Research

Forthcoming/accepted

Marc Brunelle, James Kirby. Tonogenesis and the evolution of tone systems. In Ledgeway, Aldrige et al. (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics.

James Kirby, Jonathan Harrington. Acoustic-perceptual factors in the actuation of sound change. In Ledgeway, Aldrige et al. (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics.

James Kirby, Morgan Sonderegger. Actuation without production bias. To appear in Kleber and Rathcke (eds.), Speech Dynamics: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change, De Gruyter.

2024

Jiayin Gao, James Kirby. 2024. Laryngeal contrast and sound change: The production and perception of plosive voicing and co-intrinsic pitch. Language 100(1): 124-158.

2023

James Kirby. 2023. Comparative tonal text-setting in Mandarin and Cantonese popular song. In Fagen et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Fifty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2022), pp. 211-230. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.

James Kirby, Pittayawat Pittayaporn, Marc Brunelle. 2023. Transphonologization of onset voicing: revisiting Northern and Eastern Kmhmu’. Phonetica 79(6): 591-629.

James Kirby, Maryann Tan. 2023. Analyzing variability in closure voicing and co-intrinsic F0 in Central Standard Swedish. In Skarnitzl and Volín (eds.), Proc. ICPhS 2023, Prague, 2244-2248.

Laura Arnold, Jiayin Gao, James Kirby. 2023. Intrinsic fundamental frequency differences in two tonal Austronesian languages. In Skarnitzl and Volín (eds.), Proc. ICPhS 2023, Prague, 3345-3349.

Jiayin Gao, James Kirby. 2023. Perceptual adaptation to altered cue informativeness: Distributional, auditory, and lexical factors. In Skarnitzl and Volín (eds.), Proc. ICPhS 2023, Prague, 137-141.

2022

James Kirby, Mark Alves. 2022. Exploring statistical regularities in the syllable canon of Sino-Vietnamese loanmorph phonology. In Trang Phan, John Phan, Mark Alves (eds.), Vietnamese Linguistics: State of the Field, pp. 104-126. University of Hawaii Press. Supplementary materials

James Kirby. 2022. Effects of voiceless and preglottalized nasals on F0 in Eastern Khmu (Kmhmu’ Am). Papers from the 30th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2021), pp. 318-333.

2021

Cathryn Yang, Pittayawat Pittayaporn, James Kirby, Sujinat Jitwiriyanot. 2021. Change and stability in the tonal contours of King Rama IX of Thailand, 1959-1997. Proc. 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), 66-70.

James Kirby. 2021. Incorporating tone in the calculation of phonotactic probability. Proceedings of the 18th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pp. 32-38. Supplementary materials

Lauren Hall-Lew, Patrick Honeybone, James Kirby. 2021. Individuals, communities, and sound change: an introduction. Glossa 6(1):67.

James Kirby, Đinh Lư Giang. 2021. Relating production and perception of L2 tone. In Second Language Speech Learning. Theoretical and Empirical Progress, Edited by Ratree Wayland, pp. 249-272. Cambridge University Press. Supplementary materials

James Kirby. 2021. Towards a comparative history of tonal text-setting practices in Southeast Asia. In Reinhard Strohm (ed.), Transcultural music history. Global participation and regional diversity in the modern age, pp. 291-312. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag.

2020

Marc Brunelle, James Kirby, Alexis Michaud, Justin Watkins. 2020. Mainland Southeast Asia. In Carlos Gussenhoven, Aoju Chen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of language prosody, pp. 344-354. Oxford University Press.

D. Robert Ladd, James Kirby. 2020. Tone-melody matching in tone language singing. In Carlos Gussenhoven, Aoju Chen (eds.), The Oxford handbook of language prosody, pp. 676-687. Oxford University Press.

Marc Brunelle, Tạ Thành Tấn, James Kirby, Đinh Lư Giang. 2020. Transphonologization of voicing in Chru: Studies in production and perception. Laboratory Phonology 11 (1), 15.

