Peer Reviewed Articles and chapters
(+ indicates student co-author; * indicates postdoctoral advisee)
Franich, K., Keupdjio, H., and ⁺Nwosu, V. 2025. The timing of speech and gesture in two Niger-Congo languages: Implications for word-level prominence. Glossa, 10(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.17426
*Garvin, K., Spradling, E., and Franich, K. 2025. Co-speech gestures influence the magnitude and stability of articulatory movements: evidence for coupling-based enhancement. Scientific Reports 15, 157. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84097-6
Franich, K. Accepted. Metrical Phonology. International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition.
⁺Nwosu, V. and Franich, K. Accepted. Phonetic correlates of Igbo storytelling. Selected Proceedings of the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.
⁺Boecher, J., Franich, K., Chow, H-M., and Usler, E. Accepted. Dysrhythmic speech is a characteristic of developmental stuttering in adults: quantitative analysis using duration- and interval-based rhythm metrics. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences.
⁺Hawtof, L., ⁺Gam, F., and Franich, K. 2024. Acoustic analysis of implosives in the Rɨ̀kpàɁ language. In Essegbey, J., Henderson, B., McLaughlin, F., and Diercks, M. (eds.) Pushing the boundaries: Selected papers from the 51-52 Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 1-19.
⁺Dych, W., *Garvin, K., and Franich, K. 2023. Comparing manual vs. semi-automated methods for the coding of co-speech gestures. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 4170-4174.
Franich, K. Forthcoming. 2023. Prosodic predictors of temporal structure in conversational turn-taking. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 1588-1592.
*Garvin, K. and Franich, K. 2023. Gestural alignment and accommodation in speaker-listener head gestures. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 4160-4164.
⁺Hu, A., Qi, Z., and Franich, K. 2023. Accommodation to vocal pitch in children with autism. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 3917-3921.
Franich, K. 2022. How we speak when we speak to a beat: The influence of temporal coupling on phonetic enhancement. Laboratory Phonology 13(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6452 [preprint]
Franich, K. and Lendja, A.B. 2021. Feeling the Beat in an African Tone Language: Rhythmic Mapping Between Language and Music. Frontiers in Communication: Language Sciences.
Franich, K. 2021. Metrical prominence asymmetries in Medʉmba, a Grassfields Bantu language. Language. [preprint]
Franich, K., ⁺Wong, H.Y., Yu, A.C.L., and To, C.K.S. 2020 Temporal coordination and prosodic structure in autism spectrum disorder: Timing across speech and non-speech motor domains. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04758-z [preprint].
Patel, S., Nayar, K., Martin, G.E., Franich, K., Crawford, S., Diehl, J.J. and Losh, M. 2020. An acoustic characterization of prosodic differences in autism spectrum disorder and first-degree relatives. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04392-9
Franich, K. 2019. Uncovering tonal and temporal correlates of phrasal prominence in Medʉmba. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830919887994 [preprint].
Franich, K. and ⁺Sarkar, S. 2019. Effects of rhythmicity on speech perception in speech and musical contexts. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia.
Kimball, A., Keupdjio, H., Kouankem, C., and Franich, K. 2019. Expanding field studies using online speech perception experiments. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia.
Franich, K. 2018. Tonal and morphophonological effects on the location of perceptual centers (p-centers): Evidence from a Bantu language [preprint]. Journal of Phonetics, 67, 21—33.
Franich, K. 2016. Internal and contextual cues to tone perception in Medʉmba [preprint]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, 140(1), 107-112.
Franich, K. 2016. Perception of tonal contours in Medʉmba. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Language (TAL).
Franich, K. 2015. The effect of cognitive load on tonal coarticulation. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Goldman, N., Orman, W., Paquette, E., Franich, K., Hawkes, R., Ngabeu, A. & O’Connor, C. 2015. Interspeaker variation in noun class realization in Medumba, a Grassfields Language. Selected Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
Franich, K., O’Connor, C. & Barnes, J. 2011. Tonal merger in Medʉmba (Bamileke) nouns. Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, ed. Michael R. Marlo et al. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 32-46.
Works in Progress
Franich, K. and ⁺Nwosu, V. In preparation. On the prosodic status of coalesced vowels: Evidence from Igbo children’s music.
