Talks and posters

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Invited talks

Nichols, Stephen. 2023. Vowel harmony in Bantu: On phonology, typology and grounding. Invited plenary talk given at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics, Manchester, UK, 20–21 April.

Nichols, Stephen. 2022. Variation, change and phonetic grounding: The case of the mid front vowels of Turkish. Invited talk given at the University of Oxford General Linguistics Seminar, Oxford, UK, 2 May.

Nichols, Stephen & George Bailey. 2019. [ʃ]tranger things have happened: Retraction in (str) and (stj) clusters in Manchester English. Invited talk given at the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics Lab Lunch, Glasgow, UK, 6 June.

Nichols, Stephen & George Bailey. 2018. All paths lead to [ʃ]: Varying sibilant articulation and s-retraction in Manchester English. Invited talk given at the University of Manchester Linguistics and English Language Research Seminar, Manchester, UK, 9 October.

Conference talks

Nichols, Stephen. 2023. Investigating vowel harmony in Ihanzu. Talk given virtually at the Ihanzu Symposium, Bielefeld, Germany, 29 September. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8393386.

Bailey, George & Stephen Nichols. 2023. An articulatory study of /s/-retraction: How does thish change behave across word boundaries? Talk given at UK Language Variation and Change 14, Edinburgh, UK, 26–28 June.

Bailey, George & Stephen Nichols. 2022. Post-lexical /s, z/-retraction in Manchester English: An ultrasound-tongue-imaging and lip-camera study. Talk given at Ultrafest X, Manchester, UK, 3–4 November.

Nichols, Stephen & George Bailey. 2022. New ways of analysing sibilant palatalisation: The acoustics and articulation of post-lexical /s, z/-retraction in Manchester English. Talk given virtually at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 50, Stanford, CA, US, 13–15 October.

Gopal, Deepthi & Stephen Nichols. 2022. Apparent-time change in Turkish front-mid-vowel allophony. Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Belfast, UK, 13–15 September.

Dobui, Bien, Yuni Kim, Jair Apóstol Polanco, Natalia Hernández & Stephen Nichols. 2022. A three-way prosodic contrast in Amuzgo word-initial NC sequences? Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Belfast, UK, 13–15 September.

Kim, Yuni, Bien Dobui, Stephen Nichols, Natalia Hernández & Jair Apóstol Polanco. 2022. A novel three-way prosodic contrast in Amuzgo word-initial NC sequences. Talk given at the Phonology of Nasals, Nasality and Nasalization across Languages workshop at the 19th Meeting of the French Phonology Network, Porto, Portugal, 7–9 June.

Nichols, Stephen, Enkeleida Kapia, Josiane Riverin-Coutlée & Stefano Coretta. 2021. Towards a description of the rhotic sounds of Northern Tosk Albanian. Talk given virtually at the 7th International Workshop on Phonetic, Phonological, Acquisitional, Sociolinguistic and Dialect-Geographic Aspects of Rhotics, Lausanne, Switzerland, 18–19 November.

Nichols, Stephen, Josiane Riverin-Coutlée & Stefano Coretta & Enkeleida Kapia. 2021. On the acoustics and articulation of the affricates of Northern Tosk Albanian. Talk given virtually at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, 6–9 September.

Bailey, George, Stephen Nichols, Maciej Baranowski & Danielle Turton. 2019. Affrication as the cause of s-retraction: Community-level change in Manchester English. Talk given at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48, Eugene, OR, US, 10–12 October.

Nichols, Stephen & Henri Kauhanen. 2019. Vowel-pair rank–frequency distributions are polylogarithmic. Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, London, UK, 9–12 September.

Bailey, George, Stephen Nichols, Maciej Baranowski & Danielle Turton. 2019. A [ʃ]triking change in Manchester English. Talk given at UK Language Variation and Change 12, London, UK, 3–5 September.

Nichols, Stephen. 2019. Asymmetries in vowel-pair frequencies and height harmony in Bantu. Talk given at the 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 23–25 May.

Nichols, Stephen. 2019. A study of vowel-pair frequencies in Lozi: Implications for formal analyses. Talk given at the Manchester Forum in Linguistics, Manchester, UK, 2–3 May.

Nichols, Stephen. 2019. Vowel-pair frequencies and phonotactic restrictions in Lozi. Talk given at the Philological Society Early Career Researcher Forum, Oxford, UK, 8–9 March.

Nichols, Stephen & George Bailey. 2018. Revealing covert articulation in s-retraction. Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Sheffield, UK, 11–14 September.

