Marc Garellek

Research interests

• Phonetics and laboratory phonology
• Laryngeal sounds and suprasegmental phenomena
• Sound change
• Phonetic encoding of morphological structure
• History of phonetics
• Languages I've published on:
  • Austronesian: Javanese, Tongan
  • Baining: Qaqet
  • Dravidian: Malayalam
  • Hmong-Mien: White Hmong, Green Mong
  • Indo-European: Armenian, English, Spanish, Yiddish
  • Oto-Manguean: Mazatec
  • Sino-Tibetan: Bo, Hani, Southern Yi, Mandarin
  • Totonacan: Totonac
  • Tuu: !Xóõ
  • Uto-Aztecan: Rarámuri

Links

• My CV
• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate
• Interactive IPA chart with my audio/video (courtesy of Winston Durand, with help from Will Styler)
• History of phonetics course (legacy page)
• Hmong project at UCSD

Journal articles and book chapters

Please email me if you can't access any of the papers below.

• Garellek, M. (2026). Phonation type. In K. Nasukawa, B. Samuels, G. Schwartz, & M. Törkenczy (eds), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Phonology (Second edition). John Wiley & Sons. [doi] [pre-print]
• Garellek, M., O. López-Francisco, & J. D. Amith. (2025). At the margins: phonology and phonetics of Zongozotla Totonac glottalization. Laboratory Phonology 16: 1-35. [doi] [supplementary materials]
• Duarte-Borquez, C., M. Van Doren, & M. Garellek. (2024). Utterance-final voice quality in American English and Mexican Spanish bilinguals. Languages 9(3): 70. [doi] [supplementary materials]
• Garellek, M., Y. Chai, Y. Huang, & M. Van Doren. (2023). Voicing of glottal consonants and non-modal vowels. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 53: 305–332. [doi] [pre-print and data]
• Keating, P., J. Kuang, M. Garellek, C. Esposito, & S. D. Khan. (2023). A cross-language acoustic space for vocalic phonation distinctions. Language 99: 351–389. [doi] [supplementary materials]
• Garellek, M., & C. M. Esposito. (2023). Phonetics of White Hmong vowel and tonal contrasts. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 53: 213–232. [doi] [supplementary materials]
• Chai, Y., & M. Garellek. (2022). On H1–H2 as an acoustic measure of linguistic phonation type. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 152: 1856–1870. [doi]
• Garellek, M. (2022). Theoretical achievements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetics of voice quality. Journal of Phonetics 94: 101155. [doi] [Audio and textgrids for Figures 1-4, 8-10 (zip)]
• Caballero, G., Y. Chai, & M. Garellek. (2022). Stress, tone, and intonation in Choguita Rarámuri. In H. Kubozono, J. Ito, & A. Mester (eds), Prosody and prosodic interfaces (pp. 227–248). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [doi] [pre-print]
• Tabain, M., M. Garellek, B. Hellwig, A. Gregory, & R. Beare. (2022). Voicing in Qaqet: prenasalization and language contact. Journal of Phonetics 91: 101138. [doi]
• Nip, I. S. B. & M. Garellek. (2021). Voice quality of children with cerebral palsy. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 64: 3051–3059. [doi]
• Kreiman, J., Y. Lee, M. Garellek, R. Samlan, & B. R. Gerratt. (2021). Validating a psychoacoustic model of voice quality. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149: 457–465. [doi]
• Seyfarth, S., & M. Garellek. (2020). Physical and phonological causes of coda /t/ glottalization in the mainstream American English of central Ohio. Laboratory Phonology 11: 24. [doi]
• Garellek, M., & M. Tabain. (2020). Tongan. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 50: 406–416. [doi]
• Garellek, M., M. Gordon, J. Kirby, W.-S. Lee, A. Michaud, C. Mooshammer, O. Niebuhr, D. Recasens, T. B. Roettger, A. Simpson, & K. M. Yu. (2020). Toward open data policies in phonetics: what we can gain and how we can avoid pitfalls. Journal of Speech Sciences 9: 03–16. [doi]
