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. Selected publications:
      1. 2024. Pérez Leroux, A. T., Colantoni, L., Thomas, D. & Chen, C. The morphophonological dimensions of Spanish gender marking: NP processing in Spanish Bilinguals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 24, doi=10.3389/fnhum.2024.1442339
      2. 2024. Colantoni, L. & Pérez Leroux, A. Acoustic properties of word-final vowels and the acquisition of gender in Spanish-English heritage speakers. In: E. Babatsouli (ed.), Multilingual acquisition and learning: An ecosystemic view of diversity, pp. 380-402. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
      3. 2023. Pérez Leroux, A. T., Alvarez López, Y., Barreto, M., Cuza, A., Marinescu, I., Yang, J. & Colantoni, L The phonetic and morphosyntactic dimensions of grammatical gender in Spanish heritage language acquisition: An exploratory study. Heritage Language Journal, 20, 1-37.
      4. 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
      5. 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 
   2. Selected publications and presentations: 
      1. ​2022. Colantoni, L.; Klassen, G.; Patience, M.; Radu, M.; Tararova, O. Perception and production of sentence types by Inuktitut-English bilinguals. Languages. 2022; 7(3):193. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7030193. https://www.mdpi.com/1741298
      2. 2021. Colantoni, L. & Sánchez, L. The Role of Prosody and Morphology in the Mapping of Information Structure onto Syntax. Languages, 6, 207. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6040207. https://www.mdpi.com/1402248
      3. https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0813.pdf
      4. http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/SpeechProsody_2016/pdfs/277.pdf
      5. benjamins.com/catalog/lab.17004.rad
3. Second Language acquisition of coarticulatory patterns (w/A. Kochetov & J. Steele)
   1. ​Selected publications:
      1. 2024. Colantoni, L., Kochetov, A., Steele, J. Stop-lateral clusters in French and Spanish: Articulatory timing differences and synchronic patterns. Languages. 9(12), 381. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9120381
      2. 2023. Colantoni, L., Kochetov, A., & Steele, J. Articulatory Insights into the L2 Acquisition of English-/l/ Allophony. Language and Speech, 238309231200629–238309231200629. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309231200629
      3. 2023. Colantoni, L., Kochetov, A., & Steele, J. Pathways to depalatalization of the French palatal nasal in Quebec & Hexagonal French: An EPG study. Journal of French Language Studies. Journal of French Language Studies, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269523000212
      4. Colantoni, L. & Kochetov, A. & Steele, J., (2023) “L1 influence on the L2 acquisition of English word-final nasal place contrasts: An electropalatographic study of L1 Japanese and Spanish learners”, Laboratory Phonology 14(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6434
      5. 2022. Colantoni, L., Kochetov, A., Steele, J. Coronal stop lenition in French and Spanish: Electropalatographic evidence. Loquens. 8(1-2), e080. https://doi.org/10.3989/loquens.2021.080
      6. Colantoni, Laura, Kochetov, Alexei and Steele, Jeffrey. "Articulatory settings and L2 English coronal consonants" Phonetica, vol. 78, no. 4, 2021, pp. 273-316. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2021-2007
      7. 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/
         
4. Development of speech databases
   1. ​Romance Phonetics Database (w/J. Steele): https://rpd.artsci.utoronto.ca (check CV for log in information)
   2. Cross-Language articulatory database (w/A. Kochetov & J. Steele):  https://clad.linguistics.utoronto.ca/ (check CV for log in information)