Publications & Theses
Forthcoming
McGowan, Kevin B., and Stella Takvoryan. in press. “The Perception of Linguistic Features.” In Oxford Handbook of Research Methods in Sociophonetics, edited by Maciej Baranowski, Paul De Dekker, and Jennifer Nycz. Oxford University Press.
Takvoryan, S., and K. B. McGowan. in press. “The Dynamic, Social Specification of Coarticulated Vowels.” In Accent, Attitudes, and Sound Change, edited by Rebecca V. Roeder and Gabriela Alfaraz. Benjamins.
2026
McGowan, Kevin B. 2026. Toward an Ecologically Valid Theory of Speech Perception. Edited by Lauren Hall-Lew and Jennifer Nycz. Oxford University Press.
Namboodiripad, Savithry, Ethan Kutlu, Anna Babel, et al. 2026. “Finding Our ROLE: How and Why to Reframe Essentialist Approaches to Language.” Cognition 271: 106444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2026.106444.
2025
Babel, Anna M., Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, and Kevin B. McGowan. 2025. “Introduction to the Thematic Issue.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 29 (1): 44–58. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12690.
Laycock, Kyler, and Kevin B. McGowan. 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, Stella. 2025. “Listening to Cursive: The Roles of Regional Identity and Folk Beliefs in Perceptual Cue- Weighting.” Lexington.
2023
Barrett, Rusty, Jennifer Cramer, and Kevin B. McGowan. 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, Nour. 2023. “" Does This Make Sense?": The Effect of Congruent Guise in Regional Accent on Grammatical Acceptability Judgments.” Lexington, KY.
2022
Chulde, Monica. 2022. Face Masks and Speech Perception: Emotions and Intelligibility Perceived by Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers. https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2022.004.
Kayali, Nour. 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): A176–76. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0015945.
2021
Babel, Anna, Kevin McGowan, and Paola Enrı́quez Duque. 2021. “Niveles de Percepción de Las Vocales En Contacto: El Caso de Una Variedad de Español Andino En Bolivia.” Traspasando Lo Lingü: Factores Esenciales En El Contacto de Lenguas.-(Lengua y Sociedad En El Mundo Hispánico; 48), 119–36.
Brewster, Jarred. 2021. Language Contact and Covert Prominence in the Sḥerēt-Jibbāli Language of Oman. https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2021.206.
Laycock, Kyler. 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, David J, Paul Mains, and Kevin B McGowan. 2021. “Ceiling Effects on Weight in Heavy NP Shift.” Linguistic Inquiry 52 (2): 426–40.
2020
Baese-Berk, Melissa M., Drew J. McLaughlin, and Kevin B. McGowan. 2020. “Perception of Non-Native Speech.” Language and Linguistics Compass 14 (7): e12375. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12375.
Combs, Ollie. 2020. Relevant Angry Affect Slows Response Time to Commands. https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2020.520.
McGowan, Kevin B, and Anna M Babel. 2020. “Perceiving Isn’t Believing: Divergence in Levels of Sociolinguistic Awareness.” Language in Society 49 (2): 231–56.
2019
McGowan, Kevin B, Michael T Johnson, Aleah Combs, and Mohammad Soleymanpour. 2019. “Acoustic, Non-Invasive Measurement of Velopharyngeal Aperture Using a High Frequency Tone.” 755759.
2018
Aljuran, Aidah 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, Patrice Speeter, Andries W. Coetzee, Will Styler, Kevin B. McGowan, and Julie E Boland. 2018. “The Time Course of Individuals’ Perception of Coarticulatory Information Is Linked to Their Production: Implications for Sound Change.” Language 94 (4): 931–68.
Youngs, Marisa B. 2018. “The Language of Music: Linguistics in Trumpet Pedagogy.” No. 115. Theses and Dissertations–Music. https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2018.162.
2017
Wright, Kelly E. 2017. The Reflection and Reification of Racialized Language in Popular Media. https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2017.134.
2016
Lee, Kaitlyn E. 2016. The Perception of Creaky Voice: Does Speaker Gender Affect Our Judgments? https://doi.org/10.13023/ETD.2017.032.
McGowan, Kevin B. 2016. “Sounding Chinese and Listening Chinese: Awareness and Knowledge in the Laboratory.” Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research, 25–61.
2015
McGowan, Kevin B. 2015. “Social Expectation Improves Speech Perception in Noise.” Language and Speech 58 (4): 502–21.
2014
2013
Beddor, Patrice Speeter, Kevin B. McGowan, Julie E. Boland, Andries W. Coetzee, and Anthony Brasher. 2013. “The Time Course of Perception of Coarticulation.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133 (4): 2350–66.
2011
McGowan, Kevin B. 2011. “The Role of Socioindexical Expectation in Speech Perception.” PhD thesis, University of Michigan.
2009
McGowan, Kevin B. 2009. “Aerodynamic Modeling for Concatenative Speech Synthesis.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 126 (4_Supplement): 2222–22.