Ryan K. Shosted
Professor
Primary Affiliation
Illinois Language and Literacy InitiativeAffiliations
Status Affiliate Faculty
Home Department of Linguistics
Phone 244-1508
Email rshosted@illinois.edu
Address
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Biography
Education
B.A., linguistics, Brigham Young University, 2000
M.A., California, 2003
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006
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Research
Research Interests:
Phonetics
Phonology
Professor Ryan Shosted is an experimental phonetician and phonologist. His research focuses on how phonetic principles shape phonological, typological, and diachronic outcomes in language. He specializes in the production of speech, whether through the lens of acoustics, kinematics, or aerodynamics. He currently uses ultrafast dynamic magnetic resonance imaging to study the map between the physiology of the vocal tract and the acoustic signal that emanates from it. He works toward models of speech production built on data from typologically and geographically diverse languages, including understudied and endangered languages. He gains insights into historical sound change by studying writing systems like Hittite cuneiform and the Deseret Alphabet.
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2012
- Shosted, R.; Carignan, C.; Rong, P. Y., Managing the Distinctiveness of Phonemic Nasal Vowels: Articulatory Evidence from Hindi. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2012, 131, (1), 455-465. <http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1121/1.3665998>
- Shosted, Ryan, José Ignacio Hualde, and Daniel Scarpace. 2012. Palatal complexity revisited: An electropalatographic analysis of /ɲ/ in Brazilian Portuguese with comparison to Peninsular Spanish. Language and Speech 55 (4): 477-502. <http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1177/0023830911434120>
- Shosted, Ryan, Maojing Fu, Abbas Benmamoun, Zhi-Pei Liang, and Bradley P. Sutton. 2012. Using partially separable functions to image spatiotemporal aspects of Arabic pharyngealization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 132 (3): 2091. <http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1121/1.4755732>
2011
- Carignan, Christopher, Ryan Shosted, Chilin Shih, and Panying Rong. 2011. Compensatory articulation in American English nasalized vowels. Journal of Phonetics 39: 668-682. <http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2011.07.005>
- Shosted, Ryan and Sharon Rose. 2011. Affricating ejective fricatives: The case of Tigrinya. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 41(1): 41-65. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100310000319>
- Shosted, Ryan. 2011. An articulatory-aerodynamic approach to stop excrescence. Journal of Phonetics 39: 660-667. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2011.07.001>
2010
- Loucks, T. M. J.; Shosted, R. K.; De Nil, L. F.; Poletto, C. J.; King, A., Coordinating Voicing Onset with Articulation: A Potential Role for Sensory Cues in Shaping Phonological Distinctions. Phonetica 2010, 67, (1-2), 47-62.
- Shosted, Ryan and José Ignacio Hualde. 2010. The production and provenance of Spanish and Portuguese palatal nasals. In S. Colina, A. Olarrea, and A. Carvalho (eds.), Romance Linguistics 2009: Selected Papers from the 39th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), 43–62. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.