Publications

Papers in work

Kulikov, V. Sociophonetic variation in realization of vowel in two grammatical prefixes in Qatari Arabic. Language and Speech.

Kulikov, V. Consonant-Vowel interaction in ongoing sound changes in Qatari Arabic: Shaping phonology by phonetics. Phonology.

Kulikov, V. Variability in acoustic realisation of stress in Qatari Arabic. Journal of Phonetics.

Refereed publications

Kulikov, V. & Bahrani, N. (Forthcoming). Laryngeal contrasts across Western Iranian languages. In R. Falahati & Z. Ghane (eds.), Handbook of Phonetics and Phonology of Modern Iranian Languages. Springer.

Kulikov, V. & Hazi, R. (2025). Phonetic realization of the Emphasis contrast in voiceless stops by speakers of four Arabic varieties: The case of F2 and VOT. Arabic Linguistics, 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1075/arli.00001.kul

Al-Mazrouei, A., Negm, A. & Kulikov, V. (2024). The vowel system of Qatari Arabic: Evidence for Peripheral/Non-Peripheral distinction between long and short vowels. Journal of the IPA, 54(1), 89-107. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100323000117

Bahrani, N. & Kulikov, V. (2024). Laryngeal realism and the voicing contrast in Khuzestani Arabic stops. Journal of the IPA, 54(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002510032300004X

Ahmad, R., Kulikov, V. & Iqbal, N. (2023). Muslim personal names in Urdu: Structure, meaning, and change. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 283, 161-188. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2023-0004

Kulikov, V., Mohsenzadeh, F., & Syam, R. (2023). Effect of emphasis spread on VOT in coronal stops in Qatari Arabic. Journal of the IPA, 53(2), 456-469. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100321000256

Kulikov, V., Al-Hajri, N., & Al-Kuwari, B. (2023). Generational changes in VOT in Qatari Arabic. In M. Azaz, (ed.), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIV. Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, Arizona, 2020 (pp. 33-55). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/sal.12.02kul

Al-Ansari, N. E., & Kulikov, V. (2022). Acoustics of Arabic uvulars and emphatic coronals: Evidence for uvularization of emphatics in Qatari Arabic. Al-‘Arabiyya, 55–56, 37-66.

Kulikov, V. (2021). Voice and Emphasis in Arabic coronal stops: Evidence for phonological compensation. Language and Speech, 65(1), 73-104. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830920986821

Kulikov, V., Mohsenzadeh, F., & Syam, R. (2020). Effect of emphasis spread on coronal stop articulation in Qatari Arabic. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 5(1), 16-28. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4652

Kulikov, V. (2020). Laryngeal contrast in Qatari Arabic: Effect of speaking rate on VOT. Phonetica, 77(3), 163-185. https://doi.org/10.1159/000497277

Kulikov, V., Ameen, A., Al-Kaabi, A., & Abdalla, M. (2018). Mediation effect of L2 English in acquisition of front rounded vowels in L3 Turkish by L1 Arabic learners. In L. V. Babina (Ed.), Cognitive Studies of Language: Cognitive Research in the Humanities (pp. 847-852). Moscow, Tambov: Publishing House of TSU.

Kulikov, V. (2016). Voicing in Qatari Arabic: Evidence for prevoicing and aspiration. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings, 2016(1). https://doi.org/10.5339/qfarc.2016.SSHAPP2330

Kulikov, V. (2014). Voicing contrast in consonant clusters: Evidence against sonorant transparency to voice assimilation in Russian. Phonology, 30(3), 423–452. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675713000213

Ringen, C., & Kulikov, V. (2012). Voicing in Russian stops: Cross-linguistic implications. Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 20(2), 269–286. https://doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2012.0012

Kulikov, V. (2011). Features, cues, and syllable structure in the acquisition of Russian palatalization by L2 American learners. In M. Wrembel, M. Kul and K. Dziubalska-Kolaczyk (Eds.), Achievements and perspectives in SLA of speech: New Sounds 2010 (pp. 193-204). Vol. 1. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag.

Kulikov, V. (2010). Voicing and vowel raising in Sundanese. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA XVII). Stony Brook, NY, 2010.

Kulikov, V. (2010). Features, cues, and syllable structure in the acquisition of Russian palatalization by L2 American learners. In K. Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, and M. Wrembel, M. Kul (Eds.), New Sounds 2010: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, Poznań, Poland, 1-3 May 2010. (pp. 275-280).

