., & Tucker, B. V. (2020). A comparison of four vowel overlap measures. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(1), 137–145.

Knight, E.C., Hernandez, S.P., Bayne, E.M., Bulitko, V., & Tucker, B.V. (2020). Pre-processing spectrogram parameters improve the accuracy of bioacoustic classification using convolutional neural networks. Bioacoustics, 29(3), 337–355.

2019

Tucker, B.V. (2019). Psycholinguistic approaches to morphology: production. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press.

Porretta, V., & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Eyes Wide Open: Pupillary Response to a Foreign Accent Varying in Intelligibility. Frontiers in Communication, 4. 1-12.

Tucker, B.V., Brenner, D., Danielson, D.K., Kelley, M.C., Nenadić, F., Sims, M.N. (2019) The Massive Auditory Lexical Decision Database. Behavior Research Methods.

Pham, H., Tucker, B.V., and Baayen, R. H. (2019). Constructing two Vietnamese corpora and building a lexical database. Language Resources and Evaluation.

Nenadic, F., Kelley, M.C., Podlubny, R.G., & Tucker, B.V. (2019). Speech Perception and The Role of Semantic Richness in Processing. Canadian Acoustics, 47(3), 96-97.

Backstrom, D.A., Tucker, B.V., & Kelley, M.C. (2019). Forced-alignment of the sung acoustic signal using deep neural nets. Canadian Acoustics, 47(3), 98-99.

Perry, S.J., & Tucker, B.V. (2019). L2 Production of American English Vowels in Function Words by Spanish L1 Speakers. Canadian Acoustics, 47(3), 94-95.

Wittrock, B.J., & Tucker, B.V. (2019). Canadian prairie dialects: An exploration of Alberta and Saskatchewan vowels. Canadian Acoustics, 47(3).

Gully, A. & Tucker, B.V. (2019). Modeling Voiced Stop Consonants using the 3D Dynamic Digital Waveguide Mesh Vocal Tract Model. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 477-481).

Bin, L., Kelley, M.C., Aalto, D. & Tucker, B.V. (2019). Automatic speech intelligibility scoring of head and neck cancer patients with deep neural networks. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 3016-3020).

Lorentzen, P., Nenadić, F., Kelley, M. C., & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Massive auditory lexical decision: Investigating performance in noisy environments. Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 1, e127. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-hrnv-sn79

Nenadić, F. & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Computational modeling of an auditory lexical decision task using jTRACE. Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 1, e123. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-kbxa-eq02

Feeny, G. T., Järvikivi, J., & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Emotion and lexical effects in an auditory lexical decision task with vocal affect. Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 1, e082. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-fn84-db59

Ford, C., Nenadić, F., Brenner, D., & Tucker, B. V. (2019). Shorter phone duration facilitates isolated spoken word recognition. Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 1, e059. https://doi.org/10.7939/R3V11W29B

2018

Tomaschek, F., Tucker, B. V., Fasiolo, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2018). Practice makes perfect: the consequences of lexical proficiency for articulation. Linguistics Vanguard, 4(s2).

Schmidtke, D., Gagné, C. L., Kuperman, V., Spalding, T. L., & Tucker, B. V. (2018). Conceptual relations compete during auditory and visual compound word recognition. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33(7), 923–942..

Podlubny, R. G., Nearey, T. M., Kondrak, G., & Tucker, B. V. (2018). Assessing the importance of several acoustic properties to the perception of spontaneous speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(4), 2255–2268.

Lõo, K., Järvikivi, J., Tomaschek, F., Tucker, B. V., & Baayen, R. H. (2018). Production of Estonian case-inflected nouns shows whole-word frequency and paradigmatic effects. Morphology, 1–27.

Hawthorne, K., Järvikivi, J., Tucker, B.V. (2018). Finding word boundaries in Indian English-accented speech, Journal of Phonetics, 66, 145-160.

Mukai, Y., Järvikivi, J. & Tucker, B.V. (2018). The effect of phonological-orthographic consistency on the processing of reduced and citation forms of Japanese words: Evidence from pupillometry. In Emily Dmyterko (ed.), Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.

Nenadić, F., ten Bosch, L., & Tucker, B. V. (2018). Implementing DIANA to Model Isolated Auditory Word Recognition in English. Interspeech 2018.

Kelley, M.C., Tucker, B.V. (2018). A comparison of input types to a deep neural network-based forced aligner. Interspeech 2018.

2017

Pham, H., Tucker, B.V., and Baayen, R. H. (2017). Morphological effects in reading aloud Vietnamese compounds. Language and Life, 13 (267), 11-24

Mukai, Y., & Tucker, B. V. (2017). The phonetic reduction of nasals and voiced stops in Japanese across speech styles. Proceedings of the 31th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan, Tokyo: The Phonetic Society of Japan

Warner, N., & Tucker, B. V. (2017). An effect of flaps on the fourth formant in English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 47(1), 1–15.

2016

Tucker, B.V. & Ernestus, M. (2016). Why we need to investigate casual speech to truly understand language production, processing and the mental lexicon. Mental Lexicon, 11:3, 375-400.

Mrigen, A., Brenner, D., & Tucker, B.V. (2016). What do forced alignment likelihood scores tell us about the aligned speech? Canadian Acoustics. 44(3): 232-233.

Porretta, V., Tucker, B. V., & Järvikivi, J. (2016). The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition. Journal of Phonetics, 58, 1–21.

2015

Porretta, V., Kyröläinen, A.-J., & Tucker, B. V. (2015). Perceived foreign accentedness: Acoustic distances and lexical properties. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 77(7): 2438-2451.

Ten Bosch, L., Boves, L., Tucker, B.V. & Ernestus, M. (2015). DIANA: Towards computational modeling reaction times in lexical decision in North American English. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2015: The 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, pages 1576-1580.

Porretta, V. & Tucker, B.V. (2015) Intelligibility of foreign-accented words: Acoustic distances and gradient foreign accentedness. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, August 2015.

