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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1.     Lulich, S. M. (2025). Subglottal resonances in older adults. Beszédtudomány – Speech Science, 5(1):12-36.

2.     Palo, P., Lulich, S. M., Aalto, D. (2025) Magnitude of ultrasound probe misalignment measures in controlled conditions – a case study. Beszédtudomány – Speech Science, 5(1):74-89.

3.     Krekeler, B., Donetha Loy, R., Shaheen, N., Lulich, S. M., Sheridan, P., Pena Chavez, R. E., Connor, N. P., Rogus-Pulia, N. (2025) Establishing a method for 3D/4D ultrasound contouring of tongue surface during swallowing. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 51(8):1182-1188.

4.     Patel, R. R., Lulich, S. M., & Francisco, P. (2023). Laryngeal, respiratory, and acoustic characteristics of vocal trillo with simultaneous high-speed videoendoscopy, inductive plethysmography, and acoustic recordings. Journal of Voice.

5.     Diekhoff, M. & Lulich, S. M. (2022). Conceptualizations of the articulation of rhotic sounds in American English, and the role of clinical experience in their formation. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 7:1256-1274.

6.     Lulich, S. M. & Patel, R. R. (2021). Semi-occluded vocal tract exercises in healthy young adults: articulatory, acoustic, and aerodynamic measurements during phonation at threshold. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(5):3213-3227.

7.     Cavar, M. E., & Lulich, S. M. (2021). Variation in the articulation of Russian stressed vowels and the mechanics of palatalization in consonants. Phonological Data and Analysis, 3(3), 1-44

8.     Cavar, M. E., Rudman, E., & Lulich, S. M. (2020). Palatalization in coronal consonants of Polish: a three-/four-dimensional ultrasound study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148, EL447-EL452.

9.     Cavar, M. E., & Lulich, S. M. (2020). Allophonic variation in the Polish vowel /ɨ/: Results of a 3D ultrasound study and their phonological implications. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 28(1), 1-21.

10.  Karthik, E. M. V. N., Karimi, E., Lulich, S. M., & Laporte, C. (2020). Automatic tongue surface extraction from 3D ultrasound vocal tract images. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147, 1623-1633.

11.  Hwang, Y., Lulich, S. M., & de Jong, K. (2019). Articulatory and acoustic characteristics of the Korean and English word-final laterals produced by Korean female learners of American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, 146, EL444-EL450.

12.  Lulich, S. M., & Cavar, M. E. (2019). Phonetics of Polish ‘soft’-‘hard’ vowel allophony. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146, 2263-2278.

13.  Lulich, S. M., & Pearson, W. G., Jr. (2019). 3D/4D ultrasound technology in speech research. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 4, 733-747.

14.  Patel, R. R., Lulich, S. M., & Verdi, A. (2019). Vocal tract shape and acoustic adjustments of children during phonation into narrow flow-resistant tubes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146, 352-368.

15.   Charles, S., & Lulich, S.M. (2019). Articulatory-acoustic relations in the production of coronal and palatal lateral sounds in Brazilian Portuguese. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145, 3269-3288.

16.  Hwang, Y., Charles, S., & Lulich, S. M. (2019). Articulatory characteristics and variation of Korean laterals. Phonetics and Speech Sciences, 11, 19-27.

17.  Yeung, G., Lulich, S. M., Guo, J., Sommers, M. S., & Alwan, A. (2018). Subglottal resonances of American English speaker children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144, 3437-3449.

18.  Charles, S. & Lulich, S. M. (2018). Case study of Brazilian Portuguese laterals using a novel articulatory-acoustic methodology with 3D/4D ultrasound. Speech Communication, 103, 37-48.

19.  Lulich, S. M., Berkson, K. H., & de Jong, K. (2018). Acquiring and visualizing 3D/4D ultrasound recordings of tongue motion. Journal of Phonetics, 71, 410-424.

20.  Lulich, S. M., Charles, S., & Lulich, B. (2017). The relation between tongue shape and pitch in clarinet playing using ultrasound measurements. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141, 1759-1768.

