Dr. Connor Mayer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Language Science
Department of Language Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697
Email: cjmayer@uci.edu
Website
Selected Publications:
- Two papers have been published in the proceedings for the 2023 Society for Computation in Linguistics, which will be held in June in Amherst, MA! These are “Rethinking representations: A log-bilinear model of phonotactics”, in collaboration with Huteng Dai and Richard Futrell, and “Modeling island effects with probabilistic tier-based strictly local grammars over trees”, in collaboration with Charlie Torres, Kenneth Hanson, and Thomas Graf.
- A paper titled “Robustness of lateral tongue bracing under bite block perturbation” has been published in Phonetica! This is collaborative work with Yadong Liu, Sophia Luo, Monika Łuszczuk, Arian Shamei, Gillian de Boer, and Bryan Gick. You can find the preprint version here and final version here.
Liu, Y., Luo, S., Łuszczuk, M., Mayer, C., Shamei, A., de Boer, G., & Gick, B. (2023). Robustness of lateral tongue bracing under bite block perturbation. Phonetica, 79(6), 523-549. doi:10.1515/phon-2022-0001. PMID: 36974956
Gick, B., Mayer, C., Chiu, C., Widing, E., Roewer-Després, F., Fels, S., & Stavness, I. (2020). Quantal biomechanical effects in speech postures of the lips. Journal of Neurophysiology, 124(3), 833-843. doi:10.1152/jn.00676.2019. PMID: 32727259
Mayer, C., Roewer-Despres, F., Stavness, I., & Gick, B. (2017). Do innate stereotypies serve as a basis for swallowing and learned speech movements? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. doi:10.1017/S0140525X16001928. PMID: 29342814
Mayer, C., & Gick, B. (2012). Talking while chewing: speaker response to natural perturbation of speech. Phonetica, 69(3), 109-123. doi:10.1159/000336117. PMID: 23258462
Mayer, C., Gick, B., Weigel, T., & Whalen, D. H. (2013). Perceptual Integration of Visual Evidence of the Airstream from Aspirated Stops. Canadian Acoustics, 41(3), 23-27. PMID: 26097284