Podlubny, R., Geeraert, K., & Tucker, B.V. (2015) It’s all about, like, acoustics. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, August 2015.

Mills, T., Pollock, K., & Tucker, B. V. (2015). Laboratory activities for large and online phonetics classes. Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, 5-7 August 2015.

Porretta, V. & Tucker, B. V. (2015). Perception of non-native consonant length contrast: The role of attention in phonetic processing. Second Language Research, 31: 239-265.

Harrigan, A.G. & Tucker, B.V. (2015). Vowels spaces and reduction in Plains Cree. Canadian Acoustics. 43(3): 124-125.

Bernhard, D. & Tucker, B.V. (2015). The effects of duration on human processing of reduced speech. Canadian Acoustics. 43(3): 122-123.

Mukai, Y. & Tucker, B.V. (2015). Rhythm metrics of spontaneous speech and accent. Canadian Acoustics. 43(3): 120-121.

Ten Bosch, L., Boves, L., Tucker, B.V. & Ernestus, M. (2015). DIANA: Towards computational modeling reaction times in lexical decision in North American English. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2015: The 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, pages 1576-1580.

Porretta, V. & Tucker, B.V. (2015). Intelligibility of foreign-accented words: Acoustic dis-tances and gradient foreign accentedness. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, August 2015.

Podlubny, R., Geeraert, K., & Tucker, B.V. (2015). It’s all about, like, acoustics. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, August 2015.

2014

Tomaschek, F., Tucker, B.V., Wieling, M., & Baayen, H. (2014). Vowel articulation affected by word frequency. Proceedings of the ISSP 2014, Köln.

2013

Chen, T. Y., & Tucker, B. V. (2013). Sonorant Onset Pitch as a Perceptual Cue of Lexical Tones in Mandarin. Phonetica, 70(3), 207-239.

Cox, C., Drieger, J.M., & Tucker, B.V. (2013). Illustrations of the IPA: Mennonite Plautdietsch (Canadian Old Colony). Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 43(2), 221-229

Tucker, B.V., Kryuchkova, T., Mackie, K. (2013). Effects of variation on processing of word-medial consonants. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19(1), 060256.

Porretta, V. & Tucker, B.V. (2013). Perception of non-native consonant length in naïve English listeners. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19(1), 060274.

2012

Chung, H., Nearey, T.M., Hodge, M., Pollock, K. & Tucker, B.V. (2012). Preliminary statistical pattern recognition methods in the study of vowels produced by children with and without speech sound disorders. Canadian Acoustics. 40(3), 18-19.

Kryuchkova, T. & Tucker, B.V. (2012). Emotion co-exists with lexical effects: A case-study. Canadian Acoustics. 40(3), 32-33.

Porretta, V. & Tucker, B.V. (2012). Predicting accentedness: Acoustic measurements of Chinese-accented English. Canadian Acoustics. 40(3), 34-35.

Sims, M., Tucker, B. V., Nearey, T. M. (2012). Modelling Vowel Inherent Spectral Change in Spontaneous Speech. Canadian Acoustics. 40(3), 36-37.

Kryuchkova, T., Tucker, B.V., Wurm, L., & Baayen, R.H. Danger and usefulness in auditory lexical processing: evidence from electroencephalography. Brain & Language. 122(2): 81-91.

2011

Warner, N, Tucker, B.V. (2011). "Phonetic variability of stops and flaps in spontaneous and careful speech”. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(3): 1606-1617.

McDonough, J., & Tucker, B.V. (2011). Replicating Goddard: A contemporary airflow and EGG study of Dene Sųłiné. Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences.

Tremblay, A., Tucker, B.V. (2011). The effects of N-gram probabilistic measures on the recognition and production of four-word sequences. The Mental Lexicon. 6(2): 302-324.

Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B.V., Ernestus, M. (2011). Semantic context effects in the comprehension of reduced pronunciation variants. Memory and Cognition. 39(7): 1301-1316

Tucker, B.V. (2011). The effect of reduction on the processing of flaps and /g/ in isolated words. Journal of Phonetics, 39(3), 312-318.

2010

Kanu, S., Tucker, B.V. (2010). Illustrations of the IPA: Temne. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 40(2): 247-253.

Tucker, B.V., Warner, N. (2010). What it means to be phonetic or phonological: The case of Romanian devoiced nasals. Phonology. 27(2): 289-324.

2009

Lemke, S.F., Tremblay, A., Tucker, B.V. (2009). Function words of lexical bundles: the relation of frequency and reduction. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 6(1), 060009-9.

Van de Ven, M., V. Tucker, B., Ernestus, M. (2009). Semantic context effects in the recognition of acoustically unreduced and reduced words. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp. 1867-1870). Causal Productions Pty Ltd.

Warner, N, Fountain, A.,  Tucker, B.V. (2009). Cues to perception of reduced flaps. The Journal of the Acoustic Society of America. 125(5): 3317-3327. Preprint

2008

Penfield, S.D., Serratos, A., Tucker, B.V., Flores, A., Harper, G., Hill, J. Jr., Vasquez, N. (2008). Community Collaborations: Best practices for North American Indigenous language documentation. International Journal for the Sociology of Language. 191. 187–202.

2007

Tucker, B.V., Warner, N. (2007). Inhibition of processing due to reduction of the American English flap. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, August 2007.

2022

Tucker, B.V. & Tomaschek, F. (forthcoming). Speech Production: Where does morphology fit? In Crepaldi, D. (Ed.). Linguistic Morphology in the Mind and Brain. Routledge

2021

Tucker, B.V. & Ernestus, M. (2021). Why we need to investigate casual speech to truly understand language production, processing and the mental lexicon. In Jarema, G., Libben, G. & Kuperman, V. (Eds.) Polylogues on the Mental Lexicon (reprinted from 2016). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2015

Jarema, G., Libben, G., & Tucker, B.V. (In press). The integration of phonological and phonetic processing: A matter of sound judgment. In G. Jarema, & G. Libben (Eds.). Phonological and phonetic aspects of lexical processing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2012

Penfield, S. D., & Tucker, B. V. (2012). From documenting to revitalizing an endangered language: Where do applied linguists fit? In L. Cope (Ed.), Applied Linguistics Needed: Cross-disciplinary Networking in Endangered Language Contexts. Routledge.

