Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Kellogg, J., & Melaku Bayu (under review) Stress “deafness” in L1 Amharic speakers and an effect of L2 English proficiency. Submitted to the Journal of Phonetics. (Preparing to resubmit after first round of reviews.) (Link)

Kellogg, J., & Chang, C.B. (2023). Exploring the onset of phonetic drift in voice onset time perception. Languages 8(1), 78. doi:10.3390/languages8010078. (Link)

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Kellogg, J., & Barnes, J. (accepted, in press). Word- and phrase-level prosodic structure in Amharic. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 55). McGill University, Montreal. (Accepted with minor revisions, preparing to resubmit.) (Link)

Edited Volumes

Gappmayr, P., & Kellogg, J. (eds.) (2023). Proceedings of the 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 47). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. (Link)

Presentations

Conference Talks

Kellogg, J. (2026) Considering evidence for word stress via intonational peak alignment in Amharic. 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57). University at Buffalo, New York.

Kellogg, J. (2026) The issue of “prominence” in prosodic typology: Phonological strength vs. narrow focus. 4th International Conference on Prominence in Language 2026 (ICPL IV). Cologne, Germany.

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

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

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 (LSA). New York City. (Slides)

Note: Won the First Prize for the Student Abstract Award

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)

Conference Posters

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

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

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 (BUCLD), 293–305. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. (Proceedings, Poster)

Invited Talks

2025 – Introduction to prosody with a case study of Amharic. Guest lecture at Boston University for Introduction to Linguistics course.

2025 – Word stress systems and the case of Amharic. Talk presented to the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Addis Ababa University.

2022 – The typology of stress and tone. Guest lecture at Boston University for Introduction to Sound Systems course.

Department Talks (not presented elsewhere)

Structures of Under-Researched Languages (SULa) Lab at Boston University
2025– Report on fieldwork in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2024 – Mid vowels are higher in Amharic, but not overlapped
2022 – Preaspiration in Scottish Gaelic

Graduate Research Forum (GRF) at Boston University
2026 – A novel methodology for eliciting geminates in Amharic nonce words
2024 – Metrical and tonal prominence: A discussion of issues in prosodic theory
2022 – A rhythmic analysis of Scottish Gaelic using durational metrics