• Garellek, M. (2020). Phonetics and phonology of schwa insertion in Central Yiddish. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1): 66. 1–25. [doi]
• Garellek, M. (2020). Acoustic discriminability of the complex phonation system in !Xóõ. Phonetica 77:131–160. [doi] [pdf of pre-print] [supplementary materials]
• Seyfarth, S., J. Vander Klok, & M. Garellek. (2019). Evidence against interactive effects on articulation in Javanese verb paradigms. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 26: 1690–1696. [doi] [pre-print]
• Garellek, M. (2019). The phonetics of voice. In W. F. Katz & P. F. Assmann (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics (pp. 75–106). Oxford: Routledge. [doi] [pre-print]
• Seyfarth, S., & M. Garellek. (2018). Plosive voicing acoustics and voice quality in Yerevan Armenian. Journal of Phonetics 71: 425–450. [doi] [pre-print]
• Chong, A. J., & M. Garellek. (2018). Online perception of glottalized coda stops in American English. Laboratory Phonology 9: 4. [doi] [supplementary materials] [sample audio]
• Seyfarth, S., M. Garellek, G. Gillingham, F. Ackerman, & R. Malouf. (2018). Acoustic differences in morphologically-distinct homophones. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 33: 32–49. [doi] [stimuli]
• Namboodiripad, S., & M. Garellek. (2017). Malayalam (Namboodiri Dialect). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 47: 109–118. [doi] [corrigendum]
• Garellek, M., A. Ritchart, & J. Kuang. (2016). Breathy voice during nasality: a cross-linguistic study. Journal of Phonetics 59: 110–121. [doi]
• Gerratt, B. R., J. Kreiman, & M. Garellek. (2016). Comparing measures of voice quality from sustained phonation and continuous speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 59: 994–1001. [pdf]
• Garellek, M., R. Samlan, B. R. Gerratt, & J. Kreiman. (2016). Modeling the voice source in terms of spectral slopes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 139(3): 1404–1410. [doi]
• Kreiman, J., M. Garellek, G. Chen, A. Alwan, & B. R. Gerratt. (2015). Perceptual evaluation of voice source models. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 138(1): 1–10. [doi]
• Garellek, M., & J. White. (2015). Phonetics of Tongan stress. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 45(1): 13–34. [doi]
• Garellek, M. (2015). Perception of glottalization and phrase-final creak. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137(2): 822–831. [doi]
• Garellek, M. (2014). Voice quality strengthening and glottalization. Journal of Phonetics 45(1): 106–113. [doi]
• Kreiman, J., B. R. Gerratt, M. Garellek, R. Samlan, & Z. Zhang. (2014). Toward a unified theory of voice production and perception. Loquens 1(1): e009. [pdf]
• Garellek, M., C. M. Esposito, P. Keating, & J. Kreiman. (2013). Voice quality and tone identification in White Hmong. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133(2): 1078–1089. [doi]
• Zhang, Z., J. Kreiman, B. R. Gerratt, & M. Garellek. (2013). Acoustic and perceptual effects of changes in body-layer stiffness in symmetric and asymmetric vocal fold models. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133(1): 453–462. [doi]
• Garellek, M. (2012). The timing and sequencing of coarticulated non-modal phonation in English and White Hmong. Journal of Phonetics 40(1): 152–161. [doi]
• Garellek, M. & P. Keating. (2011). The acoustic consequences of phonation and tone interactions in Jalapa Mazatec. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 41(2): 185–205. [doi]
• Daland, R., B. Hayes, J. White, M. Garellek, A. Davis, & I. Normann. (2011). Explaining sonority projection effects. Phonology 28(2): 197–234. [doi]

