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I am a professor in the Department of Linguistics, and also have appointments in the Cognitive Science Program and the Department of East Asian Studies. My research is in the areas of phonetics, experimental phonology, and psycholinguistics, focusing on speech perception. I direct the Douglass Phonetics Lab. I also work on language revitalization for the dormant Native American language Mutsun (Costanoan, formerly spoken in coastal California). My language interests are Japanese, Dutch, and Mutsun.Show Less
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Courses
- LMPRLanguage Maintenance, Preservation and Revitalization
- LSILanguage and Social Issues
- FPTIIFoundations of Phonological Theory II
- SALStatistical Analysis for Linguistics
- PPPhonological Phonetics
- PLProfessionalism in Linguistics
- HCLHistorical Comparative Linguistics
Grants
- Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Integration of Visual and Auditory Information in Tone Perception
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$13.9K
- Experimental and descriptive Investigations of Gaidhlig (gla) Consonant Mutations
Co-Investigator (COI)
2012
$300.2K
- Perception of English speech sounds: A diphone-based investigation
Principal Investigator (PI)
2011
$42.9K
- Speech Reduction Across Languages and Dialects
Principal Investigator (PI)
2010
$271.5K
- Instrumental and Experimental Analysis of Scottish Gaelic (Gaidhlig; gla) Sound Structures
Co-Investigator (COI)
2009
$286.7K
- A Database of Mutsun, an Extinct California American Indian Language
Principal Investigator (PI)
2005
$168.3K
News
- World-Renowned Linguist Noam Chomsky Joins UA Faculty
2017
- The Long Journey to Revitalize a Native Language
2016
- UA Researchers Help Preserve Scottish Gaelic
2010
- NSF Awards 3 Grants, 2 Fellowships to UA Linguists
2005
- Linguistics Professor Wins Grant for Language Revitalization Project
2003
Publications (110)
Recent
- Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses
2023
- Mutsun Text Collection: mutsun riicakma hummen
2022
- Native Listeners’ Use of Information in Parsing Ambiguous Casual Speech
2022
- Native Listeners’ Use of Information in Parsing Ambiguous Casual Speech. Brain Sci. 2022, 12, 930
2022
- Managing speech perception data sets
2022
- The role of probability and duration in speech perception.
2020
- Reduced speech: All is variability
2019
- Spontaneous speech in the teaching of phonetics and speech perception.
2019
- A replication of a test of the metrical segmentation strategy in spoken word recognition
2019
- Prediction of listener perception of place-of-articulation in reduced speech
2019
- Creating learning materials and teaching materials for language revitalization: The case of Mutsun
2018
- The field is not the lab, and the lab is not the field: Experimental linguistics and endangered language communities
2018
- The role of segment probability in perception of speech sounds
2018
- Spontaneous speech in the teaching of phonetics and speech perception
2018
- A replication of competition and prosodic effects on spoken word recognition
2018
- Non-native perception of isolated phonetically similar tones with inter-talker variability.
2018
- An effect of flaps on the fourth formant in English
2017
- Stress effects in vowel perception as a function of language-specific vocabulary patterns
2017
- The effect of inter-talker variability on the perception and production of tones.
2017
- Stress effects in vowel perception: Differences across languages.
2017
- Lexical representation and processing of word-initial morphological alternations: Scottish Gaelic mutation
2017
- Mutsun-English English-Mutsun Dictionary
2016
- Individual differences in perceptual adaptability of foreign sound categories
2016
- ‘Lone Wolves’ and collaboration: A reply to Crippen & Robinson (2013)
2015
- ‘Lone Wolves’ and ‘Data Scavengers’: A reply to Crippen and Robinson (2013).
2015
- The aerodynamic puzzle of nasalized fricatives: Aerodynamic and perceptual evidence from Scottish Gaelic
2015
- Individual differences in phonetic cue use in production and perception of a non-native sound contrast
2015
- Sharing of data as it relates to human subjects issues and data management plans
2014
- Tracking perception of the sounds of English
2014
- Acoustic cue weighting in perception and production of English and Spanish
2014
- Spontaneous speech variability across languages: Labial and velar stops
2014
- Vowel insertion in Scottish Gaelic.
2014
- Tracking Perception of the Sounds of English.
2014
- Sharing of Data as it relates to Human Subjects Issues and Data Management Plans.
