Sam Tilsen

[2026]A mode-coupling theory of phonological organization
Tilsen, S. Preprint. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/2vyx9_v1.

[2026]Ambisyllabicity as decoupling of constriction formation and release
Tilsen, S. Under review.

[2026]Unpredictable temporal feedback perturbation dissociates mismatch detection from correction
Zhao, F. & Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 118: 101519. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2026.101519.

[2026]Mapping the good voice: linguistic applications to the future of voice coaching for performance
Shipley, M., Reade, A., Tilsen, S., & Babel, M. Voice and Speech Review, pp. 1-17. doi: 10.1080/23268263.2026.2720698.

[2026]Phrasal rhythmicity and the sources of temporal intermittency in speech
Tilsen, S. Rhythms of Speech and Language, pp. 274-295. Chapter 20. Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781009295888.020.

[2025]The Gesture-Field-Register (GFR) framework for modeling F0 control
Kim, S.-E. & Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 110: 101410. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101410.

[2025]Thai speakers time lexical tones to supralaryngeal articulatory events
Burroni, F. & Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 108: 101389. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101389.

[2025]Envelope-based metrics reveal speech rhythm development tendencies in Brazilian L2 English learners
Teixeira, L. A. S., Tilsen, S., Lima, R. M., & Arantes, P. Preprint.

[2024]Planning for the future and reacting to the present: Proactive and reactive F0 adjustments in speech
Kim, S.-E. & Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 104: 101322. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2024.101322.

[2024]Internal speech is faster than external speech: evidence for feedback-based temporal control
Tilsen, S. Cognition, 244: 105713. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105713.

[2023]Probability and randomness in phonology: Deep vs. shallow stochasticity
Tilsen, S. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology. doi: 10.17959/sppm.2023.29.2.247.

[2023]Looking within events: examining internal temporal structure with local relative rate
Tilsen, S. & Tiede, M. Journal of Phonetics, 100: 101264. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2023.101264.

[2023]Parameters of unit-based measures of speech rate
Tilsen, S. & Tiede, M. Speech Communication, 150: 73-97. doi: 10.1016/j.specom.2023.05.006.

[2023]Hierarchical distinctions in the production and perception of nuclear tunes in American English
Cole, J., Steffman, J., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., & Tilsen, S. Laboratory Phonology, 14(1). doi: 10.16995/labphon.9437.

[2023]A preliminary study of speech rhythm differences as markers of stuttering persistence in preschool-age children
Erdemir, A., Walden, T., Mefferd, A., Tilsen, S., & Jones, R. M. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(3): 931-950. doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00126.

[2023]EchoNose: Sensing Mouth, Breathing and Tongue Gestures inside Oral Cavity using a Non-contact Nose Interface
Sun, R., Zhou, X., Steeper, B., Zhang, R., Yin, S., Li, K., Wu, S., Tilsen, S., Guimbretiere, F., & Zhang, C. Proceedings of the 2023 International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp. 22-26. Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3594738.3611358.

[2023]Morpho-phonological effects on the phonetic characteristics of tense consonants in Korean compounds
Kwon, C. D., Tilsen, S., & Whitman, J. Proc. of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

[2023]Investigations of F0 control: pitch targets vs pitch register
Kim, S.-E. & Tilsen, S. Proc. of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

[2022]An informal logic of feedback-based temporal control
Tilsen, S. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16: 851991. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.851991.

[2022]Relaxation, Percolation, and Non-Spontaneous Fluctuation of Linguistic Behavior in a Quasi-Isolated System
Tilsen, S. Frontiers in Physics, Social Physics, 10: 801740. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2022.801740.

[2022]An investigation of functional relations between speech rate and phonetic variables
Kim, S.-E. & Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 93: 101152. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101152.

[2022]The online effect of clash is durational lengthening, not prominence shift: Evidence from Italian
Burroni, F. & Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 91: 101124. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101124.

[2022]Shape matters: Machine classification and listeners' perceptual discrimination of American English intonational tunes
Cole, J., Tilsen, S., & Steffman, J. Proc. Speech Prosody 2022, pp. 297-301.

[2022]Interpreting phonetic evidence for hierarchical organization of prosodic phrases
Kim, S.-E. & Tilsen, S. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14146.61120.

[2021]Localizing category-related information in speech with multi-scale analyses
Tilsen, S., Kim, S.-E., & Wang, C. PLoS ONE, 16(1): e0258178. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258178.

[2021]Temporal differences between high vowels and glides are more robust than spatial differences
Burgdorf, D. & Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 88: 101073. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101073.

[2021]Articulatory characteristics of Icelandic voiced fricative lenition: gradience, categoricity, and speaker/gesture-specific effects
Stefansdottir, B., Burroni, F., & Tilsen, S. Proc. Interspeech 2021.

