Research

Publications

Hullebus, M., Gafos, A., Boll‐Avetisyan, N., Langus, A., Fritzsche, T., & Höhle, B. (2025). Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops. Infancy, 30(1), e12630. Link

Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Hullebus, M., & Gafos, A. (2021). Respect the surroundings: Effects of phonetic context variability on infants' learning of minimal pairs. JASA Express Letters, 1(2), 024401. Link

Tobin S, Hullebus M, Gafos A. Immediate phonetic convergence in a cue-distractor paradigm. J Acoust Soc Am. 2018;144(6):EL528.​ Link

Proceedings

Abudushalamu, X., Hullebus, M., Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2020) Uyghur speakers' knowledge of vowel and vowel-consonant harmony. LabPhon 2020. Link

Hullebus, M.A., Tobin, S., Gafos, A. (2018) Speaker-specific Structure in German Voiceless Stop Voice Onset Times. Proc. Interspeech 2018, 1403-1407 Link

Presentations

• Hullebus, M.A., Gafos, A., Fritzsche, T., Langus, A., Höhle, B. (2025) Infant preference for different perceptual cue trading relations after familiarization. Poster presented at the Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD) 2025, San Sebastian, Spain.

• Hullebus, M.A., Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., Langus, A., Gafos, A. (2025) Perceptual confusability of place in German postvocalic final stops. Oral presentation at the 47. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Mainz, Germany.

• Hullebus, M.A., Höhle, B., Fritzsche, T., Langus, A., Gafos, A. (2025) Reliance on coarticulatory cues for word-final minimal pair learning by 14-month-olds. Poster presented at BCCCD 2025, Budapest, Hungary.

• Hullebus, M.A., Gafos, A., Fritzsche, T., Langus, A., Höhle, B. (2024) Use of coarticulatory cues for word-final minimal pair learning by 14-month-olds. Poster presented at the Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD) 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.

• Hullebus, M.A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Fritzsche, T., Höhle, B., Gafos, A. Listening preference for speech exhibiting natural phonetic cue relations. Oral presentation at ICIS 2022, Ottawa, Canada.

• ​Hullebus, M.A., Fritzsche, T., Langus, A., Gafos, A., Höhle, B. (2021) Infant preference for natural phonetic cue trading relations. Poster presented at BUCLD 46, Boston, USA.

• ​Hullebus, M.A.,  Gafos, A. (2020) Cue trading of VOT and F1 in infant-directed German naturalistic stops. Poster presented at LabPhon 2020 Satellite Workshop. Cue Weighting: Thinking Outside Of The Box. Link

• Abudushalamu, X., Hullebus, M., Boll-Avetisyan, N. (2021) An experimental investigation of the productivity of vowel and vowel-consonant harmony in Uyghur. Oral presentation at ConCALL-4.

• Hullebus, M.A., Langus, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Fritzsche, T., Gafos, A., Hoehle, B. (2020). Speaker-specific representations of within-category variability in voicing cues in nine-month-olds. Poster presented at vICIS 2020.

• Fritzsche, T., Boll-Avetisyan, N., Hullebus, M., Gafos, A., Hoehle, B. (2020). Give me more! Increasing relevant acoustic variability aids 14-month-old children in learning minimal pairs.​​

• ​Tobin, S., Hullebus, M., & Gafos, A. (2018). Phonetic Convergence in VOT in a Cue-Distractor Paradigm. Oral presentation at HISPhonCog 2018, Seoul, South Korea. Link