Some current areas of inquiry:

1. Lingual ultrasound: /qV/ and /Vq/ co-articulatory effects in Pacific Northwest languages (Sonya Bird)

2. Lingual ultrasound: vowel-nasal co-articulatory effects in Mandarin (Ya Li)

3. Lingual ultrasound: articulatory properties of rhotics in Japanese conversational speech (Thomas Magnuson)

4. Laryngeal ultrasound: laryngeal height and other properties of pharyngealization (Scott Moisik)

5. Speech perception: the effect of orthography on L1, L2 and L0 phoneme perception (Carolyn Pytlyk)