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SSRC Ultrasound Tongue Imaging group
[Grants] - [Publications] - [Theses] - [Presentations]

Externally-funded Grants

Janine Lilienthal is here on the Marie Curie EdSST scheme 2008-2009
Sonja Schaeffler, James M Scobbie and Ineke Mennen "Open-Mouthed or Stiff Upper Lip? Exploring Language-Specific Articulatory Settings in English-German Bilinguals." ESRC Research grant (RES-000-22-3032, £99,580 fEC). 01/09/2008-30/04/2010.
Natalia Zharkova, Nigel Hewlett and William Hardcastle "An ultrasound study of lingual coarticulation in children and adults". ESRC Research Grant (RES-000-22-2833, £97,919.66 fEC). 01/05/2008-30/04/2009.
Sonja Schaeffler and James M Scobbie “Fine phonetic detail in the specification of grammar: exploring differences in articulatory settings across languages”. British Academy Research Grant RG-48460, May-Aug 2008. (£5,600).
James M Scobbie & Jane Stuart-Smith "Looking variation and change in the mouth : developing the sociolinguistic potential of Ultrasound Tongue Imaging". ESRC Research Grant RES-000-22-2032, Jan 2007-Mar 2008. (£99,867 fEC) [abstract] [link to official ESRC site] [final report]
Natalia Zharkova "Analysing Speech Variability with Ultrasound and EPG ". ESRC post-doctoral fellowship PTA-026-27-1268, Dec 2006-Nov 2007. (£74,108 fEC)

Publications (reverse chronological order, newest first)

Zharkova, N. and Hewlett, N. (in press), Measuring lingual coarticulation from midsagittal tongue contours: description and example calculations using English /t/ and /a/. Journal of Phonetics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2008.10.005]
Kocjančič, T. (2008) Tongue movement and syllable onset complexity: ultrasound study. In Botinis, A. (ed.) Proceedings of ISCA Experimental Linguistics ExLing 2008 (Athens). Athens: ISCA and the University of Athens, pp.125-128. [pdf]
Kocjančič, T. (2008) Ultrasound investigation of tongue movements in syllables with different onset structure. Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Strasbourg. 237-240. [pdf]
Scobbie, J.M., Wrench, A.A. and van der Linden, M. (2008) Head-probe stabilisation in ultrasound tongue imaging using a headset to permit natural head movement. Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Strasbourg. 373-376 [pdf ]
Wrench, A.A. and Scobbie, J.M (2008) High-speed cineloop ultrasound vs. video ultrasound tongue imaging: comparison of front and back lingual gesture location and relative timing. Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Strasbourg. 57-60. [pdf]
Schaeffler, S., Scobbie, J.M. and Mennen, I. (2008) An Evaluation of Inter-Speech Postures for the Study of Language-Specific Articulatory Settings. Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Strasbourg. 121-124. [pdf]
Zharkova, N., Hewlett, N. & Hardcastle, W. (2008) An Ultrasound Study of Lingual Coarticulation in Children and Adults. Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Strasbourg, 161-164 [pdf]
Zharkova, N. (2008) An EPG and Ultrasound Study of Lingual Coarticulation in Vowel-Consonant Sequences. Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Strasbourg, 241-244.[pdf]
Zharkova, N., Hewlett, N. & Hardcastle, W. (2008). Analysing coarticulation in Scottish English children and adults: an ultrasound study. Canadian Acoustics, 36 (3): Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada 2008. Pp. 158-159.
Scobbie, James M., Stuart-Smith, Jane and Lawson, Eleanor (2008) Looking variation and change in the mouth: developing the sociolinguistic potential of Ultrasound Tongue Imaging. Final Report for ESRC Project RES-000-22-2032. [pdf]
McLeod, Sharynne and Wrench, Alan A. (2008) Protocol for Restricting Head Movement when Recording Ultrasound Images of Speech Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing 11: 23-29.
Qin, Chao, Carreira-Perpiñán, Miguel Á, Richmond, Korin, Wrench, Alan, Renals, Steve (2008) Predicting tongue shapes from a few landmark locations. Proceedings of Interspeech ICSLP, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Brisbane, 2008. [pdf]
Vazquez Alvarez Y. and Hewlett, N. (2007) The "Trough Effect": an ultrasound study . Phonetica 64: 105-121.
Scobbie, James M. (2007) Biological and social grounding of phonology: variation as a research tool. In Jürgen Trouvain and William J. Barry (eds.) Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the ICPhS, 225-228. [pdf]
Wrench, Alan A. and James M. Scobbie (2006) Spatio-temporal inaccuracies of video-based ultrasound images of the tongue. Proceedings of the 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Brazil (ISSP7). CD-ROM. [pdf]
Scobbie, James M., Sara E. Wood and Alan A. Wrench (2004) Advances in EPG for treatment and research: an illustrative case study. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 18, 373-389. [pdf]
Wrench, Alan A. and James M. Scobbie (2003) Categorising vocalisation of English /l/ using EPG, EMA and ultrasound. Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Speech Production, Sydney. CD-ROM. [pdf of draft]

