Anisia Popescu

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Postdoctoral Fellow at Université Paris Saclay

We applied ultrasound tongue imaging to compare read aloud to repeated speech. To figure out whether children's subtle reading disfluencies are detectable in coarticulatory motion of the tongue, we recorded both primary school children and adults.

A special class of English words with tense vowel/diphthong nuclei and liquid codas receive variable syllable count judgments (one or over-one syllables). Tilsen and Cohn (2016) showed that differences in judgments correlate with differences in production, supporting their hypothesis that metaphonological judgments and speech motor control share a...

Until at least the end of adolescence, children articulate speech differently than adults. While this discrepancy is often attributed to the maturation of the speech motor system, we sought to demonstrate that the development of spoken language fluency is shaped by complex interactions across motor and cognitive domains. In this study, we specifica...

The development of spoken language fluency is shaped by multi-faceted developments in the speech motor, perception, lexical and phonological domains. In this study, we specifically investigated whether children’s reading proficiency interacts with their coarticulatory organization, a fundamental property of spoken language fluency.

The development of phonological awareness, the knowledge of the structural combinatoriality of a language, has been widely investigated in relation to reading (dis)ability across languages. However, the extent to which knowledge of phonemic units may interact with spoken language organization in (transparent) alphabetical languages has hardly been...

Abstract The development of phonological awareness, the knowledge of the structural combinatoriality of a language, has been widely investigated in relation to its predictive role for reading (dis)ability across languages. However, few studies have investigated to what extent phonological awareness may affect spoken language organization, which in...

The development of phonological awareness, the knowledge of the structural combinatoriality of a language, has been widely investigated in relation to reading (dis)ability across languages. However, the extent to which knowledge of phonemic units may interact with spoken language organization in (transparent) alphabetical languages, has hardly been...

F3 is know to exhibit higher values in darker varieties of /l/. This contrast has been attributed to differences in closure fronting and front cavity configuration. In this paper we propose a possible alternative explanation for higher F3 in dark /l/, based on sensitivity functions. Both allophones have an apical gesture, but differ in their tongue...