Jeff Mielke
Most of my work focuses on the way the sound systems of the world's languages reflect influences such as physiology, cognition, and social factors. This involves laboratory work, computational modeling, and databases. Marc Brunelle and I direct the Sound Patterns Laboratory (CFI grant #15834), where we use a variety of techniques (ultrasound imaging of the tongue, aerodynamic measurement, electropalatography, video recording, acoustic and perceptual studies) to study speech in order to understand phonological patterns. Much of my ultrasound work has been in collaboration with Diana Archangeli and other members of the Arizona Phonological Imaging Laboratory.
Education:
2004 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Ohio State
1999 M.A. in Linguistics, Ohio State
1997 B.A. in Linguistics (Minor in Mathematics), University of Washington
1997 B.A. in Japanese, University of Washington
Employment and Associations:
2006-present: Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Ottawa.
2008-present: Database Consultant, MPI-EVA.
2009-present: Adjunct Research Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University.
2004-2006: Postdoctoral researcher, APIL, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona.
Research areas
Phonetic and phonological databases
(2009) A phonetically-based phonetic similarity metric. NELS 40, MIT.
(2009) Measuring articulatory similarity with algorithmically reweighted principal component analysis (poster). 157th meething of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland (with Joe Roy).
Phonetic similarity metric. A similarity metric based on phonetic data.
P-base. A database of sound patterns in 500+ languages.
Handbook of Phonological Change (Juliette Blevins, PI). A database of historical sound changes.
Modeling
(in prep) Discovering Place and Manner Features - What Can Be Learned from Acoustic and Articulatory Data?. (with Ying Lin).
(2009) Accepting unlawful variation and unnatural classes: a model of phonological generalization. In Caroline Féry, Ruben van de Vijver and Frank Kügler, eds., Variation and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
(2008) Discovering Place and Manner Features - What Can Be Learned from Acoustic and Articulatory Data?. In Joshua Tauberer, Aviad Eilam, and Laurel MacKenzie, eds., Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 14.1: 241-254 (with Ying Lin).
(2005) Modeling distinctive feature emergence. In WCCFL XXIV.
Features
(submitted) Phonologization and the typology of feature behaviour. In Alan Yu, eds., Phonologization. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(accepted) Categorization and Features: Evidence from American English /r/. In G.N. Clements and Rachid Ridouane, eds., Where do phonological contrasts come from? Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of phonological features. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Diana Archangeli and Adam Baker).
(accepted) Distinctive Features. In Marc van Oostendorp, Colin Ewen, Elizabeth Hume, and Keren Rice, eds., Companion to Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell.
(accepted) Phonological Structure (multi-authored chapter). In Abigail C. Cohn, Cécile Fougeron, and Marie K. Huffman, eds., Handbook of Laboratory Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2008) Emergent Feature Theory. In Edwards, Midtlyng, Sprague, and Stensrud, eds., CLS 41: The Panels. Proceedings from the Panels of the 41st Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Volume 41-2. Chicago: CLS. 259-273.
(2008) The Emergence of Distinctive Features. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2008) Distinctive feature emergence in acquisition and diachrony. University of Rochester.
(2008) Learning phonological features from different kinds of evidence. BWTL/ABLT 12, Ottawa.
(2007) Unnatural classes and the class-pattern connection. Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, Ottawa.
(2006) Moving beyond innate features: a unified account of natural and unnatural classes. In Leah Bateman and Cherlon Ussery, eds., Proceedings of NELS 35.
(2006) Emergent features: evidence from natural classes in 561 languages. In Michal Temkin Martínez, Asier Alcázar, Roberto Mayoral Hernández, eds., Proceedings of WECOL 2004 236-247.
(2005) Ambivalence and ambiguity in laterals and nasals. In Phonology 22.2: 169-203.
(2005) Distinctive Features. In Brown, K., eds., Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd edition. Oxford: Elsevier (with Elizabeth Hume).
Articulation
(in prep) Articulation of the Kagayanen interdental approximant: An ultrasound study. (with Kenneth S. Olson and Adam Baker).
(accepted) Variability and homogeneity in American English /r/ allophony and \ips{s} retraction. In Variation, Detail, and Representation . (LabPhon 10). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (with Adam Baker and Diana Archangeli).
(2009) Using ultrasound to study articulatory variation. NWAV 38, Ottawa.
(2008) More velar than /g/: consonant coarticulation as a cause of diphthongization. In Charles B. Chang and Hannah J. Haynie, eds., Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. 60-68 (with Adam Baker and Diana Archangeli).
(2007) Are we looking at the same thing? (ultrasound images across laboratories). Ultrafest 4, NYU.
(2006) Probing the Big Bang with ultrasound: /s/ retraction in English. 2006 Annual Meeting of the LSA, Albuquerque (with Adam Baker and Diana Archangeli).
