Publications and presentations were in English unless otherwise marked: J Japanese, C Chinese.
Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Conference Proceedings
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Rankinen, W., & Albin, A. (2021). Apparent-time evidence of American Raising in western and eastern Lower Michigan. Publication of the American Dialect Society, 106(1), 171–203.
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Albin, A. (2020). A re-examination of methods for calculating declination: The case of Tokyo Japanese. In Proceedings of the 34th General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (pp.73-78). Tokyo, Japan: Phonetic Society of Japan. (Original oral presentation: Tokyo, Japan, September 2020)J
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Albin, A., & Wang, R. (2020). When does intonational transfer occur? A comparative study of interrogative rises in four groups of L2 Japanese learners. In N. Minematsu, M. Kondo, T. Arai, and R. Hayashi (Eds.), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020 (pp.857-861). International Speech Communication Association. (Original oral presentation: online, May 2020).
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Wang, R., Hayashi, R., and Albin, A. (2020). The perception of Japanese accent by Chinese native speakers: Levels of difficulty based on word length and accent type. Journal of the Japan Society for Speech Sciences, 21, 121-137.J
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Li, X., Albin, A., & Hayashi, R. (2020). Perception and production of emotional speech by L1-Chinese Japanese learners: Considerations based on a perception experiment and acoustic analysis. Journal of the Japan Society for Speech Sciences, 21, 101-111.J
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Kimoto, M., Albin, A., & Hayashi, R. (2019). An examination of downtrends in Japanese prosody: Comparing Tokyo dialect and Akita dialect. In Proceedings of the 33rd General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (pp.145-150). Tokyo, Japan: Phonetic Society of Japan. (Original poster presentation: Tokyo, Japan, September 2019)J
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Li, X., Albin, A., Ishi, C.T., & Hayashi, R. (2019). Japanese emotional speech produced by Chinese learners and Japanese native speakers: Differences in perception and voice quality. In Calhoun, S., Escudero, P., Tabain, M., & Warren, P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp.2183-2187). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. (Original poster presentation: Melbourne, Australia., August 2019)
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Kimoto, M., Albin, A., & Hayashi, R. (2019). Downtrends in Japanese prosody: A comparison of Akita dialect speakers and Tokyo dialect speakers. In Proceedings of the 2019 Spring Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan (pp.801-802). Tokyo, Japan: Acoustical Society of Japan. (Original poster presentation: Tokyo, Japan, March 2019)J
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Li, X., Albin, A., & Hayashi, R. (2018). The relationship between perception and production in emotional speech by Chinese learners of Japanese. In Proceedings of the 32nd General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (pp.261-266). Tokyo, Japan: Phonetic Society of Japan. (Original poster presentation: Okinawa, Japan, September 2018)J
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Hatano, H., Albin, A., Wang, R., & Ishi, C.T. (2018). Classification of Japanese accent types using machine learning: A comparison of native speakers’ and learners’ utterances from word list and read-aloud tasks. In Proceedings of the 32nd General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (pp.48-53). Tokyo, Japan: Phonetic Society of Japan. (Original oral presentation: Okinawa, Japan, September 2018)J
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Kimoto, M., Albin, A., & Hayashi, R. (2018). Acquisition of the prosody of standard Tokyo Japanese by Japanese native speakers: The case of young speakers of Akita dialect. In Proceedings of the 2018 Autumn Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan (pp.817-818). Tokyo, Japan; Acoustical Society of Japan. (Original poster presentation: Ōita, Japan, September 2018)J
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Albin, A. (2017). F0 contour parameterization using Optimal Regression Chains. In Proceedings of the Thirty-First General Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan (pp.79-84). Tokyo, Japan: Phonetic Society of Japan. (Original oral presentation: Tokyo, Japan, September-October 2017)
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Shū, Q., & Albin, A. (2017). The realization of pitch accent before a boundary rise in Chinese learners of Japanese: Which patterns are rated highest by Japanese teachers? In Proceedings of the 2017 Autumn Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan (pp.327-330). Tokyo, Japan: Acoustical Society of Japan. (Original poster presentation: Matsuyama, Japan, September 2017)
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Albin, A., & Gershkoff, L. (2016). Rapid word learning in trilingual children: One spurt or three? In Stringer, D., Garrett, J., Halloran, B., & Mossman, S. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (pp.14-30). Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. (Original oral presentation: Bloomington, Indiana, March 2015)
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Albin, A. (2016). Ubiquitous variability in the phonological form of loanwords: Tracing early borrowings into Japanese over five centuries of contact. In Levin, T., Masuda, R., and Kenstowicz, M. (Ed.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics 23 (pp. 275-289). Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) Publications. (Original oral presentation: Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2013)
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Silbert, N., de Jong, K., Regier, K., & Albin, A. (2015). The mapping between phonological categories and acoustic cues in the production of English obstruents. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(6), 3834–3845.
