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phonology/ phonetics
2026, Gafos, A. and S. Kuberski. Limit cycles for speech. arxiv:2512.04642
in press, Gafos, A. Articulatory Phonology. Cambridge Handbook of Phonology 2nd Edition, Paul de Lacy and Adam Jardine (eds.), CUP.
2025, Du, Shihao, Stephan Kuberski and Adamantios Gafos. Towards a dynamical account of inter-segmental coordination. Journal of Phonetics.
2025, Gafos, A. Articulatory and perceptual factors in vowel harmony. In Harry van der Hulst and Nancy Ritter (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony (Ch. 5). Oxford University Press.
2025, Fritzsche, T., M. Knabe, A. Langus, M. Hullebus, A. Gafos, B. Höhle. Does variability in the presentation schedule impact minimal pair word learning? In A. Yedetore, R. Dufie Bonney and Y. Zhang (Eds.), 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 1, pp. 382–396).
2024, Sotiropoulou Stavroula and Adamantios Gafos. Consequences of prosodic variation for spatiotemporal organization in Spanish stop-lateral clusters. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics.
2024, Du, Shihao, Dutta, Indranil and Adamantios Gafos. Articulatory timing in Hindi CV sequences. In Cécile Fougeron and Pascal Perrier (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar of Speech Production (ISSP 2024).
2024, Marc Hullebus, Adamantios Gafos, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, Alan Langus, Tom Fritzsche, Höhle, Barbara. Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops. Infancy2024, Williams, D., Agabeyoglu, T., A. Gafos and P. Escudero. Acoustic similarity predicts vowel phoneme detection in an unfamiliar regional accent: Evidence from monolinguals, bilinguals and second-language learners. Languages 9(2), 62.
2024, Kuberski, Stephan and Adamantios Gafos. Comparing two smoothing approaches in estimating kinematic parameters. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 3 (9).
2023, Kuberski, S. and A. Gafos. How thresholding in segmentation affects the regression performance of the linear model. JASA, Express Lett. 3 (9), 095202, doi
2023, Du, Shihao, S. Kuberski, and A. Gafos. How measures of gestural overlap relate to dynamics: Evidence from German and English word-initial stop-lateral clusters, In Radek Skarnitzl (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic 2023, pp. 2164-2169. 2023, Kuberski, S. and A. Gafos. 2023. Assessing kinematic relations with high speech rate resolution data, In Radek Skarnitzl (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic 2023, pp. 962-967.2022, Williams, D., Gafos, A. and Ghaffarvand-Mokari, P. Perceiving speech during orthographic syllable recognition: subphonemic effects. Journal of Memory and Language 131, doi
2022, Sorensen, T. and A. Gafos. The relation between gestures and kinematics. In Marijn van ’t Veer, Bert Botma, Florian Breit, Marc van Oostendorp (eds.), Primitives of Phonological Structure, pp. 251-279, Oxford University Press. doi
2022, Du, Shihao and A. Gafos. Articulatory overlap as a function of stiffness in German, English and Spanish word-initial stop-lateral clusters. Laboratory Phonology 14(1), doi
2022, Gafos, A. Ubiquity of different time scales in phonological patterns. Ms.
2021, Gafos, A. Consonant harmony, disharmony, memory and time scales. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 4, Article 19, pages 188-205.
2021, Gafos, A. Information flow, artificial phonology and typology. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 4, Article 15, pages 148-157.
2021, Sotiropoulou Stavroula and Adamantios Gafos. Syllabic organization and phonetic indices in German stop-lateral clusters. Laboratory Phonology doi.
2021, Lialiou Maria, Stavroula Sotiropoulou, and Adamantios Gafos. Spatiotemporal coordination in word-medial stop-lateral and s-stop clusters of American English. Phonetica 78 (5-6), pp. 385-433. doi
2021, Roon Kevin, Philip Hoole, Chakir Zeroual, Shihao Du, Adamantios Gafos. 2021. Stiffness and articulatory overlap in Moroccan Arabic consonant clusters. Laboratory Phonology, 12(1), 8. doi
2021, Höhle, Barbara, Tom Fritzsche, Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, Marc Hullebus, Adamantios Gafos. 2021. Respect the surroundings: effects of phonetic context variability on infants' learning of minimal pairs. JASA, Express Letters 1(1). doi
2021, Ghaffarvand-Mokari, P., A. Gafos and D. Williams. Perceptuomotor compatibility effects in vowels: Effects of consonantal context and acoustic proximity of response and distractor. JASA (The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America), Express Letters. 1(1), doi
2020, Gafos, A., Roeser, J., Sotiropoulou, S., Hoole, P., and C. Zeroual. Structure in mind, structure in vocal tract. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 38, pp. 43–75. doi
2020, Sotiropoulou, S., Gibson, M., and A. Gafos. Global organization in Spanish onsets. Journal of Phonetics. doi.