2022

Wright, R. & Tucker, B.V. (in progress). Auditory and Phonetic Processes in Speech Perception. Brain Sciences.

2022

Winn, M., Wright, R., & Tucker, B.V. (in progress). Reconsidering Classic Ideas in Speech Communication. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

2020

Tucker, B.V. & Wright, R., (2020). Special Issue on the Phonetics of Under-Documented Languages. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 147. 2741-3059.

2005

Siddiqi, D., Tucker, B.V., eds. Coyote Papers: Working Papers in Linguistics, Linguistic Theory at the University of Arizona Volume 14.

2003

Agbayani, B, Simiian, V., Tucker, B.V., eds. Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 32. 15. CSU Fresno.

2022

Tomaschek, F. & Tucker, B.V. (2022). Function of coarticulatory detail in the timing of morphological processing. Morphology in Production and Perception. Feb. 7, 2022. Düsseldorf, German.

Lõo, K., Tomaschek, F., Lippus, P. & Tucker, B.V. (2022). Paradigmatic and syntagmatic influences on Estonian spontaneous speech production. Morphology in Production and Perception. Feb. 7, 2022. Düsseldorf, German.

Lõo, K., Tomaschek, F., Lippus, P. & Tucker, B.V. (2022). Perception and written production of case-inflected nouns in Estonian spontaneous speech. Morphology in Production and Perception. Feb. 7, 2022. Düsseldorf, German.

2021

Schnoor, T. & Tucker, B.V. (2021). Remote Collection of a Malagasy Speech Corpus. Presented at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics. Nov. 6, 2021. Edmonton. Canada.

Perry, S.J., Kelley, M.C., & Tucker, B.V. (2021). The effect of word frequency on Spanish tap reduction in spontaneous speech. Presented at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics. Nov. 6, 2021. Edmonton. Canada.

Holko, G., Perry, S.J., Kelley, M.C., & Tucker, B.V. (2021). The processing of consonants and vowels by L2 English/L1 Mandarin listeners. Presented at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics. Nov. 6, 2021. Edmonton. Canada.

Morin, G. & Tucker, B.V. (2021). An acoustic investigation of the markers uh [ə] and um [əm]. Presented at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics. Nov. 6, 2021. Edmonton. Canada.

Kelley, M.C. & Tucker, B.V. (2021). Perception and timing of acoustic distance. Presented at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics. Nov. 6, 2021. Edmonton. Canada.

Morin, G. & Tucker, B.V. (2021). The Acoustic Characteristics of um and uh in spontaneous Canadian English. Online presentation at Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) 2021 workshop. Paris, France, August 21, 2021.

Tucker, B.V., Redmon, C., & Kelley, M.C. (2021). A Place to Share Teaching Resources: Speech and Language Resource Bank. Presented at the 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (online), June 8-10, 2021.

Perry, S.J., Holko, G., Kelley, M.C., & Tucker, B.V. (2021). Consonants, vowels, and lexical representations: evidence from auditory lexical decision. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Alberta, June 4-7th, 2021

Perry, S.J., Kelley, M.C., & Tucker, B.V. (2021). The phonetic reduction of Spanish stressed vowels in spontaneous speech. Paper presented at the 51st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 29-May 1st, 2021

Tucker, B.V., Divjak, D., & Milin, P. (2021). A learning perspective on the emergence of abstractions. Talk at International Conference on Error-Driven Learning in Language (EDLL 2021), March 10-12, 2021.

2020

Redmon, C., Kelley, M.C., & Tucker, B.V. (2020). Developing a cross-platform federated code repository for speech research. Presented at The 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (online), December 8-12th, 2020.

Tucker, B.V. (2020) Acoustics at Home: Duck call vowels. Presented at The 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (online) Dec. 16th, 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUN6CbAq5sE&t=975s

Lõo, K., Tomaschek F., Lippus P. and Tucker B.V. (2020). Frequency and paradigmatic effects in Estonian spontaneous speech. Online presentation at Words in the Word Conference 2020, October 18th, 2020.

Tomaschek F., Arnold D., Sering T., Tucker B.V., van Rij, J., and Ramscar, M. (2020). Positional variability of articulatory gestures: Effects of practice and linguistic proficiency. Online presentation at Words in the Word Conference 2020, October 18th, 2020.

Perry, S. J., Kelley, M.C., Holko, G. & Tucker, B.V. (2020). Lexical processing of consonants and vowels: Mandarin learners of English. Paper presented at Words in the World International Conference, October 18th, 2020

2019

Mulder, K., Reed, A., Tucker, B.V., & Boliek, C.A. (2019). The Effects Of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (TDCS) On Intermuscular Coherence During Maximum Performance Tasks In Healthy Younger And Older Adults. Acoustics Week in Canada 2019. Edmonton, AB. October 8-11, 2019.

Pawlenchuk, M., Mukai, Y., & Tucker, B.V. (2019). Reduced Flaps In English Processed By Non-Native Speakers. Acoustics Week in Canada 2019. Edmonton, AB. October 8-11, 2019.

Nearey, T.M., & Tucker, B.V. (2019). Modeling Categorization Of A VCCV Continuum In The Presence Of Response Lapses And Dropouts. Acoustics Week in Canada 2019. Edmonton, AB. October 8-11, 2019.

Marcoux, K.P., Tucker, B.V., & Ernestus, M. (2019). Non-Native Lombard Speech Intelligibility For Native And Non-Native Listeners. Acoustics Week in Canada 2019. Edmonton, AB. October 8-11, 2019.