Doctoral Theses

Zharkova, Natalia (2007) An investigation of coarticulation resistance in speech production using ultrasound. PhD, QMU.

Conference presentations by year (for a full list, see here)

Selected Conference presentations 2008

James M Scobbie, Alan A Wrench, Jane Stuart-Smith, Marietta van der Linden, Eleanor Lawson "Ultrasound tongue imaging; some methodological protocols" British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium (BAAP 2008), Sheffield, England, 31st March - 2nd April 2008. [pdf]
Eleanor Lawson, Jane Stuart-Smith and James M Scobbie "Using ultrasound to study postvocalic-/r/ loss in Scottish English"
ames M Scobbie, Jane Stuart-Smith and Eleanor Lawson "Having your cake and eating it: An articulatory perspective on vernacular variation and change in a socially-stratified corpus " (note change of title from "Having your cake and eating it: An articulatory perspective on the individual’s place in systems of variation and change") Laboratory Phonology 11, Wellington New Zealand, 30 Jun-02 Jul 2008 [poster pdf]

Selected Conference presentations 2007

Natalia Zharkova"Differences in coarticulation resistance between vowels and consonants: an ultrasound study" Perception and perception-production interaction. Part II* : Brain and Speech Grenoble, France, 17 Sept 2007
Tanja Kocjančič "The influence of syllable onset complexity on tongue movements: An ultrasound study" Perception and perception-production interaction. Part II* : Brain and Speech Grenoble, France, 17 Sept 2007
Alan Wrench, James M. Scobbie and Marietta van der Linden "Evaluation of a helmet to hold an ultrasound probe" Ultrafest IV, New York University, September 28-29, 2007
Alan Wrench "Articulate Assistant Advanced: Ultrasound Module" Ultrafest IV, New York University, September 28-29, 2007
Natalia Zharkova "Coarticulation resistance quantification in several Scottish English phonemes" Ultrafest IV, New York University, September 28-29, 2007
Tanja Kocjancic "Measuring tongue movements in complex onsets: an ultrasound study" Ultrafest IV, New York University, September 28-29, 2007
James M Scobbie, Jane Stuart-Smith, Eleanor Lawson " Ultrasound tongue imaging for sociophonetics" Ultrafest IV, New York University, September 28-29, 2007
Jane Stuart-Smith, James M. Scobbie & Eleanor Lawson "Articulatory insights into language variation and change: Preliminary findings from an ultrasound study of derhoticization in Scottish English" NWAV 36 (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) Pennsylvania, USA, October 11-14, 2007

Selected Conference papers 2006

James Scobbie and Jane Stuart-Smith “Where the [l] [r] they? An ultrasound tongue imaging study of Scottish English liquids”. British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP). Edinburgh, 10-12 April 2006
Natalia Zharkova and Nigel Hewlett title "Studying coarticulation resistance with ultrasound" 5th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Nijmegen, 7th-10th June 2006.
James M Scobbie, Koen Sebregts and Jane Stuart-Smith "From subtle to gross variation: an ultrasound tongue imaging study of Dutch and Scottish English /r/." Tenth Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 10), Paris, 29 June - 1 July 2006
Alan A. Wrench and James M. Scobbie "Spatio-temporal inaccuracies of video-based ultrasound images of the tongue"7th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Ubatuba, Brazil, 13-15 December 2006.]

