Current downloadable papers are available in the CV link.

Here you find a summary of some of my research interests. Check out "the Lab" link above for more specifics about the research I do.

Phonetics:

Spoken Word Recognition/Speech Perception:

• Massive Auditory Lexical Decision
• Computational models of spoken word recognition
• Processing of reduced speech
  • Dissertation: Spoken Word Recognition of the Reduced American English flap. PDF
• The processing of reduction by older and younger listeners
• The effect of fine phonetic detail on perception
• Recognition of accented speech

Speech Production:

• Acoustic characteristics of spontaneous reduced speech
• Voicing properties of nasals (Romanian, Miyako Ikema)
• Effects of aging on speech production
• Effects depression and schitzophrenia on speech production

Language documentation work:

• I have worked with the Colorado River Indian Tribes focusing on the documentation of Mohave and Chemehuevi
• Phonetic documentation (often with students) of Plautdietsch, Tsuut’ina, Temne, Upper Necaxa Totonac, Northern Pwo Karen, and Miyako Ikema