Education
- 2006 - 2011
- Ph.D. Linguistics
University of Michigan
Dissertation title: The Role of Socioindexical Expectation in Speech Perception
Steven P. Abney & Patrice Speeter Beddor, co-chairs
Julie Boland, Robin Queen, & Benjamin Munson, readers
- 1996
- B.A. Linguistics
University of Michigan
- 2007
- Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America
Stanford University
- 2006
- JHU Summer School on Human Language Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Professional Experience
- 2013 -
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
NSF Grant: Understanding the perception and recognition of spoken words: Effects of phonetics, phonological variation, and speech mode Meghan Sumner (PI)
- 2013
- Invited Faculty, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University of Michigan
- 2011 - 2013
- Lecturer, Laboratory Phonology, Department of Linguistics, Rice University
- 2007 - 2010
- Journal Assistant & Student Board Member, Language Learning Journal, Blackwell Publishing
- 1997 - 2007
- Programmer & Technical Lead of Web and Database production services, University of Michigan
Publications & Presentations
Publications
- under revision
- “Socioindexical Expectation and Speech Perception in Noise: experienced & naive listeners” Language and Speech.
- 2013
- “The Perceptual Time Course of Coarticulation” — P.S. Beddor, K.B. McGowan, J.E. Boland, A.W. Coetzee and A. Brasher Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133 (2013) : 2350-2366.
- 2012
- Gradient Lexical Reflexes of the Syllable Contact Law Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society 45, Volume I, R. Bochnak, N. Nicola, P. Klecha, J. Urban, A. Lemieux and C. Weaver (Eds.), p. 445-454. Chicago Linguistics Society: Chicago.
Manuscripts in Preparation & Upcoming Talks
- manuscript
- “Aerodynamic Modeling of Coarticulation for Unit-Selection Speech Synthesis.”
- manuscript
- “Sounding Chinese and Listening Chinese: Imitation, Perception, and Awareness of Non-Native Phonology”
- manuscript
- “The Influence of Socioindexical Expectation on Speech Perception: evidence from Eye-Tracking”
- manuscript
- “Awareness in sociophonetics and in linguistic anthropology” — A.M. Babel & K.B. McGowan
Invited Talks & Colloquia
- November 2012
- Rice University — “Claims about processing require online tasks: disjunction of AXB and interview results in a Bolivian crossroads”
- March 2012
- University of Texas, Austin — “Social expectation and theories of speech perception” — Invited colloquium
- September 2011
- Rice University — “The role of socioindexical expectation in speech perception.”
- April 2010
- University of Michigan — “The perceptual time course of coarticulation” with P.S. Beddor
- December 2009
- University of Michigan — “Aerodynamic Modeling of Coarticulation Improves Concatenative Synthesis”
Presentations
- April 2013
- Workshop on Sound Change Actuation, University of Chicago — “Perception of Spanish in Contact: Bolivian listeners' expectation and awareness of socioindexical variation.” with A.M. Babel
- January 2013
- Linguistics Society of America — “Sounding Chinese and Listening Chinese: Imitation, Perception, and Awareness of Non-Native Phonology” on panel, Awareness & control in sociolinguistic research
- November 2012
- American Anthropological Association, panelist — “Voices in Movement: Phonetic Border Crossings”
- January 2012
- Linguistic Society of America — “The influence of socioindexical expectations on speech perception in noise.”
- November 2011
- Acoustical Society of America — Poster: “The influence of socioindexical expectations on speech perception in noise.”
- January 2011
- Linguistic Society of America — “Tongues don't twist —mental representations do” — Kevin B. McGowan and David J. Medeiros
- January 2011
- Linguistic Society of America — Poster: “Are you experienced? Socio-indexical knowledge and naive listeners”
- November 2010
- New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 39) — “Examining Listeners' Use of Sociolinguistic Information During Early Phonetic Judgments”
- October 2010
- Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology (MCWOP 16) — “Listener Expectations and the Processing of Foreign-Accented Speech.”
