publications – UK Phonetics Lab

Publications & Theses

McGowan, K. B. (in press). Toward an ecologically valid theory of speech perception (L. Hall-Lew & J. Nycz, Eds.). Oxford University Press.

Babel, A. M., Campbell-Kibler, K., & McGowan, K. B. (2025). Introduction to the thematic issue. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 29(1), 44–58. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12690

Laycock, K., & McGowan, K. B. (2025). Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 29(3), 194–209. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12700

Takvoryan, S. (2025). Listening to cursive: The roles of regional identity and folk beliefs in perceptual cue- weighting.

Barrett, R., Cramer, J., & McGowan, K. B. (2023). English with an accent: language, ideology and discrimination in the United States (Third edition). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003332886

Kayali, N. (2023). " does this make sense?": The effect of congruent guise in regional accent on grammatical acceptability judgments.

Chulde, M. (2022). FACE MASKS AND SPEECH PERCEPTION: EMOTIONS AND INTELLIGIBILITY PERCEIVED BY MONOLINGUAL AND BILINGUAL SPEAKERS. https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2022.004

Kayali, N. (2022). “Sounds like home”: The effect of listener on matching guise in regional accent on syntactic acceptability. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(4_Supplement), A176–A176. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0015945

Brewster, J. (2021). LANGUAGE CONTACT AND COVERT PROMINENCE IN THE SḤERĒT-JIBBĀLI LANGUAGE OF OMAN. https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2021.206

Laycock, K. (2021). The Influence of Socioindexical Information on the Speech Perception-Production Link: Evidence from a Shadowing Task. https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2021.191

Medeiros, D. J., Mains, P., & McGowan, K. B. (2021). Ceiling effects on weight in heavy NP shift. Linguistic Inquiry, 52(2), 426440.

Baese-Berk, M. M., McLaughlin, D. J., & McGowan, K. B. (2020). Perception of non-native speech. Language and Linguistics Compass, 14(7), e12375. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12375

Combs, O. (2020). Relevant Angry Affect Slows Response Time To Commands. https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2020.520

McGowan, K. B., & Babel, A. M. (2020). Perceiving isn’t believing: Divergence in levels of sociolinguistic awareness. Language in Society, 49(2), 231256.

McGowan, K. B., Johnson, M. T., Combs, A., & Soleymanpour, M. (2019). Acoustic, non-invasive measurement of velopharyngeal aperture using a high frequency tone. 755759.

Aljuran, A. N. (2018). “Listening with an Attitude”: The Role of Attitude on Native and Non-Native Intergroup Communication. https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2018.008

Beddor, P. S., Coetzee, A. W., Styler, W., McGowan, K. B., & Boland, J. E. (2018). The time course of individuals’ perception of coarticulatory information is linked to their production: Implications for sound change. Language, 94(4), 931968.

Wright, K. E. (2017). The Reflection and Reification of Racialized Language in Popular Media. https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2017.134

Lee, K. E. (2016). The Perception of Creaky Voice: Does Speaker Gender Affect our Judgments? https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2017.032

McGowan, K. B. (2016). Sounding chinese and listening chinese: Awareness and knowledge in the laboratory. Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research, 2561.

McGowan, K. B. (2015). Social expectation improves speech perception in noise. Language and Speech, 58(4), 502521.