Franich, K. and ⁺Nwosu, V. Submitted. Prosody and predictability in co-speech gestures: Evidence from Igbo ‘gesture shift.’
*Garvin, K., ⁺Wang, Y., and Franich, K. In revision. The effect of co-speech gesture and stress on gestural coordination and alignment.
Reviews
Franich, K. 2018. Review of Laura Downing and Al Mtenje (2017). The phonology of Chichewa. Phonology 35(3). Oct. 2018.
Conference Proceedings (Peer-Reviewed by abstract)
Franich, K. 2018. Evidence for metrical prominence asymmetries in Medʉmba. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting in Phonology (AMP) 2017, New York, NY.
Aparicio, H. T., Franich, K. & Xiang, M. 2015. The syntax of ellipsis resolution: Eye-tracking evidence from phi-feature mismatches. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society.
Franich, K. 2014. Contour tones and prosodic structure in Medʉmba Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, ed. Herman Lueng et al., pp. 102-124.
Volumes Edited
Aparicio, H., Flynn, G., Franich, K., Pietraszko, J., & Vardomskaya, T. Forthcoming. Proceedings of the 49th Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Franich, K., Keil, L., & Iserman, K. (eds.), 2010. Proceedings of the 34th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Conference Presentations
Franich, K. and ⁺Nwosu, V. 2025. Rhythmic Constraints on Vowel Coalescence in Igbo: Evidence from Children's Song. Oral presentation at 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Minnesota, May 15-17.
Franich, K. 2024. Phonological rhythm constraints speech and musical gestures. Oral presentation at Expressions in Language and Music, University of Connecticut, October 4-6.
⁺Dych, W.P., *Garvin, K. and Franich, K. 2024. A toolkit for automating co-speech gesture data annotation and analysis. Oral presentation at Symposium Series on Multimodal Communication, Frankfurt, Germany, September 25-27.
Franich, K. and ⁺Nwosu, V. 2024. Timing of co-speech gesture in Igbo: Influence of metrical prominence and tonal melody. Oral presentation at Symposium Series on Multimodal Communication, Frankfurt, Germany, September 25-27.
Franich, K. and ⁺Nwosu, V. 2024. Phrase boundary and tone melody as predictors of co-speech gesture timing in Igbo. Oral presentation at LabPhon 19, Seoul, Korea.
*Garvin, K., ⁺Dych, W., Spradling, E., ⁺Briasco-Stewart, C., and Franich, K. 2024. Effects of co-speech gesture on magnitude and stability of oral gestures. Oral presentation at LabPhon 19, Seoul, Korea.
⁺Dych, W., *Garvin, K. and Franich, K. 2024. Creating multimodal corpora for co-Speech gesture research. Lightning talk at CorpusPhon Workshop, LabPhon 19, Seoul, Korea.
⁺Nwosu, V. and Franich, K. 2024. Phonetic Correlates of Igbo Storytelling. Oral presentation at Annual Conference on African Linguistics, McGill University.
⁺Gam, F. and Franich, K. 2023. The interaction of tone and intonation in Rɨkpa'. Presentation at ACAL 54, University of Connecticut.
⁺Hu, A., Qi, Z., Redmond, S. and Franich, K. 2023. Accommodation to Vocal Pitch in Children with Autism. Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Franich, K. 2022. The influence of temporal coupling on phonetic enhancement. Presentation at LabPhon 18. [Presented virtually due to COVID-19]
Keupdjio, H. & Franich, K. 2021. The variability of A’-agreement in Bamileke Medʉmba: A dialect survey. Presentation at First Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics (Banto1d), Hamburg, Germany. [Presented virtually due to COVID-19]
Franich, K. and Keupdjio, H. 2021. Tonal and rhythmic factors in the alignment of speech and co-speech gesture in Medʉmba. Presentation at 11th Annual Conference on Speech Prosody, Lisbon, Portugal.
