Christopher Geissler

Phonetics, Phonology, Teaching

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About

Publications

Publications

Dissertation

I defended my dissertation, Temporal articulatory stability, phonological variation, and lexical contrast preservation in diaspora Tibetan, on January 25, 2021.

Papers

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.
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]
Kotek, Hadas, Rikker Dockum, Sarah Babinski & Christopher Geissler. 2021. Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences. Language.
Kotek, Hadas, Rikker Dockum, Sarah Babinski & Christopher Geissler. 2021. Gender stereotypes and inclusion in language teaching. Babylonia.
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.
Geissler, Christopher. 2019. Tonal and laryngeal contrasts in Diaspora Tibetan. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia.
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.
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.

Conference Presentations

Geissler, Christopher. 2025(accepted). Why Tibetan consonants have five genders. 2025 Annual Meeting of the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences. Philadelphia. [abstract]
Geissler, Christopher, Anya Stytenkova, Piper Brown, and Arthur Viegas Eguia. 2024(accepted). Acoustic evidence for consonant cluster organization across contexts. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Online. [abstract][slides],[OSF][video]
Geissler, Christopher and Morgan Rood. 2024. Student-directed learning through assignment choice in two linguistics courses. The Grading Conference 2024. Online.
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
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. 2021. “Backward-designing a graduate phonology seminar” Poster presented at Workshop on Teaching Phonology, Annual Meeting on Phonology 2021.
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
Kotek, Hadas, Rikker Dockum, Sarah Babinski & Christopher Geissler. 2020. Gender bias in linguistic example sentences. 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
Geissler, Christopher A. 2019. Phonetic timing and Tibetan consonant, vowel, and tone contrasts. Phonology of the Northeast 2019.
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 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.