Wittrock, B.J., & Tucker, B.V. (2019). Canadian Prairie Dialects: An Exploration of Alberta and Saskatchewan Vowels. Acoustics Week in Canada 2019. Edmonton, AB. October 8-11, 2019.

Nenadić, F., Kelley, M.C., Podlubny, R., Tucker, B.V. (2019). Speech perception and the role of semantic richness in processing. Acoustics Week in Canada 2019. Edmonton, AB. October 8-11, 2019.

Backstrom, D., Kelley, M.C., Tucker, B.V. (2019). Forced-alignment of the sung acoustic signal using deep neural nets. Acoustics Week in Canada 2019. Edmonton, AB. October 8-11, 2019.

2018

Kelley, M. C., Backstrom, D., & Tucker, B. V. (2018). Applications of Deep Learning for Speech and Singing Recognition. Presented during the Deep Learning for Sound Recognition roundtable at the Society for Ethnomusicology 63rd Annual Meeting (Albuquerque, NM).

Kelley, M.C., Backstrom, D., Tucker, B.V. (2018) Applications of Deep Learning for Speech and Singing Recognition. 1st Sound Studies Initiative Sound Symposium (Edmonton, Canada).

Mukai, Y., Järvikivi, J. & Tucker, B. V. (2018) The phonological-orthographic consistency effect on reduced word forms in Japanese: Evidence from pupillometry with a delayed naming task. 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Edmonton, Canada).

Ford, C., Nenadić, F., Brenner, D., & Tucker, B.V. (2018) Shorter Phone Duration Facilitates Isolated Spoken Word Recognition. 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Edmonton, Canada).

Fagnan, L., Tucker, B.V., & Crosby, G.H. (2018) The Intrinsic Pitch of Vowels: Why does my choir have such trouble singing in tune? Podium 2018: National Conference of Choral Canada (St. John's, Newfoundland).

Mukai, Y., Tucker, B. V. & Järvikivi, J. (2018) The effect of phonological-orthographic consistency on the processing of reduced and citation forms of Japanese words: Evidence from pupillometry. The Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association (The University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan).

Mukai, Y., Wood, D. & Tucker, B.V. (2018) Rhythm and fluency: Durational variability as a perceptual correlate of fluency in L2 speech. The Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics (The University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan).

2017

Tucker, B.V., & Mills, T. (2017). Online vs. in-person: Exploring the outcomes and impacts. Presented at the 174th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (New Orleans, LA).

Porretta, V. & Tucker B.V. (2017). What big eyes you have: Pupillary response to intelligibility of foreign-accented speech. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 23, Sep. 07, 2017-Sep. 09, 2017. Lancaster, UK. Poster.

Kelley, M.C. & Tucker B.V. (2017). How are pseudo-words recognized in an auditory lexical decision task? Presented at the NorthWest Phonetics & Phonology Conference (NoWPhon) 2017 (Vancouver, BC).

2016

Porretta, V., Mukai, Y. & Tucker, B. V. (2016) What big eyes you have: Pupillary response to reduced speech. The Tenth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-21, 2016

Tucker, B. V. & Brenner, D. (2016) Massive Auditory Lexical Decision: Going Big in the Auditory Domain. The Tenth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-21, 2016

Kharlamov, V., Brenner, D., & Tucker, B.V. (2016). The Acoustics of Conversational Fricatives in Mid-Western American English. Presented at the “Reduction” Satellite event at the Laboratory Phonology 15 (Ithaca, NY).

Kelley, M. Morrison, G.S., & Tucker, B.V. (2016). A comparison of vowel overlap metrics. NorthWest Phonetics & Phonology Conference (NoWPhon) 2016 (Eugene, OR).

Tucker, B.V., Brenner, D., & Kharlamov, V. (2016). The acoustics of conversational fricatives in Mid-Western American English. NorthWest Phonetics & Phonology Conference (NoWPhon) 2016 (Eugene, OR).

Crosby, G.H., Tucker, B.V., & Fagnan, L. (2016). The effect of chiaroscuro and coup de glotte training on reducing the effects of intrinsic pitch in sung vowel transitions. Presented at the 171st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Salt Lake City, UT).

2015

Nenadić, F., Milin, P., & Tucker, B. V. (2016). Reading literary texts: Tracking eye movements in prose and poetry reading. Paper presented at „XXII scientific conference Empirical studies in psychology“, Belgrade.

Nenadić, F.,Tucker, B. V., & Milin, P. (2016). Relative entropy effects on lexical recognition of spoken Romanian verbs. Paper presented at „XXII scientific conference Empirical studies in psychology“, Belgrade.

Tucker, B.V. & Hawthorne, K. (2015). How lexical competition unfolds in the recognition of reduced and unreduced word-medial stops. Acoustics Week in Canada 2015 (Halifax, NS).

Harrigan, A. G. & Tucker, B.V. (2015). Vowels spaces and reduction in Plains Cree. Acoustics Week in Canada 2015 (Halifax, NS).

Nearey, T.M. & Tucker, B.V., Barreda, S. (2015). Unraveling phonological versus auditory context effects in the perception of synthetic liquid+stop clusters. Acoustics Week in Canada 2015 (Halifax, NS).

Bernhard, D. & Tucker, B.V. (2015). The effects of duration on human processing of reduced speech. Acoustics Week in Canada 2015 (Halifax, NS).

Mukai, Y. & Tucker, B.V. (2015). Rhythm metrics of spontaneous speech and accent. Acoustics Week in Canada 2015 (Halifax, NS).

Mills, T., Pollock, K., & Tucker, B.V. (2015). Laboratory activities for large and online phonetics classes. Proceedings of the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference (London, UK).

Tucker, B.V. (2015). How do listeners process spontaneous speech? NorthWest Phonetics & Phonology Conference (NoWPhon) 2015 (Eugene, OR).

2014

Tucker, B. V., Brenner, D., Sims, M. N. (2014). Medial stop reduction and word recognition “in the wild”. The Ninth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON.

