Journal Articles
Abel, J., and Babel, M. (2016). Cognitive Load Reduces Perceived Linguistic Convergence Between Dyads. Language and Speech .
Abel, J., and Babel, M. (2016). Cognitive Load Reduces Perceived Linguistic Convergence Between Dyads. Language and Speech .
Szakay, A., Babel, M., and King, J. (2016). Social categories are shared across bilinguals’ lexicons. Journal of Phonetics .
McAuliffe, M., and Babel, M. (2016). Stimulus-directed attention attenuates lexically-guided perceptual learning. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America .
McAuliffe, M., and Babel, M. (2015). Attention, word position, and perceptual learning. Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences , 1-4. PDF
Babel, M., and Russell, J. (2015). Expectations and Speech Intelligibility. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America .
McGuire, G., and Babel, M. (2015). Facial attractiveness facilitates face processing. Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences , 1-4. PDF
Babel, M., and McGuire, G. (2015). Perceptual Fluency and Judgments of Vocal Aesthetics and Stereotypicality. Cognitive Science .
Babel, M., and McGuire, G. (2015). The effects of talker variability on phonetic accommodation. Proceedings of the International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences , 1-5. PDF
Babel, M., McGuire, G., Walters, S., and Nichols, A. (2014). Novelty and social preference in phonetic accommodation. Journal of Laboratory Phonology .
Babel, M., McGuire, G., and King, J. (2014). Towards a More Nuanced View of Vocal Attractiveness. PLOS ONE .
Babel, M., McAuliffe, M., and Haber, G. (2013). Can mergers-in-progress be unmerged in speech accommodation?. Frontiers in Psychology .
Babel, M., Garrett, A., Houser, M., and Toosarvandani, M. (2013). Descent and diffusion in language diversification: A study of Western Numic dialectology . International Journal of American Linguistics .
Babel, M., and McGuire, G. (2013). Listener expectations and gender bias in nonsibilant fricative perception. Phonetica .
Babel, M., and McGuire, G. (2013). Perceived vocal attractiveness across dialects is similar but not uniform. Proceedings of Interspeech . PDF
Babel, M., and Munson, B. (in press). Producing socially meaninful linguistic variation. The Oxford Handbook of Language Production, V. Ferreira, M. Goldrick, and M. Miozza (Eds).
McGuire, G., Russell, J., and Babel, M. (2013). The effect of accommodation on perceived vocal aesthetics. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics .
Walters, S., Babel, M., and McGuire, G. (2013). The role of voice similarity in accommodation. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics .
McGuire, G., and Babel, M. (2012). A cross-modal account for synchronic and diachronic patterns of /f/ and /θ/ in English. Journal of Laboratory Phonology .
Babel, M. (2012). Evidence for phonetic and social selectivity in phonetic accommodation. Journal of Phonetics .
Babel, M., and McGuire, G. (2012). Gendered sound symbolism and masking effects in speech processing. Proceedings of Interspeech . PDF
Babel, M., Houser, M., and Toosarvandani, M. (2012). Phonetic Description of Mono Lake Northern Paiute. Journal of the International Phonetic Alphabet .
McAuliffe, M., and Babel, M. (2012). Predictability affects vowel dispersion and dynamics in the Buckeye Corpus. Proceedings of Interspeech .
Szakay, A., Babel, M., and King, J. (2012). Sociophonetic markers facilitate translation priming: Maori English GOAT — A different kind of animal. Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics .
Babel, M., and Bulatov, D. (2012). The role of fundamental frequency in phonetic accommodation. Language and Speech .
Babel, M. (2011). Imitation in Speech. Acoustics Today. PDF
Babel, M., and Johnson, K. (2010). Accessing psycho-acoustic perception with speech sounds. Journal of Laboratory Phonology .
Babel, M. (2010). Dialect convergence and divergence in New Zealand English. Language in Society .
Johnson, K., and Babel, M. (2010). On the perceptual basis of distinctive features: Evidence from the perception of fricatives by Dutch and English speakers. Journal of Phonetics .
Babel, M. (2009). The phonetics and phonology of obsolescence in Northern Paiute. Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Eds., D. Preston and J. Stanford .
Babel, M., and Johnson, K. (2007). Cross-linguistic differences in the perception of palatalization. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences. PDF
Munson, B., and Babel, M. (2007). Loose lips and silver tongues, or projecting sexual orientation through speech. Language and Linguistic Compass
Munson, B., and Babel, M. (2005). The sequential cueing effect in children’s speech production. Applied Psycholinguistics.
Conferences and Presentations
Hui, J., Senior, B., and Babel, M. (2016). The role of names in the familiar language advantage. In Proceedings of the Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Processing, Virginia Tech.
Babel, M., and Russell, J. (2015). Expectations, alignment, and speech intelligibility. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, Oregon.
