Phonology
The Phonology Group at UCalgary studies the patterns and nature of speech sounds across different languages, including segmental and prosodic phenomena in adults and children. Our approaches range from theoretical phonology to laboratory phonology. The Phonology Group often uses the Elicitation room as their physical location.
About
Dr. Darin Flynn's interests include phonology and its relation to phonetics, morphology, and syntax; Indigenous languages; rap linguistics; taboo language; and personal names.
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Dr. Angeliki Athanasopoulou focuses on prosodic development and prosodic typology, aiming to understand different aspects of prosodic systems across languages, both how they are structured and processed, and how they develop in children.
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Students: Vincent Nwosu (PhD), Ushmum Alam (MA)
Publications
Angeliki Athanasopoulou, Quinn Goddard, and Darin Flynn (forthcoming). Plains Cree word prosody revisited. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
Darin Flynn (2025). What the f? F-elements behind labiodentals and crazy rules. In K. C. Hall, G. Ó. Hansson & A.-M. Tessier (Eds.), DougSchrift: a collection of squibs and puzzles presented to Doug Pulleyblank (p. 1–24). Vancouver: UBC. https://arts-pulleyblank-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/04/Flynn2025_DougschriftFinal.pdf
Darin Flynn (2024). Redeployment in language contact: The case of phonological emphasis. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 3, 1–22. 10.3389/flang.2024.1325597 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/flang.2024.1325597/
Cheman Baira A’gitok and Angeliki Athanasopoulou (2023). What makes a geminate? An acoustic study of consonants in Garo. 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences. https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2023/full_papers/822.pdf
BrettC Nelson and Darin Flynn (2022). “Chrump’s on Chwitter”? A fresh look at posteriorization in English. In A. Hernández & C. Plyley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2021 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Halifax, NS: Saint Mary’s University. https://cla-acl.ca/pdfs/actes-2021/Nelson_and_Flynn-Chrumps_on_Chwitter.pdf
Darin Flynn (2021). Indigenous languages in Canada. In G. N. Devy (Ed.), Orality and language: Key concepts in Indigenous studies (pp. 131−156). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003102595-7/indigenous-languages-canada-darin-flynn
Angeliki Athanasopoulou, Irene Vogel, and Nadya Pincus (2021). Prosodic prominence in a stressless language: An acoustic investigation of Indonesian. Journal of Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226721000141
Jason Lilley, Laura Spinu, and Angeliki Athanasopoulou (2021). Exploring the front fricative contrast in Greek: A study of acoustic variability based on cepstral coefficients. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002510031900029X
Angeliki Athanasopoulou and Irene Vogel (2020). Variability in French word-final schwa: The effect of focus. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 16: Selected papers from the 47th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. https://doi.org/10.1075/rllt.16.01ath
Eyup Bacanlı, Darin Flynn, and Amanda Pounder. (2020). Vowel harmony and other morphological processes in Turkish. In B. Palaz & L. Stromdahl (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (Vol. 5, pp. 16–30). Linguistic Society of America. https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/tu