Christopher Geissler
Phonetics, Phonology, Teaching
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Publications
Dissertation
I defended my dissertation, Temporal articulatory stability, phonological variation, and lexical contrast preservation in diaspora Tibetan, on January 25, 2021.
Articulatory Timing
Papers
- Geissler, Christopher. 2025. Articulatory Control by Gestural Coupling and Syllable Pulses. Languages 10(9): Special Issue: Research on Articulation and Prosodic Structure.
- Geissler, Christopher & Jyothiraditya Nellakra. 2024. Predicting articulatory landmarks with critically-damped oscillators and General Tau Theory. Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production. Autrans, France.
- Geissler, Christopher, Jason Shaw, Fang Hu & Mark Tiede. 2021. Eccentric C-V timing across speakers of diaspora Tibetan with and without lexical tone contrasts. In Tiede, Mark, Doug Whalen, & Vincent Gracco, Eds. Proceedings of the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production. Providence, RI.
- Zhang, Muye, Christopher Geissler & Jason Shaw. 2019. Gestural representations of tone in Mandarin: Evidence from timing alternations. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia.
Presentations
- Geissler, Christopher and Jyothiraditya Nellakra. 2026. Critically-damped oscillators and General Tau Theory exhibit similar error across speakers with different vocal tract dimensions. 2026 Motor Speech Conference. Tempe, AZ. abstract
- Geissler, Christopher. 2025. Stable timing between articulatory gestures and syllable pulses. 5th Biennial Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium (BSMCS). [poster]
- Geissler, Christopher, Anya Stytenkova, Piper Brown, and Arthur Viegas Eguia. 2024. Acoustic evidence for consonant cluster organization across contexts. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Online. [abstract][slides],[OSF][video]
- O’Reilly, Eoin, Christopher Geissler & Kevin Tang. 2023. Uncover articulatory correlates of acoustic duration with analysis-by-synthesis: the case of diphthongs. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2023). Nijmegen, the Netherlands. PaPE23_abstract,PaPE23_poster
- Geissler, Christopher. 2022. From gestural landmarks to analysis-by-synthesis: tone-driven timing in Diaspora Tibetan. Poster presented at 18th Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, Bielefeld, Germany.
- Geissler, Christopher, Jason Shaw, Fang Hu & Mark Tiede. 2020. Eccentric C-V timing across speakers of diaspora Tibetan with and without lexical tone contrasts. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production. video presentation.
- Geissler, Christopher, Jason Shaw, Fang Hu & Mark Tiede. 2020. Consistent C-V timing across speakers of diaspora Tibetan with and without lexical tone contrasts. 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. abstract
- Geissler, Christopher A. 2019. Phonetic timing and Tibetan consonant, vowel, and tone contrasts. Phonology of the Northeast 2019.
Scholarship and Pedagogy of Linguistics
Papers
Presentations
- Christina Bjorndahl, Christopher Geissler, Kristine Hildebrandt, Anya Hogoboom, Michal Temkin Martinez. 2026. Colloquium on Making Undergraduate Research Work:Creating Infrastructure and Scaffolding for Multiple Pedagogical Scenarios. Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics (GURT) 2026: Futuring Linguistics. abstracts
- Geissler, Christopher. 2026. What’s in a major? Linguistics degree requirements in the United States. Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics (GURT) 2026: Futuring Linguistics. abstract
- Geissler, Christopher and Morgan Rood. 2024. Student-directed learning through assignment choice in two linguistics courses. The Grading Conference 2024. Online.
- Geissler, Christopher. 2021. “Backward-designing a graduate phonology seminar” Poster presented at Workshop on Teaching Phonology, Annual Meeting on Phonology 2021.
- Kotek, Hadas, Rikker Dockum, Sarah Babinski & Christopher Geissler. 2020. Gender bias in linguistic example sentences. 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
Other Papers
- Weber, Julika & Christopher Geissler. 2023. Accommodation to passive exposure in the L2. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2713-2717). Guarant International. [poster]
- Geissler, Christopher. 2019. Tonal and laryngeal contrasts in Diaspora Tibetan. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia.
