michael proctor
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Publications: 2026

Browne, M., Harvey, M., Proctor, M., & Mailhamer, R.  (2026).  Central vowels in Kamu and Larrakia.   Australian Journal of Linguistics,   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2025

Proctor, M., Szalay, T., Piyadasa, T., Jin, C., Sanaei, N., Gully, A., Waddington, D., Foster, S., & Ballard, K. (2025). Rhotic Articulation in Australian English: Insights from MRI.   In  Proc. Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, 17-21 August: 3499--3503   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Piyadasa, T., Glaunès, J., Gully, A., Proctor, M., Ballard, K., Szalay, T., Sanaei, N., Foster, S., Waddington, D.,& Jin, C. (2025). Constrained LDDMM for Dynamic Vocal Tract Morphing: Integrating Volumetric and Real-Time MRI.   In  Proc. Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, 17-21 August: 968--972   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Szalay, T., Proctor, M., Gully, A., Piyadasa, T., Jin, C., Waddington, D., Sanaei, N., Foster, S., & Ballard, K. (2025). Lateral Channel Formation in Australian English /l/: Insights from Magnetic Resonance Imaging.   In  Proc. Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, 17-21 August: 3489--3493   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2024

Yue, Y., Proctor, M., Zhou, L., Gupta, R., Piyadasa, T., Gully, A., Ballard, K., & Jin, C. (2024). Towards Speech Classification from Acoustic and Vocal Tract data in Real-time MRI.   In  Proc. Interspeech 2024, Kos, 1-5 September : 1345--1349   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Proctor, M., Kim, J.-H., Penney, J., Ratko, L., & Cox, F. (2024). Characterizing Rhotic Articulation in Australian English using Ultrasound.   In  O. Maxwell, & R. Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.) Proc. 19th Australasian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology (SST2024), Melbourne, 3-5 Dec.: 82--86   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Szalay, T., Proctor, M., Gully, A., Piyadasa, T., Jin, C., Waddington, D., Sanaei, N., Yue, Y., Foster, S., & Ballard, K. (2024). Lateral articulation across vowel contexts: insights from Magnetic Resonance Imaging.   In  O. Maxwell, & R. Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.) Proc. 19th Australasian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology (SST2024), Melbourne, 3-5 Dec.: 7--11   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Piyadasa, T., Proctor, M., Gully, A., Yue, Y., Ballard, K., Sanaei, N., Foster, S., Szalay, T., Waddington, D., & Jin, C. (2024). Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Production using Magnetic Resonance Imaging.   In  O. Maxwell, & R. Bundgaard-Nielsen (Eds.) Proc. 19th Australasian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology (SST2024), Melbourne, 3-5 Dec.: 52--56   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2023

Harvey, M., San, N., Proctor, M., Panther, F., & Turpin, M. (2023). The Kaytetye segmental inventory.   Australian Journal of Linguistics, 43(1): 33-68   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Coretta, S., Casillas, J.V., Roessig, S., Franke, M., Ahn, B., et al. (2023). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses.   Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 6(3)   (© 2023 Association for Psychological Science)   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Ratko, L., Proctor, M., & Cox, F. (2023). Gestural characterisation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English.   Journal of Phonetics, 98: 101237   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2022

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F. & Proctor, M. (2022). Reconsidering lateral vocalisation: Evidence from perception and production of Australian English /l/.   The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(4): 2106-2116   (© 2022 Acoustical Society of America)   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Ratko, L., Proctor, M., & Cox, F. (2022). Articulation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English.   Journal of the International Phonetic Association   ::   doi   ::
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Publications: 2021

Proctor, M. (2021). Consonants.   in   Rachael-Anne Knight and Jane Setter (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics. Pp. 65-105, (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2021). Perceptual vowel contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes.   Laboratory Phonology, 12(1), 9   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Ying, J., Shaw, J.A., Carignan, C., Proctor, M., Derrick, D., & Best, C.T. (2021). Evidence for active control of tongue lateralization in Australian English /l/.
Journal of Phonetics, 86: 101039   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F., Palethorpe, S. & Proctor, M. (2021). Spectral contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes.   The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149(2): 1183-1197   (© 2021 Acoustical Society of America)   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Proctor, M., Coltheart, M., Ratko, L., Szalay, T., Forster, K., & Cox, F. (2021). Characterizing Spoken Responses in Masked Onset Priming of Reading Aloud using Articulography.   Memory & Cognition, 49(3): 613-630   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2020

