Professor Catherine Best

Conference Papers

• Chen, J., Ni, T., Kasisopa, B., Antoniou, M. and Best, C. (2021), 'SVM-based evaluation of Thai tone imitations by Thai-naive Mandarin and Vietnamese speakers', Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association. Annual Summit and Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
• Li, Y., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Burnham, D. (2020), 'Tone variations in regionally accented Mandarin', INTERSPEECH (Conference), Shanghai, China.
• Li, Y., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Burnham, D. (2020), 'Regionally accented Mandarin lexical tones', Acoustical Society of America. Meeting, Online.
• Li, Y., Best, C., Cao, C. and Zhang, J. (2019), 'Hybrid perceptual training to facilitate the learning of nasal final contrasts by highly proficient Japanese learners of Mandarin', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Vic..
• Chen, J., Best, C. and Antoniou, M. (2019), 'Cognitive factors in Thai-naive Mandarin speakers' imitation of Thai lexical tones', INTERSPEECH (Conference), Graz, Austria.
• Nixon, J. and Best, C. (2018), 'Acoustic cue variability affects eye movement behaviour during non-native speech perception', International Conference on Speech Prosody, Poznan, Poland.
• Chen, J., Best, C., Antoniou, M. and Kasisopa, B. (2018), 'Cross-language categorisation of monosyllabic Thai tones by Mandarin and Vietnamese speakers : L1 phonological and phonetic influences', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Coogee, N.S.W..
• Kroos, C., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C. and Plumbley, M. (2017), 'Using deep neural networks to estimate tongue movements from speech face motion', International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Ying, J., Carignan, C., Shaw, J., Proctor, M., Derrick, D. and Best, C. (2017), 'Temporal dynamics of lateral channel formation in /l/ : 3D EMA data from Australian English', INTERSPEECH (Conference), Stockholm, Sweden.
• Frej, M., Carignan, C. and Best, C. (2017), 'Acoustics and articulation of medial versus final coronal stop gemination contrasts in Moroccan Arabic', INTERSPEECH (Conference), Stockholm, Sweden.
• Fenwick, S., Best, C., Davis, C. and Tyler, M. (2016), 'The influence of modality and speaking style on the assimilation type and categorization consistency of non-native speech', INTERSPEECH (Conference) , San Francisco, Calif..
• Faris, M., Best, C. and Tyler, M. (2016), 'L2 phonological category formation and discrimination in learners varying in L2 experience', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Parramatta, N.S.W..
• Wright, S., Lathouwers, M., Best, C. and Tyler, M. (2016), 'Cross-accent word recognition is affected by perceptual assimilation', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Parramatta, N.S.W..
• Peretokina, V., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Di Biase, B. (2016), '"She has many... cat?" : on-line processing of L2 morphophonology by Mandarin learners of English', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Parramatta, N.S.W..
• Elvin, J., Escudero, P., Williams, D. and Best, C. (2016), 'The relationship between Australian English speakers' non-native perception and production of Brazilian Portuguese vowels', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science, Parramatta, N.S.W..
• Best, C., Kitamura, C., Gates, S. and Carpenter, A. (2016), 'Does a vowel by any other accent sound the same ... to toddler ears?', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Parramatta, N.S.W..
• Faris, M., Best, C. and Tyler, M. (2015), 'The perceptual assimilation of Danish monophthongs and diphthongs by monolingual Australian English speakers', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences , Glasgow, U.K..
• Peretokina, V., Best, C., Tyler, M., Shaw, J. and Di Biase, B. (2015), 'Perception of English codas in various phonological and morphological contexts by Mandarin learners of English', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.
• Nguyen Thi Hong Nhung, N., Shaw, J., Tyler, M., Pinkus, R. and Best, C. (2015), 'Affective attitudes towards Asians influence perception of Asian-accented vowels', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, U.K..
• Fenwick, S., Davis, C., Best, C. and Tyler, M. (2015), 'The effect of modality and speaking style on the discrimination of non-native phonological and phonetic contrasts in noise', Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Vienna, Austria.
• Wu, M., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Baker, B., Best, C. and Fletcher, J. (2015), 'Perception of Cantonese tones by Mandarin speakers', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences , Glasgow, Scotland.
• Best, C., Shaw, J., Mulak, K., Docherty, G., Evans, B., Foulkes, P., Hay, J., Al-Tamimi, J., Mair, K. and Wood, S. (2015), 'Perceiving and adapting to regional accent differences among vowel subsystems', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.
