Sarah Babinski

Biographic Data

ID814756
NAMESarah Babinski
GIVEN NAMESSarah
FAMILY NAMEBabinski
SIGNATUREBABINSKI S
AFFILIATIONSYale University
ORCID0000-0001-7764-5876
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Stress in Australian languages: A phonetic typology

    Open AccessSarah BabinskiARTICLEJournal of the International…2026

    Australian languages have often been noted for their high rates of phonological uniformity cross-linguistically; investigations into the phonetics of these languages, however, have revealed rich phonetic variation below the phonological level. In the current study, the phonetic correlates of stress in thirteen Australian languages with fixed initial stress placement are investigated using corpus phonetics methods and based on archival field recor…

  • How usable are digital collections for endangered languages? A review

    Open AccessSarah Babinski, Jeremiah Jewell et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Linguistic…2022

    Here, we report on pilot research on the extent to which language collections in digital linguistic archives are discoverable, accessible, and usable for linguistic research. Using a test case of common tasks in phonetic and phonological documentation, we evaluate a small random sample of collections and find substantial, striking problems in all domains. Of the original 20 collections, only six had digitized audio files with associated transcrip…

  • Automatic categorization of prosodic contours in Bardi

    Open AccessSarah Babinski, Claire BowernARTICLEProceedings of the Linguistic…2022

    This study presents preliminary results of an automated prosodic clustering analysis of Bardi, a Nyulnyulan language from Northern Australia, using methods from Kaland (2021). Previous work on Bardi prosody identified several functions of boundary tones and two main phrase types, but stressed that findings were preliminary. Here we extend that work and show evidence for several additional phrase types, as well as confirming the overall accuracy o…

  • Intrinsic f0 and Sound Change: Evidence from Australian Languages

    Open AccessSarah BabinskiARTICLEProceedings of the Annual…2021

    In this paper, a study is presented investigating two types of intrinsic f0 effects in sixteen Australian languages. Vowels are known to vary systematically in their mean f0 as a function of vowel height as well as voicing of the previous consonant, a property known as intrinsic f0. Vowel height has been known to have a positive correlation with f0, in which high vowels have a higher intrinsic f0 than low vowels on average. Differences in intrins…

  • Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences

    Hadas Kotek, Rikker Dockum et al.ARTICLELanguage2021

    This article examines the distribution of gender in arguments in example sentences in contemporary linguistics publications. Prior studies have shown that example sentences in syntax textbooks systematically underrepresent women and perpetuate gender stereotypes (Macaulay & Brice 1994, 1997, Pabst et al. 2018). Here we examine example sentences in articles published over the past twenty years in Language, Linguistic Inquiry , and Natural Language…

  • Gender bias and stereotypes in linguistic example sentences

    Open AccessHadas Kotek, Rikker Dockum et al.ARTICLELanguage2021Cited by: 1

    This article examines the distribution of gender in arguments in example sentences in contemporary linguistics publications. Prior studies have shown that example sentences in syntax textbooks systematically underrepresent women and perpetuate gender stereotypes (Macaulay & Brice 1994, 1997, Pabst et al. 2018). Here we examine example sentences in articles published over the past twenty years in Language , Linguistic Inquiry , and Natural Languag…

  • (Don't) try this at home! The effects of recording devices and software on phonetic analysis

    Open AccessChelsea Sanker, Sarah Babinski et al.ARTICLELanguage2021Cited by: 7

    Because of restrictions on in-person research due to COVID-19, researchers are now relying on remotely recorded data to a much greater extent than in the past. Given the change in methodology, it is important to know how remote recording might affect acoustic measurements, either because of different recording devices used by participants and consultants or because of the software used to make recordings. This study investigates audio signal fide…

  • (Don't) try this at home! The effects of recording devices and software on phonetic analysis: Supplementary material

    Chelsea Sanker, Sarah Babinski et al.ARTICLELanguage2021Cited by: 2

  • Gender representation in linguistic example sentences

    Open AccessHadas Kotek, Sarah Babinski et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Linguistic…2020

    Prior studies have shown that example sentences in syntax textbooks systematically under-represent women and perpetuate gender stereotypes (Macaulay & Brice 1994, 1997; Pabst et al. 2018). We examine the articles published over the past 20 years in Language, Linguistic Inquiry, and Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, and find striking similarities to this prior work. Among our findings, we show a stark imbalance of male (N=10807) to female (N=5…

  • Mergers in Bardi: Contextual probability and predictors of sound change

    Sarah Babinski, Claire BowernARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2018

    A crucial question for historical linguistics has been why some sound changes happen but not others. Recent work on the foundations of sound change has argued that subtle distributional facts about segments in a language, such as functional load, play a role in facilitating or impeding change. Thus not only are sound changes not all equally plausible, but their likelihood depends in part on phonotactics and aspects of functional load, such as the…