Publications

Dissertation

• Palatalization in Polish. An Interaction of Articulatory and Perceptual Factors. 2004. University of Potsdam, Germany.

Journal Articles

• Cavar, M.E., Rudman, E.M., Nagaraj, N. & Peters, L. (2025) High central vowels in Polish, Ukrainian and Russian. Journal of International Phonetic Association. 1-34. DOI:10.1017/S0025100325000040

• Czaplicki, B. & Cavar, M.E. (2024) The variation in the realization of Ukrainian back fricatives as onset lenition and non-markedness reducing coda neutralization: a 3D/4D ultrasound study. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1). DOI: 10.16995/glossa.9795

• Cavar, M.E., Rudman, E.M. & Ostaric, A. (2022) Temporal versus spectral cues in L2 perception of vowels. A study with Polish and Croatian learners of English. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 30(1), 85-108.

• Strycharczuk, P., Cavar, M.E. & Coretta, S. (2021) Distance vs. time. Articulatory and acoustic manifestations of vowel undershoot in Polish. Submitted to: JASA 150(1), 592-607. DOI: 10.1121/10.0005585

• Cavar, M.E. & Lulich, S.M. (2021) Variation in the articulation of Russian stressed vowels and the mechanics of palatalization in consonants. Phonological Data and Analysis, 3, 1-44. DOI:10.3765/pda.v3art3.31

• Cavar, M.E., Nagaraj N. & Amacker, I. (2020) Palatalization in Ukrainian, Polish and Russian. A pilot 3D Ultrasound Study. In D. Klimek-Jankowska and K. Migdalski (eds.), Contributions to General and Comparative Linguistics. Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft 9, 51-72.

• Cavar, M.E., Rudman, E. & Lulich, S.M. (2020) Palatalization in coronal consonants of Polish: a 3D/4D ultrasound study. JASA-EL 148, EL447. DOI: 10.1121/10.0002904

• Cavar, M.E., & Lulich, S.M. (2020) Allophonic Variation in the Polish Vowel /ɨ/. Results of a 3D ultrasound study and their phonological implications. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 28(1), 1-22. DOI:10.1353/jsl.2020.0000

• Lulich, S.M. & Cavar, M.E. (2019) Articulatory phonetics of Polish soft-hard vowel allophony. JASA, 146(4), 2263-2278. DOI: 10.1121/1.5127834

• Shockey, L. & Cavar, M.E. (2013) Roadrunners and Eagles. Research in Language. Vol 11(1), 97-102. DOI: 10.2478/v10015-012-0012-x

• Cavar, M.E. (2007) [ATR] in Polish. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 15(2), 207-228. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24599667

• Cavar, M.E. (2006) Feature Geometry and palatalization. Rasprave Institutu za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje 32, 53-74

Book chapters, conference proceedings (Phonology)

• Alfaifi, A., Cavar, M.E. & Lulich, S.M. (2021) Tongue Root Position in Hijazi Arabic Voiceless Emphatic and Non-Emphatic Coronal Consonants. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 42, 060004. DOI: 10.1121/2.0001391

• Cavar, M.E. (2020) Phonetics explains phonotactics. On velar consonants followed by front vowels in Polish. In: Jaskula, K. (ed.), Phonological and Phonetic Explorations, 29-54. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL.

• Mihajlovic, K. & Cavar, M.E. (2018) Perception of Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian sibilants: heritage U.S. vs. homeland speakers. In: Lenertova, D., Meyer, R., Simik, R. & Szucsich, L. (eds.), Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2016. Berlin: Language Science Press.

• Cavar, M.E. (2018) The Elusive Polish /ɨ/: Partial Results of an Ultrasound Imaging Study. In: Czaplicki, B., Lukaszewicz, B., & Opalinska, M. (eds.), Phonology, Fieldwork and Generalizations. 215-238. Munich: Peter Lang.

• Lulich, S.M., Cavar, M.E. & Nelson, M. (2017) Allophonic variation of Polish vowels in the context of prepalatal consonants. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 30, 060007. https: //doi.org/10.1121/2.0000755.

• Cavar, M.E., Lulich, S.M. & Nelson, M. (2017) Three-dimensional ultrasound images of Polish high front vowels. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 30, 060006. DOI: 10.1121/2.0000728

• Shockey, L. & Cavar, M.E. (2014) Shared Casual Speech Processes: Aid to Learning. In: Szpyra-Kozlowska, J., Guz, E., Steinbrich, P. & Święcinski, R. (eds.), Recent Developments in Applied Phonetics. Wydawnictwo KUL: Lublin. ISBN 978-83-7702-867-4.

• Hamann, S., Boersma, P. & Cavar, M.E. (2011) Language-specific differences in the weighting of perceptual cues for labiodentals. In: Wrembel, M., Kul, M. & Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, K. (eds.), Achievements and perspectives in SLA of speech: New Sounds 2010, Vol. 1. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, pp. 115-124.

