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Kate Bunton

Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Speech/Language and Hearing | Director, Graduate Studies | Director, Instructional Support

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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.

Research Area

speech production, vocal tract, speech, acoustic modeling, linguistics, phonetics, acoustic analysis, speech recognition, speech processing, voice production, computational modeling, child development, acoustics, speech development, speech synthesis

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    Does Successful Surgical Treatment of Velopharyngeal Insufficiency Aid in the Remediation of Compensatory Misarticulation Errors?

    2025

    Velopharyngeal gasize during sustained vowel production correlates with perceptual ratings of hypernasality in connected speech

    2024
    speech, phonetics, resonance, perception, voice

    Simulation of sentence-level speech with an acoustically driven model of speech production

    2024
    speech production, simulation, acoustic modeling, speech synthesis, computational linguistics

    Phonetic segment switching based on differential-encoding of the vocal tract resonances

    2024

    The relation of velopharyngeal coupling area and vocal tract scaling to identification of stop-nasal cognates

    2023
    speech recognition, phonetics, linguistics, speech pathology, cognitive science

    Intelligibility of synthetic words generated by transformation of a sequence of discrete acoustic events into modulation of the vocal tract shape

    2022
    speech synthesis, acoustic modeling, vocal tract, intelligibility, artificial speech

    Identification of voiced stoconsonants produced by acoustically driven vocal tract modulations

    2021
    speech, acoustics, voice production, vocal tract, articulation

    The relation of velopharyngeal coupling area to the identification of stoversus nasal consonants in North American English based on speech generated by acoustically driven …

    2021
    speech processing, phonetics, language acquisition, acoustic analysis, north american english

    Auditory-perceptual rating of connected speech in aphasia

    2019
    aphasia, speech perception, language impairment, communication disorders, speech evaluation

    A model of speech production based on the acoustic relativity of the vocal tract

    2019
    speech production, acoustic modeling, vocal tract, speech processing, linguistics

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    • Speech Disorders II

    • Cleft Palate, Other Craniofacial Disorders, and Communication

    • Hearing Science

    • Voice Disorders

    • Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Mechanism

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