Publications

• Chen, Daniel, Halberstam, Yosh and Alan C. L. Yu. 2016. “Perceived Masculinity Predicts U.S. Supreme Court Outcomes.” In PLoS ONE 11(10): e0164324.
• Yu, Alan C. L., Carissa Abrego-Collier, Jacob Phillips, Betsy Pillion, and Daniel Chen. 2015. “Investigating variation in English vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in a longitudinal phonetic corpus.” Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences.

Presentations

• Alan Yu, Katie Franich, Daniel Chen, Yosh Halberstam, Jacob Phillips & Betsy Pillion. 2015. The perils of sounding manly: A look at vocal characteristics of lawyers before the United States Supreme Court. 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America; Portland.
• Alan Yu, Daniel Chen, Katie Franich, Jacob Phillips, Betsy Pillion, Yiding Hao, & Zhigang Yin. 2014. The perils of sounding manly: A look at vocal characteristics of lawyers before the United States Supreme Court.14th Conference on Laboratory Phonology; National Institute for Japanese Linguistics.

Dissertations

• Individual phonetic variation in the SCOTUS speech corpus, Carissa Abrego-Collier, in progress
  This dissertation introduces the SCorpus and focuses on an 8-year time period (2004-2011) characterized by significant demographic and political changes on the Court, first analyzing synchronic variability for 4 of the Court’s justices (Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Roberts), and then turning to a time-dependent analysis of each speaker’s vowel system. By modeling individual phonetic patterns over various time scales (e.g., months, full terms, and multi-year periods), it examines patterns of time-dependent phonetic variation to explore the relationship between group dynamics and intraspeaker variability over time, taking advantage of the unique features offered by the SCOTUS data.