Babel, M., McAuliffe, M., and McGuire, G. (2014). Spectral similarity and listener judgments of phonetic accommodation. In Proceedings of the 10th International Seminar on Speech Production, Cologne, Germany.
McGuire, G., and Babel, M. (2014). Stereotypes predict memory effects for voices. In Proceedings of the The 14th Conference of Laboratory Phonology, Tokyo, Japan.
McAuliffe, M., and Babel, M. (2014). Toward a holistic measure of reduction in spontaneous speech. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Tokyo, Japan.
Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., Fais, L., Haber, G., and Rubin, P. (2013). Coordination, perception and the construction of reality. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Perception and Action, Estoril, Portugal.
Babel, M., and McGuire, G. (2013). Deciphering the role of social context and socio-cognitive measures in phonetic accommodation. In Proceedings of the Variation and Language Processing 2 (VALP2), Christchurch, New Zealand.
Babel, M., Haber, G., and Walters, S. (2013). Individual-level connections between perceptual adaptation and phonetic imitation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Sound Change Actuation, University of Chicago.
Babel, M., and McGuire, G. (2013). Perceived vocal attractiveness across dialects is similar but not uniform. In Proceedings of the Interspeech 14th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Lyon, France. PDF
Szakay, A., Babel, M., and King, J. (2013). Processing and mental representation of innovative phonetic variables. In Proceedings of the Variation and Language Processing 2 (VALP2), Christchurch, New Zealand.
McMullin, K., and Babel, M. (2013). Similarity and the perception of half-rhymes. In Proceedings of the CUNY Conference on the Feature in Phonetics and Phonology, New York, NY.
Szakay, A., Babel, M., and King, J. (2012). Abstract lexical representations are mediated by social code: Evidence from long-term cross-language auditory priming. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal, Canada.
Babel, M., McGuire, G., Nichols, A., and Walters, S. (2012). Imitation as a mechanism for the spread of sound change. In Proceedings of the Second Annual Workshop on Sound Change, Seeon-Seebruck, Germany.
Babel, M., McGuire, G., Nichols, A., and Walters, S. (2012). Imitation of individual voices varying in attractiveness and stereotypicality. In Proceedings of the Conference on Sources of Individual Differences, Ottawa, Canada.
Babel, M., McAuliffe, M., and Narayan, C. (2012). Linguistic effects on talker discrimination: The effect of semantic cohesion. In Proceedings of the Laboratory Phonology 13, Stuttgart, Germany.
McAuliffe, M., and Babel, M. (2012). Predictability affects vowel dispersion and dynamics in the Buckeye Corpus. In Proceedings of the Interspeech, Portland, Oregon.
Babel, M., and Laturnus , B. (2012). Preferential spontaneous phonetic imitation in children. In Proceedings of the International Child Phonology Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
Szakay, A., Babel, M., and King, J. (2012). Social context trumps superficial similarity in long-term priming. In Proceedings of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 41 (NWAV41), Bloomington, Indiana.
Babel, M., Haber, G., and McAuliffe, M. (2012). Unmerging mergers-in-progress through spontaneous phonetic imitation. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Imitation and Convergence in Speech, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Szakay, A., Babel, M., and King, J. (2011). Sociophonetic markers facilitate translation priming: Maori English GOAT – a different kind of animal. In Proceedings of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40 (NWAV40), Washington, D.C..
Babel, M., McGuire, G., King, J., and Satterwhite, A. (2011). Vocal aesthetics, prototypicality, and stereotypicality. In Proceedings of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40 (NWAV40), Washington, D.C..
Babel, M., McGuire, G., and Satterwhite, A. (2011). Vocal aesthetics, sex typicality, and their relationships with voice and phoneme processing. In Proceedings of the Variation and Language Processing (VALP), Chester, UK.
Babel, M., McGuire, G., King, J., and Satterwhite, A. (2011). Vocal Aesthetics, stereotypicality, and prototypicality. . In Proceedings of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40, Washington, D.C.. PDF
Babel, M., Delaney, M., and Savji, S. (2010). An acoustic and auditory comparison of implicit and explicit phonetic imitation. In Proceedings of the The Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Victoria, BC.
Babel, M., and McGuire, G. (2010). Contrast salience and talker normalization in nonsibilant fricative perception. In Proceedings of the The Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Victoria, BC.
Chiu, C., and Babel, M. (2010). Effects of syllable positions on Taiwanese Mandarin sibilant perception. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP 2010), Tainan, Taiwan.
Babel, M., and Narayan, C. (2010). Episodes and abstraction: When listeners attend to talker-specific detail. In Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Rogers, B., and Babel, M. (2010). Phoneme monitoring in noise: Evidence for language-specific fricative perception. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL.
Babel, M. (2009). Phonetic convergence: A socially motivated process or a cognitive reflex?. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Babel, M. (2009). Vowel imitation in spontaneous phonetic imitation. In Proceedings of the The Annual Conference of the Canadian Acoustical Association, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON.