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Kate Bunton, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an Associate Professor in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona. Her research interests focus on kinematic, aerodynamic and acoustic characteristics of normal and disordered speech, correlates of speech intelligibility, and issues of normal and disordered speech motor control.Show Less
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Courses
- ASHSAcoustics for the Speech and Hearing Sciences
- APSMAnatomy and Physiology of the Speech Mechanism
- PISLPAProfessional Issues in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
- CPOCDCCleft Palate, Other Craniofacial Disorders, and Communication
- HSHearing Science
- PCDPediatric Communication Disorders
- CCDCounseling in Communication Disorders
- SDISpeech Disorders I
- SDIISpeech Disorders II
- CDICommunication Disorders I
- ADTArticulation Disorders and Therapies
- SSDSpeech Sound Disorders
- VDVoice Disorders
- ISIntroduction to Stuttering
Grants
- Assessment of Speech Sound Disorders in Latino Preschoolers: An Evidence Based Procedure.
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$173.7K
Active - Professional Services Agreement with Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services in Support of Speech Pathology Consultation
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$12.8K
- A Model of Sound Production in Children
Co-Investigator (COI)
2012
$253.3K
- An Acoustic Model of Child-Like Speech
Co-Investigator (COI)
2011
$1.6M
- Velopharyngeal Function During Oral Sound Production in Healthy Children
Co-Investigator (COI)
2010
$1.5M
- Quantitative Modeling of Speech
Co-Investigator (COI)
2006
$1.3M
Publications (68)
Recent
- Intelligibility of synthetic words generated by transformation of a sequence of discrete acoustic events into modulation of the vocal tract shape
2022
- Identification of voiced stop consonants produced by acoustically driven vocal tract modulations
2021
- The relation of velopharyngeal coupling area to the identification of stop versus nasal consonants in North American English based on speech generated by acoustically driven …
2021
- A model of speech production based on the acoustic relativity of the vocal tract
2019
- Auditory-perceptual rating of connected speech in aphasia
2019
- Articulation and resonance
2018
- Update on velopharyngeal closure in young children
2018
- Vocal tract growth model for males and females using area function transformations based on anatomic measurements
2018
- Changes in vowel space characteristics during speech development based on longitudinal of measurements of formant frequencies
2018
- Development of velopharyngeal closure for vocalization during the first two years of life
2018
- An age-dependent vocal tract model for males and females based on anatomic measurements
2018
- Vowel space density as an indicator of speech performance
2017
- An acoustically-driven vocal tract model for stop consonant production
2017
- The relation of auditory perceptual ratings of nasality to nasal port area in connected speech
2017
- Identification of stop consonants produced by an acoustically-driven model of a child-like vocal tract
2016
- Formant measurement in children's speech based on spectral filtering
2016
- A modeling study of the effects of vocal tract movement duration and magnitude on the F2 trajectory in CV words
2016
- Arizona Child Acoustic Database Repository
2016
- Effects of nasal port area on perception of nasality and measures of nasalance based on computational modeling
2015
- A spectral filtering method for tracking formants in children's speech
2015
- Acoustic and perceptual effects of left–right laryngeal asymmetries based on computational modeling
2014
- Arizona Child Acoustic Database: Participant Table
2014
- Arizona Child Acoustic Database: Task List
2014
- Production of child-like vowels with nonlinear interaction of glottal flow and vocal tract resonances
2013
- Relation of perceived breathiness to laryngeal kinematics and acoustic measures based on computational modeling
2013
- Estimation of vocal tract area functions in children based on measurement of lip termination area and inverse acoustic mapping
2013
- The relation of nasality and nasalance to nasal port area based on a computational model
2012
- Simulation and identification of vowels based on a time-varying model of the vocal tract area function
2012
- Measures to evaluate the effects of DBS on speech production
2012
- An evaluation of articulatory working space area in vowel production of adults with Down syndrome
2011
- Decomposition of vowel and consonant contributions to the time‐varying vocal tract shape.
2011
- A simple technique for determining velopharyngeal status during speech production
2011
- A test of formant frequency analyzes with simulated child‐like vowels.
2011
- Relation of vocal tract shape, formant transitions, and stop consonant identification
2010
- Supracricoid partial laryngectomy: swallowing, voice, and speech outcomes
2010
- Identification of synthetic vowels based on a time-varying model of the vocal tract area function
2010
- Relation of vocal tract constriction location to identification of voiced stop consonants.
2009
- Kinematic modeling and acoustic measures of breathy voice.
2009
- Identification of synthetic vowels based on time‐varying vocal tract area functions.
2009
- Identification of synthetic vowels based on selected vocal tract area functions
2009
- Speech versus nonspeech: Different tasks, different neural organization
2008
- The use of a dual-task paradigm for assessing speech intelligibility in clients with Parkinson disease
2008
- Phonetic intelligibility testing in adults with Down syndrome
2007
- Listener agreement for auditory-perceptual ratings of dysarthria
2007
- Influence of visual information on the intelligibility of dysarthric speech
2007
- Comparison of vocal tract shaping patterns derived from articulatory fleshpoint data and MRI‐based area functions
2006
- Fundamental frequency as a perceptual cue for vowel identification in speakers with Parkinson's disease
2006
- IALP News
2006
- Effect of speech task on intelligibility in speakers with dysarthria
2006
- Prediction of vowel intelligibility based on acoustic characteristics in speakers with Parkinson’s disease
2005
- Patterns of lung volume use during an extemporaneous speech task in persons with Parkinson disease
2005
- Perceptual strategies for identifying vowels produced by speakers with dysarthria
2005
- Perceptual effects of a flattened fundamental frequency at the sentence level under different listening conditions
2003
- Segmental level analysis of laryngeal function in persons with motor speech disorders
2002
- Alku, P. 144
2002
- The effects of flattening fundamental frequency contours on sentence intelligibility in speakers with dysarthria
2001
- The relationship between production of suprasegmental speech characteristics and lung volumes in conversational speech
2001
- The relationship between perception and acoustics for a high-low vowel contrast produced by speakers with dysarthria
2001
- An evaluation of phonetic working space in normal geriatrics and persons with motor speech disorders
2000
- Perceptuo-acoustic assessment of prosodic impairment in dysarthria
2000
- Influences of pellet markers on speech production behavior: Acoustical and perceptual measures
1999
- Articulatory and acoustic data for vowels in isolation and in an/sVd/context: An x‐ray microbeam study
1999
- An acoustic item analysis of speech intelligibility
1999
- The effect of speaking rate on lingual behavior for a transconsonantal vocalic gesture: An x‐ray microbeam study
1998
- Evaluation of a reiterant force impulse task: A constructive replication
1997
- Perceptual effects of speaking with pellets on the articulators: An x‐ray microbeam study
1996
- Evaluation of a reiterant force-impulse task in the tongue
1994
- Evaluation of repeated force impulse tasks in the tongue
1993