Boliek, C. A., Archibald, E. D., Tucker, B. V. & Fox, C.M. (2014). Respiratory, laryngeal, an articulatory adjustments to changes in vocal loudness in typically developing children and children with spastic-type cerebral palsy. Presented at the Motor Speech Conference 2014 (Sarasota, FL).

2013

Tucker, B. V. (2013). An acoustic description of Chemehuevi. Presented at the 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (San Francisco, CA).

Porretta, V., Kyröläinen, A.-J., & Tucker, B. V. (2013). Influences on perceived foreign accentedness: Acoustic distances and lexical neighborhoods. Presented at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Edmonton,
AB)..

2012

Tucker, B.V. & Kuperman, V. (2012). Orthographic influences on the speech production of compounds. Presented at The Mental Lexicon Conference (Montreal, QB).

Sims, M., Tucker, B. V., & Nearey, T. M. (2012). Modelling Vowel Inherent Spectral Change in Spontaneous Speech. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association (Banff, AB).

Chung, H., Nearey, T.M., Hodge, M., Pollock, K. & Tucker, B.V. (2012). Preliminary statistical pattern recognition methods in the study of vowels produced by children with and without speech sound disorders. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association (Banff, AB).

Kryuchkova, T. & Tucker, B.V. (2012). Emotion co-exists with lexical effects: A case study. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association (Banff, AB).

Tucker, B.V. & Mendenhall, D., (2012). Identifying reduced speech in prepositional phrases. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association (Banff, AB).

Porretta, V. & Tucker, B.V. (2012). Predicting accentedness: Acoustic measurements of Chinese-accented English. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association (Banff, AB).

Tucker, B.V. & Arppe, A. (2012). Modeling the occurrence of the allophones of /t/ in a spontaneous speech corpus using a discriminative learning approach. Presented at the Laboratory Phonology 13 (Stuttgart, Germany).

Poretta, V. & Tucker, B.V. (2012). Perception of non-native contrast: Consonant length and L1 English listeners. Presented at the Second Language Acquisition of Phonology 2012. (University of York, UK).

Arppe, A. & Tucker, B.V. (2012). You should model what you observe - The case of the allophonic realizations of the English /t/ in a spontaneous speech corpus. Presented at the Linguistic Evidence Conference (Tuebingen, Germany).

2011

Tucker, B.V. & Baayen, R.H. (2011). Acoustic duration is predicted by syntactic prototypicality. Presented at the Nijmegen Spontaneous Speech Workshop (Nijmegen, NL).

Dilts, P., Tucker, B.V., & Baayen, R.H. (2011). Describing and predicting phonetic reduction in a corpus of spontaneous speech. Presented at the Nijmegen Spontaneous Speech Workshop (Nijmegen, NL).

Tucker, B.V. & Arppe, A. (2011). Allophonic realizations of the phoneme /t/ in an English spontaneous speech corpus. Presented at the Nijmegen Spontaneous Speech Workshop (Nijmegen, NL).

Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B.V. & Ernestus, M. (2011). Semantic context effects in the processing of unreduced and reduced sentences. Presented at the Nijmegen Spontaneous Speech Workshop (Nijmegen, NL).

Baayen, R.H. & Tucker, B.V. (2011). Why is the signal smooth? Presented at the First NetWordS Workshop (Pisa, Italy).

Dilts, P., Tucker, B.V., & Baayen, R.H. (2011). Random forest modelling of phonetic reduction in spontaneous speech. Presented at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (Edmonton, AB).

Kryuchkova, T. & Tucker, B.V. (2011). Lexical influences on emotional speech. Presented at the Alberta Conference on Linguistics (Edmonton, AB).

Puderbaugh, R. & Tucker, B.V. (2011). An acoustic description of the phoneme inventory of Maku. Presented at Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America at University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT).

Tremblay, A., Baayen, R. H., Derwing, B., Libben, G., Tucker, B. V., & Westbury, C. (2011). Empirical evidence for an inflationist lexicon. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Pittsburgh, PA).

2010

Nearey, T.M. & Tucker, B.V. (2010). A perceptual study of [liquid + stop] sequences. Presented at the Canadian Acoustical Association meeting (Victoria, Canada).

Sims, M., Tucker, B.V., & Baayen, R.H. (2010). Morphological information and fine phonetic detail in English irregular verbs. Presented at the 7th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Windsor, Canada).

Kryuchkova, T., Tucker, B.V., Wurm, L., & Baayen, R.H. (2010). Pitch information provides privileged lexical access for emotion words: Evidence from electroencephalography. Presented at the 7th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Windsor, Canada).

Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B.V., & Ernestus, M. (2010). Semantic priming in processing unreduced and reduced speech. Presented at the 7th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Windsor, Canada).

Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B.V., & Ernestus, M. (2010). Listening to reduced words: The role of semantic cues. Presented at the workshop on Word Processing in Monolinguals and Bilinguals (Nijmegen, NL).

Tucker, B.V. & McDonough, J. (2010). Investigation of the sounds of Dene Sųłiné: A replication of Goddard's 1905 kymographic study. Presented at Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT).

Cox, C. & Tucker, B.V. (2010). Collaborative digitization of historical language materials. Presented at Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT).

McDonough, J. & Tucker, B.V. (2010). Experimental field phonetics: Replicating Goddard's 1905 kymographic study of the sounds of Dene Sųliné. Presented at North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (Baltimore, MD).

2009

Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B.V., & Ernestus, M. (2009). De rol van semantische context in de herken- ning van gereduceerde woorden. Presented at the Dag van de Fonetiek (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B.V., & Ernestus, M. (2009). Semantic context effects in the recognition of reduced words. Presented at the sixteenth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (Krakow, Poland).

Rice, S., Tucker, B.V., Cox, C., Starlight, B., & Donovan, G. (2009). Linguistic training in an endangered language community. Presented at Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT).

