Our research

Selected publications

Schertz, J., Adil, F., & Kravchuk, A. 2023. Underpinnings of explicit phonetic imitation: perception, production and variability. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/G601123

Schertz, J., and M. Paquette-Smith. 2023. Imitation of shortened and lengthened voice onset time in an imitation task. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Express Letters, 3(2), 025201. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017066

Zhang, H., and J. Schrtz. 2023. Phonetic Imitation of stops and vowels: individual stability and perceptual underpinnings. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 4066–4070). Guarant International. https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/610.pdf

Clare, E., and J. Schertz. 2022. The influence of heritage language experience on perception and imitation of prevoicing. Languages 7:0. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040302

Schertz, J., and E. K. Johnson. 2022. VOT imitation by teens and adults. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.65: 1839-1850. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00460
 
Fung, P., J. Schertz, and E. K. Johnson. 2021. The development of gendered speech in children: Insights from adult L1 and L2 perceptions. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Express Letters. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0003322

Martinuzzi, C., and J. Schertz. 2021. Sorry, Not Sorry: the independent role of multiple phonetic cues in signalling the difference between two word meanings. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830921988975 

Paquette-Smith, M., J. Schertz, and E. K. Johnson. 2021. Comparing phonetic convergence in children and adults. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309211013864 

Schertz, J., M. Paquette-Smith, and E. K. Johnson. 2021. The independent contribution of voice onset time to perceptual metrics of convergence. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Express Letters. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0004373

Schertz, J., and E. Clare. 2020. Phonetic cue weighting in perception and production. WIRES: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. 11(2): e1521. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1521  

Schertz, J., and S. Khan. 2020. Acoustic cues in production and perception of the four-way stop laryngeal contrast in Hindi and Urdu. Journal of Phonetics. 81, 100979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2020.100979

Yu, M., J. Schertz, and E. K. Johnson. 2021. The Other Accent Effect in talker recognition: Now you see it, now you don't. Cognitive Science. 45(6):e129896 https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12986  

Schertz, J., C. Chow, and N. S. Nor Kamal. 2019. The influence of tone language experience and speech style on the use of intonationin language discrimination. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 146:EL58. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5117167

Schertz, J., M. Paquette-Smith, and E. K. Johnson. 2019. The relationship between perceptual similarity judgments and VOT convergence in a shadowing task. Proceedings of ICPhS.

Chow, C. 2018. Use of segmental and prosodic cues in adult language discrimination: Effects of language experience and speaking style. ICU Working Papers in Linguistics 6.

Schertz, J., and K. Hawthorne. 2018. The effect of sentential context on phonetic categorization is modulated by talker accent and exposure. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 143(3):EL231-236. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5027512.

Selected presentations

Fung, P., J. Schertz, & E. K. Johnson. 2023. It starts at home: the role of parental socialization on the development of gendered speech. CogSci 2023 (poster presentation).

Baird, A., and J. Schertz. 2023. Phonetic convergence by gender non-conforming individuals. Annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (oral presentation).

Nuh, Hafza. 2023. Cross-Language Transfer in English Stop Production. Confluence 2023: Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Students Association, University of Toronto (oral presentation)

Nuh, Hafza. 2023. The perception and production of English Stop Consonants by L1 Somali Speakers and comparison with L1 English Speakers: a study of /p/ and /b/. TULCON, University of Toronto (poster presentation)

Schertz, J. 2023. The stability of individual differences in phonetic imitation across features and tasks. SRPP colloquium, Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle (invited oral presentation).

Schertz, J., & H. Zhang. 2023. Cross-linguistic differences in perception and imitation of prevoicing. International conference on experimental phonetics/Congreso interancional de fonética experimental (oral presentation).

Schertz, J. 2023. Stability of individual differences in convergence across features and tasks. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (oral presentation).

Schertz, J. 2023. Prevoicing in English stops: variation within and across dialects. PAC 2023 – Spoken English varieties: interfaces and multidimensional approaches (oral presentation).


Deng, Yi-Ting, and Hafza Nuh. The perception and imitation of consonants and vowels. Summer Undergraduate Research Forum, University of Toronto Mississauga, August 2022 (poster presentation).

Clare, E. J. and J. Schertz. 2022. Perception and imitation of prevoicing across language backgrounds. Acoustical Society of America Annual Meeting (poster presentation).  

Schertz, J. 2022. Underpinnings of phonetic imitation. McGill Department of Linguistics Colloquium, March 18, 2022 (invited talk)  

Clare, E. J., EJ Guerrero, A. Kravchuk, I. Mroke, D. Rodrigo, and J. Schertz. 2021. Perception and production of prevoicing. Summer Phonetics/Phonology Forum, University of Toronto (oral presentation).  