- July 2010
- Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 12) — Poster: “The Perceptual Time Course of Coarticulation”, P.S. Beddor, Kevin B. McGowan, Julie Boland, and Andries Coetzee
- January 2010
- Linguistic Society of America — Poster: “Aerodynamic Modeling of Coarticulation for Unit Selection Synthesis”
- October 2009
- 158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America — Poster: “The Perceptual TIme Course of Coarticulatory Nasalization”, P.S. Beddor, Julie Boland, Andries Coetzee and Kevin B. McGowan
- October 2009
- 158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America — Poster: “Aerodynamic Modeling for Concatenative Speech Synthesis”
- October 2008
- Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology (MCWOP 14) — “Pointwise Mutual Information and the Syllable Contact Law”
- January 2008
- CUNY Conference On The Syllable — “Allophonic cues to syllabification”
(Presented by first author Andries Coetzee)
Teaching
LSA Summer Institute
- Praat Scripting
LSA Summer Institute, Ann Arbor
Summer 2013Rice University
- Computational Linguistics
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Linguistics 409
Rice University, Department of
Linguistics
Spring 2013
- Introduction to Phonology
Linguistics 311/511 & Anthropology 323/523
Rice University, Department of Linguistics
Spring 2012 & Spring 2013- Advanced Phonology
Linguistics 427
Rice University, Department of Linguistics
Fall 2012- Hearing & Speech Perception, Graduate Seminar
Linguistics 555
Rice University, Department of Linguistics
Spring 2012- Introduction to the Scientific Study of Language
Linguistics/Anthropology 200
Rice University, Department of Linguistics
Fall 2011- Introduction to Phonetics
Linguistics/Anthropology 301/501
Rice University, Department of Linguistics
Fall 2011 & 2012University of Michigan
- Language & the Human Mind
Linguistics 209/Pyschology 242
Graduate Student Instructor for Professor Sam Epstein
University of Michigan, Department of Linguistics
Fall 2009- College Writing
English 125
University of Michigan, Department of English Language & Literature
Fall 2008- Introduction to Language
Linguistics 111
University of Michigan, Department of Linguistics
Spring 2008- Javascript Programming
Introductory JavaScript Programming Workshop
University of Michigan, School of Information
Winter 2006, Winter 2007- UNIX, perl programming, SQL, and various computing skills workshops
University of Michigan, Information Technology Division
1997 - 1999
Fellowships and Awards
- 2010 - 2011
- Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan
- 2010
- Humanities Candidacy Fellowship, University of Michigan
- 2008
- National Science Foundation, Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2008
- Pre-Candidate Research Grant, Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
- 2007
- Linguistic Society of America, LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowship, LSA Summer Institute, Stanford University
- 2006
- NAACL Summer School, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- 2005 - 2006
- Non-Traditional Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
Student Research Supervision
- Penelope Howe
- Investigation of cues to fricative voicing in dialects of Malagasy. Rice University. Qualifying Paper in progress, chair
- Hussein Hizazi
- Formant Analysis of Jordanian Arabic Vowels: Emphasis Effect on F2 in Jordanian Arabic. Rice University. Qualifying Paper in progress, chair
- John Galindo
- A psychoacoustic study of the influence of L1 lexical tone and pitch perception. Rice University. Qualifying Paper in progress, chair
- Ling Ma
- Native Mandarin perception of English word boundary consonant overlap. Qualifying Paper in progress, chair
- Ru-ping Ruby Tso
- Chinese Characters and Speech Recognition. Rice University. Qualifying Paper in progress, reader
- Obi Nwabueze
- The use of eye-tracking in speech perception research. Undergraduate Research
- Sheri-Ann Peckham
- Investigation of age-related perceptual plasticity using Jamaican Creole. Undergraduate Research
Service
- 2012
- Conference abstract review, Speech Science and Technology 2012, Sydney, Australia
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- Peer Review, Journal of Language & Speech
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- Peer Review, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- 2009
- Conference abstract review, Michigan Linguistics Society
- 2007
- Conference abstract review, Experimental Approaches to Optimality Theory (ExpOT)
Departmental Service & Participation
- 2011-
- Organizer, Statistics for Linguistics Reading Group, Rice University
- 2011-
- Faculty Associate, Hanszen College, Rice University
- 2010-2011
- Linguistics Executive Committee, University of Michigan
- 2007-2009
- Co-chair of Michigan Linguistics Colloquium Committee
- 2006-2011
- Active partipant and presenter at:
- Phonetics/Phonology Discussion Group (Phondi)
- Computational Linguistics Lab Group
- Psycholinguistics Lab Group
Selected Software Projects
Technologies
- Eyelink II head-mounted eye tracker,EG2-PCX Electroglottograph, EVA 2 pneumotachograph, Zonare Ultrasound, Praat, Wavesurfer, OpenSesame, sox, etc.
- Python, Perl, C, Bourne shell, JavaScript, awk, tcl, SQL, PL/SQL
- RDBMS systems (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL), UNIX administration & programming (Linux, OpenBSD, MacOS, Solaris, etc.), HTML, XML, CSS, LaTeX
Professional affiliations
- 2011- American Anthropological Association
- 2010- Association for Laboratory Phonology
- 2009- Acoustical Society of America
- 2006- Linguistic Society of America
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