• Cavar, M.E. (2011) Merger of the place contrast in the posterior sounds in Croatian. In Kosta, P. & Schurcks, L. (eds.), Formalization of Grammar in Slavic Languages. Potsdam Linguistic Investigations, Vol. 6. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 29-42.

• Cavar, M.E. & Hamann, S. (2011) Phonemes, features and allophones in L2 phonology: Polish sibilants in Croatian ears (and brains). In: Banski, P., Lukaszewicz, B., Opalinska, M. & Zaleska, J. (eds.), Generative Investigations: Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 308-320.

• Cavar, M.E. (2007) Derived Environment effects in a surface-oriented theory. In: P. Kosta & L. Schurcks (eds.), Linguistic Investigations in o Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages. Potsdam Linguistic Investigations, Vol. 1. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 13-25.

• Cavar, M.E. (2006) Palatalization effects as a result of articulatorily- and perceptually-driven mechanisms. In: Banski, P., Lukaszewicz, B. & Opalinska, M. (eds.), Studies in Constraint-Based Phonology. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Universytetu Warszawskiego, 27-48.

• Cavar, M.E. (2005) Perceptual factors in the emergence of prepalatal affricates in Polish. In: Proceedings of the 1St Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics. Ohio State University Working Papers in Slavic Studies 3, 1-20.

• Cavar, M.E. & Hamann, S. (2003) Polish velar and coronal palatalization and its perceptual background. In: P. Kosta, Blaszczak, Frasek, J., Geist, L. & Zygis, M. (eds.), Investigations in o Formal Slavic Linguistics. Frankfurt a. Main: Peter Lang, 31-48.

Conference proceedings: Computational Linguistics

• Cavar, M.E., D. Cavar, D.-B. Kerler & A. Quilitzsch (2016) Generating a Yiddish Speech Corpus, Forced Aligner and Basic ASR System for the AHEYM Project. In: Proceedings of he Ten h International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 16). Portoroz, Slovenia: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/1118_Paper.pdf

• Cavar, M.E., D. Cavar & H. Cruz (2016) Endangered Language Documentation: Bootstrap- ping a Chatino Speech Corpus, Forced Aligner, ASR. In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 16). Portoroz, Slovenia: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/1006_Paper.pdf

• Cavar, D., M.E. Cavar & L. Moe (2016) Global Open Resources and Information for Language and Linguistic Analysis (GORILLA). In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 16). Portoroz, Slovenia: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/908_Paper.pdf

• Cavar, D. & M.E. Cavar (2014) Visualization of Language Relations and Families: MultiTree. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 14). Reykjavik, Iceland: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). ISBN 978-2-9517408-8-4. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/1022_Paper.pdf

Posters

• Czaplicki, B., Cavar, M. & Orzechowska, P. (June 2024) Articulatory correlates of morphologically conditioned assimilation: Evidence from ultrasound imaging. LabPhon 19. Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

• Cavar, M. & Charles, S. (June 2024) The mechanics of palatalization: A dynamic account. LabPhon 19. Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.

• Cavar, M.E. (January 2019) The role of the tongue root in palatalization: the softness distinction in Russian re-interpreted. The Old World Conference in Phonology. University of Verona, Italy.

• Cavar, M.E. & Lulich, S.M. (November 2018) Sub-Articulatory Interactions in Palatalization Processes J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 144, 1722. DOI: 10.1121/1.5067638

• Berkson, K.H., de Jong, K., Lulich, S.M. & Cavar, M.E. (November 2018) Building a Multilingual Ultrasound Corpus. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 144, 1717. DOI: 10.1121/1.5067614

• Cavar, M.E. and Lulich, S.M. (May 2018) The position of the tongue root in the articulation of posterior sibilants in Polish. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 143, 1967. DOI: 10.1121/1.5036471

• Cavar, M.E., Lulich, S.M. & Nelson, M. (June 2017) Three-dimensional ultrasound images of Polish high front vowels. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141, 3819–3820.DOI: 10.1121/1.4988466

• Lulich, S.M., Cavar, M.E. & Nelson, M. (June 2017) Allophonic variation of Polish vowels in the context of prepalatal consonants. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141, 3820. DOI: 10.1121/1.4988468

• Cavar, M.E., Berkson, K.H., Nelson, M. & Cruz, H. (September 2016) Laminal sounds in San Juan de Quiahije Chatino: A phonetic and 3D ultrasound study. 21st Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference (MidPhon 21), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

• Feehan, C., Berkson, K.H., Cruz, H. & Cavar, M.E. (May 2016) San Juan Quiahije Chatino: A look at tone. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 139, 2215. DOI: 10.1121/1.4950625