Work

• Post-doc researcher – University of Eastern Finland 2022 – present
• Grant-funded researcher – Finnish Cultural Foundation / UEF 2021 – 2022
• Post-doc researcher and lecturer – University of Potsdam 2018 – 2020
• Early-stage researcher – University of Eastern Finland 2016 – 2018

Publications

• Ghaffarvand-Mokari, P. (2023). Contribution of wavelet-based features to identification of overlapping Azerbaijani vowels using machine learning. In R. Skarnitzl and J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023), pp. 718–722. Guarant International.
• Williams, D., Gafos, A., Ghaffarvand-Mokari, P., (2023) Perceiving speech during orthographic syllable recognition: Beyond phonemic identity. Journal of Memory and Language 131, 104430.
• Ghaffarvand-Mokari, P., Lialiou, M., (2022). Perceptual and acoustic similarity of Modern Greek and Standard German vowels: does cross-linguistic acoustic similarity predict perception of non-native vowels? In J. Levis & A. Guskaroska (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, Article 13, 1–10.
• Ghaffarvand Mokari, P., Gafos, A., Williams, D. (2021). Perceptuomotor compatibility effects in vowels: Effects of consonantal context and acoustic proximity of response and distractor. JASA Express Letters 1(1), 015204.
• Ghaffarvand Mokari, P., Gafos, A., Williams, D. (2020). Perceptuomotor compatibility effects in vowels: Beyond phonemic identity. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 82(5), 2751–2764.
• Ghaffarvand Mokari, P., & Mahdinezhad Sardhaei, N. (2020). Predictive power of cepstral coefficients and spectral moments in the classification of Azerbaijani fricatives. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 147, EL228–EL234.
• Ghaffarvand Mokari, P., & Werner, S. (2019). On the role of cognitive abilities in second Language vowel learning. Language and Speech, 62(2), 260–280.
• Ghaffarvand Mokari, P., Werner, S., & Talebi, A. (2017). An acoustic description of Farsi vowels produced by native speakers of Tehrani dialect. The Phonetican, 114, 6–23.
• Ghaffarvand Mokari, P., & Werner, S. (2018). Perceptual training of second-language vowels: Does musical ability play a role? Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 47(1), 95–112.
• Ghaffarvand Mokari, P., & Werner, S. (2018). Individual variability in cue weighting for first-language vowels. Loquens 4, no. 2 (2018): 044.
• Ghaffarvand Mokari, P., & Werner, S. (2017). Perceptual assimilation predicts acquisition of foreign language sounds: The case of Azerbaijani learners’ production and perception of Standard Southern British English vowels. Lingua, 185, 81–95.
• Ghaffarvand Mokari, P., & Werner, S. (2017). Azerbaijani. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 47(2), 207–212.
• Ghaffarvand Mokari, P., & Werner, S. (2016). An acoustic description of spectral and temporal characteristics of Azerbaijani vowels. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 52(3), 503–518.