I am an Associate Professor in Linguistics at McGill
University,
and am co-PI of MCQLL (which supercedes
my old lab).
I'm also affiliated with the Centre for Brain, Language, and Music
and the School of Computer
Science.
I am the Canada PI for the Speech Across Dialects of English (SPADE) project.
CV (12/2022)
Recent writings
Book:
- M. Sonderegger. (2022) Regression Modeling for Linguistic Data.
Version 1.1.
- Repository (Github, OSF): contains book, code, datasets.
- Forthcoming from MIT
Press: 6/2023
Papers:
- Morgan Sonderegger, Jane
Stuart-Smith, Jeff Mielke, and The SPADE Consortium. (2023)
How variable are English sibilants?
Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences. (paper)
- Esmail Moghiseh, M. Sonderegger, and Michael
Wagner. (2023). The Iambic-Trochaic Law
without Iambs or Trochees: Parsing speech for
grouping and prominence.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153(2), 1108–1129.
(paper,
preprint +
code + data)
-
James Tanner, M. Sonderegger, and Jane
Stuart-Smith. (2022). Multidimensional
acoustic variation in vowels across English dialects.
In
Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational
Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. (paper)
-
Jacob Hoover, M. Sonderegger, Steven Piantidosi,
and Timothy O'Donnell. (2022). The
plausibility of sampling as an algorithmic theory of
sentence processing. Submitted
manuscript. (preprint)
- M. Sonderegger, Jane Stuart-Smith,
Michael McAuliffe, Rachel Macdonald, and Tyler
Kendall. (2022). Managing data for
integrated speech corpus analysis in SPeech Across
Dialects of English (SPADE) . In
A.L. Berez-Kroeker, B. McDonnell, E. Koller, L.
B. Collister (Eds.), Open Handbook of Linguistic
Data Management (pp. 195–207).
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12200.003.0020.
Presentations on ongoing work
- Corpus studies of variation in
obstruent 'voicing' across
languages and speakers: phonetic variation and implications for
phonology: keynote at Annual Meeting
on Phonology , 10/2021. (slides)
- The SPADE project: large-scale analysis of a spoken
language across space and time: University of Edinburgh, 7/2019. (slides)
- Towards large(r) scale cross-linguistic study of
speech: prosodic case studies: Northwestern
University, 6/2018. (slides)
- Segmental influences on F0: cross-linguistic and interspeaker variability of phonetic precursors
(with Michael
McAuliffe, Hye-Young Bang): 4th Workshop on Sound Change. (slides)
- Laryngeal timing across seven languages:phonetic
data and their relationship to phonological features
(with Michael
McAuliffe, Jurij Bozic, Chris Bruno, September Cowley, Jeffrey
Lamontange, Bing'er Jiang, Martha Schwarz, and Jiajia Su):
LSA 2017. (slides)
Software
- Montreal Corpus
Tools, including:
- AutoVOT:
automatic measurement of voice onset time, using the algorithm
described in Sonderegger & Keshet (2012).
Refereed publications
- Bing'er Jiang, Ewan Dunbar, M. Sonderegger, Meghan Clayards, & Emmanuel Dupoux.
Modelling Perceptual Effects of Phonology with ASR Systems. (2020).Proceedings of the 42nd
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
(pp. 2735–2741). Austin, TX: Cognitive
Science Society. (paper)
- James Tanner, M. Sonderegger, Jane Stuart-Smith, & Josef Fruehwald. (2020).
Towards `English' phonetics: variability in the pre-consonantal
voicing effect across English dialects and speakers. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2020.00038.
- James Tanner, M. Sonderegger, & Jane Stuart-Smith. (2020). Structured speaker variability in Japanese stops: relationships within
and across cues to stop voicing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148(2), 793–804.
(paper, code + data)
- M. Sonderegger, Jane Stuart-Smith, Rachel Macdonald, Thea
Knowles, and Tamara Rathcke. (2020). Structured heterogeneity in
Scottish stops over the twentieth century.
Language 96(1), 94–125. (paper,
code+data)
- James Tanner, Morgan Sonderegger,
and Francisco Torreira. (2019).
Durational evidence that Tokyo Japanese vowel devoicing is not gradient reduction.
Frontiers in Psychology 10, article 821.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00821.
- Martha
Schwarz, M. Sonderegger, and Heather
Goad. (2019) Realization and representation of
Nepali laryngeal contrasts. Journal of
Phonetics 73, 113--127. (preprint)
- James
Kirby and M. Sonderegger. (2018) Mixed-effects
design analysis for experimental phonetics.