Proctor, M., Zhu, Y., Lammert, A., Toutios, A., Sands, B., & Narayanan, S. (2020). Studying Clicks using Real-time MRI.   in   B. Sands (ed.) Click Consonants. Pp. 210-240, (Empirical approaches to linguistic theory, Volume: 15. Series editor: Brian D. Joseph). Leiden: Brill.   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Hussain, Q., Proctor, M., Harvey, M., & Demuth, K. (2020). Illustrations of the IPA: Punjabi (Lyallpuri variety).   Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 50(2): 282-297   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2019

Proctor, M., Walker, R., Smith, C., Szalay, T., Goldstein, L., & Narayanan, S. (2019). Articulatory Characterization of English Liquid-Final Rimes.   Journal of Phonetics, 77: 100921   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Walker, R., Proctor, M. (2019). The Organization and Structure of Rhotics in American English Rimes.   Phonology, 36(3): 457-495   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Ratko, L., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2019). Articulation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English.   In  G. Kubin and Z. Kacic (eds.),   Proc. Interspeech 2019, Graz, 15-19 September: 3312-3316   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Jacobi, J., Rebernik, T., Jonkers, R., Proctor, M., Maassen, B., & Wieling, M. (2019). The Effect of Levodopa on Vowel Articulation in Parkinson's Disease: A Cross-Linguistic Study.   In  S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain & P. Warren (eds.),   Proc. 19th Intl. Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, 5-9 August: 1069-1073   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Ratko, L., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2019). Onset-vowel articulatory coordination - voiceless stops and vowel length.   In  S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain & P. Warren (eds.),   Proc. 19th Intl. Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, 5-9 August: 1535-1539   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2019). Lingual configuration of Australian English /l/.   In  S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain & P. Warren (eds.),   Proc. 19th Intl. Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, 5-9 August: 2816-2819   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2018

Ramanarayanan, V., Tilsen, S., Proctor, M., Töger, J., Goldstein, L., Nayak, K.S., Narayanan, S. (2018). Analysis of speech production real-time MRI.  
Computer Speech & Language, 52: 1-22   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2018). Production and perception of length contrast in lateral-final rimes.   In  J. Epps, J. Wolfe, J. Smith & C. Jones (eds.),   Proc. 17th Australasian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology (SST2018), Sydney, 4-7 Dec: 129--132   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2017

Hagedorn, C., Proctor, M., Goldstein, L., Wilson, S. M., Miller, B., Tempini, M. L. G., & Narayanan, S.S. (2017). Characterizing Covert Articulation in Apraxic Speech Using real-time MRI.   Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60(4): 877-891   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Hussain, Q., Proctor, M., Harvey, M., & Demuth, K. (2017). Acoustic characteristics of Punjabi retroflex and dental stops.   The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(6): 4522-4542   (© 2017 Acoustical Society of America)   ::   abstract   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Ying, J., Carignan, C., Shaw, J.A., Proctor, M., Derrick, D., & Best, C.T. (2017). Temporal Dynamics of Lateral Channel Formation in /l/: 3D EMA Data from Australian English. Proc. Interspeech, Stockholm, 20-24 Aug: 2978-2982   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Ying, J., Carignan, C., Shaw, J.A., Proctor, M., Derrick, D., & Best, C.T. (2017). Which came first, chicken or egg? - Goals of production for lateral /l/ in Australian English. Proc. 11th Intl. Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP-2017), Oct 16-19, Tianjin   ::  
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Publications: 2016

Shaw, J., Chen, W-R., Proctor, M., & Derrick, D. (2016). Influences of tone on vowel articulation in Mandarin Chinese.   Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59(6): S1566-S1574   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Proctor, M., Zhu, Y., Lammert, A., Toutios, A., Sands, B., Hummel, U., & Narayanan, S. (2016). Click consonant production in Khoekhoe: a real-time MRI study.   in   S. Shah and M. Brenzinger (eds.).   Khoisan Languages and Linguistics. Proc. 5th Intl. Symposium, Riezlern/Kleinwalsertal.   Pp. 337-366. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe. ( Series: Research in Khoisan Studies, Vol. 34).   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Panther, F., Harvey, M., Koch, H., Turpin, M., & Proctor, M. (2016). Verbal Reduplication and Minimal Words in Kaytetye.   In  C. Carignan & M.D. Tyler (eds.),   Proc. 16th Australasian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology (SST2016), Sydney, 6-9 Dec: 29-32   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Szalay, T., Benders, T., Cox, F., & Proctor, M. (2016). Disambiguation of Australian English vowels.   In  C. Carignan & M.D. Tyler (eds.),   Proc. 16th Australasian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology (SST2016), Sydney, 6-9 Dec: 73-76   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Ratko, L., Proctor, M., Cox, F., & Veld, S. (2016). Preliminary Investigations into the Australian English Articulatory Vowel Space.   In  C. Carignan & M.D. Tyler (eds.),   Proc. 16th Australasian Intl. Conf. on Speech Science and Technology (SST2016), Sydney, 6-9 Dec: 117-120   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2015

