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A Group of People Curious About Patterns in Speech.

Speech is grounded in the relation between how we perceive sound and how we control articulation. Students and faculty in the Cornell Phonetics Lab conduct research to better understand how speech patterns arise and change over time.


Research Spotlight

The Role of Contextual Variation in Learning Cantonese Tones from Naturalistic Speech

2025

Unpredictable Temporal Auditory Feedback Perturbation Induces Lengthening, Not Compensation

2025

Polylect: how do dialects form?

2024


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Our Students

Xinyi (Melinda) Zhang

Grad Student

203 Morrill Hall

Faolán Boyd

Grad Student

203 Morrill Hall

Tran Ta-Tran

Grad Student

203 Morrill Hall


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Upcoming

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27th April 2026 12:20 PM

Phonetics Lab meeting - ASA Advice

We will give Lisa feedback on her ASA Poster, and we will discuss and provide recommendations for research workshop presentations.

 


Location: Room B11, Morrill Hall, 159 Central Avenue, Morrill Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA

29th April 2026 12:20 PM

Phonetics Lab Meeting

We will critique our research workshop practice presentations -  the lab meeting will be 15 to 30 minutes longer than usual.

 


Location: Room B11, Morrill Hall, 159 Central Avenue, Morrill Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701, USA

Recent News

  • Dr. Mark Tiede visited the Phonetics Lab for a two-day ...

    5th December 2025

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  • Fengyue (Lisa) Zhao presents at BSMCS 2025

    26th August 2025

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  • Chloe Kwon & Fengyue (Lisa) Zhao present at Interspeech...

    26th August 2025

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The Cornell Phonetics Lab welcomes students with diverse backgrounds and interests. Prospective graduate students are encouraged to read more about the Cornell Linguistics Department application procedures.