Journal of Phonetics 70, 70--85. (preprint, code+data)
- Thea Knowles,
Meghan
Clayards, and M. Sondereggger. (2018) Examining
factors influencing the viability of automatic acoustic analysis
of child speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and
Hearing Research 61, 2487--2501. (paper)
- James Kirby and
M. Sonderegger. (2018) Model selection and phonological
argumentation. In D. Brentari and J.S. Lee (Eds.),
Shaping phonology (pp. 234--252). (preprint)
- Hye-Young Bang,
M. Sonderegger, Yoonjung
Kang, Meghan
Clayards, and Tae-jin Yoon. (2018) The
emergence, progress, and impact of sound change in progress in
Seoul Korean: implications for mechanisms of
tonogenesis.
Journal of
Phonetics 66, 120–144. (preprint)
- M. Sonderegger, Max Bane, and Peter
Graff. (2017)
The medium-term dynamics of accents on reality
television. Language 93(3), 598–640. (paper,
supplemental material)
- James Tanner, M. Sonderegger, and Michael Wagner. (2017) Production
planning and coronal stop deletion in spontaneous
speech. Laboratory Phonology 8(1), 15: 1–39 . (paper)
-
Michael McAuliffe,
Michaela Socolof, Sarah Mihuc, Michael Wagner, and M. Sonderegger. (2017)
Montreal Forced Aligner: trainable text-speech
alignment using Kaldi. Proceedings of Interspeech 2017 (paper)
-
Michael McAuliffe, Elias
Stengel-Eskin, Michaela Socolof, and M. Sonderegger. (2017)
Polyglot and Speech Corpus Tools: a system for
representing, integrating, and querying speech
corpora. Proceedings of Interspeech 2017 (paper)
- Oriana
Kilbourn-Ceron and M. Sonderegger. (2017) Boundary phenomena and variability in Japanese high
vowel devoicing. Natural Language and
Linguistic Theory. doi:10.1007/s11049-017-9368-x. (preprint | paper)
- Jane
Stuart-Smith, M. Sonderegger, Tamara
Rathcke, and Rachel Macdonald. (2015) The
private life of stops: VOT in a real-time corpus of spontaneous
Glaswegian. Laboratory Phonology 6(3-4):
505–549. (paper)
- Jane Stuart-Smith, Tamara
Rathcke, M. Sonderegger and Rachel
Macdonald. (2015) A real-time study of plosives in
Glaswegian using an automatic measurement algorithm: change or
age-grading? In E.N. Torgersen et al. (Eds.),
Language Variation -- European Perspectives
V (pp. 225–237). Benjamins. (preprint)
- Matthew
Carlson, M. Sonderegger, and Max Bane. (2014)
How children explore the phonological network in
child-directed speech: A survival analysis of children's first
word productions. Journal of Memory and
Language 75: 159–180. (preprint | paper)
- Alan Yu,
M. Sonderegger, and Carissa
Abrego-Collier. (2013) Phonetic imitation from an
individual-difference perspective: subjective attitude,
personality and ``autistic'' traits. PLOS
ONE 8 (9): e74746. (paper)
- M. Sonderegger and Partha
Niyogi. (2013)
Variation and change in English noun/verb pair stress:
Data, dynamical systems models, and their interaction.
In A.C.L. Yu (Ed.), Origins of Sound Patterns: Approaches
to Phonologization (pp. 262–284) . Oxford: OUP. (preprint)
- M. Sonderegger and
Joseph Keshet. (2012)
Automatic measurement of voice onset time using
discriminative structured prediction. Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America 132: 3965–3979. (paper | code)
- M. Sonderegger. (2011) Applications of graph
theory to an English rhyming corpus. Computer
Speech and Language 25: 655–678. (preprint
| paper)
- Max Bane, Jason
Riggle, and M. Sonderegger. (2010) The VC dimension
of constraint based grammars. Lingua 120:
1194–1208. (preprint | paper)
- Xuemin Chi and M. Sonderegger. (2007) Subglottal
coupling and its influence on vowel formants.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122:
1735–1745. (preprint | paper)
E-book
Conference proceedings
- James Tanner, M. Sonderegger, Jane Stuart-Smith, and The
SPADE Consortium. (2019). Vowel duration and the voicing
effect across English dialects. Toronto
Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 41. (paper)
- Michael McAuliffe, Arlie Coles, Michael Goodale, Sarah
Mihuc, Michael Wagner, Jane Stuart-Smith, and M.
Sonderegger. (2019) ISCAN: a system for integrated
phonetic analyses across speech corpora.