Proctor, M., Lo, C.Y., & Narayanan, S. (2015). Articulation of English Vowels in Running Speech: a Real-time MRI Study.   In  The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (ed.),   Proc. 18th Intl. Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).   Glasgow, 10-14 Aug. 2015: Paper# 220, 1-4   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Davis, C., Shaw, J., Proctor, M., Derrick, D., Sherwood, S., & Kim, J. (2015). Examining speech production using masked priming.   In  The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (ed.),   Proc. 18th Intl. Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).   Glasgow, 10-14 Aug. 2015: Paper# 560, 1-4   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Hussain, Q., Harvey, M., Proctor, M., & Demuth, K. (2015). Contrast reduction among coronals is conditioned by the following vowel.   In  The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (ed.),   Proc. 18th Intl. Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).   Glasgow, 10-14 Aug. 2015: Paper# 496, 1-4   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2014

Narayanan, S., Toutios, A., Ramanarayanan, V., Lammert, A., Kim, J., Lee, S., Nayak, K., Kim, Y-C., Zhu, Y., Goldstein, L., Byrd, D., Bresch, E., Ghosh, P., Katsamanis, A. & Proctor, M. (2014). Real-time magnetic resonance imaging and electromagnetic articulography database for speech production research (TC).   The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(3): 1307-1311   (© 2014 Acoustical Society of America)   ::   abstract   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Shaw, J., Chen, W-R., Proctor, M., Derrick, D. & Dakhoul, E. (2014). On the inter-dependence of tonal and vocalic production goals in Mandarin Chinese.   Proc. ISSP 2014, Cologne, 05-08 May 2014: 399-402   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2013

Lammert, A., Proctor, M., & Narayanan S. (2013). Interspeaker Variability in Hard Palate Morphology and Vowel Production.   Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56(6): S1924-S1933   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Proctor, M., Bresch, E., Byrd, D., Nayak, K. & Narayanan, S. (2013). Paralinguistic mechanisms of production in human "beatboxing": A real-time magnetic resonance imaging study.   The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(2): 1043-1054   (© 2013 Acoustical Society of America)   ::   abstract   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Lammert, A., Proctor, M., & Narayanan, S. (2013). Morphological Variation in the Adult Hard Palate and Posterior Pharyngeal Wall.   Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56(2): 521-530   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Zhu, Y., Kim, Y.C., Proctor, M.I., Narayanan, S. & Nayak, K. (2013). Dynamic 3D Visualization of Vocal Tract Shaping during Speech.   IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, 32(5): 838-848   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Proctor, M., Goldstein, L., Lammert, A., Byrd, D., Toutios, A., & Narayanan, S.S. (2013). Velic coordination in French nasals: A realtime magnetic resonance imaging study.   Proc. Interspeech, Lyon, 25-29 Aug. 2013: 577-581   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Lammert, A., Ramanarayanan, V., Proctor, M.I., & Narayanan, S.S. (2013). Vocal tract cross-distance estimation from real-time MRI using region-of-interest analysis.   Proc. Interspeech, Lyon, 25-29 Aug. 2013: 959-962   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Smith, C., Proctor, M., Iskarous, K., Goldstein, L., & Narayanan, S. (2013). Stable articulatory tasks and their variable formation: Tamil retroflex consonants.   Proc. Interspeech, Lyon, 25-29 Aug. 2013: 2006-2009   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Shaw, J., Tyler, M., Kasisopa, B., Ma, Y., Proctor, M., Han, C., Derrick, D., & Burnham, D. (2013). Vowel identity conditions the time course of tone recognition.   Proc. Interspeech, Lyon, 25-29 Aug. 2013: 718-722   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2012

