Christian DiCanio

Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
University at Buffalo

Office: 601 Baldy Hall
Address: 609 Baldy Hall, Buffalo NY 14260-1030
Phone: (716) 645-0113
Email: cdicanio at [bɐfəloʊ] dot edu

My research examines the tonal and accentual properties of words in a variety of languages, including many endangered languages of Mexico (Triqui, Mixtec, Ixcatec). I am a specialist in speech prosody and speech acoustics, with a strong interest in the relationship between speech production/acoustics and phonological structure. I investigate these topics via fieldwork, corpus data analysis, experimental phonetics, acoustic data analysis, and articulatory methods in the lab.

Expertise

Phonetic data analysis
Voice quality and tone
Phonological analysis
Linguistic fieldwork
Statistical methods in R
Corpus phonetics
Praat scripting
Indigenous languages of Mexico
Southeast Asian languages

Current and past PhD students (with dissertation titles)

Kayla Shames. Sociophonetic Cues in Singing Voices, (in progress)
Mariana Quintana Godoy. Phonetic Reduction in San Mateo Mixtepec Zapotec, (in progress)
Jared Sharp. Coarticulatory aggression in uvular consonant production: a cross-linguistic study in corpus phonetics, (in progress)
Miao Zhang. Prosodic conditions on the production of vowel sequences, (2022). Currently an assistant professor at Macau Institute of Science and Technology.
Richard Hatcher. The phonetics and phonology of Cayuga prosody, (2022). Currently a research professor at Hanyang University.
Joshua Benn. The phonetics, phonology, and historical development of Guienagati Zapotec, (2021).
Xiaole Sun. Gradience in contextual tonal variations in Nanjing Chinese, (2017). Currently a licensed clinical speech pathologist.