Selected Conference papers 2005

Fiona Gibbon and Maria Wolters “A New Application of Ultrasound to Image Tongue Behaviour in Cleft Palate Speech” (poster) Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Scientific Conference, Swansea, Wales, 13-15 April, 2005
James Scobbie and Koen Sebregts "Getting at variation with ultrasound: examples from Scottish and Dutch /r/" Third Ultrasound Workshop, Tucson Arizona, USA, 14-16 April, 2005
Natalia Zharkova "An ultrasound study of the trough effect in VhV sequences" Third Ultrasound Workshop, Tucson Arizona, USA, 14-16 April, 2005
Yolanda Vázquez Álvarez"The Trough Effect: Can we predict tongue lowering from acoustic data alone?" Third Ultrasound Workshop, Tucson Arizona, USA, 14-16 April, 2005
Yolanda Vázquez Álvarez and Nigel Hewlett “The trough effect: an ultrasound study” 3rd Conference on Experimental Phonetics. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 24-26 October, 2005.

Selected Conference papers 2004

Yolanda Vázquez Álvarez, Nigel Hewlett and Natalia Zharkova “An ultrasound study of the trough effect" British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. 24-26 March 2004
James M Scobbie "Labiodental /r/ from alveolar /r/: lip or lingual vs. lip & lingual" Ultrapolooza (2nd Ultrasound Round Table) The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 22nd-23rd April 2004. [powerpoint, 3.45MB]
Yolanda Vázquez Álvarez, Nigel Hewlett and Natalia Zharkova "An ultrasound study of co-articulation & the "Trough Effect" in symmetrical VCV syllables: A report of work in progress" Ultrapolooza (2nd Ultrasound Round Table) The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 22nd-23rd April 2004.[pdf]
Alan A Wrench "Matching, merging and means: Spline productivity tools for ultrasound" Ultrapolooza (2nd Ultrasound Round Table) The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 22nd-23rd April 2004.

Speech Science Research Centre
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Externally-funded Grants

Sonja Schaeffler, James M Scobbie and Ineke Mennen "Open-Mouthed or Stiff Upper Lip? Exploring Language-Specific Articulatory Settings in English-German Bilinguals." ESRC Research grant (RES-000-22-3032, £99,580 fEC). 01/09/2008-30/04/2010.
Natalia Zharkova, Nigel Hewlett and William Hardcastle "An ultrasound study of lingual coarticulation in children and adults". ESRC Research Grant (RES-000-22-2833, £97,919.66 fEC). 01/05/2008-30/04/2009.
Sonja Schaeffler and James M Scobbie “Fine phonetic detail in the specification of grammar: exploring differences in articulatory settings across languages”. British Academy Research Grant RG-48460, May-Aug 2008. (£5,600).
James M Scobbie & Jane Stuart-Smith "Looking variation and change in the mouth : developing the sociolinguistic potential of Ultrasound Tongue Imaging". ESRC Research Grant RES-000-22-2032, Jan 2007-Mar 2008. (£99,867 fEC) [abstract] [link to official ESRC site] [final report]
Natalia Zharkova "Analysing Speech Variability with Ultrasound and EPG ". ESRC post-doctoral fellowship PTA-026-27-1268, Dec 2006-Nov 2007. (£74,108 fEC)

Publications

Scobbie, James M., Stuart-Smith, Jane and Eleanor Lawson (2008) Looking variation and change in the mouth: developing the sociolinguistic potential of
Ultrasound Tongue Imaging. Final Report for ESRC Project RES-000-22-2032. [pdf]
McLeod, Sharynne and Wrench, Alan A. (2008 in press) Protocol for Restricting Head Movement when Recording Ultrasound Images of Speech Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing
Qin, Chao, Carreira-Perpiñán, Miguel Á, Richmond, Korin, Wrench, Alan, Renals, Steve (2008, in press) Predicting tongue shapes from a few landmark locations. Proceedings of Interspeech ICSLP, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Brisbane, 2008. [pdf]
Vazquez Alvarez Y. and Hewlett, N. (2007) The "Trough Effect": an ultrasound study . Phonetica 64: 105-121.
Scobbie, James M. (2007) Biological and social grounding of phonology: variation as a research tool. In Jürgen Trouvain and William J. Barry (eds.) Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the ICPhS, 225-228. [pdf]
Wrench, Alan A. and James M. Scobbie (2006) Spatio-temporal inaccuracies of video-based ultrasound images of the tongue. Proceedings of the 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Brazil (ISSP7). CD-ROM. [pdf]
Scobbie, James M., Sara E. Wood and Alan A. Wrench (2004) Advances in EPG for treatment and research: an illustrative case study. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 18, 373-389. [pdf]
Wrench, Alan A. and James M. Scobbie (2003) Categorising vocalisation of English /l/ using EPG, EMA and ultrasound. Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Speech Production, Sydney. CD-ROM. [pdf of draft]