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Education

2007

2005

2002

Ph.D. Linguistics, Minor in Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona.
Dissertation title: Spoken Word Recognition of the Reduced American English Flap

M.A. Linguistics, University of Arizona.
Thesis topic: A descriptive study of devoiced nasals in Romanian.

B.A. Major in Linguistics, Minor in Russian, University of Arizona.

Publications

Tucker, Benjamin V., and Warner, Natasha. (Submitted).  Separating effects of prosodic domain boundaries, syllable sructure, and assimilation:  The case of Romanian devoiced nasals.  Under review by Phonology.

Kanu, Sullay & Benjamin V. Tucker. (Submitted). Illustrations of the IPA: Temne. Under review by the Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

Tucker, Benjamin V. (Submitted). The effect of reduction on the processing of flaps and /g/ in isolated words. Under review by the Journal of Phonetics.

Warner, Natasha, Fountain, Amy, and Tucker, Benjamin V. (2009).  Cues to perception of reduced flaps.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125:3317-3327.

Penfield, Susan D., Angelina Serratos, Benjamin V. Tucker, Amelia Flores, Gilford Harper, Johnny Hill, Jr., Nora Vasquez. (2008). Community Collaborations: Best practices for North American Indigenous language documentation. International Journal for the Sociology of Language. 191. 187–202.

Tucker, Benjamin V., Warner, Natasha. (2007). Inhibition of processing due to reduction of the American English flap. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, August 2007.

Siddiqi, Daniel and Benjamin V. Tucker. (2005). Coyote Papers: Working Papers in Linguistics, Linguistic Theory at the University of Arizona Volume 14.

Agbayani, Bryan, Vida Simiian and Benjamin V. Tucker. (2003). Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 32. 15. CSU Fresno.

Presentations

Warner, Natasha, Benjamin V. Tucker & Amy Fountain. (2008). Production of reduced speech: Approximated stops. Presented at the 155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Acoustics ’08 Paris).

Warner, Natasha, Benjamin V. Tucker. (2008). Production (or non-production) of American English intervocalic stops. Invited talk at the First Nijmegen Speech Reduction Workshop. (Nijmegen, NL).

Tucker, Benjamin V. (2008). The influence of speech style as context on the processing of reduced North American English flaps. Invited talk at the First Nijmegen Speech Reduction Workshop. (Nijmegen, NL).

Tucker, Benjamin V. (2008). Phonetic variability due to reduction in speech production and processing: The American English Flap. Invited talk at the University of Calgary.

Warner, Natasha & Benjamin V. Tucker. (2008). Fourth formant drop as a correlate of American English Flaps. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Chicago, IL).

Tucker, Benjamin V. & Natasha Warner. (2008). Can unusual result of prosodic domain boundary effects: Romanian devoiced nasals. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Chicago, IL).

Tucker, Benjamin V. (2007). Processing of fine phonetic detail in American English flaps, Presented at the 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, (Salt Lake City, UT).

Dungan, Mary, Karen Morian, Benjamin V. Tucker and Natasha Warner. (2007). Fourth formant dip as a correlate of American English flaps, Presented at the 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, (Salt Lake City, UT).

Tucker, Benjamin V., Susan Penfield, Angelina Serratos. (2007). Documentation for Language Revitalization. Presented at Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

Penfield, Susan D., Amelia Flores, Benjamin V. Tucker. (2007). The Role of the Language Activist in Documentation and Revitalization. Presented at Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.

Warner, Natasha and Benjamin V. Tucker. (2007). Variability in Intervocalic Stops: Production and Processing. Invited colloquium at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (March).

Tucker, Benjamin V. (2007). Processing of phonetic variation: The American English flap, Invited special talk, University of Alberta (February).

Tucker, Benjamin V. (2007 ). Acoustic phonetic description of Chemehuevi. Accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of America ( Anaheim, CA).

Warner, Natasha & Benjamin V. Tucker. (2007). Categorical and Gradient Variability in Intervocalic Stops. Accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America ( Anaheim, CA).

Tucker, Benjamin V. (2006). The relation of the temporal variation of F2 to articulator movement. Accepted for presentation at the National meeting of the Acoustic Society of America ( Honolulu, HI). poster

Tucker, Benjamin V. (2006). Language Documentation and Revitalization: A Collaborative Approach. Invited talk at Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR. slides

Tucker, Benjamin V., Dirk Elzinga, Susan Penfield & Lika Serratos. (2006). An online Chemehuevi dictionary. Presentation at Friends of Uto-Aztecan Conference at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. slides

Tucker, Benjamin V. (2006). A phonetic description of Chemehuevi. Presentation at Friends of Uto-Aztecan at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. slides

Penfield, Susan D., Angelina Chtareva, Benjamin V. Tucker, Amelia Flores, Gilford Harper, Johnny Hill, Jr. & Nora Vasquez. (2006). Collaboration for Documentation. Presentation at CELCNA at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. slides handout

Penfield, Susan D., Angelina Chtareva, Benjamin V. Tucker, Amelia Flores, Gilford Harper, Johnny Hill, Jr. & Nora Vasquez. (2006). Community Partnerships: Best Practices for Indigenous Language Documentation. Presentation at the Georgetown University Roundtable. Washington, DC. slides handout

Penfield, Susan D., Angelina Chtareva, Benjamin V. Tucker, Amelia Flores, Gilford Harper, Johnny Hill, Jr. & Nora Vasquez. (2006). Partnerships in preservation: A model for language documentation. Presentation at the annual meeting of Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of America. Albuquerque, NM.

Brewer, Jordan, Benjamin V. Tucker and Michael Hammond. (2004). Effects of syllable onset length in determining word-likeness outcomes . Journal of the Acoustic Society of America. 115(5) pt. 2, 2396. (New York, NY). poster

Brewer, Jordan, Lynnika Butler, Benjamin V. Tucker and Michael Hammond. (2004). Roleof onset complexity in well-formedness . Presentation at the Third North American Phonology Conference, Concordia University Montreal, Canada. handout

Brewer, Jordan, Lynnika Butler, Benjamin V. Tucker and Michael Hammond. (2004). *simple?. Presentation at Southwest Workshop on Optimality Theory, UC Santa Cruz. handout

Tucker, Benjamin V. (2003) Word-final nasals in Romanian. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America. 114(4) pt. 2, 2364 (Austin, TX). poster

Tucker, Benjamin V. (2003) Moraic structure in Romanian. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Atlanta, GA.

Bretschger, O., M. Lisi, C. F. McGinley, and B. V. Tucker. 1995. Elevation Distribution, Diameter, Morphology of Small Volcanic Edifices on Venus Between Guinevere Plantia and Sedna Plantia. Presentation at Twenty-sixth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. abstract

Research Interests

My interests include acoustic and articulatory phonetics, speech production and perception, language documentation and revitalization, phonology and historical linguistics.

Languages

Romanian (near-native fluency), working knowledge of Russian, Chemehuevi, Mohave, Spanish, French and Italian.

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