[2021]Compensation for altered feedback in vowels and glides
Burgdorf, D. & Tilsen, S. Proc. of the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production.

[2021]Temporal localization of syntactically conditioned prosodic information
Kim, S.-E. & Tilsen, S. Proc. of the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production.

[2021]Nonlinear effects of speech rate on articulatory timing in singletons and geminates
Tilsen, S. & Hermes, A. Proc. of the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, pp. 56-59.

[2021]Cross-linguistic timing contrast in geminates: a rate-independent perspective
Hermes, A., Tilsen, S., & Ridouane, R. Proc. of the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, pp. 52-55.

[2020]Detecting anticipatory information in speech with signal chopping
Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 82: 100996. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2020.100996.

[2020]Incongruencies between phonological theory and phonetic measurement
Mücke, D., Hermes, A., & Tilsen, S. Phonology, 37(1): 133-170. doi: 10.1017/S0952675720000068.

[2020]Prominence clash does not induce rhythmic adjustments in Italian
Burroni, F. & Tilsen, S. Proc. Speech Prosody 2020, pp. 571-575. doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-117.

[2020]Speech rate and syntactically conditioned influences on prosodic boundaries
Kim, S.-E. & Tilsen, S. Proc. Speech Prosody 2020, pp. 434-438. doi: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-89.

[2020]Exploratory investigations of SVO sentence production: evidence for category-specific interference effects
Tilsen, S. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology.

[2020]A different view of gestural activation: learning gestural parameters and activation with an RNN
Tilsen, S. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology.

[2019]Motoric mechanisms for the emergence of non-local phonological patterns
Tilsen, S. Frontiers in Psychology, 10: 2143. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02143.

[2019]Space and time in models of speech rhythm
Tilsen, S. Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences, 1453(1): 47-66. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14102.

[2019]Syntax with oscillators and energy levels
Tilsen, S. Language Science Press.

[2019]Strength and structure: coupling tones with oral constriction gestures
Mücke, D., Hermes, A., & Tilsen, S. Proc. Interspeech 2019, pp. 914-918. doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2650.

[2018]Analysis of Speech Production Real-time MRI
Ramanarayanan, V., Tilsen, S., Proctor, M., Toger, J., Goldstein, L., Nayak, K., & Narayanan, S. Computer Speech & Language, 52: 1-22. doi: 10.1016/j.csl.2018.04.002.

[2018]Three mechanisms for modeling articulation: selection, coordination, and intention
Tilsen, S. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology.

[2017]Exertive modulation of speech and articulatory phasing
Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 64: 34-50. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2017.03.001.

[2016]Shared representations underlie metaphonological judgments and speech motor control
Tilsen, S. & Cohn, A. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 7(1): 14. doi: 10.5334/labphon.52.

[2016]Selection and coordination: the articulatory basis for the emergence of phonological structure
Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 55: 53-77. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2015.11.005.

[2016]Anticipatory Posturing of the Vocal Tract Reveals Dissociation of Speech Movement Plans from Linguistic Units
Tilsen, S., Spincemaille, P., Xu, B., Doerschuk, P., Luh, W.-M., Feldman, E., & Wang, Y. PLoS ONE, 11(1): e0146813. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146813.

[2016]A shared control parameter for F0 and intensity
Tilsen, S. Proc. Speech Prosody 2016, pp. 1066-1070.

[2016]Early Prosodic Manifestations of Disfluency
Li, J. & Tilsen, S. Proc. Speech Prosody 2016, pp. 1235-1239.

[2016]Correlations between speech behavior and social network structure in a constrained vocabulary game
Tilsen, S. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology.

[2015]Real-time articulatory biofeedback with electromagnetic articulography
Tilsen, S., Das, D., & McKee, B. Linguistics Vanguard, 1(1): 39-55. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2014-1006.

[2015]Structured nonstationarity in articulatory timing
Tilsen, S. Proc. of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

[2015]Relation between syllable count judgments and durations of English liquid rimes
Cohn, A. & Tilsen, S. Proc. of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

[2015]Phonetic evidence for two types of disfluency
Li, J. & Tilsen, S. Proc. of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

[2015]The articulatory tone-bearing unit: Gestural coordination of lexical tone in Thai
Karlin, R. & Tilsen, S. POMA, 22: 060006. doi: 10.1121/2.0000089.

[2015]Gestural timing in Mandarin tone sandhi
Yi, H. & Tilsen, S. POMA, 22: 060003. doi: 10.1121/2.0000029.

