A list of selected publications, along with links, can be found below. For any questions, contact Jason Shaw (jason.shaw@yale.edu).

Shaw, J.A. (submitted). Unifying phonological and phonetic aspects of speech in dynamic neural fields: the case of laryngeal patterns in Japanese. Phonological Studies, vol 28, 1-12. pdf.

Rao D, Shaw JA. Zhongjiang Chinese. 2025. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. Published online 2025:1-29. doi:10.1017/S0025100324000203

Francesco B., Kawahara S., Shaw, J.A. 2025. Articulatory correlates of consonantal length contrasts: The case of Japanese mimetic geminates. JASA Express Lett. 1 January 2025; 5 (1): 015201. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0034762

Oh, S., Shaw, J.A., Durvasula, K., Kochetov, A. 2024. Russian assimilatory palatalization is incomplete neutralization. Laboratory Phonology, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.10185. 

Stern M. &  Shaw. J.A. 2024. Towards a minimal dynamics for gestures: a law relating velocity and position. Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production. Au Trans, France, 4pgs. pdf

Shaw J.A. & Tang, K. 2023. A dynamic neural model of leaky prosody: proof of concept. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology (Vol. 10). UCLA. LSA publication. 1-12. pdf.

Kramer B., Stern M., Wang Y., Liu Y., Shaw. J.A. 2023. Synchrony and stability of articulatory landmarks in English and Mandarin CV sequences. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic, 4pgs. pdf

Liu Y., Wang Y., Stern M., Kramer B., Shaw. J.A. 2023. Temporal scope of articulatory slowdown under informational focus: Data from English and Mandarin. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic, 4pgs. pdf

Burns R & Shaw. J.A. 2023. Effect of vowel context on stop place identification in Yoruba
Form of presentation. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic, 4pgs. pdf

Stern M. & Shaw. J.A. 2023. Not all phonological neighbors affect production equivalently: predictions from a neural dynamic model. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague, Czech Republic, 4pgs. pdf

Stern, M. C., & Shaw, J. A. 2023. Neural inhibition during speech planning contributes to contrastive hyperarticulation. Journal of Memory and Language, 132, 104443. link

Shaw, J.A. & Kawahara S. 2023. Limits on gestural reorganization following vowel deletion: the case of Tokyo Japanese. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. 14(1).  https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.8543

Stern, M. C., Chaturvedi, M., & Shaw, J. A. 2022. A dynamic neural field model of phonetic trace effects in speech errors. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44). 4pgs. pdf

Weber, N., & Shaw, J.A. 2022. Situating Blackfoot within a typology of (mobile) boundary tone grammars. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology (Vol. 9). University of Toronto. LSA publication. 1-12. online

Dongmei, R., Shaw, J.A., & Dockum, R. 2022. Data on acoustic phonetic properties of non-coronal fricatives in monosyllabic words of Zhongjiang Chinese. Data in Brief, 108062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108062  online (open access)

Kawahara, S., Shaw, J.A. & Ishihara, S. 2022. Assessing the prosodic licensing of wh-in-situ in Japanese. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 40, 103–122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-021-09504-3. pdf

Shaw, J. A. 2022. Micro‐prosody. Language and Linguistics Compass, 16(2), e12449. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12449

Shaw, J. A., Oh, S., Durvasula, K., & Kochetov, A. (2021). Articulatory coordination distinguishes complex segments from segment sequences. Phonology, 38(3), 437-477. doi:10.1017/S0952675721000269. pdf

Shaw, J. A. & Kawahara, S.  2021 .More on the articulation of devoiced [u] in Tokyo Japanese: effects of surrounding consonants. Phonetica. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2021-2011.pdf

Rao, D., & Shaw, J.A. 2021. The role of gestural timing in non-coronal fricative mergers in Southwestern Mandarin: acoustic evidence from a dialect island. online Journal of Phonetics. online (open access)

Ying, J., Shaw, J.A., Carignan, C. Proctor, M., Derrick, D., Best, C.T. 2021.Evidence for active control of tongue lateralization in Australian English /l/. Journal of Phonetics. online (open access)

