Lenition and Fortition
This study investigates whether place of articulation plays a role in stop devoicing in five Romance languages using large
corpora and automatic alignment with pronunciation variants.
More details here: Popescu et al., 2023
Phonetic typology
The present study tests whether voicing in European Portuguese (EP) fricatives diverges from its sister languages by using empirically motivated combinations of different languages
(EP, Italian, German) acoustic phone models on large EP corpora, allowing an ASR system to choose the best fitting one when force aligning the data.
More details here: Popescu,Lamel & Vasilescu, 2023, Popescu, Lamel & Vasilescu, 2024