Marc Garellek, Matthew Gordon, James Kirby, Wai-Sum Lee, Alexis Michaud, Christine Mooshammer, Oliver Niebuhr, Daniel Recasens, Timo B. Roettger, Adrian Simpson, Kristine M. Yu. 2020. Letter to the editor: Toward open data policies in phonetics: what we can gain and how we can avoid pitfalls. Journal of Speech Science 9, pp. 3-16.

James Kirby, D. Robert Ladd, Jiayin Gao, Zuzana Elliott. 2020. Elicitation context does not drive F0 lowering following voiced stops: Evidence from French and Italian. JASA Express Letters 148(2), EL137-EL152. Supplementary materials

Yubin Zhang, James Kirby. 2020. The role of F0 and phonation cues in Cantonese low tone perception. JASA Express Letters 148(1), EL40-EL45. Supplementary materials

James Kirby, Felicitas Kleber, Jessica Siddins, Jonathan Harrington. 2020. Effects of prosodic prominence on obstruent-intrinsic F0 and VOT in German. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Tokyo, pp. 210-214.

Misnadin, James Kirby. 2020. Acoustic correlates of plosive voicing in Madurese. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 147(4), pp. 2779-2790.

Misnadin, James Kirby. 2020. Madurese. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 50(1), pp. 109-126. Supplementary materials

2019

James Kirby, D. Robert Ladd. 2019. Effects of obstruent voicing on vowel F0: implications for laryngeal realism. Yearbook of the Poznań Linguistic Meeting 4 (2018), pp. 213-235.

Marc Brunelle, Tạ Thành Tấn, James Kirby, Đinh Lư Giang. 2019. Obstruent devoicing and registrogenesis in Chru. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, pp. 517-521.

James Kirby, Misnadin. 2019. Perception of laryngeal contrast in Madurese. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, pp. 2378-2382.

James Kirby, Gwendolyn Hyslop. 2019. Acoustic analysis of onset voicing in Dzongkha obstruents. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, pp. 3607-3611.

Yingyi Zhou, James Kirby. 2019. An acoustic study of Zhajin Gan tone. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, pp. 1193-1197.

2018

Philippa Shoemark, James Kirby, Sharon Goldwater. 2018. Inducing a lexicon of sociolinguistic variables from code-mixed text. Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop W-NUT: The 4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, pp. 1-6.

James Kirby. 2018. Onset pitch perturbations and the cross-linguistic implementation of voicing: Evidence from tonal and non-tonal languages. Journal of Phonetics 71, pp. 326-354. Supplementary materials | Corrigendum

James Kirby, Morgan Sonderegger. 2018. Mixed-effects design analysis for experimental phonetics. Journal of Phonetics 70, pp. 70-85. Supplementary materials

James Kirby, Morgan Sonderegger. 2018. Model selection and phonological argumentation. In Diane Brentari, Jackson L. Lee (eds.), Shaping Phonology, pp. 234-252. University of Chicago Press.

2017

James Kirby, Đinh Lư Giang. 2017. On the r>h shift in Kiên Giang Khmer. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 10(2), pp. 66-85. Supplementary materials

Philippa Shoemark, James Kirby, Sharon Goldwater. 2017. Topic and audience effects on distinctively Scottish vocabulary usage in Twitter data. Proceedings of the Workshop on Stylistic Variation (EMNLP 2017), pp. 59-68.

James Kirby, Marc Brunelle. 2017. Southeast Asian tone in areal perspective. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), The Cambridge handbook of areal linguistics, pp. 703-731. Cambridge University Press.

Pittayawat Pittayaporn, James Kirby. 2017. Laryngeal contrasts in the Tai dialect of Cao Bằng. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 47(1), pp. 65-85. Supplementary materials
2016

James Kirby, D. Robert Ladd. 2016. Effects of obstruent voicing on vowel F0: evidence from “true voicing” languages. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140(1), pp. 2400-2411. Supplementary materials

James Kirby, D. Robert Ladd. 2016. Tone-melody correspondence in Vietnamese popular song. The 5th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL2016), pp. 48-51. Supplementary materials

Philippa Shoemark, Sharon Goldwater, James Kirby, Rik Sarkar. 2016. Towards robust cross-linguisic comparisons of phonological networks. Proc. SIGMORPHON 14, pp. 110-120.