2014
- Acoustic cue weighting across modalities in a non-native sound contrast
2013
- Perception of stressed vs unstressed vowels: Language-specific and general patterns
2013
- Effects of listener characteristics on foreign-accentedness rating of a non-standard English dialect
2013
- Range of variability in native and non-native spontaneous speech intervocalic stops
2013
- Perceptual compensation for differences in speaking style
2013
- Perception of Scottish Gaelic alternating (leniting) consonants
2013
- Methods for studying spontaneous speech
2012
- Experimental design and data collection
2012
- Processing reduced speech across languages and dialects
2012
- Timing of perception for all English diphones
2012
- Experimental Design and Data Collection: Socially Stratified Sampling in Laboratory-Based Phonological ExperimentationMethods For Studying Spontaneous SpeechMethods and …
2011
- Phonetic variability of stops and flaps in spontaneous and careful speech: Extended Table II
2011
- Speech reduction
2011
- Timing of perceptual cues in Scots Gaelic
2011
- Parsing the ambiguity of casual speech:“He was like” or “He’s like”?
2011
- Can you say [v] or [x]? Aerodynamics of nasalized fricatives in Scots Gaelic
2011
- Phonetic variability of stops and flaps in spontaneous and careful speech
2011
- An introduction to reduced pronunciation variants
2011
- Perceptual and judgment-based experiments on Scottish Gaelic svarabhakti
2011
- Reduction
2011
- Intonational Structure as a Word Boundary Cue in Japanese.
2010
- " Probably, OK, whatever!": Variability in conversational speech stops and flaps.
2010
- What it means to be phonetic or phonological: The case of Romanian devoiced nasals.
2010
- Intonational structure as a word-boundary cue in Tokyo Japanese
2010
- Cross‐language perception of Mandarin affricates in conversational vs careful speech.
2010
- ‘Ok, whatever!’: phonetic variability of stops and flaps in spontaneous and careful speech
2010
- Were we or are we? Perception of reduced function words in spontaneous conversations.
2009
- Revitalization in a scattered language community: Problems and methods from the perspective of Mutsun language revitalization.
2009
- Cues to Perception of Reduced Flaps.
2009
- Processing missing vowels: Allophonic processing in Japanese
2009
- Cues to perception of reduced flaps
2009
- A fascinating personage in the history of phonetics: The phonetics and the politics of Elise Richter
2008
- Perception of reduced speech: Approximated stops
2008
- Ethics and revitalization of dormant languages: The Mutsun language
2007
- Analysis of spontaneous Japanese in a multi-language telephone-speech corpus
2007
- Inhibition of processing due to reduction of the American English flap
2007
- Fourth formant dip as a correlate of American English flaps
2007
- Categorical and gradient variability in intervocalic stops
2007
- Orthographic vs. morphological incomplete neutralization effects.
2006
- Japanese mora‐timing and processing: The case of devoiced vowels
2006
- Making a dictionary for community use in language revitalization: The case of Mutsun
2006
- Phonetic data analysis: An introduction to fieldwork and instrumental techniques
2005
- Flapping and reduction of stops: Speech style, phonological environment, and variability
2005
- Use of complex phonological patterns in speech processing: evidence from Korean
2005
- Phonological and statistical effects on timing of speech perception: Insights from a database of Dutch diphone perception
2005
- Reduction of flaps: speech style, phonological environment, and variability
2005
- Incomplete neutralization and other sub-phonemic durational differences in production and perception: Evidence from Dutch
2004
- Intonation as a speech segmentation cue: Effects of speech style
2004
- Orthography and underlying form in incomplete neutralization
2003
- Unfolding of phonetic information over time: A database of Dutch diphone perception
2003
- Rapid perceptibility as a factor underlying universals of vowel inventories
2003
- Papers in laboratory phonology 7
2002
- The perception of gated Dutch diphones
2002
- The phonology of epenthetic stops: implications for the phoneticsphonology interface in optimality theory
2002
- Laboratory phonology
2002
- Stop epenthesis at syllable boundaries
2002
- Variability in direction of dorsal movement during production of/l
2002
- Perception of epenthetic stops
2001
- Japanese mora-timing: A review
2001
- Publications Received for Review
2001
- The phonological status of Dutch epenthetic schwa
2001
- The role of the mora in the timing of spontaneous Japanese speech
2001
- The phonological status of schwa insertion in Dutch: An EMA study
2001
- Word level timing in spontaneous Japanese speech
1999
- Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: Annual report 1999
1999
- Perceptual consequences of unintended epenthetic stops
1999
- of Book: Texas linguistic forum 41: Exploring the boundaries between phonetics and phonology
1998
- The role of dynamic cues in speech perception, spoken word recognition, and phonological universals
1998
- Integrating speech perception and formal phonology
1998
- Recognition of accent patterns across dialects in Japanese
1997
- Japanese final-accented and unaccented phrases
1997
- Spectral transition in the perception of English segments
1997
- Sound Change and Grammaticalization in Japanese Verb Morphology
1996
- Acoustic characteristics of ejectives in Ingush
1996
- MAXWELL, MARTHA, ROCKY-MOUNTAIN NATURALIST-BENSON, M
1987
- Timing of perception of vocalic distinctive features: implications for vowel system universals
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