PUBLICATIONS of the Speech Production Laboratory (2013-present)
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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.