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Molly Babel

Thu, 08/06/2009 - 2:37pm — mbabel
Molly Babel
Position: Assistant Professor
Office Location: Totem Field Studios
Phone: 604-822-6322
Email:
Website: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/mbabel


Mailing Address:
Totem Field Studios
UBC Department of Linguistics
2613 West Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
V6T 1Z4


Educational Background

2004, B.A., University of Minnesota
2006, M.A., University of California, Berkeley
2009, PhD., University of California, Berkeley

Areas of Interest

Broadly, I am interested in speech perception and production, and there is a strong theme of cross-linguistic and cross-dialectal inquiry in my work. More specifically, my research program focuses on the role of experience and exposure to phonetic and phonological knowledge, how social knowledge may be manifested phonetically, and the mental representation of phonetic and phonological knowledge. A significant portion of my work explores how interacting language systems influence one another on a phonetic level. I have investigated this within bilingual speakers (English and Northern Paiute), across dialects (Australian and New Zealand Englishes), and within dialects (American English). I also have a strong interest in language documentation and description; with colleagues at University of California, Berkeley, I conduct fieldwork on Northern Paiute (Numic; Uto-Aztecan).

Recent Publications

Johnson, Keith & Molly Babel. (in press). Perception of fricatives by Dutch and English speakers. Journal of Phonetics.

Babel, Molly, Andrew Garrett, Michael Houser, & Maziar Toosarvandani. (in press). Descent and diffusion in language diversification. International Journal of American Linguistics.

Babel, Molly. (2009). The phonetics and phonology of obsolescence in Northern Paiute. In Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Preston & Stanford (eds.), Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Babel, Molly. (2008). The phonetic and phonological effects of moribundity. Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, v. 14.2, Gorman & Nguyen (eds.).

Munson, Benjamin & Molly Babel. (2007). Loose lips and silver tongues, or projecting sexual orientation through speech. Language and Linguistic Compass.

Babel, Molly & Keith Johnson. (2007). Cross-linguistic differences in the perception of palatalization. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences.

Babel, Molly. (2007). Social judgments and their acoustic cues in read speech. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, available here, pp. 226-264.

Munson, Benjamin & Molly Babel. (2005). The sequential cueing effect in children's speech production. Applied Psycholinguistics, 26 (2), 157-174.