Argyro Katsika

About

Argyro Katsika is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her specialization includes phonetics, speech production, laboratory phonology, articulatory phonology, and prosody. She is involved in research related to the physical and acoustic aspects of speech, focusing on how speech sounds are produced and organized. Her work contributes to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying speech production and the phonological organization of speech sounds, integrating laboratory methods and theoretical insights to advance the field of applied linguistics.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Humanities
• Sociology
• Philosophy
• Linguistics
• Psychology
• Speech recognition
• Business
• Art

Selected publications

• The supralaryngeal articulation of stress and accent in Greek

  Journal of Phonetics · 2021 · 12 citations

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• Variability, Overlap, and Cue Trading in Intonation

  Language · 2024-06-01 · 8 citations

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  We modeled the Greek H*, L+H*, and H*+L pitch accents using functional principal component analysis, followed by statistical modeling and curve reconstruction. The accents were distinguished by F0 height and shape. The data also exhibited cue trading between F0 and duration, as well as systematic context-driven variation and general variability, which led to category overlap comparable to that reported for vowel contrasts. These findings indicate that intonation categories are more similar to se…

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• Sonority sequencing and its relationship to articulatory timing in Georgian

  Journal of the International Phonetic Association · 2023-03-15 · 4 citations

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  This work asks how the syllable as a unit is delimited in space and time. To do this we bring together two theoretical approaches to the syllable: a sonority-based approach which emphasizes spatial organization, and the coupled oscillator model (Nam, Goldstein & Saltzman 2009) which emphasizes temporal organization. Many languages present challenges to these theories, and here we focus on Georgian, which is problematic for both approaches, as Georgian permits onset clusters of up to seven co…

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• Phrase boundaries lacking word prosody: An articulatory investigation of Seoul Korean

  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024-05-01 · 3 citations

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  This electromagnetic articulography study explores the kinematic profile of Intonational Phrase boundaries in Seoul Korean. Recent findings suggest that the scope of phrase-final lengthening is conditioned by word- and/or phrase-level prominence. However, evidence comes mainly from head-prominence languages, which conflate positions of word prosody with positions of phrasal prominence. Here, we examine phrase-final lengthening in Seoul Korean, an edge-prominence language with no word prosody, wi…

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• The role of sonority profile and order of place of articulation on gestural overlap in Georgian

  Speech prosody · 2020 · 3 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Mark Tiede

  Software (Spain)

  10 shared

• Louis Goldstein

  8 shared

• Ji-Young Jang

  Hanyang University

  6 shared

• Christine Mooshammer

  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  6 shared

• Ioana Chițoran

  5 shared

• Jelena Krivokapić

  5 shared

• Karen Tsai

  University of California, Santa Barbara

  5 shared

• D. H. Whalen

  City University of New York

  4 shared

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