Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

• The Structure of Russian I: Phonology and Morphology (Slav-R404/Slav-L501)
• Introduction to Phonology (Ling-L307)
• Phonological Analysis (Ling-L542)
• Language Variation and Change (Ling-L430)
• Polish

• Laboratory/empirical phonology
• Heritage language
• Second language phonetics/phonology
• Language focus: Slavic and Germanic

Dissertation:

“Palatalization in Polish. An Interaction of Articulatory and Perceptual Factors.”
Specialties and research interests: Phonological theory: the role of perception in phonology, relation between different phonetic realizations of phonological distinctions, palatalization, laboratory/empirical phonology, Second language acquisition of phonetics/phonological systems, language focus: Slavic.

Current projects:

• Speech research using 3D/4D ultrasound (in collaboration with Steven Lulich, Speech Production Lab at IU)
• Central vowels in Slavic languages
• Sibilants in Slavic languages (Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, BCS,etc.) and other languages (Chatino, Chinese, Swedish)
• Timing of articulatory gestures in palatalization (with Sherman Charles) and consonantal clusters (with Bartłomiej Czaplicki and Paula Orzechowska)
• Moderator of the LINGUIST List
• Member of the Phonetics and Phonology Lab

Strycharczuk, P., M. Cavar and S. Coretta. 2021. "Distance vs. time. Articulatory and acoustic manifestations of vowel undershoot in Polish" Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Cavar, M. and S.M. Lulich. 2021. "Variation in the Articulation of Russian Stressed Vowels and the Mechanics of Palatalization in Consonants." Phonological Data and Analysis.

Cavar, M. and E. Rudman. 2021. Perception of English tenseness contrast by Polish and Croatian subjects. Journal of Slavic Linguistics.

Cavar, M. and S.M. Lulich. 2020 "Allophonic Variation in the Polish Vowel /ɨ/. Resultsof a 3D ultrasound study and their phonological implications." Journal of Slavic Linguistics.

Cavar, M., E. Rudman and S.M. Lulich. 2020. "Palatalization in coronal consonants of Polish: a 3D/4D ultrasound study." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America – Express Letters.

Cavar, M. 2020 "Phonetics explains phonotactics. On velar consonants followed by front vowels in Polish." In: K. Jaskuła (ed.), Phonological and Phonetic Explorations. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL.

Lulich, S.M. and M. Cavar. 2019."Articulatory phonetics of Polish ‘soft’ – ‘hard’ vowel allophony." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 9.

Mihajlovic, K. and M. Cavar. 2018. Perception of Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian sibilants: heritage U.S. vs. homeland speakers. Proceedings of FDSL 2016.

Cavar, M., D. Cavar, D.-B. Kerler and A. Quilitsch. 2016. "Generating a Yiddish Speech Corpus, Forced Aligner and Basic ASR System for the AHEYM Project." In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14). Reykjavik, Iceland: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Cavar, D., M. Cavar and H. Cruz. 2016. "Endangered Language Documentation: Bootstrapping a Chatino Speech Corpus, Forced Aligner, ASR." In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14). Reykjavik, Iceland: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Cavar, M. 2007. "Derived Environment effects in a surface-oriented theory. " In: P. Kosta and L. Schürcks (eds.), Linguistic Investigations into Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages. Potsdam Linguistic Investigations, Vol. 1. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 13–25.2007

Cavar, M. 2007. "[ATR] in Polish. " Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 15(2), pp. 207–228.

Cavar, M. 2005. "Perceptual factors in the emergence of prepalatal affricates in Polish." In: Proceedings of the 1^st Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics. Ohio State University Working Papers in Slavic Studies, Vol. 3.

Cavar, M. 2004. Palatalization in Polish: An interaction of articulatory and perceptual factors. Doctoral dissertation, University of Potsdam, Germany. Available Online.

Cavar, M and S. Hamann. 2003. "Polish velar and coronal palatalization -– its perceptual background." In: P. Kosta et al. (eds.), Investigations into Formal Slavic Linguistics. Frankfurt a. Main: Peter Lang. 31-48.