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 and presentations:
      1. 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.
         
      2. 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
      3. 2021. Alvarez López, Y., Barreto, M., Colantoni, L., Cuza, A., Marinescu, I., Pérez Leroux, A. T., & Yang, J. A phonetic account of the vulnerability of gender agreement in Spanish-English heritage bilinguals. Paper presented (online) at Romance Turn, June 16-18.
      4. 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. 
      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 (PhD candidates, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese)
   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 and presentations:
      1. 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
         
      2. 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
         
      3. 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
         
      4. 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
      5. 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
      6. 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/
      7. 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/B6AD1A6EBFC734DA8950CCC5D3F56F9
      8. 2022. Colantoni, L., Kochetov, A., & Steele, J. Articulatory insights into the L2 acquisition of English /l/ allophony. Paper presented at New Sounds 2022, University of Barcelona, April 20-22.
      9. 2022. Colantoni, L., Kochetov, A., & Steele, J. Pathways to depalatalization of the French palatal nasal in Quebec and Hexagonal French: An EPG study. Paper presented at MOT (Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto phonology conference), University of Ottawa, March 25-6.
      10. 2021. Colantoni, L., Kochetov, A., & Steele, J. Coronal stop lenition in French and Spanish. Paper presented (online) at the International Conference of Experimental Phonetics (CIFE), University of Girona, June 28-30.
          
          
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): http://clad.chass.utoronto.ca/ (check CV for log in information)