Workshops, Tutorials, and Invited Presentations
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Albin, A. (2020). Streamlining the processing of F0 data using the R package ‘intonation’. Tutorial at Speech Prosody 2020. Online conference.
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Albin, A. (2016). Speeding up automatic and semiautomatic phonetic annotation with PraatR. Workshop at Tools for Big Data in Laboratory Phonology (BigPhon), satellite event of the 15th biennial Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon). Ithaca, New York.
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Albin, A. (2016). L1 influence on the production, perception, and lexical encoding of word-level prosody in a second language. Invited talk for the Acquisition Seminar at Lund University. Lund, Sweden.
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Albin, A. (2014). Segmental constraints on F0 target alignment in interlanguage intonation: Early alignment of boundary rises in L1-English learners of L2 Japanese. Invited talk for ‘Viewpoints Colloquium Series’ at the University of Rochester Department of Linguistics. Rochester, New York.
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Albin, A. (2014). PraatR: An architecture for controlling the phonetics software “Praat” with the R programming language. Invited workshop for the University of Rochester Department of Linguistics. Rochester, New York.
Conference Presentations
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Albin, A., Wang, R., & Ōyama, R. (2020). Quantifying the pedagogical importance of Japanese accent rules: Preliminary analyses of a new accent-annotated corpus of elementary Japanese. American Association of Teachers of Japanese 2020 Annual Spring Conference. Online.
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Wang, R., Hayashi, R., & Albin, A. (2019). How is accent produced by Japanese learners who cannot perceive accent? Oral presentation at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the China Japanese Education Association. Hanzhou, Zhejiang, China.J
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Rankinen, W., Neuhaus, T.J., & Albin, A. (2019). Apparent-time evidence of American Raising in western Lower Michigan. Poster presentation at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 48. Eugene, Oregon.
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Albin, A., Li, X., & Hayashi, R. (2019). L1 influence on the prosodic realization of emotion in a second language: Analyses of an L2 Japanese speech corpus. Poster presentation at the 4th Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World (LCSAW4) Conference. Kobe, Japan.
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Ueyama, M., Hayashi, R., & Albin, A. (2019). Do learners with accurate word prosody also produce accurate sentence prosody? Lexical accent and downstep in L1 Italian learners of L2 Japanese. Poster presentation at New Sounds 2019: The 9th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech. Tokyo, Japan.
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Lidster, R., Daidone, D., Michaels L., & Albin. A. (2019). How to predict discriminability of phonemic length contrasts: Categorization and perceptual similarity of Finnish length by Japanese and American English listeners. New Sounds 2019: The 9th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech. Tokyo, Japan.
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Albin, A. (2019). The Japanese version of the Language History Questionnaire (LHQ) 2.0: Linguistic issues and cultural adaptation. Poster presentation at MAPLL-TCP-TL (Joint meeting of Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language, Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics, and IEICE Technical Committee on Thought and Language) 2019. Kobe, Japan.
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Ueyama, M., Hayashi, R., & Albin, A. (2019). Development of an L2 Japanese speech corpus for the comparison of prosody across diverse L1 groups. Poster presentation at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2019. Lecce, Italy.
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Rankinen, W., Albin, A., & Neuhaus, T.J. (2019). Decline of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift in western Lower Michigan: Apparent-time evidence of a change in progress. Oral presentation at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society (ADS). New York, New York.
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Albin, A., & Rankinen, W. (2019). Perception of the Canadian Shift by American English listeners from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: Vowel identification using synthetic male and female voices. Poster presentation at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). New York, New York.
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Li, X., Albin, A., and Hayashi, R. (2018). A study on the perception of emotions in Japanese speech by Chinese L2 learners of Japanese. Oral presentation at the 13th Phonetic Conference of China (PCC). Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.C
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Albin, A., & Rankinen, W. (2018). A heuristic for empirically determining the monophthong-diphthong distinction. Poster presentation at the Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon) 23. Evanston, Illinois.