Elvin, J., Williams, D., Shaw, J. A., Best, C. T., & Escudero, P. 2021. The Role of Acoustic Similarity and Non-Native Categorisation in Predicting Non-Native Discrimination: Brazilian Portuguese Vowels by English vs. Spanish Listeners. Languages, 6(1), 44. online (open access)

Tang, K., & Shaw, J. A. 2021. Prosody leaks into the memories of words. Cognition, 210, 104601. pdf

Shaw, J. A. 2021. Book review of “Alice Turk and Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel 2020. Speech timing: Implications for theories of phonology, phonetics, and speech motor control. (Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics 5.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xv 370.” Phonology,38(1), 165-171. doi:10.1017/S0952675721000099. pdf

Geissler, C., Shaw, J.A., Hu, F. & Tiede, M.. 2021. Eccentric C-V timing across speakers of diaspora Tibetan with and without lexical tone contrasts. In Tiede, Mark, Doug Whalen, & Vincent Gracco, Eds. Proceedings of the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production. Providence, RI. pdf

Strycharczuk, P., Derrick, D., &  Shaw, J.A. 2020. Locating de-lateralization in the pathway of sound changes affecting coda /l/. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 11(1), 21. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.236 (open access)

Shaw, J. A., Carignan, C., Agostini, T. G., Mailhammer, R., Harvey, M., & Derrick, D. 2020. Phonological contrast and phonetic variation: The case of velars in Iwaidja. Language, 96(3), 578-617. pdf

Shaw, J. A., & Tyler, M. D. 2020. Effects of vowel coproduction on the timecourse of tone recognition. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(4), 2511-2524. pdf

Shaw, J. A., & Chen, W.-r. 2019. Spatially Conditioned Speech Timing: Evidence and Implications. Frontiers in psychology, 10(2726). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02726 online (open access).

Shaw, J. A., & Kawahara, S. 2019. Effects of surprisal and entropy on vowel duration in Japanese. Language and Speech, 62(1), 80-114. pdf

Shaw, J. A., Durvasula, K., & Kochetov, A. 2019. The temporal basis of complex segments. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 676-680). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.  pdf

Zhang, M., +Geissler, C., & Shaw, J. A. 2019. Gestural representations of tone in Mandarin: Evidence from timing alternations. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 1803-1807). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.  pdf

Shaw, J. A., Best, C. T., Docherty, G., Evans, B., Foulkes, P., Hay, J., & Mulak, K. 2019. An information theoretic perspective on perceptual structure: cross-accent vowel perception. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 582-586). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. pdf

Shaw, J. A., & Kawahara, S. 2018. Predictability and phonology: past, present and future. Linguistic Vanguard, 4(S2), 1-11. pdf

Shaw, J.A., & Kawahara, S. 2018. Assessing surface phonological specification through simulation and classification of phonetic trajectories. Phonology,35(3), 481-522. doi:10.1017/S0952675718000131 pdf

Shaw, J. A., Best, C. T., Docherty, G., Evans, B. G., Foulkes, P., Hay, J., & Mulak, K. E. 2018. Resilience of English vowel perception across regional accent variation. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology,9(1), 11. doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.87 (open access)

Shaw, J. A., & Kawahara, S. 2018. The lingual articulation of devoiced/u/in Tokyo Japanese. Journal of Phonetics, 66, 100-119. pdf

Shaw, J. A., & Kawahara, S. 2018. Consequences of High Vowel Deletion for Syllabification in Japanese. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2017), New York University. Proceedings available online.

Kawahara, S., and J. A. Shaw. 2018. The Persistence of Prosody. In Hana-bana: A Festschrift for Junko Ito and Armin Mester, eds. Ryan Bennett, Andrew Angeles, Adrian Brasoveanu, Dhyana Buckley, Nick Kalivoda, Shigeto Kawahara, Grant McGuire, and Jaye Padgett. Santa Cruz, CA: UCSC Linguistics Research Center. Available at http://itomestercelebration.sites.ucsc.edu/ .