Other publications

• Tabain, M., M. Garellek, & M. Gordon. (2024). A consideration of the consonant chart in the International Phonetic Alphabet. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 1-6. [pdf]
• Garellek, M., S. Nielson, T. L. Rhodes, & E. Clem. (2023). An inclusive course on the history of phonetics. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 4230–4234. [pdf]
• Chong, A. J., & M. Garellek. (2023). Glottalisation of voiceless stops in Multicultural London English. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2169–2173. [pdf]
• Bird, E., & M. Garellek. (2019). Dynamics of voice quality over the course of the English utterance. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2406–2410. [pdf]
• Mai, A., M. Moua, & M. Garellek. (2019). Tone-tune association and voice quality in Green Mong folk songs. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1962–1966. [pdf]
• Garellek, M., & S. Seyfarth. (2016). Acoustic differences between English /t/ glottalization and phrasal creak. Proceedings of Interspeech 2016, 1054–1058. [pdf]
• Ritchart, A., G. Goodall, & M. Garellek. (2016). Prosody and the that-trace effect: an experimental study. Proceedings of the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. [pdf]
• Seyfarth, S., & M. Garellek. (2015). Coda glottalization in American English. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [pdf]
• Garellek, M., A. Aguilar, G. Caballero, & L. Carroll. (2015). Lexical and post-lexical tone in Choguita Rarámuri. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [pdf]
• Keating, P., M. Garellek, & J. Kreiman. (2015). Acoustic properties of different kinds of creaky voice. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [pdf]
• Piccinini, P. E., & M. Garellek. (2014). Prosodic cues to monolingual versus code-switching sentences in English and Spanish. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, 885–889. [pdf]
• Garellek, M., P. Keating, & C. M. Esposito (2014). Relative role of phonation in White Hmong tone perception. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 179–189. [pdf]
• Garellek, M. (2013). Production and perception of glottal stops. Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA. [pdf]
• Garellek, M., R. A. Samlan, J. Kreiman, & B. R. Gerratt. (2013). Perceptual sensitivity to a model of the source spectrum. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 19, 060157. [pdf]
• Chen, G., M. Garellek, J. Kreiman, B. R. Gerratt, & A. Alwan. (2013). A perceptually and physiologically motivated voice source model. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 19, 060160. [pdf]
• Chen, G., M. Garellek, J. Kreiman, B. Gerratt, & A. Alwan. (2013). A perceptually and physiologically motivated voice source model. Proceedings of Interspeech, 2001–2005. [pdf]
• Garellek, M. (2012). Word-initial glottalization and voice quality strengthening. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 111, 92–122. [pdf]
• Garellek, M. (2012). Glottal stops before word-initial vowels in American English: distribution and acoustic characteristics. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 110, 1–23. [pdf]
• Garellek, M., C. M. Esposito, P. Keating, & J. Kreiman. (2012). Perception of spectral slopes and tone identification in White Hmong. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 110, 24–45. [pdf]
• Garellek, M. & J. White. (2012). Stress correlates and vowel targets in Tongan. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 110, 65–85. [pdf]
• Garellek, M. (2011). The benefits of vowel laryngealization on the perception of coda stops in English. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 109, 31–39. [pdf]
• Garellek, M. (2011). Lexical effects on English vowel laryngealization. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 727–730. [pdf]
• Keating, P., C. M. Esposito, M. Garellek, S. Khan, & J. Kuang. (2011). Phonation contrasts across languages. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1046–1049. [pdf]
• Keating, P., C. M. Esposito, M. Garellek, S. Khan, & J. Kuang. (2010). Phonation contrasts across languages. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 108, 188–202. [pdf]
• Garellek, M. & P. Keating. (2010). The acoustic consequences of phonation and tone interactions in Jalapa Mazatec. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 108, 143–163. [pdf]
• Garellek, M. & J. White. (2010). Acoustic correlates of stress and their use in diagnosing syllable fusion in Tongan. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 108, 34–65. [pdf]
• Garellek, M. (2010). The acoustics of coarticulated non-modal phonation. M.A. thesis, UCLA. [pdf]