2020, Ghaffarvand-Mokari, P., A. Gafos and D. Williams. Perceptuomotor compatibility effects in vowels: beyond phonemic identity. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics 82, 2751–2764. doi
2020, Bürki, A., Viebahn, M., and A. I. Gafos. Plasticity and transfer in the sound system: exposure to syllables in production or perception changes their subsequent production. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–23. doi
2020, Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., Mess, K., Philipp, M. and A. Gafos. Only the right noise? Effects of phonetic and visual input variability on 14-month-olds' minimal pair word learning . Developmental Science, pp. tbd. doi
2019, Kuberski, S. and A. Gafos. Fitts' law in tongue movements of repetitive speech. Phonetica 78(1), pp. 3-27. pdf (open access)
2019, Kuberski, S. and A. Gafos. The speed-curvature power law in tongue movements of repetitive speech. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213851. doi
2019, Gibson, M., Sotiropoulou, S., Tobin, S., and A. Gafos. Temporal aspects of word initial single consonants and consonants in clusters in Spanish. Phonetica. [On the import of these patterns for syllabic organization, see this subsequent paper (authors' mansuscript) by Sotiropoulou et al., to appear in Journal of Phonetics 2020]
2019, Tamási, K., McKean, C., Gafos, A., and B. Höhle. Children's gradient sensitivity to phonological mismatch: Considering the dynamics of looking behavior and pupil dilation. Journal of Child Language. [advance online publication]
2018, Gafos, A. Stems and paradigms in Modern Standard Arabic and dialects. The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics, Eds. Elabbas Benmamoun and Reem Bassiouney, pp. 62–86, Routledge.
2018, Tobin, S., Hullebus, M. A., and A. Gafos. Immediate phonetic convergence in a cue-distractor paradigm. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Express Letters, 144 (6), pp. 528–534. [Habits are hard to change. Shown here (in this study's domain) is that this depends on your observation's time scale. Subtle changes can be observed but are very short-lived.]
2018, Williams, D., Escudero, P. and A. Gafos. The role of spectral change and duration in Australian English listeners' front vowel categorization. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Express Letters, 144 (3), pp. 215–221.
2018, Williams, D., Escudero, P. and A. Gafos. Perceptual sensitivity to spectral change in Australian English close front vowels: an electroencephalographic investigation. In Prasanta Ghosh, Hema A Murthy, Preeti Rao, Paavo Alku (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2018, September 2-6, 2018, Hyderabad, pp. tbd.
2018, Hullebus, M. A., Tobin, S., and A. Gafos. Speaker-specific structure in German voiceless stop voice onset times. In Prasanta Ghosh, Hema A Murthy, Preeti Rao, Paavo Alku (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2018, September 2-6, 2018, Hyderabad, pp. tbd.
2017, Gibson, M., Sotiropoulou, S., Tobin, S., and A. Gafos. On some temporal properties of Spanish consonant-liquid and consonant-rhotic clusters. In Malte Belz, Susanne Fuchs, Stefanie Jannedy, Christine Mooshammer, Oxana Rasskazova, Marzena Zygis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (PP13), pp. 73-76.
2017, Zeroual, C., P. Hoole and A. Gafos. V-to-C coarticulation within symmetrical VCV sequences in Moroccan Arabic. In Pascal Perrier, Qiang Fang, Longbiao Wang, and Nan Yan (Eds.), Proceedings of the (11th) International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP2017), October 16-19, 2017, Tianjin, pp. 468-471, Springer.
