Peer-reviewed publications
Heyne, M., Derrick, D., & Al-Tamimi, J. (2019). Native Language influence on brass instrument performance: An application of Generalized Additive Mixed Models (GAMMs) to midsagittal ultrasound images of the tongue. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2597. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02597
Iltis, P. W., Heyne, M., Frahm, J., Voit, D., Joseph, A., Atlas, L. (2019). Simultaneous dual-plane, real-time magnetic resonance imaging of oral cavity movements in advanced trombone players. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery. http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/qims.2019.05.14
Heyne, M., Wang, X., Derrick, D., Dorreen, K., & Watson, K. (2018). The articulation of /ɹ/ in New Zealand English. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 50(3), 366–388. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100318000324
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2016). Visualization techniques for empirical brass instrument research. Journal of the International Trumpet Guild 40(4): 6-14, 24.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2015). Using a radial ultrasound probe’s virtual origin to compute midsagittal smoothing splines in polar coordinates. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 138(6): EL509-514. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4937168
Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
Al-Tamimi, J., Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2020). From SS-ANOVA to GAMMs: Accounting for within and between-subject variation using generalized additive mixed models on ultrasound tongue contours. Poster presented at the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP 2020). Fully virtual meeting, December 2020.
Al-Tamimi, J., Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2020). Accounting for within and between-subject variation using Generalized Additive Mixed Models: Application on Ultrasound Tongue contours with and without normalization. Talk scheduled to be presented at, however canceled secondary to the COVID19 Pandemic, the 2020 Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP), University of York, UK, April 2020.
Heyne, M., Iltis, P. W., Frahm, J., Voit, D., Joseph, A., & Atlas, L. (2019). Simultaneous dual-plane, real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of the vocal tract in advanced trombone players show a close coupling of movements measured in different planes. Talk presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC), New York University, August 2019.
Derrick, D., Heyne, M., O’Beirne, G., & Hay, J. (2019). Aero-tactile integration in Mandarin in: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Melbourne, Australia.
Heyne, M. (2019). Vocal tract movements during speech production and brass instrument performance: Using ultrasound imaging and real-time MRI to study the transfer of motor memory across vocal tract behaviors and investigate highly-skilled as well as disordered musicians. Talk presented at the meeting of the Northeast Music Cognition Group (NEMCOG), Harvard University, February 2, 2019.
Heyne, M. (2018). The influence of native language on brass playing: Motor memory from speech production affects midsagittal tongue shape during trombone performance. Invited talk presented at the Boston Speech Motor Control Working Group Meeting, Boston, MA, January 2018.
Heyne, M. (2017). The influence of native language on brass playing: Articulatory evidence for the transfer of skilled behavior across different vocal tract activities. Invited talk presented at the University of Melbourne Languages and Linguistics Seminar Series, Melbourne, Australia, September 2017.
Heyne, M., & Derrick. D. (2017). An empirical study of native language influence on trombone performance. Talk presented at the International Symposium on Performance Science, Reykjavík, Iceland, August 30 – September 2, 2017.
Heyne, M., Gick, B., & Derrick, D. (2017). Transfer of skilled behavior across different vocal tract activities: The influence of speech production on brass instrument performance. Talk presented at the 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, the Netherlands, July 5 – 8, 2017.
Heyne, M., Wang, X., Dorreen, K., Derrick, D., & Watson, K. (2016). The articulation of /ɹ/ in New Zealand English. Poster presented at the 5th Joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, Hawai’i, November-December 2016.
Heyne, M., Dorreen, K., Wang, X., Derrick, D., & Watson, K. (2016). An ultrasound study of /ɹ/ in New Zealand English. Talk presented at the Linguistic Society of New Zealand Annual Conference, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, November 2016.
Heyne, M. (2016). The influence of native language on brass playing: An ultrasound study of Tongan and Kiwi trombone players. Invited talk presented at the University of British Columbia Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series, Vancouver, Canada, November 2016.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2016). Stylistic variation of sub-phonemic syllabic influences on New Zealand English schwa production. Talk presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 45, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, November 2016.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2016). An articulatory and acoustic study of monophthongs in New Zealand English. Talk presented at the New Zealand English and English in New Zealand Conference (NZEENZ), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, June 2016.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2015). The influence of tongue position on trombone sound: A likely area of language influence, in: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), ed. by The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015. Glasgow, Scotland.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2015). Trombone players seem to use different tongue positions while playing sustained notes, depending on their native languages,” in: Proceedings of the 9th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), ed. by Ginsborg, J., Lamont, A., and Bramley, S. Manchester, England. 446-455.
Heyne, M., Derrick, D., & Hay, J. (2015). An ultrasound study of monophthongs in New Zealand English. Talk given at the 46th Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society, Western Sydney University, Parramatta, Australia, December 2015.
Heyne, M. (2015). The ‘singing approach’ to brass playing revisited: We sing the language we speak. Talk given at the 2nd Conference of the Australian Music & Psychology Society, Western Sydney University, Parramatta, Australia, December 2015.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2015). First Language influence on playing brass instruments. Invited talk given at the MARCS Monday Meeting, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Australia, September 2015.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2015). Why expert listeners might be able to distinguish differences in sound produced by brass players from different language backgrounds. Poster presented at the 10th UK Language Variation and Change Conference (UKLVC). York, England, September 2015.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2015). Trombone players seem to use different tongue positions while playing sustained notes, depending on their native languages. Poster presented at the 9th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM). Manchester, England, August 2015.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2015). Visualization techniques for empirical brass instrument research. Invited talk given at the ESCOM 2015 pre-conference workshop on Music & Wellbeing, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, England, August 2015.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2015). The influence of tongue position on trombone sound: A likely area of language influence. Poster presented at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, Scotland, August 2015.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2015). The influence of native language on brass playing AND Visualization techniques for empirical brass research. Invited talk given at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, Australia, August 2015.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2015). Brass players with different native languages seem to use different tongue positions during playing. Talk given at 40th Annual Conference of the International Trumpet Guild, Columbus, OH, May 2015.
Heyne, M., & Derrick, D. (2015). Benefits of using polar coordinates for working with ultrasound midsagittal tongue contours. Poster presented at the 169th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Pittsburgh, PA, May 2015.
Heyne, M. & Derrick, D. (2014). Some initial finding regarding first language influence on playing brass instruments, in: Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, ed. by Hay, J. & Parnell, E. Christchurch, New Zealand, Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA). 180-183.
Thesis
Heyne, M. (2016). The influence of First Language on playing brass instruments: An ultrasound study of Tongan and New Zealand trombonists (Unpublished doctoral dissertation), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. [Download a German translation of selected passages]