Assistant Professor

Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
100 St. George Street, Rm. 4071, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada
E-mail: al.kochetov<at>utoronto.ca

Research Interests
- Phonology-Phonetics Interface, Speech Production, Speech Perception, Phonology
- Russian, Slavic, Japanese, Komi-Permyak (Finno-Ugric), Korean
Current Grants
- Mechanisms of Consonant Assimilation (SSHRC)
- A multi-lingual corpus of articulatory kinematic data for inter-disciplinary speech production research (Connaught)
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2009. Japanese mimetic palatalization revisited: implications for conflicting directionality (with John Alderete). Phonology 26(3). 369-388. Data supplement.
2009. A review of B. Hayes, R. Kirchner, and D. Steriade (eds.), Phonetically based phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Phonology 26(2). 353-362.
2009. Phonetic variation and gestural specification of Russian consonants. In: Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology. F. Kügler, C. Féry, and R. van de Vijver (eds.). Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 43-70.
2008. Phonetic variability and grammatical knowledge: An articulatory study of Korean place assimilation (with Marianne Pouplier). Phonology 25(3). 1-33.
2008. Perception of gestural overlap and self-organizing phonological contrasts. In: P. Avery, E. Dresher, and K. Rice (eds.), Contrast in phonology: Perception and acquisition. Mouton de Gruyter. 173-196.
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The phonologization of coarticulation (with Laura Colantoni). Paper presented at the conference Going Romance 23, Nice, France, December 3-5, 2009.
Cross-language perception of Russian plain/palatalized laterals and rhotics (with Jim Smith). A poster presented at the 158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Antonio, TX, October 26-30, 2009.
Articulatory characteristics of coronal consonants in Argentine Spanish: An electropalatographic study (with Laura Colantoni). A poster presented at the 158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Antonio, TX, October 26-30, 2009.
A preliminary electropalatographic investigation of affricate contrasts in four languages (with Laura Colantoni, Yoonjung Kang, and Milica Radišić). Paper presented at the 2009 Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop, Linguistics Dept., U of T, August 6, 2009.
Retroflex harmony in Kalasha: Agreement or spreading? (with Paul Arsenault). Poster presented at the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 39) at Cornell University, November 7-9, 2008.
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Alexei Kochetov