• Fenwick, S., Best, C. and Tyler, M. (2015), 'Non-native discrimination across speaking style, modality, and phonetic feature', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.
• Derrick, D., Best, C. and Fiasson, R. (2015), 'Non-metallic ultrasound probe holder for co-collection and co-registration with EMA', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.
• Best, C., Kroos, C., Mulak, K., Halovic, S., Fort, M. and Kitamura, C. (2015), 'Message vs. messenger effects on cross-modal matching for spoken phrases', Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Vienna, Austria.
• Best, C., Shaw, J., Docherty, G., Evans, B., Foulkes, P., Hay, J., Al-Tamimi, J., Mair, K., Mulak, K. and Wood, S. (2015), 'From Newcastle MOUTH to Aussie ears : Australians' perceptual assimilation and adaptation for Newcastle UK vowels', Interspeech 2015, Dresden, Germany.
• Peretokina, V., Tyler, M. and Best, C. (2014), 'Influence of phonological, morphological, and prosodic factors on phoneme detection by native and second-language adults', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Christchurch, N.Z..
• Shaw, J., Best, C., Mulak, K., Docherty, G., Evans, B., Foulkes, P., Hay, J., Al-Tamimi, J., Mair, K., Peek, M. and Wood, S. (2014), 'Effects of short-term exposure to unfamiliar regional accents : Australians' categorization of London and Yorkshire English consonants', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Christchurch, N.Z..
• Wright, S., Shaw, J., Best, C., Docherty, G., Evans, B., Foulkes, P., Hay, J. and Mulak, K. (2014), 'Improvements to vowel categorization in non-native regional accents resulting from multiple- versus single-talker training : a computational approach', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Christchurch, N.Z..
• Ying, J., Shaw, J. and Best, C. (2013), 'L2 English learners' recogniton of words spoken in familar versus unfamiliar English accents', Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Lyon, France.
• Best, C., Shaw, J. and Clancy, E. (2013), 'Recognizing words across regional accents : the role of perceptual assimilation in lexical competition', Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Lyon, France.
• Gibert, G., Attina, V., Tiede, M., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Kroos, C., Kasisopa, B., Vatrikiotis-Bateson, E. and Best, C. (2012), 'Multimodal speech animation from electromagnetic articulography data', EUSIPCO-2012, Bucharest, Romania.
• Ying, J., Shaw, J., Kroos, C. and Best, C. (2012), 'Relations between acoustic and articulatory measurements of /l/', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, N.S.W..
• Kroos, C., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R. and Best, C. (2012), 'Now you see it, now you don't : frequency distribution of articulatory information reflected in speech face motion', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, N.S.W..
• Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Baker, B., Harvey, M., Best, C. and Kroos, C. (2012), 'The perception of coronal stops in Wubuy', Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, N.S.W..
• Tiede, M., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Kroos, C., Gibert, G., Attina, V., Kasisopa, B., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. and Best, C. (2012), 'Speech articulator movements recorded from facing talkers using two electromagnetic articulometer systems simultaneously', Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Cancun, Mexico.
• Bohn, O., Best, C., Avesani, C. and Vayra, M. (2011), 'Percieving through the Lens of Native Phonetics: Italian and Danish Listeners' Perception of English Consonant Contrasts', 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong.
• Best, C., Kroos, C. and Irwin, J. (2011), 'Do infants detect A->V articulator congruency for non-native click consonants?', International Conference on Audio-Visual Speech Processing, Volterra, Italy.
• So, C. and Best, C. (2010), 'Categorizing Mandarin Tones to Listeners' Native Prosodic Categories: The Role of Phonetic Properties', 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, Poznan, Poland.
• Bohn, O. and Best, C. (2010), 'Testing PAM and SLM: Perception of American English approximants by Native German Listeners', 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, Poznan, Poland.
• Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Baker, B., Harvey, M., Best, C. and Kroos, C. (2010), 'Prosodic context effects on acoustic differentiation of coronal stops in Wubuy', 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 12) - Gesture as Language - Gesture and Language, New Mexico.
• Best, C., Kroos, C. and Irwin, J. (2010), 'I can see what you said: Infant sensitivity to articulator congruency between audio-only and silent-video presentations of native and nonnative consonants', 9th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Japan.
• Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Kroos, C., Harvey, M., Best, C., Baker, B. and Goldstein, L. (2010), 'A kinematic analysis of temporal differentiation of the four-way coronal stop contrast in Wubuy (Australia)', 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology Conference 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
• Kroos, C., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Goldstein, L. and Best, C. (2010), 'Tongue body position differences in the coronal stop consonants of Wubuy', 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
• Proctor, M., Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C., Goldstein, L., Kroos, C. and Harvey, M. (2010), 'Articulatory Modelling of Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy', 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
• Wagner, M., Tran, D., Togneri, R., Rose, P., Powers, D., Onslow, M., Loakes, D., Lewis, T., Kuratate, T., Kinoshita, Y., Kemp, N., Ishihara, S., Ingram, J., Hajek, J., Grayden, D., Gocke, R., Fletcher, J., Estival, D., Epps, J., Dale, R., Cutler, A., Cox, F., Chetty, G., Cassidy, S., Butcher, A., Burnham, D., Bird, S., Best, C., Bennamoun, M., Arciuli, J. and Ambikairajah, E. (2010), 'The Big Australian Speech Corpus (The Big ASC)', 13th International Australasian Conference on Speech Science and Technology 2010, Melbourne, Australia.
• Burnham, D., Ambikairajah, E., Arciuli, J., Bennamoun, M., Best, C., Bird, S., Butcher, A., Cassidy, S., Chetty, G., Cox, F., Cutler, A., Dale, R., Epps, J., Fletcher, J., Goecke, R., Grayden, D., Hajek, J., Ingram, J., Ishihara, S., Kemp, N., Kinoshita, Y., Kuratate, T., Lewis, T., Loakes, D., Onslow, M., Powers, D., Rose, P., Togneri, R., Tran, D. and Wagner, M. (2009), 'A Blueprint for a Comprehensive Australian English Auditory-Visual Speech Corpus', HCSNet Workshop on Designing the Australian National Corpus: Mustering Languages, Sydney.
• Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Kroos, C. (2008), 'Evidence of a Near-Merger in Western Sydney Australian English Vowels', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane Australia.
• Tyler, M., Best, C., Goldstein, L., Antoniou, M. and Krebs-Lazendic, L. (2008), 'Six and twelve-month-olds' discrimination of native versus non-native between- and within-organ fracative plast contrasts', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane Australia.
• So, C. and Best, C. (2008), 'Do English Speakers Assimilate Mandarin Tones to English Prosodic Categories', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
• Bundgaard-Nielsen, R., Best, C. and Tyler, M. (2008), 'The Assimilation of L2 Australian English Vowels to L1 Japanese Vowel Categories: Vocabulary Size Matters', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia.
• Antoniou, M., Best, C. and Tyler, M. (2008), 'Perceptual evidence of Modern Greek voiced stops as phonological categories', Interspeech 2008, Brisbane Australia.
• Antoniou, M., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Kroos, C. (2008), 'Effects of linguistic context on Greek-English bilingual production of voice onset time', Laboratory Phonology 11, Victoria University: Wellington, New Zealand.
• Goldstein, L., Nam, H., Kulshreshtha, M., Root, L. and Best, C. (2008), 'Distribution of tongue tip articulations in Hindi versus English and the acquisition of stop place categories', Laboratory Phonology 11, Victoria University: Wellington, New Zealand.
• Chang, Y., Halle, P., Best, C. and Abramson, A. (2008), 'Do non-native language listeners perceive Mandarin tone continua categorically?', 8th Phonetics Conference of China and the International Symposium on Phonetic Frontiers, Beijing, China.
• Best, C., Halle, P. and Pardo, J. (2007), 'English and French Speakers' Perception of Voicing Distinctions in Non-Native Lateral Consonant Syllable Onsets', Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
• Le, J., Best, C., Tyler, M. and Kroos, C. (2007), 'Effects of Non-native Dialects on Spoken Word Recognition', Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
• Krebs-Lazendic, L. and Best, C. (2007), 'Early and late bilinguals' vowel perception and production : English vowel contrasts that give Serbian-English bilinguals a H(E)AD-ache', New Sounds 2007: Fifth International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil.
• Best, C. and Lazarek, D. (2005), 'Influences of visible place versus manner distinctions on perception of audio-visual English CV syllables', Auditory-Visual Speech Processing 2005, .
• Best, C., Traill, A., Carter, A., Harrison, K. and Faber, A. (2003), '!Xoo click perception by English, Isizulu, and Sesotho listeners', International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona.