1. The impact of phonetic variability on bilingual morpho-syntax: The case of Spanish-English bilinguals
   1. Team: S. Béjar (University of Toronto); A. Cuza (Purdue University); E. Johnson (University of Toronto); N. Mazzaro (U. Texas, El Paso); A. T. Pérez Leroux (University of Toronto); J. Schertz (University of Toronto).
   2. Publications and presentations:
      1. 2020. Colantoni, L., Martínez, R., Pérez Leroux, A., & Rinaldi, N. A phonetic account of heritage bilinguals’ divergence with Spanish gender agreement. Languages, 5, 58; doi:10.3390/languages5040058
         
      2. 2021. Colantoni, L. & Pérez Leroux, A. Phonetic variability and the vulnerability of gender in Spanish-English bilinguals. Paper presented online at the Quebec Ontario Dialogues on the Acquisition of Spanish (QODAS), Western University, April 16. 
         
      3. 2020. Colantoni, L., Martínez, R., Pérez Leroux, A., & Rinaldi, N. Gender marking under disguise: Phonetics and grammar in Spanish-English bilinguals. Paper presented at the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Austin, July 1-8. 
         
      4. Website: https://bilingualsintoronto.ca
2. Acquisition of English Intonation by L1 Spanish, Mandarin and Inuktitut speakers
   1. Team: A. Johns (Linguistics); G. Klassen; M. Patience, M. Radu, O. Tararova (PhD candidates, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese)
   2. Publications and presentations: 
      1. ​https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0813.pdf
      2. http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/SpeechProsody_2016/pdfs/277.pdf
      3. benjamins.com/catalog/lab.17004.rad
3. Second Language acquisition of coarticulatory patterns (w/A. Kochetov & J. Steele)
   1. ​Publications and presentations: 
      1. 2019. Kochetov, A., Colantoni, L., Kang, Y. & Steele. Linguopalatal contact differences between /n/ and  /t/ across six languages. Paper presented at the 19th ICPhs. icphs2019.org/icphs2019-fullpapers/
      2. 2019. Steele, J., Colantoni, L., & Kochetov, A. Gradient assimilation in French /n/ + velar stop sequences. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-international-phonetic-association/article/gradient-assimilation-in-french-crossword-nvelar-stop-sequences/B6AD1A6EBFC734DA8950CCC5D3F56F9F
      3. 2017. Kochetov, A., Colantoni, L., Steele, J. Gradient and categorical effects in native and non-native nasal-rhotic coordination. Poster presented at the meeting of the Annual Meeting on Phonology, NYU, September 15-17. 
      4. 2016. Colantoni, L., Kochetov, A., & Steele, J. L1 influence on L2 assimilation: An EPG study of English /n/+stop sequences. Paper presented at the 15th conference of the Laboratory Phonology Association, Cornell, July 13-16. 
      5. ​2016. Colantoni, L., Kochetov, A., & Steele. Acquiring phonological contrast before target-like coarticulation. Evidence from an electropalatography study of L2 English word-final nasals. Paper presented at New Sounds 2016, Aarhus University, June 10-12. 
4. Development of speech databases
   1. ​Romance Phonetics Database (w/J. Steele): http://r1.chass.utoronto.ca/rpd/
   2. Cross-Language articulatory database (w/A. Kochetov & J. Steele): http://clad.chass.utoronto.ca/