[2015]A real-time MRI investigation of anticipatory posturing in prepared responses
Tilsen, S., Spincemaille, P., Xu, B., Doerschuk, P., Karlin, R., Yi, H., Feldman, E., Luh, W., & Wang, Y. POMA, 22: 060001. doi: 10.1121/2.0000006.

[2015]Speech and social network dynamics in a constrained vocabulary game: design and hypotheses
Tilsen, S. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology.

[2014]Selection and coordination of articulatory gestures in temporally constrained production
Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 44: 26-46. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2013.12.004.

[2014]Some people are eager to be heard: anticipatory posturing in speech production
Tilsen, S., Spincemaille, P., Xu, B., Doerschuk, P., Karlin, R., Yi, H., Feldman, E., Luh, W., & Wang, Y. 168th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America Lay Language Papers.

[2014]Syllable count judgments and durations of liquid rimes in English
Tilsen, S., Cohn, A., & Ricciardi, E. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3726289.

[2014]Selection-coordination theory
Tilsen, S. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3726282.

[2013]A dynamical model of hierarchical selection and coordination in speech planning
Tilsen, S. PLoS ONE, 8(4): e62800. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062800.

[2013]Speech rhythm analysis with decomposition of the amplitude envelope: Characterizing rhythmic patterns within and across languages
Tilsen, S. & Arvaniti, A. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(1): 628-639. doi: 10.1121/1.4807565.

[2013]Inhibitory mechanisms in speech planning maintain and maximize contrast
Tilsen, S. In A. Yu (Ed.), Origins of Sound Patterns: Approaches to Phonologization, pp. 112-127. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[2013]Comparison of native and non-native consonant articulation with real-time magnetic resonance imaging of the vocal tract
Tilsen, S., Xu, B., Spincemaille, P., Srivastava, M., Doerschuk, P., & Wang, Y. POMA, 19: 060246.

[2013]Acoustic and articulatory evidence for the phonological status of liaison consonants
L'Esperance, M.-J. & Tilsen, S. POMA, 19: 060245.

[2013]Imitation of intonational gestures: a preliminary report
Tilsen, S., Burgess, D., & Lantz, E. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3726927.

[2012]Articulatory gestures are individually selected in production
Tilsen, S. & Goldstein, L. Journal of Phonetics, 40: 764-779.

[2012]Utterance preparation and stress clash: planning prosodic alternations
Tilsen, S. In S. Fuchs, P. Perrier, M. Weirich, & D. Pape (Eds.), Speech production and perception: Planning and dynamics, pp. 119-156. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag.

[2012]Acoustic analysis of the effects of metrical regularity on interval durations
Tilsen, S., Cibelli, E., Kang, S., Houde, J., & Nagarajan, S. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3726943.

[2012]A cross-linguistic investigation of articulatory coordination in word-initial consonant clusters
Tilsen, S., Zec, D., Bjorndahl, C., Butler, B., L'Esperance, M. J., Fisher, A., Heimisdottir, L., Renwick, M., & Sanker, C. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3726936.

[2011]Effects of syllable stress on articulatory planning observed in a stop-signal experiment
Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 39: 642-659.

[2011]Metrical regularity facilitates speech planning and production
Tilsen, S. Laboratory Phonology, 2(1): 185-218.

[2010]Automated measurement of vowel formants in the Buckeye Corpus
Yao, Y., Tilsen, S., Sprouse, R., & Johnson, K. Gengo Kenkyu (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan), 138: 99-113.

[2009]Multi-timescale dynamical interactions between speech rhythm and gesture
Tilsen, S. Cognitive Science, 33: 839-879.

[2009]Subphonemic and cross-phonemic priming in vowel shadowing: evidence for the involvement of exemplars in production
Tilsen, S. Journal of Phonetics, 37(3): 276-296.

[2009]Toward a dynamical interpretation of hierarchical linguistic structure
Tilsen, S. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, pp. 462-512.

[2008]Low-frequency Fourier analysis of speech rhythm
Tilsen, S. & Johnson, K. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124(2): EL34-39.

[2008]Relations between speech rhythm and segmental deletion
Tilsen, S. Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 44(1): 221-223.

[2008]Preliminary results of a stop-signal experiment
Tilsen, S. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, pp. 250-268.

[2007]Vowel-to-vowel coarticulation and dissimilation in response-priming
Tilsen, S. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, pp. 416-458.

[2007]Low-frequency Fourier analysis of speech rhythm
Tilsen, S. & Johnson, K. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, pp. 686-712.

[2006]Rhythmic coordination in repetition disfluency: a harmonic timing effect
Tilsen, S. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, pp. 73-114.

[2006]Multiple attractors in grammaticalization: evidence from Kuki Thaadow verbal morphology
Tilsen, S. M.A. qualifying paper.