Franich, K. and Keupdjio, H. Tonal and rhythmic factors in the alignment of speech and co-speech gesture in Medmba. Presentation at Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Washington DC. [Presented virtually due to COVID-19]
Franich, K. How we speak when we speak to a beat: The effect of environmental coupling on acoustic characteristics of speech in two
prosodically-distinct languages. Presentation at Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop, RITMO, University of Oslo. [Held online due to COVID-19]
Franich, K. 2021. How we speak when we speak to a beat: The effect of environmental coupling on acoustic characteristics of speech in two
prosodically-distinct languages. Presentation at Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop, RITMO, University of Oslo. [Held online due to COVID-19]
Franich, K. 2021. Glottalization, F0, and tonal variation in Medʉmba. Presentation at ACAL 51-52, University of Florida. [Held online due to COVID-19]
⁺Hawtof, L., ⁺Gam, F., and Franich, K. 2021. Acoustic analysis of implosives in Rɨkpa’. Presentation at ACAL 51-52, University of Florida. [Held online due to COVID-19]
Franich, K. 2020. Understanding Patterns of Voicing and Prenasalization in Medʉmba: Evidence from Speech Timing. Poster presentation at LabPhon 17, Vancouver, BC. [Held online due to COVID-19]
⁺Sarkar, S. & Franich, K. 2020. Articulatory differences between true and assimilated stop geminates in Bengali. Poster presentation at LabPhon 17, Vancouver, BC. [Held online due to COVID-19]
Keupdjio, H. & Franich, K. 2020. The variability of A'-agreement in Bamileke Medʉmba: A dialect survey. Presentation at First Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics (Banto1d), Hamburg, Germany. [Canceled due to COVID-19]
Franich, K. 2020. Glottalization, f0, and Tonal Variation in Medʉmba. Presentation at the 51st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, New Brunswick, NJ. [Canceled due to COVID-19]
Franich, K. 2019. Initial strengthening in derived and nonderived NC sequences in Medʉmba. Presentation at the 50th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Vancouver, BC.
Franich, K. 2018. Coordinative mode, phasing, and predictability across languages. Presentation at Workshop on the Role of Predictability in Shaping Human Sound Systems, June 23, Lisbon, Portugal.
Franich, K. 2018. Tone-accent attraction in Medʉmba. Presentation at 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Michigan State University.
Franich, K. 2016. Prominence in speech cycling: Evidence from an African tone language. Presentation at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 16, Bilbao, Spain.
Franich, K. 2016. Cues to tone perception in Medʉmba. Presentation at 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, UC Berkeley.
Franich, K. 2015. The prosodic status of lexically contoured words in Medʉmba. Presentation at 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Eugene, OR.
Yu, A., Chen, D., Franich, K., Halberstam, Y., Phillips, J. and Pillion, B. 2015. The peril of sounding manly: A look at vocal characteristics of lawyers before the United States Supreme Court. Presentation at 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR.
Franich, K., Aparicio, H. and Xiang, M. Inflectional φ-feature mismatches under ellipsis: An eye-tracking study. Presentation at the 15th annual meeting of the Texas Linguistic Society, UT Austin.
Yu, A., Chen, D., Franich, K., Halberstam, Y., Phillips, J., Pillion, B., Hao, Y. and Yin, Z. 2014. The peril of sounding manly: A look at vocal characteristics of lawyers before the United States Supreme Court. Presentation at LabPhon 14, Tokyo, Japan.
Franich, K. 2014. Contour tones, vowel length, and syllable weight in Medʉmba. Presentation at the 2014 CUNY Phonology Forum, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Franich, K. 2014. The Interaction of vowel length and tone in Medʉmba. Presentation at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (poster), Minneapolis, MN.
Franich, K. 2013. Foot structure in Medʉmba. Presentation at the African Linguistics Workshop, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Ann Arbor, MI.
Franich, K. 2013. Focus and regressive tone spreading in Medʉmba. Presentation at the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Georgetown University.
Orman, W., Franich, K., Hawkes, R., Goldman, N., Ngabeu, A., and O’Connor, C. 2013. Variation in noun class realization in Medʉmba, a Grassfields language. Presentation at the 44th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Georgetown University.
Franich, K., O’Connor, C. & Barnes, J. 2011. Tonal merger in Medʉmba (Bamileke) nouns. Presentation at the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Maryland.
Franich, K., O’Connor, C. & Barnes, J. 2011. Tone change and dialect formation in Medʉmba. Presentation at Methods in Dialectology XIV, University of Western Ontario.
Dissertation
Franich, K. 2017. The Interaction of Prominence, Rhythm, and Tone in Medʉmba.