Florey, M., Penfield, S., & Tucker, B.V. (2009). Towards a theory of language activism. Presented at the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (University of Hawai’í, Hawai'i).

2008

Tucker, B.V. & Tremblay, A. (2008). What can the production of four-word sequences tell us about the mental lexicon? Presented at the Alberta Conference on Language. (Banff, Canada).

2007

Warner, N. & Tucker, B.V. 2007. Production and processing of variability in intervocalic stops: How do we understand [ãõ] as “I don't know”?  Presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of Phonetics and Phonology in Germany (Nijmegen, NL).

Tucker, B.V., Penfield, S., & Serratos, A. (2007). Documentation for language revitalization. Presented at the Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT).

Warner, N. & Tucker, B.V. 2007. “I was jus' like, all, whatever!”: Variability of stops in conversational vs. laboratory speech of American undergraduates. Invited colloquium, Institute for Phonetics (University of Cologne, France, co-author presented).

Warner, N. & Tucker, B.V. 2007. “I was jus' like, all, whatever!": Variability of Stops in Conversational vs. Laboratory Speech of American Undergraduates. Invited colloquium, Sheffield University (Sheffield, England, co-author presented).

Penfield, S.D., Flores, A., & Tucker, B.V. (2007). The Role of the Language Activist in Documentation and Revitalization. Presented at the Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT).

Warner, N. & Tucker, B.V. (2007). Variability in Intervocalic Stops: Production and Processing. Invited colloquium at the University of Victoria (Victoria, Canada, co-author presented).

Tucker, B.V. (2007). Acoustic phonetic description of Chemehuevi. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of America (Anaheim, CA).

Warner, N. & Tucker, B.V. (2007). Categorical and gradient variability in intervocalic stops. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Anaheim, CA).

2006

Tucker, B.V., Elzinga, D., Penfield, S.D., & Serratos, A. (2006). An online Chemehuevi dictionary. Presented at the Friends of Uto-Aztecan Conference (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT).

Tucker, B.V. (2006). A phonetic description of Chemehuevi. Presented at the Friends of Uto-Aztecan Conference (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT).

Penfield, S.D., Chtareva, A., Tucker, B.V., Flores, A., Harper, G., Hill, J. Jr., & Vasquez, N. (2006). Collaboration for Documentation. Presented at Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT).

Penfield, S.D., Chtareva, A., Tucker, B.V., Flores, A., Harper, G., Hill, J. Jr., & Vasquez, N. (2006). Community Partnerships: Best Practices for Indigenous Language Documentation. Presented at the Georgetown University Roundtable (Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.).

Penfield, S.D., Chtareva, A., Tucker, B.V., Flores, A., Harper, G., Hill, J. Jr., & Vasquez, N. (2006). Partnerships in preservation: a model for language documentation. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of America (Albuquerque, NM).

2004

Brewer, J., Butler, L., Tucker, B.V., & Hammond, M. (2004). Role of onset complexity in well-formedness. Presented at the Third North American Phonology Conference (Concordia University Montreal, Canada).

Brewer, J., Butler, L., Tucker, B.V., & Hammond, M. (2004). *SIMPLE?. Presented at Southwest Workshop on Optimality Theory (UC Santa Cruz, CA).

2021

Schnoor, T. T., Kelley, M. C., & Tucker, B. V. (2021). Automated accent rating using deep neural networks. Poster presented at the 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, December 8-12th, 2020.

2020

Kelley, M.C., & Tucker, B.V. (2020). How do words compete? Quantifying lexical competition with acoustic distance. Presented at The 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (online), December 8-12th, 2020.

Tucker, B.V., Hunter, E., Berardi, M., Hedges, S. (2020). Changes in the acoustic characteristics of speech in the later years of life. Poster presented at the 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (online), December 8-12th, 2020. Presented also as a lay abstract for the press: https://acoustics.org/1asc3-acoustic-changes-of-speech-during-the-later-years-of-life-benjamin-tucker/

Perry, S.J., Kelley, M.C., & Tucker, B.V. (2020). Word frequency, predictability, and lexical class influence different aspects of Spanish tonic vowel production. Poster presented at the 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (online), December 8-12th, 2020.

2019

Siyu, C., Kelley, M.C., Aalto, D., & Tucker, B.V. Rating speech intelligibility using raw-audio as the input to a deep neural-network. The 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. San Diego, CA. December 2-6, 2019.

Nenadić, F., Kelley, M.C., & Tucker, B.V. (2019). Speaker-listener dialect differences and spoken word recognition: Evidence from Massive Auditory Lexical Decision. The 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Louisville, KY).

Kelley, M. C. & Tucker, B. V. (2019). A comparison of four vowel overlap measures. The 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. (Louisville, KY).

2018

Mukai, Y., Järvikivi, J., & Tucker, B.V. (2018). The time course of recognition of reduced disyllabic Japanese words: Evidence from pupillometry with a Go-NoGo task. The 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustics Week in Canada (Victoria, Canada).

Ford, C., & Tucker, B.V. (2018). The production and perception of Ikema geminates. The 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustics Week in Canada, (Victoria, Canada).

Nenadic, F., Coulter, P., Kiefte, M., & Nearey, T.M. (2018). Perception of vowels with missing formant information. The 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustics Week in Canada (Victoria, Canada).

Tucker, B.V., Nenadic, F., & Kelley, M.C. (2018). Auditory lexical decision in the wild. The 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustics Week in Canada (Victoria, Canada).

Nenadić, F. & Tucker, B.V. (2018). Computational Modeling of an Auditory Lexical Decision Task using jTRACE. 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Edmonton, Canada).

Harker, B., Leung, M., Nenadić, F., Fonseca, D., Halfyard, S., Kelley, M., Lorentzen, P., Sinclair, M., & Tucker, B.V. (2018). Massive Auditory Lexical Decision: Investigating Performance in Noisy Environments. 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Edmonton, Canada).

