Publications

Articles

Nielsen, K. & Scarborough, R. (2024) On the target of phonetic convergence: Acoustic and linguistic aspects of pitch accent imitation. Journal of Phonetics 107, 18pp.

Coretta, S., Casillas, J.V., Roessig, S., Franke, M., … Scarborough, R., … Strickler, A., et. al. (2023) Multidimensional Signals and Analytic Flexibility: Estimating Degrees of Freedom in Human-Speech Analyses. Advances In Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 6(3).

Scarborough, R. & Zellou, G. (2022) Out of sight, out of mind: The influence of communicative load and phonological neighborhood density on phonetic variation in real listener-directed speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 151, 577-586.

Marques, L. & Scarborough, R. (2020) Perceptual compensation of vowel nasality in Brazilian Portuguese. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 19(1).

Zellou, G. & Scarborough, R. (2019) Neighborhood-conditioned phonetic enhancement of an allophonic vowel split. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145, 3675-3685.

Zellou, G., Scarborough, R., Nielsen, K. (2016) Phonetic imitation of coarticulatory vowel nasalization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140, 3560-3575.

Scarborough, R., Zellou, G., Mirzayan, A., & Rood, D. (2015) Phonetic and phonological patterns of nasality in Lakota vowels. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 289-309.

Zellou, G. & Scarborough, R. (2015) Lexically conditioned phonetic variation in motherese: age-of-acquisition and other word-specific factors in infant- and adult-directed speech. Journal of Laboratory Phonology, 305-336.

Scarborough, R.  (2013) Neighborhood-conditioned patterns in phonetic detail: relating coarticulation and hyperarticulation. Journal of Phonetics 41, 491-508.

Scarborough, R. & Zellou, G. (2013) Clarity in communication: “Clear” speech authenticity and lexical neighborhood density effects in speech production and perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134, 3793-3807.

Scarborough, R. (2012) Lexical similarity and speech production: neighborhoods for nonwords. Lingua, 112, 164-176.

Scarborough, R. A. (2010) Lexical and Contextual Predictability: Confluent Effects on the Production of Vowels. In C. Fougeron, B. Kuhnert, M. D’Imperio, & N. Vallée, eds., Papers in Laboratory Phonology X. Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 557-586.

Scarborough, R., Keating, P., Mattys, S., Cho, T., Alwan, A. (2009) Optical Phonetics and Visual Perception of Lexical and Phrasal Stress in English. Language and Speech 52, 135-175.

Dahan, D., Drucker, S. J., Scarborough, R. A. (2008) Talker adaptation in speech perception: Adjusting the signal or the representations? Cognition 108, 710-718.

Proceedings papers

Narasimhan, B., Scarborough, R., Hilger, A., Kale, K., Bai, J., Circenis, C., Moskoff, T., Naaman, Z., and Moses, C. (2025) Getting the message across: acoustic realization of information in maternal child-directed speech. In Proceedings of the 49^th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press.

Nielsen, K. & Scarborough, R. (2023) Feature-specific perceptual sensitivity to within-category variations. In R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (eds), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 107-111.

Zellou, G., Scarborough, R., & Kemp, R. (2020) Secondary phonetic cues in the production of the nasal short-a system in California English. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2020, pp. 631-635.

Nielsen, K. & Scarborough, R. (2019) Perceptual target of phonetic accommodation: a pattern within a speaker’s phonetic system or the raw acoustic signal? Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 1635-1639.

Liu, L., Hulden, M., Scarborough, R. (2019) RNN classification of English vowels: nasalized or not. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics, Vol. 2, article 36.

Marques, L., Scarborough, R. (2017) Perception and acoustics of vowel nasality in Brazilian Portuguese. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, pp.616-620.

Scarborough, R., Styler, W., Marques, L. (2015) Coarticulation and contrast: Neighborhood density-conditioned phonetic variation in French. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Nielsen, K, Scarborough, R. (2015) Perceptual asymmetry between greater and lesser vowel nasality and VOT. Proceedings of the18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Scarborough, R., Zellou, G. (2012) Acoustic and Perceptual Similarity in Coarticulatorily Nasalized Vowels. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2012, pp. 2693-2696.

Zellou, G., Scarborough, R. (2012) Nasal Coarticulation and Contrastive Stress. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2012, pp. 2685-2688.

Scarborough, R., Styler, W., Zellou, G. (2011) Nasal Coarticulation in Lexical Perception: The Role of Neighborhood-Conditioned Variation. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), pp. 1750-1753.

Scarborough, R., Brenier, J., Zhao, Y., Hall-Lew, L., Dmitrieva, O. (2007) An Acoustic Study of Real and Imagined Foreigner-Directed Speech. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVI), pp. 2165-2168.

Scarborough, R., Keating, P., Baroni, M., Cho, T., Mattys, S., Alwan, A., Auer, E., Bernstein, L. E. (2006) Optical Cues to the Visual Perception of Lexical and Phrasal Stress in English. Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Speech Prosody, May, 2006.

Keating, P. A., Baroni, M., Mattys, S., Scarborough, R., Alwan, A., Bernstein, L., Chaney, B. (2003) Optical Phonetics and Visual Perception of Lexical and Phrasal Stress in English. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XV), pp. 2071-2074.

Scarborough, R. A. (2003) Degree of Coarticulation and Lexical Confusability. In Nowak, P. M., Yoquelet, C., and Mortensen, D., eds., Proceedings of the 29^th Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 367-378.

Working papers

Scarborough, R. (2007) The Intonation of Focus in Farsi. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 105, 19-34.

Scarborough, R., Keating, P., Baroni, M., Cho, T., Mattys, S., Alwan, A., Auer, E., Bernstein, L. E. (2007) Optical Cues to the Visual Perception of Lexical and Phrasal Stress in English. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 105, 118-124.

Brown [Scarborough], R. A. (2002) Effects of Lexical Confusability on the Production of Coarticulation. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 101, 1-34.