Alexei Kochetov

My research has been exploring the interface between phonology and phonetics focusing on a range of phonological phenomena (palatalization, assimilation, etc.) and their phonetic correlates or sources (coarticulation, misperception, etc.). I have worked with a number of languages (Russian, Komi-Permyak, Japanese, Kannada, Korean) and employed various experimental methods, including articulography, electropalatography, ultrasound, acoustic analysis, and perceptual experiments.

For more information, please see my profiles at Google Scholar, Research Gate, and bepress Selected Works.

Selected recent publications (last 6 years):

• Oh, Sejin, Jason Shaw, Karthik Durvasula, & Alexei Kochetov. (in press). Russian assimilatory palatalization is incomplete neutralization. Journal of Laboratory Phonology, 28 pp. [pre-print]
• Colantoni, Laura, Alexei Kochetov, & Jeffrey Steele. 2023. Articulatory insights into the L2 acquisition of English-/l/ allophony. Language & Speech, First published online November 29, 2023. [doi link]
• Colantoni, Laura, Alexei Kochetov, & Jeffrey Steele. 2023. Pathways to depalatalization of the French palatal nasal in Quebec & Hexagonal French: An EPG study. Journal of French Language Studies [doi link]
• Kochetov, Alexei, Christophe Savariaux, Camille Noûs, Laurent Lamalle, & Pierre Badin. 2023. An MRI-based articulatory characterization of Kannada coronal consonant contrasts. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Published online 2023:1-30. [doi link]
• Colantoni, Laura, Alexei Kochetov, & Jeffrey Steele. 2023. L1 influence on the L2 acquisition of English word-final nasal place contrasts: An electropalatographic study of L1 Japanese and Spanish learners. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 14(1), 1–45. [doi link]
• Pouplier, Marianne, Manfred Pastätter, Philip Hoole, Stefania Marin, Ioana Chitoran, Tomas O. Lentz, & Alexei Kochetov. 2022. Language and cluster-specific effects in the timing of consonant sequences in seven languages, Journal of Phonetics 92, 101153. [doi link]
• Colantoni, Laura, Alexei Kochetov, & Jeffrey Steele. 2021. Coronal stop lenition in French and Spanish: Electropalatographic evidence. Loquens 81(1), e080. 15 pp. [doi link]
• Hussain, Qandeel & Alexei Kochetov. 2021. Acoustic classification of coronal stops of Eastern Punjabi. Phonetica, 79(1), 77-110. [doi link]
• Shaw, Jason, Oh, Sejin, Durvasula, Karthik, & Kochetov, Alexei 2021. Articulatory coordination distinguishes complex segments from segment sequences. Phonology, 38(3), 437-477. [doi link]
• Colantoni, Laura, Kochetov, Alexei, & Jeffrey Steele. 2021. Articulatory settings and L2 English coronal consonants. Phonetica, 78(4), 273-316. [doi link]
• Tabain, Marija, Kochetov, Alexei, & & Richard Beare. 2020. An ultrasound and formant study of manner contrasts at four coronal places of articulation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148, 5, 3195-3217. [doi link]
• Kochetov, Alexei, Laura Colantoni, & Jeffrey Steele. 2020. Variable assimilation of English word-final /n/: Electropalatographic evidence. English Language & Linguistics, 25(4), 687-718. [doi link]
• Kochetov, Alexei, Paul Arsenault, Jan Heegård Petersen, Sikandar Kalas, & Taj Khan Kalash. 2020. Kalasha (Illustrations of IPA). Journal of International Phonetic Association, 51(3), 468-489. [doi link]
• Kochetov, Alexei, Jan Heegård Petersen, & Paul Arsenault. 2020. Acoustics of Kalasha laterals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147, 3012-3027. [doi link]
• Howson, Phil & Alexei Kochetov. 2020. Lowered F2 observed in uvular rhotics involves a tongue root gesture: evidence from Upper Sorbian. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147, 2845-2857. [doi link]
• Kochetov, Alexei. 2020. Research methods in articulatory phonetics II: Studying other gestures & Recent trends. Language and Linguistic Compass, 1-32, e12371. [doi link].
• Kochetov, Alexei. 2020. Research methods in articulatory phonetics I: Introduction & Studying oral gestures. Language and Linguistic Compass, 4, 1-29, [doi link]
• Kochetov, Alexei, & Paul Arsenault. 2020. Kalasha affricates: An acoustic analysis of place contrasts. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, special volume on the phonetics of South Asian languages, Published online by de Gruyter, 17 January 2020, 29 pp. [doi link]
• Kochetov, Alexei, Marija Tabain, N. Sreedevi, & Richard Beare. 2018. Manner and place differences in Kannada dentals and retroflexes: Articulatory and acoustic results. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144, 3221–3235. [doi link]
• Matsui, Mayuki & Alexei Kochetov. 2018. Tongue root positioning for voicing vs. contrastive palatalization: An ultrasound study of Russian word-initial coronal stops. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 22 (2), 81-94. [doi link]
• Ozburn, Avery & Alexei Kochetov. 2018. Lezgian ejective harmony. Phonology 35 (3), 407-440. [doi link]
• Spinu, Laura, Alexei Kochetov, & Jason Lilley. 2018. Acoustic classification of Russian plain and palatalized sibilant fricatives: Spectral vs. cepstral measures. Speech Communication 100, 41-50. [doi link]
• Steele, Jeffrey, Laura Colantoni, & Alexei Kochetov. 2018. Gradient assimilation in French cross-word /n/+velar stop sequences. Journal of International Phonetic Association. pp. 1-22. [doi link]
• Kochetov, Alexei. 2018. Linguopalatal contact contrasts in the production of Japanese consonants: EPG data from five speakers. Acoustical Science and Technology (Japan), 39(2), a special issue on Speech Communication. 84-91. [doi link]
• Tabain, Marija & Alexei Kochetov. 2018. Acoustic realization and inventory size: Kannada and Malayalam alveolar/retroflex laterals and /ɻ/. Phonetica, 75, 85–109. [doi link]

For copies of these and other papers, please visit my Research Gate and bepress Selected Works pages.

I am a Director of the Phonetics Lab, which is used by the department faculty and students to collect acoustic and articulatory data (electropalatography, ultrasound, electroglottography, electromagnetic articulography), and conduct perceptual experiments.

Since 2007, I have taught a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, mainly in phonetics and phonology, but also in historical linguistics and general linguistics. Here are some of the courses:

• LIN101 Introduction to Linguistics: Sound Structure
• LIN194 (TBB199) Analyzing speech sounds
• LIN228 Phonetics
• LIN229 Sound Patterns
• LIN362/1162 Historical Linguistics
• LIN423/1127 Phonetic Analysis
• LIN1103 Analysis and Argumentation (graduate)
• LIN1106 Introduction to Experimental Design (graduate)
• LIN1211 Advanced Phonetics (graduate)
• LIN1224 Advanced Phonology (graduate)

• Prof. Alexei Kochetov
• Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
• 100 St. George Street, Rm. 6027A,
• Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada
• E-mail: al.kochetov<at>utoronto.ca