2017, Tamási, K., McKean, C., Gafos, A., Fritzsche, T., and B. Höhle. Pupillometry registers toddlers' sensivitity to degrees of mispronunciation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
2016, Zeroual, C., P. Hoole, and A. Gafos. Étude par EMA des mouvements de la mâchoire inférieure durant les consonnes de l'arabe marocain. Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016, Vol. 1: Journées d'Études sur la Parole, pp. 319-328. [Role of the jaw in (non-)pharyngealized coronal, labial, velar, laryngeal and pharyngeal consonants of MA in the context of competing phonological specification hypotheses.]
2016, Gibson, M., Fernández Planas, Ana María, A. Gafos, E. Remirez. Consonant duration and VOT as a function of syllable complexity and voicing in a subset of Spanish clusters. Interspeech, pp. 1690-1694.
2016, Roon, K. and A. Gafos. Perceiving while producing: modeling the dynamics of phonological planning. Journal of Memory and Language 89, pp. 222-243. [A model of how excitation or inhibition from auditory stimuli flows into speech production planning, accounting for the experimental results in Roon & Gafos PBR 2015 and some others.]
2016, Kuberski, S., Tobin, S., A. Gafos. A landmark-based approach to automatic voice onset time estimation in stop-vowel sequences. IEEE GlobalSIP Symposium on Speech Processing. pp. 60-65. talk, paper.
2016, Sorensen, T. and A. Gafos. The gesture as an autonomous nonlinear dynamical system. Ecological Psychology 28:4, pp. 188-215. [pdf].
2015, Roon, K. and A. Gafos. Perceptuomotor effects of cue-distractor compatibility in speech: beyond phonemic identity. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 22(1), 242-250.
2015, Sorensen, T. and A. Gafos. Sensitivity of vowel constriction velocity profile shape to temporal overlap with a subsequent coronal. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences [ICPhS 18], Glasgow, Scotland, UK, August 10-14, 2015. pp. tbd.
2015, Sotiropoulou, S., Pillmeier, E., Katsika, A. and A. Gafos. Dissecting the consonant duration ratio. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences [ICPhS 18], Glasgow, Scotland, UK, August 10-14, 2015. pp. tbd.
2015, Klein, E., Roon, K., A. Gafos. Perceptuomotor interactions across and within phonemic categories. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences [ICPhS 18], Glasgow, Scotland, UK, August 10-14, 2015. pp. tbd.
2014, Gafos, A., Charlow, S., Shaw, J. A. and P. Hoole. Stochastic time analysis of syllable referential intervals and simplex onsets. Journal of Phonetics 44, pp. 152-166.
2014, Brunner, J., Geng, C., Sotiropoulou, S., and A. Gafos. Timing of German onset and word boundary clusters. Laboratory Phonology 5(4), pp. 403-454.
2014, Zeroual, C., Hoole, P., Gafos, A., and J. H. Esling. 2014. Gestural overlap within word medial stop-stop sequences in Moroccan Arabic, In S. Fuchs, M. Grice, A. Hermes, L. Lancia, D. Mücke (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Cologne, May 5-8, 2014, pp. 468-471.
2014, Roon, K., Klein, E., and A. Gafos. Distractor effects on response times in fricative production, In S. Fuchs, M. Grice, A. Hermes, L. Lancia, D. Mücke (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Cologne, May 5-8, 2014, pp. 360-363.
2014, Brunner, J., Geng, C., and A. Gafos. Phonetic effects in the timing of onset clusters, In Susanne Fuchs, Martine Grice, Anne Hermes, Leonardo Lancia, Doris Mücke (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Cologne, May 5-8, 2014, pp. 61-64.
2013, Roon, K. and A. Gafos. A dynamical model of the speech perception-production link. In M. Knauff, M., Pauen, N., Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.) Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2013), pp. 1241-1246, Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
2012, Gafos, A., Goldstein, L. Articulatory representation and phonological organization. The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology. Eds. Abigail C. Cohn, Cécile Fougeron, Marie K. Huffman, pp. 220-231. Oxford University Press.
2011, Shaw, J., Gafos, A., Hoole, P., Zeroual, C. Dynamic invariance in the phonetic expression of syllable structure. Phonology 28, 455-490.
2011, Vowel harmony: opaque and transparent vowels. The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Eds. Marc van Oostendorp, Colin Ewen, Beth Hume and Keren Rice, Wiley-Blackwell (with Amanda Dye).
