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James Tanner

Department of Linguistics, McGill University

james.tanner@mail.mcgill.ca

About me

I am a linguist in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University.
I am affiliated with the McGill Computational and Quantitative Linguistics Lab (MCQLL), the Centre for Brain, Language, and Music (CRBLM), and the Speech Across Dialects of English (SPADE) project.

You can download my CV here (PDF).

Theses

Tanner, J. (2020) Structured phonetic variation across dialects and speakers of English and Japanese. PhD Thesis, McGill University. (Download)

Publications

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., & Stuart-Smith, J. (2020) 'Structured speaker variability in Japanese stops: relationships within versus across cues to stop voicing'. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148 (2), 793-804. 10.1121/10.0001734

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., & Fruehwald, J. (2020). 'Towards 'English' phonetics: variability in the pre-consonantal voicing effect across English dialects and speakers'. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 3, 38. 10.3389/frai.2020.00038

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., & Torreira, F. (2019). 'Durational evidence that Tokyo Japanese vowel devoicing is not gradient reduction'. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 821. 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00821

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., & Wagner, M. (2017). 'Production planning and coronal stop deletion in spontaneous speech'. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8(1), 15. 10.5334/labphon.96

Conference Proceedings

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., & Stuart-Smith, J. (2022) 'Multidimensional acoustic variation in vowels across English dialects'. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, Seattle, Washington, pp.72-82. (access)

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., & Stuart-Smith, J., (2019) 'Structured speaker variability in spontaneous Japanese stop contrast production', In Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, pp.666-670. (access)

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., & The SPADE Consortium. (2019). 'Vowel duration and the voicing effect across English dialects'. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 41(1). 10.33137/twpl.v41i1.32769

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., & Wagner, M. (2015). 'Production planning and coronal stop deletion in spontaneous speech'. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, edited by the Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015. Glasgow: University of Glasgow. (access)

Conference Presentations

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., & The SPADE Consortium. (2022) 'Multidimensional acoustic variation in vowels across English dialects'. Presented at The 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop, 14th July, Seattle, Washington.

Stuart-Smith, J., MacDonald, R., Tanner, J., & The SPADE Consortium. (2021) 'The sociolinguistic dynamics of word-final /r/ in Scottish English'. Presented at UK Language Variation & Change 13, 8th-10th September, University of Glasgow.

Stuart-Smith, J., MacDonald, R., Tanner, J., & The SPADE Consortium. (2020) 'Viewing accent variation from a large corpus perspective: rhoticity in Scottish English'. Presented at The 25th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Satellite Workshop on Experimental Phonetics, 28th December, Seoul, South Korea. (slides)

Stuart-Smith, J., Mielke, J., MacDonald, R., Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., & The SPADE Consortium. (2020) 'Persuading birds of a feather to flock together – reflections on managing and measuring diverse speech corpora in SPADE'. Presented at The 2020 Australian Linguistic Society Conference, 14th December, Australia. (slides)

Stuart-Smith, J., Sonderegger, M., Mielke, J., Tanner, J., Willterton, V., & The SPADE Consortium. (2020) 'Desperately seeking English sibilants: Discovering dialect norms and speaker variability for /s S/ from large-scale multi-dialect analysis'. Presented at LabPhon 17, 6-8th July, University of British Columbia/Simon Fraser University. (slides)

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., & The SPADE Consortium. (2020) 'Vowel variation across English dialects'. Presented at SPADE-PAC-PFC Workshop, 20-21st February, University of Glasgow.

Stuart-Smith, J., Macdonald, R., Tanner, J., & The SPADE Consortium. (2019) 'Large-scale automatic acoustic analysis of word-final /r/ in Scottish English'. Presented at R-atics 6, 7-8th November, Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, UMR 7018 - CNRS/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris - 3. (slides)

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., & The SPADE Consortium. (2019) 'How consistent is the voicing effect across dialects of English?'. Poster presented at UK Language Variation & Change 12, 3-5th September, Queen Mary's University of London & University College London. (poster)

Tanner, J., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J. & The SPADE Data Consortium (2019). "Vowel duration & the 'voicing effect' across English dialects and speakers". Presentation at The Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, 29-31 March, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Stuart-Smith, J., Sonderegger. M., McAuliffe, M., Tanner, J., & Willerton, V. (2018). 'Integrated Speech Corpus ANalysis (ISCAN): a new tool for large-scale cross-corpus sociolinguistic analysis'. Workshop at NWAV 47, NYU/CUNY, 17th October. (slides)

Tanner, J. (2017). 'Phonetic and phonological mechanisms of Tokyo Japanese vowel devoicing'. Presentation at The Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, 22-24 March, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.