Doctoral Dissertation: University of Delaware, 2010
Palatalization in Romanian: Experimental and theoretical approaches, published online by ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing.
Journal Publications
- Spinu, L., Kochetov, A. & Percival, M. (To appear). Articulatory Characteristics of Secondary Palatalization in Romanian Fricatives. Languages.
- Spinu, L., Hwang, J., & Vasilita, M. (2023). Differences between Monolinguals and Bilinguals in Phonetic and Phonological Learning and the Connection with Auditory Sensory Memory. Brain Sciences, 13(3), 488.
- Spinu, L. (2022). Serial memory mechanisms in monolingual and bilingual speakers. International Journal of Bilingualism. May 2022. doi:10.1177/13670069211070977
- Lilley, J., Spinu, L. & Athanasopoulou, A. (2020). Exploring the front fricative contrast in Greek: A study of acoustic variability based on cepstral coefficients. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-32.
- Spinu, L. (2018). Investigating the status of a rare cross-linguistic contrast: The case of Romanian palatalized postalveolars. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(3), 1235-1251.
- Spinu, L., Kochetov, A., & Lilley, J. (2018). Acoustic classification of Russian plain and palatalized sibilant fricatives: Spectral vs. cepstral measures. Speech Communication, 100, 41-45.
- Spinu, L. E., Hwang, J., & Lohmann, R. (2018). Is there a bilingual advantage in phonetic and phonological acquisition? The initial learning of word-final coronal stop realization in a novel accent of English. International Journal of Bilingualism, 22(3), 350-370.
- Spinu, L., & Lilley, J. (2016). A comparison of cepstral coefficients and spectral moments in the classification of Romanian fricatives. Journal of Phonetics, 57, 40-58.
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Spinu, L., Vogel, I. & Bunnell, H.T. (2012). Palatalization in Romanian – Acoustic properties and perception. Journal of Phonetics, 40, 54–66.
Peer-reviewed Proceedings
- Spinu, L., Vasilescu, I., Lamel, L. & Lilley, J. (2022). Voicing neutralization in Romanian fricatives across different speech styles. Proc. Interspeech 2022, 1342-1346.
- Philipp-Muller, N., Spinu, L., Rafat, Y., and Rand, J. (2021). Serial memory error patterns in bilinguals and monolinguals. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 176 ASA (Vol. 35, No. 1, p. 060007). Acoustical Society of America.
- Spinu, L., Hwang, J., Pincus, N. and Vasilita, M. (2020). Exploring the use of an artificial accent of English to assess phonetic learning in monolingual and bilingual speakers. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2020, 2377-2381, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2020-2783.
- Spinu, L., Percival, M., & Kochetov, A. (2019). Articulatory Characteristics of Secondary Palatalization in Romanian Fricatives. In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2019 (pp. 3307–3311).
- Spinu, L. & Rafat, Y. (2019). The initial learning of intonation patterns in a novel dialect of English by monolinguals and bilinguals: An unexpected monolingual advantage. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, E. Babatsouli (ed.), 122-129. ISBN: 978-618-82351-3-7
- Dugaillard, B. and Spinu, L. (2019). An investigation of articulatory skill in monolingual and bilingual speakers. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 2019, E. Babatsouli (ed.), 31–37. ISBN: 978-618-82351-3-7
- Vogel, I. & Spinu, L. (2016). The Unit of Speech Encoding: the case of Romanian. Interspeech-2016: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.
- Kondratenko, Y. & Spinu, L. (2014). Being “better” with accents: evidence from bilinguals. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, eds. Beltrama, A. et al. 387–400.
- Vogel, I. & Spinu, L. (2013). Vowel Length in Luganda. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 12, Acoustical Society of America.
- Vogel, I., Hestvik, A., Bunnell, H. T. & Spinu, L. (2009). Perception of English compound vs. phrasal stress: natural vs. synthetic speech. Interspeech-2009}, Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association.
- Spinu, L. (2006). Romanian palatalized consonants: A perceptual study.Proceedings of ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics, 28-30 August 2006, Athens, Greece.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Volumes
- Hanini, R., Spinu, L., Rafat, Y. and Alkhudidi, A. (2024). Childhood Language Exposure: Does Early Experience Affect Sound Perception and Production in Speakers with Reduced Language Proficiency? The Phonetics
and Phonology of Heritage Languages, ed. by R. Rao, Cambridge University Press - de Cuba, C. Slocum, P. and Spinu, L. (2024). An Interdisciplinary Approach to Language Activism from Community Colleges. Decolonizing Linguistics, ed. by Hudley, A. H. C., Mallinson, C., and Bucholtz, M., Oxford University Press, p. 423
- Spinu, L. (2009). Romanian palatalization: the role of place of articulation. Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007 ed. by Pascual José Masullo, Erin O’Rourke and Chia-Hui Huang, [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 304] 2009 , pp. 307–319
- Vogel, I. & Spinu, L. (2009). The domain of palatalization in Romanian. Romance Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 37th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Pittsburgh, 15–18 March 2007, ed. by Pascual José Masullo, Erin O’Rourke and Chia-Hui Huang, [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 304] 2009, pp. 307–319
- Spinu, L. (2007). Perceptual Properties of Palatalization in Romanian. Romance Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New Brunswick, March-April 2006.,ed. by José Camacho, Nydia Flores-Ferrán, Liliana Sánchez, Viviane Déprez and María José Cabrera [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 287] 2007, pp. 303–318