Nichols, Stephen. 2018. A workflow and methodology for investigating vowel-to-vowel coarticulation. Talk given at the 13th Annual Language at the University of Essex Conference, Colchester, UK, 14 June.

Bailey, George & Stephen Nichols. 2018. Retraction on Coronation [ʃ]treet: An ultrasound-tongue-imaging study of s-retraction in Manchester English. Talk given at the 8th Northern Englishes Workshop, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 27–28 March.

Nichols, Stephen. 2018. Accounting for height harmony in five-vowel Bantu languages: Positional faithfulness and feature co-occurrence constraints. Talk given at the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, East Lansing, MI, US, 22–25 March.

Nichols, Stephen. 2018. Positional faithfulness and feature co-occurrence constraints in the height harmony systems of five-vowel Bantu languages. Talk given at the 15th Old World Conference in Phonology, London, UK, 12–14 January.

Nichols, Stephen. 2017. Nasal harmony in Kamaiurá: Syllabification and spreading. Talk given at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Canterbury, UK, 4–7 September.

Gopal, Deepthi & Stephen Nichols. 2017. Sonorant-conditioned mid vowel lowering in Turkish. Talk given at the 14th Old World Conference in Phonology, Düsseldorf, Germany, 20–22 February.

Beavers, John, Michael Everdell, Kyle Jerro, Henri Kauhanen, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Elise LeBovidge & Stephen Nichols. 2017. Two Types of States: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Change-of-State Verb Roots. Talk given at the 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Austin, TX, US, 5–8 January.

Nichols, Stephen. 2016. The representation of nasality in Konai. Talk given at the CLUL Linguistics Meeting for Young Researchers, Lisbon, Portugal, 16 June.

Gopal, Deepthi & Stephen Nichols. 2016. Sonorant-conditioned mid vowel lowering in Turkish. Talk given at the 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, 26–28 May.

Conference posters

Nichols, Stephen. 2024. Towards a phonetically-informed description of vowel harmony in Ihanzu. Poster presented at the Réseau Français de Phonologie, Amiens, France, 26–28 June.

Nichols, Stephen. 2024. Towards a phonetically-informed description of vowel harmony in Ihanzu. Poster presented at the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, Cardiff, UK, 25–27 March.

Gopal, Deepthi & Stephen Nichols. 2022. Variation, gradience and categoricity in the Turkish mid vowels. Poster presented virtually at the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, York, 4–8 April.

Nichols, Stephen. 2019. Vowel-pair frequencies and phonotactic restrictions in Lozi. Poster presented at Fonologi i Norden, Edinburgh, UK, 22–23 February.

Bailey, George & Stephen Nichols. 2018. Patterns of s-retraction in Manchester English: Investigating categoricity with ultrasound. Poster presented at the 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, 24–26 May.

Nichols, Stephen & George Bailey. 2018. Gradience and categoricity in s-retraction: An ultrasound study of Manchester English. Poster presented at the Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians, Canterbury, UK, 12–14 April. [Winner of the 2019 Eugénie Henderson Prize]

Nichols, Stephen. 2017. Nasal spreading and syllabification in Kamaiurá. Poster presented at the 25th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, 25–27 May.

Gopal, Deepthi, Henri Kauhanen & Stephen Nichols. 2017. Modelling similarity-driven phonological generalisations. Poster presented at the 4th International Workshop on Sound Change, Edinburgh, UK, 20–22 April.

Nichols, Stephen. 2016. Nasal cluster dissimilation in Ngarinyman. Poster presented at the 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, 26–28 May.

Nichols, Stephen. 2016. An acoustic study of the Turkish rhotic. Poster presented at the 5th International Workshop on Phonetic, Phonological, Acquisitional, Sociolinguistic and Dialect-Geographic Aspects of Rhotics, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 18–20 May.

Other talks

Nichols, Stephen. 2024. Word-initial NC sequences in two varieties of Amuzgo. Talk given at the University of Edinburgh’s P-Workshop, Edinburgh, UK, 4 October

Nichols, Stephen. 2022. Making the most of existing tools for the forced-alignment and segmentation of under-resourced languages. Talk given at the University of Oxford’s Lab Skills Workshop series, Oxford, UK, 4 March.

Kapia, Enkeleida, Josiane Riverin-Coutlée, Stephen Nichols & Stefano Coretta. 2021. Expecting the unexpected: (Re)discovered variation in Albanian phonetics. Talk given virtually at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing Kolloquium, Munich, Germany, 6 May.