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Hayashi, R., Isomura, K., Abe, S., Ueyama, M., Kanamura, K., Shibata, T., Nakagawa, C., Albin, A., Hatano, H., Minematsu, N., Yoshida, N., & Matsuda, M. (2018). Development of sound archives for learning Japanese prosody. Oral presentation at the 2018 International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE). Venice, Italy.J
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Li, X., Albin, A., & Hayashi, R. (2018). Perception of Japanese emotional speech by Chinese learners. Oral presentation at the 337th Regular Meeting of the Phonetic Society of Japan. Kobe, Japan.J
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Albin, A. (2018). Japanese Accent Rule Learning Algorithm. Oral presentation at the 2018 K-CONNEX (Keihanshin Consortium for Fostering the Next Generation of Global Leaders in Research) Joint Retreat. Osaka, Japan.J
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Hatano, H., Albin, A., & Ishi, C.T. (2018). F0 shape modeling and determination of accent type by machine learning. Oral presentation at the Tokyo Association of Phonetics and Speech (TAPS). Tokyo, Japan.J
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Rankinen, W., & Albin, A. (2018). Geographic distribution of Finnish vs. Anglicized pronunciations of the word ‘sauna’ in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Oral presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society (ADS). Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Albin, A., Tanaka, J., Mizuguchi, S., & Nishida, T. (2017). Relative leniency of experienced raters in rating accentedness: A re-examination in the Japanese context. Oral presentation at the 44th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States. Hamilton, Ontario.
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Albin, A. (2017). Diachronic change in the accentuation of Western loanwords in Japanese: The interplay between de-accenting, the Antepenultimate Rule, and source faithfulness. Oral presentation at the Phonological Association in Kansai (PAIK). Kobe, Japan.
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Albin, A., & Yamamoto, T. (2017). Choppiness of L2 English speech produced by L1 Japanese learners: Universal L2 pausing tendency or cross-linguistic intonation transfer? Oral presentation at the 17th Annual Conference of the Japan Second Language Association (J-SLA). Hamamatsu, Japan.
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Bibyk, S., Heeren, W., Albin, A., Rankinen, W., Salverda, A.P., Gunlogson, C., & Tanenhaus, M.K. (2017). Boundary tone processing during online comprehension. Poster presentation at the 30th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Rankinen, W, & Albin, A. (2015). Monophthongal /o/ as a lingering substrate effect in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula English. Poster presentation at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 44. Toronto, Ontario.
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Albin, A. (2015). Using ‘stylization queries’ to analyze second language learners’ intonation production. Oral presentation at the 20th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology (MidPhon). Bloomington, Indiana.
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Albin, A. (2015). Typologizing native language influence on second language intonation production: Three transfer phenomena in Japanese EFL learners. Poster presentation at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody (ETAP) 3. Urbana, Illinois.
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Albin, A., & Rankinen, W. (2014). A “pivot” model for extracting formant measurements based on vowel trajectory dynamics. Poster presentation at the 168th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Silbert, N., de Jong, K., Regier, K., Albin, A., & Hao, Y.-C. (2014). Acoustic properties of multi-talker babble. Poster presentation at the 167th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Providence, Rhode Island.
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Albin, A. (2014). PraatR: An architecture for controlling the phonetics software “Praat” with the R programming language. Poster presentation at the 167th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Providence, Rhode Island.
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Albin, A., & Rankinen, W. (2012). Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of vowel formant data: Speaker-intrinsic and speaker-extrinsic approaches compared. Poster presentation at the 164th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Kansas City, Missouri.
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Silbert, N., de Jong, K., Regier, K., & Albin, A. (2012). Prosodic position effects on the statistical relationships between distinctive features and acoustic-phonetic properties of English consonants. Poster presentation at the 164th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Kansas City, Missouri.
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Albin, A., & Rankinen, W. (2011). A Bayesian approach to cross-speaker vowel normalization. Oral presentation at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 40. Washington, DC.
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Albin, A. (2011). The loanword after the loan: Dual routes to diachronic nativization in Japanese loanword accent. Oral presentation at Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference (Mid-Phon) 17. Urbana, Illinois.
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de Jong, K., Silbert, N., Regier, K., & Albin, A. (2011). Statistical relationships in distinctive feature models and acoustic-phonetic properties of English consonants. Oral presentation at Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (Mid-Phon) 17. Urbana, Illinois.
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de Jong, K., Silbert, N., Regier, K., & Albin, A. (2011). Statistical relationships in distinctive feature models and acoustic-phonetic properties of English consonants. Poster presentation at the 161st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Seattle, Washington.
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Albin, A. (2011). Historical nativization of source-faithful patterns in the accentuation of Japanese loanwords. Oral presentation at the 2011 Australian National University Japanese Studies Graduate Summer School (JSGSS). Canberra, Australia.