Proctor, M. & Walker, R. (2012). Articulatory bases of sonority in English liquids.   in   S. Parker (ed.) The Sonority Controversy. Pp. 285-312, (Phonology and Phonetics, Vol. 18. Series editor: A. Lahiri). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.   ::   ebook   ::  
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Kim, Y.C., Proctor, M., Narayanan S. & Nayak, K. (2012). Improved imaging of lingual articulation using real-time multislice MRI.   Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 35(4): 943-948   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Proctor, M., Lu, L.H., Zhu, Y., Goldstein, L., & Narayanan, S. (2012). Articulation of Mandarin Sibilants: a multi-plane realtime MRI study.   Proc. SST 2012, Sydney, 3-6 Dec. 2012   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Hagedorn, C., Proctor, M., Goldstein, L., Gorno-Tempini, M.L., & Narayanan, S. (2012). Characterizing Covert Articulation in Apraxic Speech Using real-time MRI.   Proc. Interspeech, Portland, OR, 9-13 Sep. 2012   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Israel, A., Proctor, M., Goldstein, L., Iskarous, K., & Narayanan, S. (2012). Emphatic segments and emphasis spread in Lebanese Arabic: a Real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.   Proc. Interspeech, Portland, OR, 9-13 Sep. 2012   ::  
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Publications: 2011

Proctor, M. (2011). Towards a gestural characterization of liquids: Evidence from Spanish and Russian.   Laboratory Phonology, 2(2): 451-485   ::   abstract   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Iskarous, K., Shadle, C., & Proctor, M. (2011). Articulatory-acoustic kinematics: The production of American English /s/.   The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(2): 944-954   (© 2011 Acoustical Society of America)   ::   abstract   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Proctor, M., Lammert, A., Katsamanis, A., Goldstein, L., Hagedorn, C. & Narayanan, S. (2011). Direct Estimation of Articulatory Kinematics from Real-time Magnetic Resonance Image Sequences.   Proc. Interspeech, Florence, 27-31 Aug. 2011: 281-284   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Narayanan, S., Bresch, E., Ghosh, P., Goldstein, L., Katsamanis, A., Kim, Y-C., Lammert, A., Proctor, M., Ramanarayanan, V. & Zhu, Y. (2011). A Multimodal rtMRI Articulatory Corpus for Speech Research.   Proc. Interspeech, Florence, 27-31 Aug. 2011: 837-840   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Lammert, A., Proctor, M., Katsamanis, A. & Narayanan, S. (2011). Morphological Variation in the Adult Vocal Tract: A Modeling Study of its Potential Acoustic Impact. Proc. Interspeech, Florence, 27-31 Aug. 2011: 2813-2816   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Kim, Yoon-Chul, Proctor, M., Narayanan, S. & Nayak, K. (2011). Visualization of vocal tract shape using interleaved real-time MRI of multiple scan planes.   Proc. Interspeech, Florence, 27-31 Aug. 2011: 269-272   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Hagedorn, C., Proctor, M. & Goldstein, L. (2011). Automatic analysis of singleton and geminate consonant articulation using real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging.   Proc. Interspeech, Florence, 27-31 Aug. 2011: 409-412   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2010

Proctor, M., Shadle, C. & Iskarous, K. (2010). Pharyngeal articulation differences in voiced and voiceless fricatives.   The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127(3): 1507-1518   (© 2010 Acoustical Society of America).   ::   abstract   ::   doi   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Proctor, M., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C., Kroos, C., Harvey, M. & Goldstein, L. (2010). Articulatory Modelling of Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy.   Proc. SST 2010, Melbourne, Vic, 17-19 Dec 2010: 90-93   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Proctor, M., Bone, D., Katsamanis, N., & Narayanan, S. (2010). Rapid Semi-automatic Segmentation of Real-time Magnetic Resonance Images for Parametric Vocal Tract Analysis.   Proc. Interspeech, Makuhari Messe, Japan, 26-30 Sept. 2010: 1576-1579   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Lammert, A., Proctor, M., & Narayanan, S. (2010). Data-Driven Analysis of Realtime Vocal Tract MRI using Correlated Image Regions.   Proc. Interspeech, Makuhari Messe, Japan, 26-30 Sept. 2010: 1572-1575   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Publications: 2009

Kavitskaya, D., Iskarous, K., Noiray, A. & Proctor, M. (2009). Trills and palatalization: Consequences for sound change.   In  J. Reich, M. Babyonyshev, and D. Kavitskaya (eds.)   Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics #17, Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications: 97-110   ::   pdf   ::   bib

Proctor, M. (2009). Gestural Characterization of a Phonological Class: the Liquids. (Dissertation).   [abstract]   [front]   [ch1]   [ch2]   [ch3]   [ch4]   [ch5]   [ch6]   [ch7]   [ch8]   [ch9]   [ch10]   [refs]   [append]     ::   [complete doc]   ::   bib

Publications: 2007

Proctor, M. (2007). The Organisation of Phonological Inventories.   In  J. Trouvain & W.J. Barry (eds.),   Proc. 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).   Saarbrücken, 6-10 Aug. 2007: 1377-1380   ::   abstract   ::   pdf   ::   bib