2010, Shaw, J., A. Gafos. Quantitative evaluation of competing syllable parses. ACL SIGMORPHON 11, Eleventh Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, Uppsala, Sweden.
2010, Gafos, A., Hoole, P., Roon, K., Zeroual, C. Variation in timing and phonological grammar in Moroccan Arabic clusters. Laboratory Phonology 10: Variation, Detail and Representation, Ed. Cécile Fougeron (Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/New York).
2009, Shaw, J., Gafos, A., Hoole, P., Zeroual, C. Syllabification in Moroccan Arabic: evidence from patterns of temporal stability. Phonology 26 (1), 187-215. [special issue on 'Relations between Phonological Models and Experimental Data', Eds. Pater, Joe, René Kager, Andries Coetzee.]
2008, Zeroual, C., Hoole, P., and A. Gafos. 2008. Spatio-temporal and kinematic study of Moroccan Arabic coronal geminate plosives. In S. Fuchs, Y. Laprie and R. Sock (eds.), 8th International Seminar on Speech Production, Strasbourg, France, 8-12 December 2008. pp. 133-136.
2007, Articulatory characteristics of Hungarian transparent vowels. Journal of Phonetics 35 (3), 271-444. [with Stefan Benus]
2006, Dynamics of phonological cognition. Cognitive Science [2005 Rumelhart Prize Special Issue Honoring Paul Smolensky: Optimization and Grammar in the Cognitive Science of Language] 30 (5), pp. 905-943. With Stefan Benus. Matlab code for simulations of stochastic dynamical systems in the incomplete neutralization section of this paper can be found here.
2006, Dynamics in grammar. Laboratory Phonology 8: Varieties of Phonological Competence, Eds. Goldstein, M. L., Whalen, D. H. and Best, C. (Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/New York), pp. 51-79. The author's manuscript was Dynamics: the non-derivational alternative to modeling phonetics-phonology. Matlab code for simulations of stochastic dynamical systems in this paper is here.
2005, Qualitative and quantitavive aspects of vowel harmony: a dynamics model. CogSci2005, XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Stresa, Italy, 2005), Eds. Bruno G. Bara, Lawrence Barsalou & Monica Bucciarelli. pp. 226-231. Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey, USA. [with Stefan Benus]
2004, Gestural coordination and the distribution of English ''geminates''. In S. Arunachalam & T. Scheffler (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 33–46, Philadelphia, PA. University of Pennsylvania. [with Stefan Benus and Iris Smorodinksy]
2004, Phonetics and phonology of transparent vowels in Hungarian. Proceedings of the 29th Annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, Eds. Nowak, P., Yoquelet, C. and Mortensen, D., pp. 485-497. [with Stefan Benus and Louis Goldstein]
2003, On neutral vowels in Hungarian. 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences [15th ICPhS, Barcelona 2003], Eds. Solé, M.-J., Recasens, D. and Romero, J. (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain), pp. 77-80. [with Stefan Benus]
2002, A grammar of gestural coordination. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20:2, pp. 269-337.
1999, The articulatory basis of locality in phonology. Garland, Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics (272 pp.).
1999, Consonant transparency and vowel echo. In P. Tamanji, M. Hirotani, and N. Hall (eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society, pp. 81-96, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. [with Linda Lombardi]
1998, Eliminating long-distance consonantal spreading. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 16:2, pp. 223-278. An earlier version is 1995, "On the Proper Characterization of Non-Concatenative Languages," Online at the Rutgers Optimality Archive (ROA-106), 60pp. (Baltimore, MD: Dept. of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins).
1997, A cross-sectional view of [s], [sh], and [th]. In K. Kusumoto (ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistics Society, pp. 127-141, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
morphology/ phonology
2018, Gafos, A. Stems and paradigms in Modern Standard Arabic and dialects. The Routledge Handbook of of Arabic Linguistics, Eds. Elabbas Benmamoun and Reem Bassiouney, pp. 62-86, Routledge.
2008, Stem (uncorrected proofs). In Mushira Eid, Alaa Elgibali, Kees Versteegh, Manfred Woidich, and Andrzej Zaborski (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (EALL), Brill Academic Publishers: Leiden. [invited paper]
2004, Gestural coordination and the distribution of English ''geminates''. In S. Arunachalam & T. Scheffler (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 33–46, Philadelphia, PA. University of Pennsylvania. [with Stefan Benus and Iris Smorodinksy]
2003, Greenberg's asymmetry in Arabic: a consequence of stems in paradigms. Language 79:2, pp. 317-357.