- DeMille, Mellissa MC, Kevin Tang, Chintan M. Mehta, Christopher Geissler, Jeffrey G. Malins, Natalie R. Powers, Beatrice M. Bowen, Andrew K. Adams, Dongnhu T. Truong & Jan C. Frijters. 2018. Worldwide distribution of the DCDC2 READ1 regulatory element and its relationship with phoneme variation across languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(19). 4951–4956.
- Geissler, Christopher. 2018. Phonological Koinéization in Kathmandu Tibetan. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, vol. 5.
Other Conference Presentations
- Geissler, Christopher and Maura Jaye. 2026. Evaluation of prototype MagTrack articulograph and its effects on speech production. 2026 Motor Speech Conference. Tempe, AZ. abstract
- Geissler, Christopher and Emily Posson. 2025. An extrasyllabic account of North Sámi triple gemination. 31st Manchester Phonology Meeting. [abstract], [poster].
- Geissler, Christopher. 2025. Why Tibetan consonants have five genders. 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences. Philadelphia. [abstract], [NAAHoLS handout]
- Posson, Emily and Christopher Geissler. 2024. The effects of three-way consonant length distinctions in Northern Saami. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Ottawa, ON. ASA2024_abstract, ASA2024_poster
- Geissler, Christopher A. 2018. VOT in Tibetan is conditioned by tone. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143(3). 1756–1756.
- Geissler, Christopher. 2018. Deriving three surface VOT categories from a two-way phonological contrast in Tibetan. 26th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
- Whalen, Doug H., Christian DiCanio, Christopher Geissler & Hannah King. 2016. Acoustic realization of a distinctive, frequent glottal stop: The Arapaho example. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 139(4). 2212–2213.
- Geissler, Christopher. 2016. Semi-Creole Language Typology in Tibeto-Burman. 4th Himalayan Studies Conference. Austin, Texas.
- Geissler, Christopher. 2016. Identifying semi-creoles in Tibeto-Burman. Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Washington, D.C.
- Whalen, Doug H., Christian DiCanio, Christopher Geissler & Hannah King. 2016. Acoustic realization of a distinctive, frequent glottal stop: The Arapaho example. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Washington, D.C.
Other Scholarly Activity
- Geissler, Christopher, Sarah Babinski & Jason Shaw. 2024. Diaspora Tibetan Speech. Corpus hosted at Linguistic Data Consortium.
- Geissler, Christopher. 2024. Review of Albert, Aviad. 2023. A model of sonority based on pitch intelligibility. Language Science Press. LinguistList.
- Rüter, Lara, Julika Weber, Christopher Geissler & Kevin Tang. 2023. Course content for “Interactive web-based review units for phonetics and phonology.” OSF. doi:10.17605/osf.io/kjnad.
- “Tone and Articulatory Timing: Evidence from Tibetan.” Invited talk at Institute for Phonetics, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. June 29, 2022
- LSA “Meet the Authors” Webinar: “Gender Bias & Stereotypes in Linguistics Research and Teaching”. January 28, 2022. Paola Cépeda, Hadas Kotek, Katharina Pabst, Kristen Syrett, Hadas Kotek, Rikker Dockum, Sarah Babinski, Christopher Geissler. YouTube link
- Geissler, Christopher. 2021. Articulatory Phonology: example studies. Invited guest lecture in Phonology II course (instructor: Emily Gasser), Swarthmore College. January 29, 2021.
- Geissler, Christopher. 2020. Review of Hill, Nathan W. 2019. The Historical Phonology of Tibetan,
Burmese, and Chinese. Cambridge University Press. Phonology 37(3), p. 495-500.
- Babinski, Sarah & Christopher Geissler. 2020. Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences. Talk given to Yale University Department of Linguistics. September 25, 2020.