Marc Brunelle, James Kirby. 2016. Tone and phonation in Southeast Asian languages. Language and Linguistics Compass 10(4), pp. 191-207.

2015

James Kirby, D. Robert Ladd. 2015. Stop voicing and F0 perturbations: evidence from French and Italian. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow.

Misnadin, Bert Remjisen, James Kirby. 2015. Temporal and spectral properties of Madurese stops. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow.

James Kirby, Lauren Hall-Lew. 2015. Studying (socially stratified?) linguistic variation in the Edinburgh Phonetics Recording Archive. Poster presented at Workshop on Modeling Variability in Speech, Stuttgart.

James Kirby, Morgan Sonderegger. 2015. Bias and population structure in the actuation of sound change. arXiv:1507.04420 [physics].

Marc Brunelle, James Kirby. 2015. Re-assessing tonal diversity and geographical convergence in Mainland Southeast Asia. In N. J. Enfield, Bernard Comrie (ed.), Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art, pp. 82-110. Mouton de Gruyter.

2014

James Kirby. 2014. Acoustic transitions in Khmer word-initial clusters. Proceedings of the 10th International Seminar on Speech Production, pp. 234-237. Audio recordings | Supplementary materials

James Kirby. 2014. Incipient tonogenesis in Phnom Penh Khmer: Acoustic and perceptual studies. Journal of Phonetics 43, pp. 69-85. Audio recordings | Supplementary materials

James Kirby. 2014. Incipient tonogenesis in Phnom Penh Khmer: Computational studies. Laboratory Phonology 5(1), pp. 195-230.

Timo Röttger, Bodo Winter, Sven Grawunder, James Kirby, Martine Grice. 2014. Assessing incomplete neutralization of final devoicing in German. Journal of Phonetics 43, pp. 11-25.

2013

James Kirby, Morgan Sonderegger. 2013. A model of population dynamics applied to phonetic change. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 776-781. Corrigenda

James Kirby. 2013. The role of probabilistic enhancement in phonologization. In Alan Yu (ed.), Origins of sound change: approaches to phonologization, pp. 228-246. Oxford University Press. Corrigendum

2012

James Kirby, Alan Yu. 2012. Tracking the acquisition of L2 phonetic contrast. Poster presented at LabPhon 13, Stuttgart.

2011

James Kirby. 2011. Modeling the acquisition of covert contrast. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 1090-1093.

Max Bane, Jason Riggle, James Kirby, John Sylak. Multilingual learning with parameter co-occurrence clustering. Proceedings of the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, pp. 67-82.

James Kirby. 2011. A tone split in Taoping Qiang. Paper presented at the 21st Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Bangkok.

James Kirby. 2011. Vietnamese (Hanoi Vietnamese). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 41(3), pp. 381-392.

2010

James Kirby. 2010. Cue selection and category restructuring in sound change. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago.

James Kirby. 2010. Acquisition of covert contrasts: an unsupervised learning approach. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 46(2), pp. 111-125.

James Kirby. 2010. Dialect experience in Vietnamese tone perception. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 127(4), pp. 3749-3757.

2009

James Kirby. 2009. Comparative-induced event measure relations. Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco. 2009.

James Kirby, Alan Yu. 2009. Morphological paradigm effects on vowel realization. University of Chicago ms.

2007

Jason Riggle, Max Bane, James Kirby, Ed King, Heather Rivers, John Sylak. 2007. Erculator: a Web application for constraint-based phonology. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 36: Papers in Theoretical and Computational Phonology, pp. 135-150.

James Kirby, Alan Yu. 2007. Lexical and phonotactic effects on wordlikeness judgments in Cantonese. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 1389-1392.

2006

Cindy Kilpatrick, Kathryn McGee, James Kirby. 2006. Intrusive vowels in Cruceño Spanish. Poster presented at the 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu.

James Kirby. 2006. Vietnamese and the structure of NP. University of Chicago ms.