2001, Morphosyntactic features and paradigmatic uniformity in two dialects of Lesvos. Journal of Greek Linguistics 2, pp. 41-73. [with Angeliki Ralli]
1998, A-templatic reduplication. Linguistic Inquiry 29, pp. 515-527.
1992, Against a contextual definition of head in morphology: evidence from Modern Greek compounds. In A. Kathol and J. Beckman (eds.) MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 16, Papers from the Fourth Student Conference in Linguistics, pp. 41-56.
computational/ mathematical
2021, Gafos, A. Information flow, artificial phonology and typology. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 4, Article 15, pages 148-157.
2016, Roon, K. and A. Gafos. Perceiving while producing: modeling the dynamics of phonological planning. Journal of Memory and Language 89, pp. 222-243. (A model of how excitation or inhibition from auditory stimuli flows into speech production planning, accounting for the experimental results in Roon & Gafos PBR 2015 and some others.)
2016, Kuberski, S., Tobin, S., A. Gafos. A landmark-based approach to automatic voice onset time estimation in stop-vowel sequences. IEEE GlobalSIP Symposium on Speech Processing. pp. 60-65. talk, paper.
2016, Sorensen, T. and A. Gafos. The gesture as an autonomous nonlinear dynamical system. Ecological Psychology 28:4, pp. 188-215.
2015, Shaw, J. and A. Gafos. Stochastic time models of syllable structure. PLOS ONE, 10(5): e0124714. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124714
2013, Roon, K. and A. Gafos. A dynamical model of the speech perception-production link. In M. Knauff, M., Pauen, N., Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.) Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2013), pp. 1241-1246, Austin TX: Cognitive Science Society.
2010, Gafos, A. and C. Kirov. A dynamical model of change in phonological representations. In Approaches to Phonological Complexity (Eds.), François Pellegrino, Egidio Marsico, Ioana Chitoran & Christophe Coupé. Phonology & Phonetics Series, Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin. 225-246. An earlier version was: Kirov, C. and A. Gafos. Assembling phonological representations. Ms. New York University.
2010, Shaw, J., A. Gafos. Quantitative evaluation of competing syllable parses. ACL SIGMORPHON 11, Eleventh Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, Uppsala, Sweden.
2009, Shaw, J., Gafos, A., Hoole, P., Zeroual, C. Syllabification in Moroccan Arabic: evidence from patterns of temporal stability. Phonology 26 (1), 187-215. [special issue on 'Relations between Phonological Models and Experimental Data', Eds. Pater, Joe, René Kager, Andries Coetzee.]
2007, Kirov, C. and A. Gafos. Dynamic phonetic detail in lexical representations. In: Trouvain, Jürgen and William J. Barry (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences [16th ICPhS], Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2007. pp. 637-640.
2006, Dynamics of phonological cognition. Cognitive Science [2005 Rumelhart Prize Special Issue Honoring Paul Smolensky: Optimization and Grammar in the Cognitive Science of Language] 30 (5), pp. 905-943. [with Stefan Benus]
2006, Dynamics in grammar. Laboratory Phonology 8: Varieties of Phonological Competence, Eds. Goldstein, M. L., Whalen, D. H. and Best, C. (Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/New York), pp. 51-79 [peer-reviewed]. The author's ms. was Dynamics: the non-derivational alternative to modeling phonetics-phonology.
2002, Training spaces and generalization: evidence from Hebrew word-formation. Cognition 83:2, pp. 113-139. [with Iris Berent, Gary Marcus and Joseph Shimron]
1996, Distributional regularity and phonotactic constraints are useful for segmentation. Ms. 35 pp. [M.R. Brent, T.A. Cartwright and A. Gafos; eventually appeared as Brent, M.R. and T.A. Cartwright, 1996, Cognition 61, 93-125. url
1994, Phonotactics and the lexicon: beyond bootstrapping. In Eva Clark (ed.), Proceedings of the 1994 Stanford Child Language Research Forum, pp. 11-21, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [with M.R. Brent and T.A. Cartwright]