Current downloadable papers are available in the CV link.

Phonetics:
Spoken Word Recognition/Speech Perception:
Processing of reduced speech Natasha Warner (Douglass Phonetics Lab).

Dissertation: Spoken Word Recognition of the Reduced American English flap. PDF

Speech Production:

Acoustic characteristics of spontaneous reduced speech:
- American English flapping with Natasha Warner (Douglass Phonetics Lab).

The relationship between the tongue movement and formant trajectories in American English with Brad Story (Speech Acoustics Lab).

Voicing properties of nasals in Romanian (Douglass Phonetics Lab).

Language documentation work:
I am currently involved in a language documentation project called Colorado River Indian Tribes Language Documentation Project with Susan Penfield. Which focuses on the documentation of two highly endangered languages, Mohave and Chemehuevi.

Acoustic description of Mako (a language that is no longer spoken).

Phonetic documentation of Temne and Kono (a language of Sierra Leone).

Past work and presentations:
I have worked on a project with Jordan Brewer, Lynnika Butler, Jasan Ginsberg, Amy Lacross, Daniel Siddiqi and Mike Hammond (SPAM Lab) which looks at wellformedness judgements of nonce words in English.

Work:
I am currently the Editor of Linguistics Abstracts published by Wiley-Blackwell.

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Douglass Phonetics Lab | University of Alberta | Department of Linguistics

Benjamin V. Tucker
Univ of Alberta, Dept of Linguistics
4-32 Assiniboia Hall
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7
Canada
bvtucker[at]ualberta[dot]edu