Jahurul Md Islam
Research Area
Education
Ph.D., Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA, 2019
M.A., Linguistics, North Carolina State University, USA, 2014
M.A., English, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, 2007
B.A., English, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, 2006
Teaching
Research
Acoustic and articulatory phonetics; experimental phonetics; phonetics/phonology interface; sociophonetics
Publications
Published articles, proceedings, etc.
2023
de Boer, G., Islam, J., Purnomo, C., Wu, L., & Gick, B. (2023). Revisiting the nasal continuum: A study of French nasals in continuous speech. Journal of Phonetics.
Islam, J. & Gick, B. (2023). Size of Velopharyngeal Opening and Nasality Measurements from Acoustic Features. Canadian Acoustics, 51(3). In press.
Ma, C., Islam, J., Kao, E., Kitamura, R., Wang, S., Maitinsky, M., & Gick, B. (2023). Acoustic Variation in Speech: Contrasting Initial and Later Stages of Conversations Showing Opinion Convergence and Divergence. Canadian Acoustics, 51(3): 212-213.
Ma, C., Kao, E., Kitamura, R., Wang, S., Islam, J., De Boer, G., & Gick, B. (2023). Relations between Opinion Convergence, Acoustic Convergence and Movement Convergence in Interlocuters. In Proceedings of the Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HisPhonCog), 62-63. ISBN 979-11-983259-0-7.
Bengtson, G., Massing, E., Zhao, C., Samarskaya, M., Islam, J. & Gick, B. (2023). Tongue adjustments in the chest-head register transition of operatic singers. Canadian Acoustics, 51(3): 216-217.
2022
Islam, J. (2022). The role of prevoicing, breathy-voicing, and aspiration in the perception of breathy-voiced stops in Bangla. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 58(1), 29-58.
Islam, J., de Boer, G., Gick, B. (2022). Speed of velum movement during nasal segments and rest intervals: A cineradiographic study of French and English speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 151 (4, Pt. 2), A64. (Published abstract).
Purnomo, A., Ebbutt, N., Purnomo, C., Islam, J., de Boer, G., Gick, B. (2022). Comparing velum velocity in Québécois French nasals. Canadian Acoustics 50(3): 98-99.
2021
Islam, J., de Boer, G., and G. Gick, B. Velopharyngeal opening in French: Revisiting velum configuration in nasal, oral, and rest intervals. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150, A190 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0008084 (Published abstract).
Murray, J. A., Wang, M., Islam, J., de Boer, G., and Gick, B. (2021). The effect of place of articulation on the extent of velopharyngeal opening in Quebecois French nasal consonants. Proceedings of Acoustics Week in Canada. Canadian Acoustics, 49(3), 40-41.
Purnomo, C. Y., Wu, L., de Boer, G., Islam, J., and Gick, B. (2021). The contextual effects of nasal vowels on velopharyngeal opening in Quebecois French. Proceedings of Acoustics Week in Canada. Canadian Acoustics, 49(3), 46-47.
2020
Islam, J. & Ahmed, I. (2020). Mid-front and back vowel mergers in Mymensingh Bangla: An acoustic investigation. The Linguistics Journal, 14(1).
Islam, J., de Boer, G., Lo, C., Smith, H., Tse, E., Gick, B. (2020). X-ray analysis of velum movement in continuous speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148(4), 2580. 2020. (Published abstract).
2018
Islam, J. (2018). Phonemic status of Bangla nasal vowels: A corpus study. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 8(2), 51-62. https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.8.2.51-62.
Islam, J. (2018). Predictions of Laryngeal Realism for breathy-voiced stops: Counter-evidence from Bangla. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(3), 1757-1758. DOI:10.1121/1.5035756 (Published abstract).
2012
Islam, J. & Bari, I. S. (2012). Implementation of CLT in Bangladesh and Thailand: Problems and challenges. Outlooks: VUB Studies in Language, Literature and Culture, Vol. 2, 48-66.
2011
Islam, J. (2011). Language learning styles preferences: A study of Bangladeshi EFL learners. Harvest: Jahangirnagar University Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 26, 59-76.
Islam, J. & Ahsan, S. (2011). Use of Bangla in EFL classes: The reaction of the secondary level students and the teachers in Bangladesh. ASA University Review, Vol. 5, No. 2, 197-222.
Islam, J. & Aktar, T. (2011). Metacognitive language-learning strategies and language-learning motivation: A study on Bangla-speaking undergraduate EFL learners. Outlooks: VUB Studies in Language, Literature and Culture, Vol. 1, No. 1, 130-148.