Marc Garellek

About

Professor Marc Garellek is a member of the Department of Linguistics at UC San Diego. The department emphasizes research and instruction across a variety of theoretical and experimental frameworks, with a focus on diverse languages and their empirical testing of theoretical claims. Faculty, including Professor Garellek, engage in research encompassing phonetics, signed languages, psycholinguistics, event-related brain potentials (ERPs), and computational modeling. The department's approach reflects a commitment to accurate, cognitively realistic analyses of language structure informed by linguistic theories, contributing to a synthesis of diverse perspectives in the field.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Speech recognition
• Acoustics
• Linguistics
• Mathematics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Psychology
• Physics
• Pure mathematics

Selected publications

• Theoretical achievements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetics of voice quality

  Journal of Phonetics · 2022-06-28 · 49 citations

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  Twenty years after the publication of a special issue in this journal on non-modal phonation (JPhon 2001: 49(4)), the phonetic study of voice quality has shown impressive progress. Here I focus on what we have learnt over these years about the linguistic sources of voice quality modulation. I stress how voice quality has a role to play in all of speech: among its many functions, the voice is involved in the articulation of all sounds, and voice quality is worth investigating as much for “modal”…

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• Validating a psychoacoustic model of voice quality

  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2021 · 36 citations

  No agreed-upon method currently exists for objective measurement of perceived voice quality. This paper describes validation of a psychoacoustic model designed to fill this gap. This model includes parameters to characterize the harmonic and inharmonic voice sources, vocal tract transfer function, fundamental frequency, and amplitude of the voice, which together serve to completely quantify the integral sound of a target voice sample. In experiment 1, 200 voices with and without diagnosed vocal…

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• Stress, tone, and intonation in Choguita Rarámuri

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2022 · 32 citations

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  Abstract Choguita Rarámuri is a Uto-Aztecan language from Northern Mexico featuring both stress and tone in its word prosody, as well as postlexical intonation. Based on the analysis of instrumental data obtained through field research, this chapter describes how lexical tones in this language are realized in terms of fundamental frequency (f0); how tonal realization varies by phrasal position in declarative sentences; and also how correlates of voice quality help increase the acoustic different…

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• Voicing of glottal consonants and non-modal vowels

  Journal of the International Phonetic Association · 2021 · 28 citations

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  Variation in voicing is common among sounds of the world’s languages: sounds that are analyzed as voiceless can undergo voicing, and those analyzed as voiced can devoice. Among voiceless glottal sounds in particular, voicing is widespread: linguists often expect the voiceless glottal stop [ʔ] and fricative [h] to be fully voiced, especially between vowels. In this study, we use audio recordings from Illustrations of the International Phonetic Alphabet published in the Journal of the Internationa…

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• Phonetics of White Hmong vowel and tonal contrasts

  Journal of the International Phonetic Association · 2021-06-22 · 24 citations

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  Hmong languages, particularly White Hmong, are well studied for their complex tone systems that incorporate pitch, phonation, and duration differences. Still, prior work has made use mostly of tones elicited in their citation forms in carrier phrases. In this paper, we provide a detailed description of both the vowel and tone systems of White Hmong from recordings of read speech. We confirm several features of the language, including the presence of nasal vowels (rather than derived nasalized vo…

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Frequent coauthors

• Patricia Keating

  University of Strathclyde

  61 shared

• Christina M. Esposito

  Reed College

  60 shared

• Jianjing Kuang

  54 shared

• Sameer ud Dowla Khan

  University of California, Berkeley

  53 shared

• Jody Kreiman

  University of California, Los Angeles

  25 shared

• Bruce R. Gerratt

  University of California, Los Angeles

  18 shared

• Scott Seyfarth

  University of California, San Diego

  12 shared

• Robin A. Samlan

  University of Arizona

  7 shared

Education

• PhD, Linguistics

  University of California Los Angeles

  2013

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