(2005) Palatron: a technique for aligning ultrasound images of the tongue and palate. In Daniel Siddiqi, and Benjamin V. Tucker, eds., Coyote Papers. vol. 14. 97-108 (with Adam Baker, Diana Archangeli, and Sumayya Racy).
(2005) Ultrasound Research in Linguistics. LASSO 2005, Lubbock. (with Diana Archangeli).
(2005) An ultrasound study of excrescent schwa before /r/ and /l/ in English. Ultrafest 3, Tucson (with Adam Baker and Diana Archangeli).
Perception
(2009) Interplay between perceptual salience and contrast: /h/ perceptibility and /h/ deletion. In Peter Avery, Elan Dresher, and Keren Rice, eds., Contrast in Phonology: Perception and Acquisition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp 197-216.
(2007) Are 'covert' /r/ Allophones Really Indistinguishable?. In Toni Cook and Keelan Evanini, eds., Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13.2: 207-216 (with Alina Twist, Adam Baker, and Diana Archangeli).
(2003) The Interplay of Speech Perception and Phonology: Experimental Evidence from Turkish. In Phonetica 60.3: 208-229.
(2003) The Diachronic Influence of Perception: Experimental Evidence from Turkish. In Proceedings of BLS 29.
Misc phonology
(in prep) Ubiquitous and parochial factors in phonology. In Tones and Features: A Symposium in Honor of G. Nick Clements. Publisher TBA (with Elizabeth Hume).
(accepted) Feature economy in natural, random, and synthetic inventories. In G.N. Clements and Rachid Ridouane, eds., Where do phonological contrasts come from? Cognitive, physical and developmental bases of phonological features. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (with Scott Mackie).
(2009) Segment Inventories. In Blackwell Language and Linguistics Compass 32.3: 700-718.
(2008) Mechanisms of sound change: Comments on Harrington, Gussenhoven, Gow & McMurray, and Munson. In Jennifer S. Cole and Jose Hualde, eds., Change in Phonology. (LapPhon 9). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 229-40.
(2007) New Techniques in Sound Pattern Research. 2007 LSA Summer Institute, Stanford. (with Diana Archangeli).
(2003) Looking through opacity. In Theoretical Linguistics 29.1-2: 123-139 (with Mike Armstrong and Elizabeth Hume).
(2003) Step forward if you are always marked... Not so fast, [Labial].. Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, Toronto. (with Andrea Sims).
(2001) Considerations of Word Recognition for Metathesis. In Hume, E., N. Smith and J. van de Weijer, eds., Surface Syllable Structure and Segment Sequencing. Leiden: HIL. 135-158. (with Elizabeth Hume).
(2000) Review of C. Gussenhoven and H. Jacobs (1998) \textit{Understanding Phonology}. In Phonology 17.2: 281-286 (with Elizabeth Hume).
Misc phonetics
(accepted) The phonetic status of the (inter)dental approximant. In Journal of the International Phonetic Assocation 39.4 (with Kenneth S. Olson, Josephine Sanicas-Daguman, Carol Jean Pebley, and Hugh Paterson III).
(2008) Acoustic properties of the interdental approximant in Kagayanen. In Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123(5): 3460 (with Kenneth S. Olson).
(2007) Acoustic properties of the Kagayanen vowel space. In Proceedings of ICPhS XVI (with Kenneth S. Olson).
(2003) Stop-stop assimilation in American English connected speech. 2003 Buckeye Language Processing Conference, Columbus (with Amanda Reiter).
(2005) Pedagogical Implications of Ultrasound Technology in the Second Language Acquisition of English by Native Korean Speakers. LASSO 2005, Lubbock (with Bryan Meadows, Gwanhi Yun, Diana Archangeli, and Elizabeth Lukes).
Teaching:
University of Ottawa
LIN8998, Professional seminar (Au2009)
LIN7933, Seminar in Linguistics II, Distinctive features in the 21st century (Wi2008)
LIN5915, Phonology I (Au2006, Wi2008, Wi2009)
LIN4392/7930, Topics in Linguistics II, Computational tools for linguistics, emphasis on phonology (Wi2007)
LIN2320, Introduction to Phonology (Au2006, Au2008, Au2009)
LIN1320, Introduction to Linguistics II: The Sounds (Wi2007, Wi2008, Wi2009, Wi2010)
Ohio State
LINGUIST 603.02, Phonological Theory II (co-instructor, Wi2003)
LINGUIST 365, Language Across Cultures (Sp2002)
LINGUIST 201, Introduction to Language (Au1999, Wi2000, Au2001, Wi2002, Au2002)
LINGUIST 170, The Basics of Learning a Language (Teaching assisitant, Sp2003)
Contact:
Arts Hall Room 401
70 Laurier Ave East
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 6N5
Canada
phone: (613) 562-5800 ext. 2701
fax: (613) 562-5141
jmielke at uOttawa dot ca
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