Funding

Resolving the elusiveness of linguistic rhythm, cross-linguistic realities and the speech production system 

60%

UCSB Academic Senate, 2022-23

PI: Argyro Katsika

Collaborator: Matthew Gordon

It is broadly accepted that any language is inherently rhythmic. The predominant approach is that languages belong in one of the following rhythm classes: mora-, syllable-, or stress-timed. These terms imply that moras, syllables and stresses respec...

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The role of timing and prominence in linguistic rhythm, the curious case of Estonian

50%

UCSB Academic Senate, 2021-2024

PI: Mathew Gordon

Collaborator: Argyro Katsika

This project is an articulatory study of timing patterns in Estonian, a language that displays typologically atypical patterns of vowel and consonant duration. It is well established that speakers produce speech characterized by rhythmically regular...

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The role of linguistic rhythm in second language production

100%

UCSB Office of Research, 2021-2022

PI: Argyro Katsika

Due to constraints imposed by Covid-19, the required kinematic data for this project could not be acquired, and the project could not be completed as proposed. As a result its focus was adjusted in order to acquire acoustic data: a set of acoustic e...

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The hierarchical structure of prominence and its interaction with phrasing

100%

UCSB Academic Senate, 2020-22

PI: Argyro Katsika

Prominence, along with phrasing, are the two main functions of prosody, and are essential for acquiring language, and producing and perceiving speech. Previous work has mainly focused on languages that use lexical stress and pitch accent to mark pro...

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Prosodic hierarchy as an interplay of lexical stress, phrasal events and articulatory constrictions

100%

UCSB Academic Senate, 2018-2020

PI: Argyro Katsika

This project assesses the role of two different types of word prosody (lexical stress and lexical pitch accent) in the production of phrasal prosody. Both tonal and temporal aspects of phrasal prosody are examined. Based on the results, a dynamical ...

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Links Between Production and Perception in Speech (renewed)

95%

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders,
National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2018-2023

PI: Douglas Whalen

Collaborator: Argyro Katsika - is one of the collaborators

Although it is agreed that most speech is produced by a human vocal tract, it is less accepted that speech production and speech perception are intricately linked. Many theorists hold that the acoustic output of the vocal tract is dealt with in a pu...

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Collaborative Research, Prosodic Structure, An Integrated Empirical and Modeling Investigation 

100%

National Science Foundation (NSF), 2016-2021

PIs: Argyro Katsika (USCB)Elliot Saltzman (Boston University), Hosung Nam (Haskins Laboratories), Jelena Krivokapić (University of Michigan), Louis Goldstein (University of Southern California)

This project examines how the prosodic structure of language shapes the articulation of spoken utterances. Speaking is a complex, uniquely human ability that relies on precisely coordinated movements of the speech organs (tongue, lips, jaw, soft pal...

Read More

Resolving the elusiveness of linguistic rhythm, cross-linguistic realities and the speech production system 

60%

UCSB Academic Senate, 2022-23

PI: Argyro Katsika

Collaborator: Matthew Gordon

It is broadly accepted that any language is inherently rhythmic. The predominant approach is that languages belong in one of the following rhythm classes: mora-, syllable-, or stress-timed. These terms imply that moras, syllables and stresses respec...

Read More

The role of timing and prominence in linguistic rhythm, the curious case of Estonian

50%

UCSB Academic Senate, 2021-2024

PI: Mathew Gordon

Collaborator: Argyro Katsika

This project is an articulatory study of timing patterns in Estonian, a language that displays typologically atypical patterns of vowel and consonant duration. It is well established that speakers produce speech characterized by rhythmically regular...

Read More

The role of linguistic rhythm in second language production

100%

UCSB Office of Research, 2021-2022

PI: Argyro Katsika

Due to constraints imposed by Covid-19, the required kinematic data for this project could not be acquired, and the project could not be completed as proposed. As a result its focus was adjusted in order to acquire acoustic data: a set of acoustic e...

Read More

The hierarchical structure of prominence and its interaction with phrasing

100%

UCSB Academic Senate, 2020-22

PI: Argyro Katsika

Prominence, along with phrasing, are the two main functions of prosody, and are essential for acquiring language, and producing and perceiving speech. Previous work has mainly focused on languages that use lexical stress and pitch accent to mark pro...

Read More

Prosodic hierarchy as an interplay of lexical stress, phrasal events and articulatory constrictions

100%

UCSB Academic Senate, 2018-2020

PI: Argyro Katsika

This project assesses the role of two different types of word prosody (lexical stress and lexical pitch accent) in the production of phrasal prosody. Both tonal and temporal aspects of phrasal prosody are examined. Based on the results, a dynamical ...

Read More

Links Between Production and Perception in Speech (renewed)

95%

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders,
National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2018-2023

PI: Douglas Whalen

Collaborator: Argyro Katsika - is one of the collaborators

Although it is agreed that most speech is produced by a human vocal tract, it is less accepted that speech production and speech perception are intricately linked. Many theorists hold that the acoustic output of the vocal tract is dealt with in a pu...

Read More

Collaborative Research, Prosodic Structure, An Integrated Empirical and Modeling Investigation 

100%

National Science Foundation (NSF), 2016-2021

PIs: Argyro Katsika (USCB)Elliot Saltzman (Boston University), Hosung Nam (Haskins Laboratories), Jelena Krivokapić (University of Michigan), Louis Goldstein (University of Southern California)

This project examines how the prosodic structure of language shapes the articulation of spoken utterances. Speaking is a complex, uniquely human ability that relies on precisely coordinated movements of the speech organs (tongue, lips, jaw, soft pal...

Read More