Nenadić, F., ten Bosch, L., & Tucker, B. V. (2018). Implementing DIANA to Model Isolated Auditory Word Recognition in English. INTERSPEECH 2018, (Hyderabad, India).

Kelley, M. C. & Tucker B. V. (2018). A comparison of input types to a deep neural network-based forced aligner. INTERSPEECH 2018 (Hyderabad, India).

Mukai, Y., & Tucker, B. V. (2018). Phonetic variability of nasals and voiced stops in Japanese. Presented at the 175th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Minneapolis MN).

Tam, A., Cummine, J., Reed, A., Tucker, B., & Boliek, C. (2018). Neuromuscular control of vocal loudness in adults and children as a function of cue. Presented at Conference on Motor Speech (Savannah, GA).

Cheung, V., Edgson, M., Fead, F., Tucker, B., Warren, M., Reed, A., Bhat, N., Crosby, G., Cummine, J., & Boliek, C. (2018). The Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Overt Object Naming in Healthy Younger and Older Adults. Presented at Conference on Motor Speech (Savannah, GA).

2017

Nenadić, F., ten Bosch, L., & Tucker, B. V. (2017). Computational modeling of human isolated auditory word recognition using DIANA. Presented at the 174th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (New Orleans, LA).

Nearey, T.M, & Tucker, B. V. (2017). Phonological and auditory context effects in the perception of synthetic liquid-plus-stop clusters. Presented at the 174th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (New Orleans, LA).

Ford, C., Nenadić, F., Brenner, D., & Tucker B.V (2017). Effects of the variation of phone duration on word processing. Presented at the 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Boston, MA).

Nenadić, F. & Tucker B.V (2017). Reading aloud: Acoustic differences between prose and poetry. Presented at the 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Boston, MA).

Kelley, M.C. & Tucker B.V (2017). How do we recognize pseudowords in an audio signal? Presented at the 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Boston, MA).

Tucker B.V. & Brenner, D. (2017). Exploring the acoustic characteristics of individual variation. Presented at the 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Boston, MA).

2016

Ford, C., Tucker, B.V. & Ono, T. (2016). Voiceless vowels in Miyako. Presented at the 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan (Honolulu, HI).

Brenner, D., Kharlamov, V., & Tucker, B.V. (2016). Fricatives in conversational vs. read speech in mid-Western American English. Presented at the 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan (Honolulu, HI).

Mukai, Y., Järvikivi, J., Tucker B.V. & Lõo, K. (2016) Pupil response as a processing measure of morphologically (pseudo) complex words. The Tenth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-21, 2016

Shantz, K. & Tucker B.V. (2016) How to pronounce a hyphen: evidence from word naming. The Tenth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-21, 2016

Sims, M. & Tucker, B.V. (2016). Representation of Acoustic Detail. Presented at the Laboratory Phonology 15 (Ithaca, NY).

Alarifi, A. & Tucker, B.V. (2016). An acoustic investigation of the categorical and gradient spread of pharyngealization in Urban Najdi Arabic. Presented at the Laboratory Phonology 15 (Ithaca, NY).

Tucker, B.V. & Brenner, D. (2016). MALD: Massive Auditory Lexical Decision. Presented at the Laboratory Phonology 15 (Ithaca, NY).

Brenner, D. & Tucker, B.V. (2016) Acoustic reduction, context, and inter-stimulus interval in cross-modal priming. Presented at the 171st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Salt Lake City, UT).

Ford, C., Tucker, B.V., & Ono, T. (2016) The status of voiceless nasals in Miyako Ryukyuan. Presented at the 171st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Salt Lake City, UT).

Sims, M., Tucker, B.V., & Baayen, R.H. (2016) Morphological effects on formant movement in spontaneous speech. Presented at the 171st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Salt Lake City, UT).

Hawthorne, K. & Tucker, B.V. (2016). Effects of reduced medial consonant on the time-course of word recognition. Linguistic Society of America (Washington DC, USA).

2015

Porretta, V. & Tucker, B.V. (2015) Intelligibility of foreign-accented words: Acoustic distances and gradient foreign accentedness. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Glasgow, UK).

Podlubny, R., Geeraert, K., & Tucker, B.V. (2015) It’s all about, like, acoustics. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, (Glasgow, UK).

Hawthorne, K., Jarvikivi, J. & Tucker, B.V. (2015). The impact of accented prosody on parsing speech. Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association (Ottawa, ON).

2014

Porretta, V., Tucker, B.V., & Järvikivi, J. (2014). The influence of gradient foreign accentedness on lexical activation and retrieval. Ninth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON).

Podlubny, R., Geeraert, K., & Tucker, B.V. (2014). It’s All About, Like, Acoustics: Comparing Like to Like. Ninth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON).

Tucker, B.V. & Arppe, A. (2012). Modeling the occurrence of the allophones of /t/ in a spontaneous speech corpus using a discriminative learning approach. Presented at the Laboratory Phonology 13 (Stuttgart, Germany).

Sims, M. N., & Tucker, B.V. (2014). Perceptual significance of the correlation between morphology and vowel duration found in spontaneous speech production. Ninth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon (Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON).

Porretta, V., Järvikivi, J., & Tucker, B.V. (2014). The effect of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on lexical activation strength and access. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 20 (Edinburgh, UK).

Nearey, T. & Tucker, B.V. (2014). Perception of [liquid + stop] sequences: Even more /da/-/ga/ continuum studies. Presented at Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2014 (Tucson, AZ).

2013

Podlubny, R. G., & Tucker, B.V. (2013). Less than careful speech: Exploring the roles of target duration and time varying intensity in spoken language processing. Presented at the 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (San Francisco, CA).

Chen, T-Y., & Tucker, B. V. (2013). F0 transition as a perceptual cue of lexical tones in Mandarin. Presented at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Edmonton, AB).

Sims, M., & Tucker, B. V. (2013). Linguistic Influences on Fine Phonetic Detail.
Presented at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Edmonton,
AB).

