Projects

UK Phonetics Lab

Anne-Michelle Tessier, David Medeiros, and Kevin McGowan

New Editorial Team for Proceedings of the LSA
Linguistics
LSA
Anne-Michelle Tessier (University of British Columbia), David Medeiros (California State University, Northridge), and Kevin McGowan have been named as the editorial team for…
Anne-Michelle Tessier, David Medeiros, Kevin B. McGowan
May 2026

From Strange et al. 1983, Figure 2

Listeners don’t need vowel centers to hear a regional accent
Speech Perception
Social Meaning
Stella Takvoryan and Kevin McGowan have been working on a project to replicate and extend Strange et al. (1983), which found that listeners do not need vowel centers (the…
Stella Takvoryan, Kevin B. McGowan
Jan 2026

Listeners use social information (even if you tell them not to)
Speech Perception
Social Meaning
Gender
Methodology

In this replication and extension of the Strand Effect (Strand &ampl Johnson, 1996), Kyler Laycock and Kevin McGowan explore the extent to which listeners have to believe a…

Kyler Laycock, Kevin B. McGowan
Jan 2025

Co-Edited Journal of Sociolinguistics Special Issue
Social Meaning
Awareness
Control
Sociolinguistics

Babel, Campbell-Kibler, and McGowan have co-edited a specil issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics on Awareness & Control in sociolinguistics research. This volume…

Anna M. Babel, Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Kevin B. McGowan
Jan 2025

Speech perception is social and distracting
Speech Perception
Social Meaning

June Nielsen, a high school student from Lexington’s STEAM academy and our intern lab manager, is working on a project with real safety implications for teens and adults…

June Nielsen
May 2018

Voice discrimination in the housing market
Language Ideologies
Speech Perception

Kelly Wright & McGowan are collaborating on a replication and extension of Purnell, Idsardi and Baugh (1999); a matched-guise study on voice-based discrimination in leasing.

Kelly E. Wright, Kevin B. McGowan
Mar 2017
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