We’re thrilled that our paper, “Linguistic Patterning of Laughter in Human-Socialbot Interactions”, led by Nynaeve Perkins Booker, along with Georgia Zellou, was accepted to Frontiers in Communications.
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Paper accepted to Glossa
We’re excited to share that our paper on age-graded changes in vowel perception in California English was accepted to Glossa!
Zellou, G., & Cohn, M. Apparent-time change in the use of multiple cues for perception of anticipatory nasal coarticulation in California English.
Paper accepted to JASA-EL Special Issue on Human/Machine Speech Interaction
Thrilled that our paper was accepted to the Journal of Acoustical Society of America Express Letters (JASA-EL) Special Issue: Acoustic Cue–Based Perception and Production of Speech by Humans and Machines:
Cohn, M., Mengesha, Z., Lahav, M., & Heldreth, C. African American English speakers’ pitch variation and rate adjustments for imagined technological and human addressees”
2 papers accepted to late-breaking CHI
Believing Anthropomorphism: Examining the Role of Anthropomorphic Cues on Trust in Large Language Models
- Michelle Cohn UC Davis, Google Research
- Mahima Pushkarna Google Research
- Gbolahan Olanubi, Google Research
- Joseph Moran Google Research
- Daniel Padgett, Google Research
- Zion Mengesha, Stanford, Google Research
- Courtney Heldreth, Google Research
Do People Mirror Emotion Differently with a Human or TTS Voice? Comparing Listener Ratings and Word Embeddings
- Michelle Cohn, UC Davis
- Grisha Bandodkar, UC Davis
- Raj Bharat Sangani, UC Irvine
- Kristin Predeck, Amazon, UC Davis
- Georgia Zellou, UC Davis
Editorial Board Member for Speech Section (JSLHR)
I’m excited to serve on the editorial board for the Speech Section of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR) for January-December 2024.
Paper accepted to JASA-EL: Acoustic cue weighting across speech style
Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (accepted). Selective tuning of nasal coarticulation and hyperarticulation across clear, casual, and fast speech styles. Journal of Acoustical Society of America (JASA) Express Letters.
Language paper (“Listener beliefs and perceptual learning”) now available!
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913403/pdf
“Listener beliefs and perceptual learning: Differences
between device and human guises” to appear in Language by Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn, Anne Pycha
Talk + poster on human-computer interaction accepted for presentations @ LSA 2024
Thrilled that two of our projects will be presented at LSA in NYC this January!
- Real versus imagined addressees: Prosodic differences across human- and device-directed speech. [Talk] Michelle Cohn, Anne Pycha, Georgia Zellou
- Linguistic Patterning of Laughter in Human-Socialbot Interactions [Poster]. Nynaeve Booker, Michelle Cohn, & Georgia Zellou
Unfold Podcast: Hey Siri, Why Do I Speak Differently to You?
Check out the podcast Dr. Georgia Zellou (UCD Linguistics) and I did with UC Davis Unfold Podcast about our research!
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/podcasts-and-shows/unfold/voice-artificial-intelligence
Amy Quinton, Georgia Zellou, & Michelle Cohn in the Unfold Podcast studio at UC Davis
Talk + poster on infant-directed speech @ BUCLD
I’m thrilled that two of the Psych PhD students I am helping mentor, Andrea Ramirez and Jenna Distefano, had their projects accepted for a talk and poster at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) this November!
- Ramirez, A., Cohn, M., & Graf Estes, K. Pitch and repetition in bilingual infant-directed speech [Presentation]
- DiStefano, J., Cohn, M., Zellou, G., & Graf Estes, K. Exploring prosodic variation between contexts in infant-directed speech and its relation to language development [Poster]
Michelle Cohn 