21.  Lulich, S. M. & Arsikere, H. (2015). Tracheo-bronchial soft tissue and cartilage resonances in the subglottal acoustic input impedance. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137, 3436-3446.

22.  Morton, J. R., Sommers, M. S., & Lulich, S. M. (2015). The effect of exposure to a single vowel on talker normalization for vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137, 1443-1451.

23.  Arsikere, H., Lulich, S. M., & Alwan, A. (2014). Estimating Speaker Height and Subglottal Resonances Using MFCCs and GMMs. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 21, 159-162.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

1.     Smith, C., Cheng, H., Palo, P., Aalto, D., Lulich, S. M. (accepted). Exploratory Analysis of Brainstem fMRI Data During Sustained Phonation. Interspeech.

2.     Shetty, V. M., Zheng, J, Lulich, S. M., & Alwan, A. (2025). Enhancing age-related robustness in children speaker verification. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

3.     Shetty, V. M., Lulich, S. M., & Alwan, A. (2023). Developmental articulatory and acoustic features for six to ten year old children. Proceedings of Interspeech, 4598-4602.

4.     Lulich, S. M. & Patel, R. R. (2021). Accelerometer-based measurements of voice quality in children during semi-occluded vocal tract exercises with a narrow straw in air. Proceedings of Interspeech, 1404-1408.

5.     Yeung, G., Afshan, A., Ozgun, K. E., Kaewtip, K., Lulich, S. M., & Alwan, A. (2017). Predicting clinical evaluations of children’s speech with limited data using exemplar word template references. 7th ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE), 10, 161-166.

6.     Berkson, K. H., de Jong, K., & Lulich, S. M. (2017). Three Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging of Pre- and Post-Vocalic Liquid Consonants in American English: Preliminary Observations. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 5080-5084.

7.     Csapó, T. G. & Lulich, S. M. (2015). Error analysis of extracted tongue contours from 2D ultrasound images. Proceedings of Interspeech, 2157-2161.

8.     Guo, J., Pature, R., Yeung, G., Lulich, S. M., Arsikere, H., & Alwan, A. (2015). Age-dependent height estimation and speaker normalization for children’s speech using the first three subglottal resonances. Proceedings of Interspeech, 1665-1669.

9.     Guo, J., Liu, A., Arsikere, H., Alwan, A., & Lulich, S. M. (2014). The relationship between the second subglottal resonance and vowel class, standing height, trunk length, and F0 variation for Mandarin speakers. Proceedings of Interspeech, 930-934.

 

Editor-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

1.     Palo, P. & Lulich, S. M. (2021). An ultrasound study of the effect of rest position on timing of pre-acoustic speech movements. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 45, 060011.

2.     Lulich, S. M. & Charles, S. D. (2020). Development of formant frequency distributions I American English-speaking elementary school-aged children: a longitudinal study. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 42, 060016.

3.     Alfaifi, A. H., Cavar, M. E., & Lulich, S. M. (2020). Tongue root position in Hijazi Arabic voiceless emphatic and non-emphatic coronal consonants. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 42, 060004.

4.     Charles, S. D., & Lulich, S. M. (2019). An ultrasound study of American English laterals produced by children. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 36, 060006.

5.     Lulich, S. M., Cavar, M. E., & Nelson, M. (2017). Three-dimensional ultrasound images of Polish high front vowels. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 173EAA 30, 060006.

6.     Cavar, M. E., Lulich, S. M., & Nelson, M. (2017). Allophonic variation in Polish vowels in the context of prepalatal consonants. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 173EAA 30, 060007.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

†Student

1.     Mokh, N. A., Lulich, S. M., †Alfaifi, A., †Robinson, S., †Charles, S., & de Jong, K. (2020). A study of the place of articulation of the Arabic voiceless dorsal fricative. In Van Gelderen, E. (Ed.), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXII (pp. 55-67). John Benjamins.