2023
- Soo, R., & Babel, M., (2023). Perceptual effects of lexical competition on Cantonese tone categories. Laboratory Phonology, 14(1). [Paper]
- Soo, R., & Monahan, P. J. (2023). Language dominance and order of acquisition affect auditory translation priming in heritage speakers. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(2), 284-293. [Paper]
2022
- Cheung, Sarah and Babel, Molly. (2022). The own-voice benefit in early bilinguals. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences.
- Cheng, Lauretta, S.P., Babel, Molly, and Yao, Yao. (2022). Production and perception across three Hong Kong Cantonese consonant mergers: Community- and individual-level perspectives. Journal of Laboratory Phonology, 13(1): 14, pp. 1-54. [Paper]
- Babel, Molly. (2022). Adaptation to Social-Linguistic Associations in Audio-Visual Speech. Brain Sciences, 12(7):845, pp. 1-15. [Paper]
2021
- Babel, M., Johnson, K. A., & Sen, C. (2021). Asymmetries in perceptual adjustments to non-canonical pronunciations. Journal of Laboratory Phonology, 12(1), pp. 1-43. [Paper]
- Johnson, K. A. (2021). Leveraging the uniformity framework to examine crosslinguistic similarity for long-lag stops in spontaneous Cantonese-English bilingual speech. Accepted to Interspeech 2021. [Preprint]
- Soo, R., Johnson, K. A., & Babel, M. (2021). Sound change in spontaneous bilingual speech: A corpus study on the Cantonese n-l merger in Cantonese-English bilinguals. Accepted to Interspeech 2021. [Preprint]
- Soo, R., & Monahan, P. J. (2021). Phonetic and lexical encoding of tone in Cantonese heritage speakers. Language and Speech, 00238309221122090. Paper]
- Song, MY., Fong, I., & Eliora, A. (in press). Korean A-not-A Questions: Is it neutral or not? In D. K. E. Reisinger (Ed.), Papers in Pragmatics. Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL. [Paper]
- Babel, M., McGuire, G., & Willis, C. (2021). The role of voice evaluation in voice recall. In B. Weiss, J. Trouvain, M. Barkat-Defradas, & J.J. Ohala (Eds.), Voice Attractiveness. Prosody, Phonology and Phonetics. Springer, Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-15-6627-1_6
2020
- McGuire, G., & Babel, M. (2020). Attention to indexical information improves voice recall. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020. [Paper]
- Johnson, K. A., Babel, M., & Fuhrman, R. A. (2020). Bilingual acoustic voice variation is similarly structured across languages. Proceedings of Interspeech 2020. [Paper]
- Johnson, K. A., Babel, M., Fong, I., & Yiu, N. (2020). SpiCE: A new open-access corpus of conversational bilingual speech in Cantonese and English. Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 4089–4095. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.503
- Mellesmoen, G., & Babel, M. (2020). Acoustically distinct and perceptually ambiguous: ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Salish) fricatives. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(4), 2959–2973. doi:10.1121/10.0001007
- Chan, L., Johnson, K., & Babel, M. (2020). Lexically-guided perceptual learning in early Cantonese-English bilinguals. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(3), EL277–EL282. doi:10.1121/10.0000942
2019
- Babel, M., & Mellesmoen, G. (2019). Perceptual adaptation to stereotyped accents in audio-visual speech. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1044–1048. https://icphs2019.org/icphs2019-fullpapers/pdf/full-paper_815.pdf
- Babel, M., McAuliffe, M., Norton, C., Senior, B., & Vaughn, C. (2019). The Goldilocks zone of perceptual learning. Phonetica 2019, 76(2-3), 179–200. doi:10.1159/000494929
- Babel, M., Senior, B., & Bishop, S. (2019). Do social preferences matter in lexical retuning?. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 10(1), 4. doi:10.5334/labphon.133
2018
- Senior, B., Hui, J., & Babel, M. (2018). Liu vs. Luke? Name influence on voice recall. Applied Psycholinguistics, 39(6), 1117–1146. doi:10.1017/S0142716418000267
- Senior, B., & Babel, M. (2018). The role of unfamiliar accents in competing speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(2), 931–942. doi:10.1121/1.5023681
2017
- Wong, P., & Babel, M. (2017). Perceptual identification of talker ethnicity in Vancouver English. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 21(5), 603–628. doi:10.1111/josl.12264
2016
- Szakay, A., Babel, M., & King, J. (2016). Social categories are shared across bilinguals’ lexicons. Journal of Phonetics, 59, 92–109. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2016.09.005
- Abel, J., & Babel, M. (2016). Cognitive load reduces perceived linguistic convergence between dyads. Language and Speech, 60(3), 479–502. doi:10.1177/0023830916665652
- McAuliffe, M., & Babel, M. (2016). Stimulus-directed attention attenuates lexically-guided perceptual learning. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(3), 1727–1738. doi:10.1121/1.4962529
2015
- Babel, M., & Russell, J. (2015). Expectations and speech intelligibility. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(5), 2823–2833. doi:10.1121/1.4919317
- Babel, M., & McGuire, G. (2015). Perceptual fluency and judgments of vocal aesthetics and stereotypicality. Cognitive Science, 39(4), 766–787. doi:10.1111/cogs.12179
2014
- Babel, M., McGuire, G., Walters, S., & Nichols, A. (2014). Novelty and social preference in phonetic accommodation. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 5(1), 123–150. doi:10.1515/lp-2014-0006
- Babel, M., & Munson, B. (2014). Producing socially meaningful linguistic variation. In V. Ferreira, M. Goldrick, & M. Miozza (Eds), The Oxford Handbook of Language Production. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199735471.013.022
- Babel, M., McGuire, G., & King, J. (2014). Towards a more nuanced view of vocal attractiveness. PLOS ONE, 9(2), e88616. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088616
2013
- Babel, M., McAuliffe, M., & Haber, G. (2013). Can mergers-in-progress be unmerged in speech accommodation?. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00653
- Babel, M., Garrett, A., Houser, M., & Toosarvandani, M. (2013). Descent and diffusion in language diversification: A study of Western Numic dialectology. International Journal of American Linguistics, 79(4), 445–489. doi:10.1086/671772
- Babel, M., & McGuire, G. (2013). Listener expectations and gender bias in nonsibilant fricative perception. Phonetica 2013, 70(1-2), 117–151. doi:10.1159/000354644
2012
- McGuire, G., & Babel, M. (2012). A cross-modal account for synchronic and diachronic patterns of /f/ and /θ/ in English. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 3(2), 251–272. doi:10.1515/lp-2012-0014
- Babel, M., & Bulatov, D. (2012). The role of fundamental frequency in phonetic accommodation. Language and Speech, 55(2), 231–248. doi:10.1177%2F0023830911417695
- Babel, M. (2012). Evidence for phonetic and social selectivity in spontaneous phonetic imitation. Journal of Phonetics, 40(1), 177–189. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2011.09.001
2010
- Babel, M. (2010). Dialect convergence and divergence in New Zealand English. Language in Society, 39(4), 437–456. doi:10.1017/S0047404510000400
- Babel, M., & Johnson, K. (2010). Accessing psycho-acoustic perception with speech sounds. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 1(1), 179–205. doi:10.1515/labphon.2010.009
- Johnson, K., & Babel, M. (2010). On the perceptual basis of distinctive features: Evidence from the perception of fricatives by Dutch and English speakers. Journal of Phonetics, 38(1), 127–136. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2009.11.001