Kulikov, V. G. (2008). Cognitive matrix in dialect studies. In N. N. Boldyrev (Ed.), Principles and Methods of Cognitive Studies of Language (pp. 73-86). Tambov, Moscow: Tambov State University.

Boldyrev, N. N., & Kulikov, V. G. (2006). On the dialect concept in the cognitive system of language. Izvestiya R.A.N., Literature and Language Series, 65(3), 3-13.

Boldyrev, N. N., & Kulikov, V. G. (2006). Dialect concepts and categories. Philological Sciences, 3, 41-50.

Refereed conference presentations

Kulikov, V. (2023). Consonant-Vowel interaction in ongoing sound changes in Qatari Arabic. To be presented at the 5th Arabic Linguistics Forum (ALiF2023), York, UK. November 8-10, 2023.

Ahmad, R., Kulikov, V. & Iqbal, N. (2023). Structure and significance of Muslim names in North India. Presented at the 57the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN), Toronto, CA. May 28-29, 2023.

Hazi, R. & Kulikov, V. (2023). F2 and VOT in the emphasis contrast in four Arabic dialects. Poster presented at the 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting (30mfm), Manchester, UK. May 24-26, 2023. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.15823.05282

Kulikov, V., Al-Mazrouei, A. & Negm, A. (2023). Do Arabic short vowels follow a non-peripheral track? An acoustic study. Presented at the 36th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL36), Amherst, MA. March 24-26, 2023.

Kulikov, V., Al-Hajri, N. & Al-Kuwari, B. (2020). Generational changes in VOT in Qatari Arabic. Presented at the 34th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Tucson, AZ. February 28-March 1, 2020. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28034.22726

Kulikov, V., Mohsenzadeh, F. & Syam, R. (2020). Effects of emphasis spread on coronal stop articulation in Qatari Arabic. Presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, LA. January 2-5, 2020. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14161.89448

Kulikov, V. (2018). Weighting cues in production of stop voicing and emphasis in Qatari Arabic. Paper presented at the 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon16), Lisbon, Portugal, June 19-22, 2018. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.22550.50241

Al-Rantisi, I. & Kulikov, V. (2018). Emphasis spread in two Palestinian dialects of Arabic. Paper presented at the 15th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP 15), London, UK. January 12-14, 2018.

Kulikov, V. (2016). Laryngeal contrast in Qatari Arabic: Aspiration, voice, or both? Presented at the 24th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK. May 26-28, 2016.

Kulikov, V. (2016). Voicing in Qatari Arabic: Evidence for prevoicing and aspiration. Presented at the Qatar Foundation Annual research conference (ARC’16), Doha, Qatar. March 20-22, 2016.

Kulikov, V. (2015). VOT in Qatari Arabic: Testing a case of phonological overspecification. Presented at the Workshop on Computational Phonology and Morphology at the Linguistic Summer Institute of the LSA, Chicago, IL. July 11, 2015.

Kulikov, V. (2015). Effects of phonetic context and speaking rate in production of voicing in Russian obstruents. Presented at the GUST English Language and Literature International Conference, Al-Kuwait, Kuwait. April 21-23, 2015.

Kulikov, V. & McMurray, B. (2014). Voice assimilation and final devoicing in Russian: Evidence for incomplete neutralization. Presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. January 2-4, 2014.

Kulikov, V. (2010). Voicing assimilation in fast speech in Russian. Presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL. October 29-31.

Ringen, C. & Kulikov, V. (2010). Voice onset time in Russian. Presented at the 16th Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, Chicago, IL. October 29-31.

Kulikov, V. (2010). Voicing and vowel raising in Sundanese. Presented at the 17thAnnual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, Stony Brook, NY. May 7-9.

Kulikov, V. (2010). Features, cues, and syllable structure in the acquisition of Russian palatalization by L2 American learners. Presented at the International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010, Poznań, Poland. May 1-3, 2010.

Kulikov, V. (2009). Features, acoustic cues, and prosodic positions in the L2 acquisition of Russian. Presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA. January 8-11, 2009.

Kulikov, V. (2008). Effects of syllable structure on acquisition of novel phonological contrasts by American learners of L2 Russian. Presented at the 14th Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, Minneapolis, MN. October 17-19, 2008.

Kulikov, V. (2008). Learning new phonological categories in second language acquisition. Presented at the International Congress on Cognitive Linguistics, Tambov, Russia. October 8-10, 2008.