Fung, P., J. Schertz, and E. K. Johnson. 2021. The development of children’s sensitivity to how boys and girls talk. Society for Research in Child Development Virtual Biennial Meeting (poster presentation).  

Schlegl, L. and J. Schertz. 2021. Production and perception of mock speech. Summer Phonetics/Phonology Forum, University of Toronto (oral presentation).  

Schertz, J. 2020. Imitation and perception of individual accented features. LabPhon 17 (virtual poster presentation).

Schertz, J. 2020. Interactive visualization in speech research. Lightning Lunch: Programming Relationships, University of Toronto Mississauga (oral presentation).  

Chan, F. and K. Tang. 2019. Born in Hong Kong or Canada: Can you tell where a speaker is from? Linguistics Research Showcase, University of Toronto Mississauga, April 2019 (poster presentation).  

Creary-Thomas, D., and J. Ahmed. 2019. Amphibious Ears. Smarti Gras Summer Undergraduate Research Showcase, University of Toronto Mississauga (poster presentation).  

Lyashenko, A., and J. Schertz. 2019. Is Russian palatable for English speakers? PsyLinCS-UTM (poster presentation).  

Schertz, J., Yu, M., Johnson, E. K., and Chambers, C. 2019. Phonetic cue weighting in an L2 shadowing task. L2 Pronunciation Research Workshop: bridging the gap between theory and practice (oral presentation).  

Zosel, A., Hawthorne, K., Schertz, J., and Loveall, S. 2019. Interactions between contextual and phonetic information in children and adults' perception of non-native speech. ASHA Annual Convention (poster presentation).

Carbonell, K., J. Schertz., and A. Lotto. 2018. Monolingual and Bilingual perceptual cue weighting for voicing contrast in English and Spanish. Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans (poster presentation).  

Chaudhari, G., C. Chow, S. Khan, A. Lyashenko, and J. Schertz. 2018. Perception of Hindi and Urdu voiced aspirates. Summer Phonology Forum 2018 (oral presentation), University of Toronto.  

Chow, C., N. S. Nor Kamal, and J. Schertz. 2018. Use of segmental and prosodic cues in adult language discrimination: Effects of language experience and speaking style. 3rd Asian Junior Linguists Conference, The University of Hong Kong (oral presentation).  

Chow, C., N. S. Nor Kamal, and J. Schertz. 2018. Use of segmental and prosodic cues in adult language discrimination: Effects of language experience and speaking style. 3rd Asian Junior Linguists Conference, The University of Hong Kong (oral presentation).  

Dumdumaya, M., Nor Kamal, N. S., Purbodiningrat, G., Saab, D., and Zhu, H. Z. 2018. Do you have an accent? Smarti Gras Summer Undergraduate Research Showcase, University of Toronto Mississauga (poster presentation).  

Howson, P., and J. Schertz. 2018. The role of F2 and F3 in the perception of liquids for Hindi and Mandarin listeners. Acoustical Society of American Annual Meeting, Victoria (poster presentation).  

Padillo, A. 2018. Do I have an Accent? Effects of first language on Canadian English. TULCON, University of Toronto (poster presentation).  

Schertz, J. 2018. Accented stops? L1-based variation in L2 stop production. Linguistic Perspectives on Variation, University at Buffalo (oral presentation).  

Schertz, J. 2018. Effect of L1 phonation contrast on production of L2 English stops. Acoustical Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis (poster presentation).  

Schertz, J. 2018. What you hear depends on who (you think) is talking: How listeners' expectations about the talker shape speech perception. Colloquium talk, University of Ottawa (invited oral presentation).  

Schertz, J., and K. Hawthorne. 2017. Top-down influence on phonetic categorization of native vs. non-native speech. Acoustical Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston (poster presentation).  

Schertz, J., and K. Hawthorne. 2018. Sentential context effects on phonetic categorization in talkers with non-native and regional accents. LabPhon 16, Lisbon (poster presentation).  

Soo, R., Ting, C., and J. Schertz. 2018. Visual gender biases in English stop voicing perception. Acoustical Society of America Annual Meeting, Victoria (poster presentation).  

Ting, C., R. Soo, and J. Schertz. 2018. Investigating the use of visual gender cues in English stop voicing perception. Summer Phonology Forum 2018 (oral presentation), University of Toronto.  

Hustins, L., Padillo, A., Saif, S., Siddiqui, F. 2017. Effects of first language on Canadian English. Summer Research Celebration, University of Toronto Mississauga (poster presentation).  

Schertz, J. 2017. Listening differently to accented talkers: Use of acoustic and contextual cues in perception of native vs. non-native speech. CRC-Sponsored Phonetics and Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto (oral presentation).  

Schertz, J., H. Buckler, C. Klammer, and E. K. Johnson. 2017. A bear called Baddington? Variability and contrast enhancement in accented infant-directed speech. Acoustical Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston (poster presentation).