Alexei Kochetov

April 10, 2012 - I am now in Japan and, together with my collaborators at AIISH, working on the analysis of ultrasound and EMA data from Kannada (Dravidian), collected in Mysore, India. Below are a link to the paper documenting our first results, a sample figure and an ultrasound video from the study:

• Kochetov, A., Sreedevi, N., & Kasim, M. (2012). A preliminary ultrasound study of Kannada lingual articulations. [submitted, comments are welcome!]
  

December 12, 2011 - I just came back from a trip to Nilgiri Hills (Tamil Nadu), 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).

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.

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 publications:

• Scales and patterns of expressive palatalization: Experimental evidence from Japanese (with John Alderete), Canadian Journal of Linguistics (2011)
• Coronal place contrasts in Argentine and Cuban Spanish: An electropalatographic study (with Laura Colantoni), Journal of International Phonetic Association (2011)
• Spanish nasal assimilation revisited: A cross-dialect electropalatographic study (with Laura Colantoni), Journal of Laboratory Phonology (2011)
• Alveolar-to-rhotic coarticulation in North American English: A preliminary EPG study, Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetics Sciences (2011)

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

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):

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:

• LIN100 Introduction to Linguistics (syllabus, Fall 2010)
• HUM199 Analyzing speech sounds (syllabus, Winter 2010)
• LIN228 Introduction to Phonetics (syllabus, Fall 2009)
• LIN362/1162 Historical Linguistics (syllabus, Fall 2009)
• LIN423/1127 Phonetic Analysis (syllabus, Winter 2011)
• LIN1224 Advanced Phonology (graduate, syllabus, Winter 2011)

• 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