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences. (paper)
-
James Tanner, M. Sonderegger, and Jane Stuart-Smith. (2019)
Structured speaker variability in spontaneous Japanese
stop contrast production. Proceedings of the 19th
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) . (paper)
- Jeff Mielke, Erik Thomas, Joe Fruehwald, Jane Stuart-Smith,
M. Sonderegger, Robin Dodsworth, and Michael McAuliffe. (2019)
Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation in vowel
formants measured automatically from several English speech
corpora. Proc. 19th ICPhS. (paper)
- Jane Stuart-Smith, Morgan Sonderegger, Rachel MacDonald,
Jeff Mielke, Michael McAuliffe, and Erik Thomas. (2019)
Large-scale acoustic analysis of dialectal and social factors in
English /s/-retraction. Proc. 19th ICPhS. (paper,
code+data)
- Thea
Knowles, Meghan
Clayards, M. Sonderegger, Michael Wagner, Aparna Nadig,
and Kris Onishi. (2015) Automatic Forced Alignment on
Child Speech: Directions for
Improvement. Proceedings of Meetings on
Acoustics 25:060001. (paper)
- M. Sonderegger. (2015) Trajectories of voice onset time
in spontaneous speech on reality TV. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of
Phonetic Sciences. (paper)
-
James Tanner, M. Sonderegger, and Michael Wagner. (2015) Production
planning and coronal stop deletion in spontaneous speech.
Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences. (paper)
-
Hye-Young Bang, M. Sonderegger, Yoonjung Kang, Meghan Clayards,
and Tae-Jin Yoon. (2015) The effect of word frequency on the timecourse of tonogenesis in Seoul
Korean. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of
Phonetic Sciences. (paper)
- Morgane Ciot, M. Sonderegger, and Derek Ruths. (2013)
Gender inference of Twitter users in non-English
contexts. Proceedings of EMNLP 2013. (paper)
- James Kirby and
M. Sonderegger. (2013) A model of population dynamics
applied to phonetic change. Proceedings of the 35th
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
(pp. 776–781). Austin, TX: Cognitive
Science Society. (paper | errata)
- Katie Henry, M. Sonderegger and Joseph Keshet. (2012)
Automatic measurement of positive and negative voice
onset time. Proceedings of Interspeech 2012.
(paper)
- Carissa Abrego-Collier, Julian Grove, M. Sonderegger, and
Alan Yu. (2011) Effects of speaker evaluation on
phonetic convergence. Proceedings of the 17th
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
(pp. 192–195). (paper)
Note: This paper is superceded by Yu
et al (2013)!
- Alan Yu,
Julian Grove, Martina
Martinović, and M. Sonderegger. (2011) Effects of
working memory capacity and "autistic traits" on phonotactic
effects in speech perception. Proceedings of the
17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2236–2239).
(paper)
- Matthew Carlson, Max Bane, and M. Sonderegger. (2011)
Global properties of the phonological network in
child-directed speech. In N. Danis, K. Mesh, and
H. Sung (Eds.), BUCLD 35: Proceedings of the 35th Annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
(pp. 97–109). (paper)
- Max Bane, Peter
Graff, and M. Sonderegger. (2010/2013)
Longitudinal phonetic variation in a closed
system. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of
the Chicago Linguistics Society (pp. 43–58).
(paper)
- M. Sonderegger. (2010/2016) Testing for frequency
and structural effects in an English stress shift.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley
Linguistics Society (pp. 411–425). (paper)
- M. Sonderegger and
Joseph Keshet . (2010) Automatic discriminative
measurement of voice onset time. Proceedings of
Interspeech 2010, pp. 2242–2245. (paper)
- M. Sonderegger and Partha
Niyogi. (2010) Combining data and mathematical
models of language change. Proceedings of the 48th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, pp. 1019–1029. (paper)
- M. Sonderegger and Alan Yu. (2010)
A rational account of perceptual compensation for
coarticulation. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society (pp. 375–380). Austin, TX: Cognitive
Science Society. (paper)
Manuscripts
- James Kirby and M. Sonderegger. (2015) Bias and population dynamics in the actuation
of sound change. arXiV 1507.04420 [cs.CL]. (paper)
Theses
- M. Sonderegger. (2012) Phonetic and phonological
dynamics on reality television . Ph.D. thesis, U. Chicago.
(thesis)
- M. Sonderegger. (2009) Dynamical systems models of
language variation and change: An application to an English stress
shift. M.S. thesis, U. Chicago. (thesis)
- M. Sonderegger. (2004) Subglottal coupling and
vowel space. B.S. thesis, MIT. (thesis)
Data and code
- Data and code from the
SPADE project.
- Data and code for several projects are on my OSF page, or various GitHub pages
(Montreal Corpus
Tools, my old lab, me). Feel free to
contact me for code or data used for my work.
- English stress shift:
- Stress vs. time trajectories for the 149 N/V pairs. (pdf)
- Stress data, stress vs. time trajectories. (zip)
Rhyme graphs: 1900 subcorpus graph (10M, components with 2 or 3
words omitted) (image)
Subglottal resonances: Wav files of microphone and accelerometer signals of English vowels for 14 speakers; F2 and second subglottal formant (SubF2) measurements in my B.S. thesis.