Presentations

• Glottalization in Highland Totonac. Talk presented at Sound Systems of Latin America 4, 2024, Seattle, WA. [Joint work with Osbel López-Francisco, Ashlinn Barber-Woeltjen, Lexi Ricasata, and Jonathan D. Amith] [pdf]
• An inclusive course on the history of phonetics. Poster presented at ICPhS 2023, Prague. [Joint work with Shai Nielson, Tamara L. Rhodes, and Emily Clem] [pdf]
• Tense voice and the role of non-contrastive elements in sound change. Talk presented at HISPhonCog 2023, Seoul, South Korea. [Joint work with Jianjing Kuang, Osbel López-Francisco, and Jonathan D. Amith] [pdf]
• Infusing social justice in the development and instruction of a course on the history of phonetics. Talk presented at the Spring 2023 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL. [Joint work with Shai Nielson, Tamara L. Rhodes, and Emily Clem] [pdf]
• Acoustic properties of subtypes of creaky voice. Poster presented at the Spring 2023 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL. [Joint work with Pat Keating, Jody Kreiman, and Yuan Chai] [pdf] [project page]
• Tense voice without the high f0: the case of glottalized vowels in Zongozotla Totonac. Poster presented at the Fall 2022 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, TN. [Joint work with Hayley Dawson, Osbel López-Fernando, and Jonathan D. Amith] [pdf]
• A cross-linguistic investigation of acoustic voice spaces. Poster presented at the Fall 2021 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA. [Joint work with Yoonjeong Lee, Christina Esposito, and Jody Kreiman] [pdf]
• Using H1 instead of H1-H2 as an acoustic correlate of glottal constriction. Poster presented at the Fall 2019 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA. [Joint work with Yuan Chai] [pdf]
• The effects of prosody on pitch and voice quality of White Hmong tones. Talk presented at the 16th LabPhon meeting 2018, Lisbon, Portugal. [Joint work with Christina Esposito] [pdf]
• Multidimensional tonal realization and prosodic variation in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara). Poster presented at the 16th LabPhon meeting 2018, Lisbon, Portugal. [Joint work with Gabriela Caballero] [pdf]
• The effects of prosody on pitch and voice quality of White Hmong tones. Poster presented at the Spring 2018 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. [Joint work with Christina Esposito] [pdf]
• Acoustics of the tense-lax contrast in Semarang Javanese. Poster presented at the Fall 2017 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA. [Joint work with Scott Seyfarth and Jozina Vander Klok] [pdf]
• Voice quality variation over the course of the English utterance. Poster presented at the Fall 2017 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA. [Joint work with Elizabeth Bird] [pdf]
• Voice quality analysis of children with cerebral palsy during sustained phonation and story retell. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, Netherlands, and at the ASA 2017 convention, Los Angeles, CA. [Joint work with Ignatius Nip] [pdf]
• Tone and phonation in Green Mong song. Poster presented at the 2017 Southern California Meeting on Phonology (SCAMP), Los Angeles, CA. [Joint work with Anna Mai] [pdf]
• Online perception of coda glottalization in American English. Poster presented at the Spring 2016 Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI. [Joint work with Adam Chong] [pdf]
• Acoustic comparison of /t/ glottalization and phrasal creak. Poster presented at the Spring 2016 Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT. [Joint work with Scott Seyfarth] [pdf]
• Phrase-final creak: articulation, acoustics, and distribution. Talk presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR. [Joint work with Pat Keating] [pdf]
• Acoustic analysis of creaky voice. Poster presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR. [Joint work with Pat Keating] [pdf]
• Perceptual sensitivity to a model of the source spectrum. Poster presented at the 2013 International Conference on Acoustics, Montreal, QC. [Joint work with Robin Samlan, Jody Kreiman, & Bruce Gerratt] [pdf]
• Prominence vs. phrase-initial strengthening of voice quality. Presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA. [pdf]
• Perceptual evaluation of source models. Poster presented at the Fall 2012 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Kansas City, MO. [Joint work with Jody Kreiman, Bruce R. Gerratt, Gang Chen, & Abeer Alwan]
• Importance of coding the Utterance domain in prosodic transcriptions. Poster presented at the 2012 Workshop on Advancing Prosodic Transcription, Stuttgart, Germany. [pdf]
• A reanalysis of glottal stops and glottalization in English. Poster presented at LabPhon 13, Stuttgart, Germany, 2012. [pdf]
• Multi-dimensional phonetic space for phonation contrasts. Poster presented at LabPhon 13, Stuttgart, Germany, 2012. [Joint work with Pat Keating, Jianjing Kuang, Christina M. Esposito, and Sameer ud Dowla Khan] [pdf]
• Relative importance of phonation cues in White Hmong tone perception. Talk presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA, 2012. [Joint work with Patricia Keating & Christina Esposito] [pdf]
• Perceptual benefits of English vowel laryngealization. Poster presented at the Fall 2011 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA. [pdf]
• Perceptual sensitivity to components of the source spectrum. Poster presented at the Fall 2011 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA. [Joint work with Jody Kreiman & Christina Esposito] [pdf]
• Acoustic correlates of stress and their use in diagnosing syllable fusion in Tongan. Talk presented at the 18th meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, Harvard University, 2010. [Joint work with Jamie White] [pdf]
• Coarticulation of non-modal phonation. Poster presented at the Fall 2010 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancún, Mexico. [pdf]

Current PhD students

• Alexis Burke
• Jiaang Dong
• Noah Khaloo
• Ben Lang

Past PhD students

• Maxine Van Doren, 2024 dissertation Structured variation and normalization in the production and perception of creaky voice
• Yaqian Huang, 2023 dissertation Phonetics of period doubling
• Yuan Chai, 2022 dissertation Phonetics and phonology of checked phonation, syllables, and tones
• Andrés Aguilar, 2020 dissertation Phonology and phonetics of laryngeal sounds in Chicontepec Nahuatl (co-advised with Gabriela Caballero)
• Page Piccinini, 2016 dissertation Cross-language activation and the phonetics of code-switching
• Scott Seyfarth, 2016 dissertation Contextual and morphological effects in speech production (co-advised with Farrell Ackerman)