Tucker, B.V., Kryuchkova, T., Mackie, K. (2013). Effects of variation on processing of word-medial consonants. Presented at the International Congress on Acoustics (Montreal, QC).

Porretta, V. & Tucker, B. V. (2013). Perception of non-native consonant length in naïve English listeners. Presented at the International Congress on Acoustics (Montreal, QC).

2012

Chan, S.J., Wiens, H., Tucker, B.V., & Campbell, M.M. (2012). “Voice Choral Singing Therapy Outcomes in Persons with Parkinson's Disease”. Poster presentation at the conference of Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists (St. John's, NFLD).

2011

Podlubny, R., Tucker, B.V., & Nearey, T. (2011). “Sorry, what was that?”: The roles of pitch, duration, and amplitude in the perception of reduced speech. Presented at the Nijmegen Spontaneous Speech Workshop (Nijmegen, NL).

Kryuchkova, T. & Tucker, B.V. (2011). Lexical effects on the production of emotional speech. Presented at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (San Diego, CA).

Puderbaugh, R. & Tucker, B.V. (2011). An acoustic description of Maku vowels. Presented at the 161st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America meeting (Seattle, WA).

Dilts, Philip, Baayen, R.H., & Tucker, B.V. (2011). Word duration and segment deletion as measures of reduction in a corpus of spontaneous speech. Presented at the 161st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America meeting (Seattle, WA).

Nearey, T.M. & Tucker, B.V. (2011). Category interaction and stimulus effects in the perception of synthetic liquid+stop clusters. Presented at the 161st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America meeting (Seattle, WA).

Brenner, D., Warner, N.W., Ernestus, M., & Tucker, B.V. (2011). Parsing the ambiguity of casual speech: “He was like” or “He’s like”? Presented at the 161st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America meeting (Seattle, WA).

Arppe, A. & Tucker, B.V. (2011). Allophonic variation is regular. Presented at workshop on new tools and methods for Very-Large-Scale phonetics research (Philadelphia, PA).

2010

Brenner, D., Warner, N., Ernestus, M., & Tucker, B.V. (2010). Integration of bottom-up and high-level cues in parsing spontaneous conversational speech. Presented at Arizona State University/University of Arizona Cognitive Science Conclave (Tempe, AZ).

Sims, M., Tucker, B.V., & Baayen, R.H. (2010). Morphological information and fine phonetic detail in English irregular verbs. Presented at the 2nd PanAmerican/ Iberian Meeting on Acoustics & 160th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Cancun, Mexico).

Nearey, T.M. & Tucker, B.V. (2010). An acoustic study of [liquid + stop] sequences by native and second-language speakers of English. Presented at the 2nd PanAmerican/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics & 160th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Cancun, Mexico).

Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B.V., & Ernestus, M. (2010). The influence of acoustic reduction on the informativeness of semantic contextual information. Presented at the 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 2010, Albuquerque, NM).

Warner, N. & Tucker, B.V. (2010) “Probably, OK, Whatever!”: Variability in conversational speech stops and flaps. Presentated at the 158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Baltimore, MD).

2009

Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B.V., & Ernestus, M. (2009). Semantic context effects in the recognition of acoustically unreduced and reduced words. Presented at Interspeech 2009 (Brighton, United Kingdom).

Van de Ven, M., Tucker, B.V., & Ernestus, M. (2009). Semantic contextual information in the understanding of spontaneous speech. Presented at PIF 2009: Psycholinguistics in Flanders (Flanders, Belgium).

Dickout, V.J. & Tucker, B.V. (2009). Perception of dialectal variation: Can speakers of Western Canadian English perceive New Zealand English /r/-sandhi? Presented at the 2nd Acoustical Society of America Workshop on Speech, “Cross-language speech perception and variations in linguistic experience” (Portland, OR).

Warner, N., Brenner, D., Woods, A., Tucker, B.V., & Ernestus, M. (2009). "Were we or are we?” Perception of reduced function words in spontaneous conversations Presented at the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Portland, OR).

Lemke, S., Tremblay, A., & Tucker, B.V. (2009). Function words of lexical bundles: The relation of frequency and reduction. Presented at the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Portland, OR).

2008

Tucker, B.V. & Tremblay, A. (2008). Effect of frequency and transitional probability on the production of four word sequences. Presented at the 6th Mental Lexicon Conference (Banff, Canada).

Warner, N., Tucker, B.V., & Fountain, A. (2008). Production of reduced speech: Approximated stops. Presented at the 155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Acoustics ’08, Paris, France).

Warner, N. & Tucker, B.V. (2008). Fourth formant drop as a correlate of American English Flaps. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Chicago, IL).

Tucker, B.V. & Warner, N. (2008). An unusual result of prosodic domain boundary effects: Romanian devoiced nasals. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Chicago, IL).

2007

Tucker, BV. (2007). Processing of fine phonetic detail in American English flaps. Presented at the 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, (Salt Lake City, UT).

Dungan, M., Morian, K., Tucker, B.V., & Warner, N. (2007). Fourth formant dip as a correlate of American English flaps. Presented at the 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, (Salt Lake City, UT).

2006

Tucker, B.V. & Story, B.H. (2006). The relation of the temporal variation of F2 to articulator movement. Presented at the 152nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Honolulu, HI).

2004

Brewer, J., Tucker, B.V., & Hammond, M. (2004). Effects of syllable onset length in determining word-likeness outcomes. Presented at the 147th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (New York, NY).

2003

Tucker, B.V. (2003) Word-final nasals in Romanian. Presented at the 146th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Austin, TX).

Tucker, B.V. (2003) Moraic structure in Romanian. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Atlanta, GA).

1995

Bretschger, O., M. Lisi, C. F. McGinley, and B. V. Tucker. (1995). Elevation distribution, diameter, morphology of small volcanic edifices on Venus between Guinevere Plantia and Sedna Plantia. Presented at Twenty-sixth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (Houston, TX).