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Molly Babel
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Latest papers
Finding our ROLE: How and why to reframe essentialist approaches to language.
Cognition · 2026
Voice quality research and statistical best practice (L).
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2026
Cross-Linguistic Phonetic Variation in Bilingual Speech: Cantonese /n/ > [l] Merger in Early Cantonese-English Bilinguals.
Language and speech · 2024
Latest funding
- $92,855
BC Indigenous Languages in Transition: Grammatical Change and Adaptation
SSHRC · 2026 · Co-investigator
- $40,000
Who is talking? What are they saying? The tangled web of recognizing talkers and understanding words
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $47,265
Processing Multilingual Phonetic Variation
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
21 publications.
Finding our ROLE: How and why to reframe essentialist approaches to language.
Namboodiripad S, Kutlu E, Babel A, Babel M, Baese-Berk M, Bassuk PB, Block A, Pérez RC, Carlson MT, Carraturo S, Cheng A, Cheng LSP, Combiths P, Foushee R, Frederiksen AT, Grammon D, Hayes-Harb R, Higby E, Kendro K, Koulidobrova E, Lin CC, Lin Z, Luque A, McGowan KB, Muegge JB, Shea C, Tripp A, Woods SJ, Wright KE
Voice quality research and statistical best practice (L).
Lo RY, Babel M, Sóskuthy M
Cross-Linguistic Phonetic Variation in Bilingual Speech: Cantonese /n/ > [l] Merger in Early Cantonese-English Bilinguals.
Soo R, Babel M, Johnson KA
Language-general versus language-specific processes in bilingual voice learning.
Lloy L, Patil KN, Johnson KA, Babel M
Language Contact Within the Speaker: Phonetic Variation and Crosslinguistic Influence.
Johnson KA, Babel M
Receptive vocabulary predicts multilinguals' recognition skills in adverse listening conditions.
Suite L, Freiwirth G, Babel M
Quantitative, not qualitative, differences in word classification errors as a function of language dominance.
Soo R, Fung F, Babel M
The structure of acoustic voice variation in bilingual speech.
Johnson KA, Babel M
The own-voice benefit for word recognition in early bilinguals.
Cheung S, Babel M
Adaptation to Social-Linguistic Associations in Audio-Visual Speech.
Babel M
BC Indigenous Languages in Transition: Grammatical Change and Adaptation
Principal investigators: Davis, Henry
Who is talking? What are they saying? The tangled web of recognizing talkers and understanding words
Principal investigators: Babel, Molly
Keywords: human voice; talker identification; spoken word recognition; machine learning; bilingualism
Processing Multilingual Phonetic Variation
Principal investigators: Babel, Molly
Keywords: speech perception; word recognition; bilingualism; multilingualism; phonetics; psycholinguistics; visual world paradigm; accents
17th Biennial Conference on Laboratory Phonology: Laboratory Phonology on the Margins
Principal investigators: Babel, Molly
Keywords: laboratory phonology; phonetics; phonology; speech
17th Biennial Conference on Laboratory Phonology: Laboratory Phonology on the Margins
Principal investigators: Babel, Molly
Keywords: language; speech; phonetics; phonology; language and society; language acquisition; minority languages
Competition and evaluation in perceptual learning of speech
Principal investigators: Babel, Molly
Documenting Urban and Rural Accents in British Columbia
Principal investigators: Babel, Molly
Keywords: (1) dialectology; (2) British Columbia; (3) rural; (4) urban; (5) language; (6) accents; (7) identity; (8) performance
Socially selective phonetic memory
Principal investigators: Babel, Molly
Keywords: speech perception; phonetics; psycholinguistics; social cognition; language and society
Phonetic imitation: units and mechanisms
Principal investigators: Babel, Molly
Keywords: phonetic imitation; accommodation; speech perception
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