​​​Conference Talks and Posters

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Amharic prosody

 

Kellogg, J. & Melaku Bayu (2026). Evaluating stress "deafness" in Amharic vs. English speakers. Talk to be presented at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

Kellogg, J. (2025). Paradigmatic initial strengthening of voiced, voiceless, and ejective stops in Amharic.
Poster presented at the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. University of Minnesota,
Twin Cities. (Poster)

Kellogg, J., & Barnes, J. (2024). Illusory perception of high pitch in Amharic intonation. Poster presented
at CROSSIN: Intonation at the crossroads, a satellite workshop of Speech Prosody. Leiden
University, The Netherlands. (Poster)

Kellogg, J., & Barnes, J. (2024). Word- and phrase-level prosodic structure in Amharic. Talk presented at
the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. McGill University, Montreal. (Slides)

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Kellogg, J. (2024). A focus-controlled acoustic analysis of phrase- and word-level prosody in Amharic.
Talk presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New York City. (Slides)

Note: Won the First Prize for the Student Abstract Award

 

​Other research

 

Kellogg, J., & Chang, C.B. (2022). Exploring the onset of phonetic drift in perception. Talk presented at
the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, MA. (Slides)

Gaoua, D., Kellogg, J., & Ray, J. (2022). Language-specific infant babbling patterns in Kabyle-Tamazight
Berber. In P. Gappmayr & J. Kellogg (eds.), Proceedings of the 47th Annual Boston University
Conference on Language Development, 293–305. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. (Proceedings, Poster)

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​​​Invited Talks

 

9/18/25 – Introduction to prosody with a case study of Amharic. Guest lecture at Boston University for Introduction to Linguistics course.

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6/19/25 – Word stress systems and the case of Amharic. Talk presented to the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Addis Ababa University.

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10/28/22 – The typology of stress and tone. Guest lecture at Boston University for Introduction to Sound Systems course.

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​​​Department Talks (not presented elsewhere)

 

Structures of Under-Researched Languages (SULa) Lab at Boston University
9/9/25 – Report on fieldwork in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
10/16/24 – Mid vowels are higher in Amharic, but not overlapped
4/26/22 – Preaspiration in Scottish Gaelic

Graduate Research Forum (GRF) at Boston University
4/14/25 – Assessing Rahmani et al.’s (2015) “stress deafness” methodology with English listeners
4/26/24 – Metrical and tonal prominence
2/16/22 – A rhythmic analysis of Scottish Gaelic using durational metrics