Lab Affiliation: Chip’s Phonology Laboratory (CPL)

Research Interests:

Phonology, Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism, Mixteco

Research Opportunities:

My graduate students and I are always looking for motivated undergraduate students with an interest in language, bilingualism, and experimental approaches to language questions who would like to gain research experience. Announcements are posted on the 3rd floor in Burrowes Building, the 6th floor in Moore Building, and on the website of the Center for Language Science. Opportunities involve training in phonetic analysis, data collection, experiment construction, data coding and analysis. We have a number of projects studying both monolingual and bilingual speakers.

Recent Publications:

Gerfen, C., & W. Rizzo (2006). Phonological variability in the laboratory: Word naming in bidialectal speakers. In J.P. Montreuil (ed.), New Analyses in Romance Linguistics. John Benjamins.

Bullock, B., A. Dalola, & C. Gerfen (2006). Mapping the patterns of maintenance versus merger in bilingual phonology: The preservation of a low back vowel contrast in Frenchville French. In J.P. Montreuil (ed.), New Analyses in Romance Linguistics. John Benjamins.

Gerfen, C., & K. Baker (2005). Production and perception of laryngealized vowels in Coatzospan Mixtec. Journal of Phonetics. 33-3. 311-334.

Bullock, B., & C. Gerfen (2005). The non-transfer of schwa in a converging phonological system. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 8-2. 117-130.

Bullock, B., & C. Gerfen (2004). Frenchville French: A case study in phonological attrition. International Journal of Bilingualism. 8-3. 303-320.

Bullock, B., & C. Gerfen (2004). Phonological convergence in a contracting language variety. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 7-2. 95-104.

Gerfen, C (2002). Andalusian codas. Probus 14-2. 303-333.

Gerfen, C (2001). Nasalized fricatives in Coatzospan Mixtec. International Journal of American Linguistics v. 67-4. 449-466.

Gerfen, C (2001). A critical view of licensing by cue: The case of Andalusian Spanish. Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory. (L. Lombardi, ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 183-205.

Gerfen, C (1999). Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press. 304 pages.