Ioana Chitoran

Enseignant-chercheur

General presentation

Research interests

• laboratory phonology
• relationship between the temporal coordination of articulatory gestures and phonological representation
• link between speech production and perception
• phonetics and phonology of Caucasian languages
• phonetics and phonology of Romance languages

Research projects

Recent funding

• ANR DIPVAR (2022-2025) "Digital investigation of phonetic variation". LISN Paris Saclay (Coordinator PI Ioana Vasilescu), Université Paris Cité, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Université de Lille (Partners)
• IDEX Emergence en recherche (Jan 2021-Dec 2022) "From sound to discourse: Computer-based modelling of large scale data to study linguistic change over time"
• ANR-DFG PATHS (2015-2018) "Paths to phonological complexity: Onset clusters in speech production, perception and disorders" - with Marianne Pouplier, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, LMU, Munich 

Teaching

I regularly teach the following courses:

• Phonologie (L3)
• Phonological Analysis (M1)
• Speech perception (M2)
• Topics in phonological theory (M2)

PhD supervisions

Current PhD students

• Zifeng Liu. The perception of tonal speech errors (co-supervised with Giuseppina Turco)
• Caihong Weng. Variation in the perception and production of non-native speech in a bilingual community (co-supervised with Alexander Martin; Cotutelle University of Groningen)

Past PhD students

• Juliette Millet (2022) Large-scale unsupervised speech models of foreign language speech perception (with Ewan Dunbar)
• Hannah King (2020) Seeing is perceiving. The role of the lips in the production and perception of Anglo-English /r/ (with Emmanuel Ferragne)
• Anisia Popescu (2019) Temporal organization of liquid consonants in complex syllables: Implications for a dynamic articulatory model of the syllable
• Qianwen Guan (2019) Emerging modes of temporal coordination: Mandarin and non-native consonant clusters
• Anqi Liu (2019) Le suffixe rhotique en mandarin: études phonétiques et représentation phonologique dans le cadre de la phonologie articulatoire
• Yumei Sang (2016) Questions de phonétique et phonologie du mongol

Bibliography

Recent publications

For a complete list, see the Orcid-ID.

2024

Liu, Z., I. Chitoran, G. Turco. Perceptual salience of tones, vowels, and consonants in Mandarin speech errors. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309241302334

Cronenberg, J., I. Chitoran, L. Lamel, I. Vasilescu. Crosslinguistic comparison of acoustic variation in the vowel sequences /ia/ and /io/ in four Romance languages. Proceedings of Interspeech 2024. 

https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2024/cronenberg24_interspeech.pdf

Weng, C., I. Chitoran, A. Martin. Sibilant contrast production by bilingual speakers of Quanzhou Southern Min and Mandarin. Proceedings of ISSP 2024. DOI: 10.21437/issp.2024-65

Popescu, A. and I. Chitoran. Laterals in simplex vs. complex syllable codas: A comparison of four languages. Proceedings of ISSP 2024. DOI: 10.21437/issp.2024-13

Liu, Z., I. Chitoran, G. Turco. Perceptual salience of tonal speech errors. Speech Prosody 2024.  DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-87

2023    

Kwon, H. and I. Chitoran. Perception of illusory clusters: The role of native timing Phonetica. DOI: 10.1515/phon-2023-2005

Crouch, C., A. Katsika and I. Chitoran. Sonority sequencing and its relationship to articulatory timing in Georgian. Journal of the International Phonetic Association    DOI : 10.1017/S0025100323000026

Weng, C., I. Chitoran, A. Martin. The influence of Quanzhou Southern Min on Mandarin non-sibilant fricative discrimination. JASA Express Letters    https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0020266

Zellou, G., A. Pycha, I. Chitoran. Use of gradient anticipatory nasal coarticulatory cues for lexical perception in French. Journal of Laboratory Phonology 14:1    https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.10479

Zellou, G., I. Chitoran, Z. Zhou. Real-time intelligibility affects the realization of French word-final schwa. Speech Communication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2023.102962  

Zellou, G. and I. Chitoran. Lexical competition influences coarticulatory variation in French: comparing competition from nasal and oral vowel minimal pairs. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 8(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9801

2022    

Popescu, A. and I. Chitoran. Linking gestural representations to syllable count judgments: A cross-language test. Journal of Laboratory Phonology 13(1)       https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.7681

King, H. and I. Chitoran. Difficult to hear but easy to see: Audio-visual perception of the /r/-/w/ contrast in Anglo-English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0012660

Crouch, C., A. Katsika, I. Chitoran. Georgian syllables, uncentered? Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2022

Pouplier, M., M. Pastätter, P. Hoole, S. Marin, I. Chitoran, T.O. Lentz, A. Kochetov. Language and cluster-specific effects in the timing of onset consonant sequences in seven languages. Journal of Phonetics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101153

2021

Chitoran, I. Phonological variation and change in Romanian. In M. Loporcaro and F. Guardani (Eds.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Romance Linguistics. Oxford University Press. Published online in the ORE of Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.496

2020    

Pouplier, M., T.O. Lentz, I. Chitoran, P. Hoole. The imitation of coarticulatory timing patterns in consonant clusters for phonotactically familiar and unfamiliar sequences. Journal of Laboratory Phonology 11:1. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.195

Chitoran, I., H. Yoo, G. Turco. Durational effects of boundaries in Italian fricatives. In M. Tiede, D. Whalen, V. Gracco (Eds.) Proceedings of the 12^th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP 2020) Haskins Press, New Haven, CT, 118-121

2019    

Kwon, H. et I. Chitoran. Perception of native consonant clusters with non-native phonetic patterns. Calhoun, Escudero, Tabain, Warren (Eds.) Proceedings of ICPhS 2019, Melbourne, Australia

2018

Chitoran, I. and S. Marin. Vowels and diphthongs - The articulatory and acoustic structure of Romanian nuclei. In M. Gibson and J. Gil (Eds.) Contemporary Studies in Romance Phonetics and Phonology. Oxford University Press. 118-132

Chitoran, I., I. Vasilescu, L. Lamel, B. Vieru. Connected speech in Romanian: Exploring sound change through an ASR system. In D. Recasens and F. Sánchez Miret (Eds.) Production and perception mechanisms of sound change. München: Lincom Europa. 129-143

2016

Chitoran, I. Relating the sonority hierarchy to articulatory timing patterns: A cross-linguistic perspective. In Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (Eds.) Challenging sonority: Cross-linguistic evidence. Equinox Publishing. Studies in Phonetics and Phonology. 45-62

Hualde, J. I. and I. Chitoran. Surface sound and underlying structure: The phonetics-phonology interface in Romance languages. In S. Fischer and C. Gabriel (Eds.) Manual of grammatical interfaces in Romance. Mouton de Gruyter. 23-40. https://u-paris.hal.science/hal-01226122v1