News

October 28, 2011 - I am on leave this academic year (Fall 2011 - Spring 2012) and currently visiting the All-India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) in Mysore, Karnataka, India.

December 12, 2011 - I just came back from a trip to Nilgiri Hills (Tamilnadu), where I had a chance to visit villages of the Toda tribe. The Toda language (South Dravidian) is unique in having a 4-way place contrast in sibilant fricatives (as previously documented by Peter Ladefoged and colleagues).

research AIISH Mysore experience A Toda village, Nilgiri Hills

Research

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, Korean, etc.) and employed various experimental methods, including articulography, electropalatography, acoustic analysis, and perceptual experiments.

NEW! - Recent and upcoming publications:

Please see my SelectedWorks page for copies of these and other papers and presentations.

Phonetics Lab

I am the Director of the Phonetics Lab, which is located on the ground floor of Sidney Smith. The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art hardware and software for audio recording, acoustic analysis, articulatory data collection (electropalatography, ultrasound), and perceptual experiments. For more information, please visit the lab website and the page on cross-language articulatory research.

Sample electropalatographic (EPG) data: linguopalatal profiles of Korean coronal stops (closures) and affricates (closures and releases; see Kang & Kochetov 2010 for details):

EPG Korean stops

Teaching

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:

Contact

  • Dr. Alexei Kochetov
  • Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
  • 100 St. George Street, Rm. 4070,
  • Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada
  • E-mail: al.kochetov<at>utoronto.ca, Phone: 416-946-3808