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Jahurul Islam
Back to facultyLecturer | LOC Chair | Manager, ISRLDepartment of LinguisticsUniversity of British Columbia
Research
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Latest papers
Velum movement in speech and inter-speech pause intervals: a cineradiographic study of French and English speech.
Phonetica · 2025 · first author
Tonguedness in speech: Lateral bias in lingual bracing.
JASA express letters · 2024
2 publications.
01
Velum movement in speech and inter-speech pause intervals: a cineradiographic study of French and English speech.
Islam J, de Boer G, Gick B
Phonetica2025First author
02
Tonguedness in speech: Lateral bias in lingual bracing.
Liu Y, Islam J, Radford K, Tkachman O, Gick B
JASA express letters2024
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