Márton Sóskuthy

Associate Professor, UBC Linguistics      

     

Department of Linguistics
2613 West Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4

Publications

Journal articles

  • Lorenc, A., Żygis, M., Mik, Ł., Pape, D., Sóskuthy, M. (2022) Articulatory and acoustic variation in Polish palatalised retroflexes compared with plain ones. Journal of Phonetics 96, 101181. [open access link] [data & code]
  • Winter, B., Sóskuthy, M., Perlman, M. & Dingemanse, M. (2022). Trilled /r/ is associated with roughness, linking sound and touch across spoken languages. Scientific Reports 12, 1035. [open access link] [data & code]
  • Brand, J., Hay, J., Clark, L., Watson, K., Sóskuthy, M. (2021). Systematic co-variation of monophthongs across speakers of New Zealand English. Journal of Phonetics 88, 101096. [paper] [data & code]
  • Sóskuthy, M. (2021). Evaluating generalised additive mixed modelling strategies for dynamic speech analysis. Journal of Phonetics 84, 101017. [preprint] [paper] [data & code]
  • Vanek, N., Sóskuthy, M. & Majid, A. (2020). Consistent verbal labels promote odor category learning. Cognition 206, 104485. [paper] [data & code]
  • Sóskuthy, M. & Rácz, P. (2020). Beyond plain and extra-grammatical morphology: echo-pairs in Hungarian. Language and Speech. [preprint] [paper] [data & code]
  • Sóskuthy, M., Stuart-Smith, J. (2020). Voice quality and coda /r/ in Glasgow English in the early 20th century. Language Variation and Change 32:2, 133–157. [preprint] [paper] [data & code]
  • Sóskuthy, M., Roettger, T. (2020). When the tune shapes morphology: the case of vocatives. Journal of Language Evolution 5:2, 140–155. [preprint] [paper] [data & code]
  • Sóskuthy, M., Foulkes, P., Hughes, V. & Haddican, W. (2018). Changing words and sounds: the roles of different cognitive units in sound change. Topics in Cognitive Science 10, 787–802. [preprint] [paper]
  • Sóskuthy, M. & Hay, J. (2017). Changing word usage predicts changing word durations in New Zealand English. Cognition 166, 298–313. [open access link] [data & code]
  • Smith, I., Foulkes, P. & Sóskuthy, M. (2017). Speaker identification in whisper. Revista Letras de Hoje 52:1, 5–14. [open access link]
  • Sóskuthy, M. (2015). Understanding change through stability: a computational study of sound change actuation. Lingua 163, 40–60. [preprint] [paper]
  • Sóskuthy, M. (2013). Analogy in the emergence of intrusive-r in English. English Language and Linguistics 17:1, 55–84. [preprint] [paper]

Book chapters

  • Sóskuthy, M., Hay, J., Maclagan, M., Drager, K., Foulkes, P. (2017). The closing diphthongs in early New Zealand English. In: R. Hickey (ed.), Listening to the Past: Audio Records of Accents of English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 529–561.
  • Sóskuthy, M. (2012). Morphology in the extreme: echo-pairs in Hungarian. In: F. Kiefer & Z. Bánréti (eds.) Twenty years of theoretical linguistics in Budapest, Budapest: Tinta Publishing House, 123–144. [preprint]

Proceedings

  • Brand, J., Hay, J., Clark, L., Watson, K., Sóskuthy, M. (2019) Systematic covariation of monophthongs across speakers of New Zealand English. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Australia. [paper]
  • Sóskuthy, M., Hay, J., Brand, J. (2019) Horizontal Diphthong Shift in New Zealand English. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Australia. [paper] [data & code]
  • Sóskuthy, M., Foulkes, P., Hughes, V., Hay, J., Haddican, B. (2015). Word-level distributions and structural factors codetermine GOOSE fronting. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow. [paper]
  • Stuart-Smith, J., Macdonald, R., Brian, J., Sóskuthy, M. (2015). A dynamic acoustic view of real-time change in word-final liquids in spontaneous Glaswegian. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow. [paper]

PhD Thesis

  • Sóskuthy, M. (2013). Phonetic biases and systemic effects in the actuation of sound change. PhD Thesis, Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh. [link]

Edited volume

  • Sóskuthy, M. (2010). Odd Yearbook 8 (ELTE SEAS Undergraduate Papers in Linguistics). Editor, Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University. [link]

Tutorials

  • Sóskuthy, M. (2020). Using custom type I error simulations to find the optimal random effects structure for GAMM models. Online tutorial. [tutorial] [data & code]
  • Sóskuthy, M. (2017). Generalised Additive Mixed Models for dynamic analysis in linguistics: A practical introduction. arXiv:1703.05339 [stat:AP]. [paper] [data & code]

Software

  • Sóskuthy, M. Formant Editor: Software for editing dynamic formant measurements. [link]
  • Sóskuthy, M. RGCM: Bayesian parameter estimation & prediction for the Generalised Context Model in R. [link]

Associate Professor of Phonetics and Cognitive Systems

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Department of Linguistics

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University of British Columbia