Christopher Geissler

Phonetics, phonology, teaching

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Dissertation

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

Publications

Weber, Julika & Christopher Geissler. 2023. Accommodation to passive exposure in the L2. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Prague, Czechia.
O’Reilly, Eoin, Christopher Geissler & Kevin Tang. 2023. Simulating gestural undershoot in English diphthongs. Interspeech 2023. 20-24 August 2023, Dublin.
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

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.
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

“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.