Past Members

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Terrance Nearey
Emeritus Professor

Speech perception, phonetics, psycholinguistics.
Website Obituary

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Ryan Podlubny
Affiliated Researcher

Graduate Student (MSc), Postdoctoral Researcher

The influence of physical environment & context on the processing and production of spontaneous speech.
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Hyunju Chung
Postdoctoral Researcher

Assistant Professor, Speech-Langauge Pathology
Louisiana State University
Vowel acoustics, cross-linguistic acquisition of vowels, phonological acquisition.

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Kara Hawthorne
Postdoctoral Researcher

Assistant Professor, Hearing, Speech & Language Science, Gallaudet University
Language acquisition, prosody, speech perception, music cognition.
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Daniel Brenner
Postdoctoral Researcher

Associate Research Engineer, Educational Testing Services
Phonetics

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Annika Nijveld
Postdoctoral Researcher

Speech perception, lexical representation, psycholinguistics
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Michelle Sims
Graduate Student (MSc, PhD)

Project Manager
Knowledge Management Clinical Projects and Support Services
Alberta Health Services
Phonetics, speech production, speech processing, quantitative linguistics.
Thesis: The Role of Acoustic Detail in the Production and Processing of Vowels in Spontaneous Speech

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Kyle Danielson
Graduate Student (MSc)

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough
Perceptual psycholinguistics, experimental phonology, bilingualism, and language documentation
Thesis: Lexical tone processing by monolingual and bilingual speakers of tone and non-tone languages

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Santiago Barreda
Graduate Student (PhD)

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, UC Davis
Phonetics, speech perception, psycholinguistics.
Thesis: Cognitively-Active Speaker Normalization Based on Formant-Frequency Scaling Estimation
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Richard Yanaky
Graduate Student (MSc)

Researcher in Information Studies
PhD candidate at McGill University
Phonetics, syntax, speech processing, prosody, computational linguistics, speech recognition.

Tsung-Ying Chen
Graduate Student (PhD)
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Ryan Podlubny
Affiliated Researcher

Graduate Student (MSc), Postdoctoral Researcher

The influence of physical environment & context on the processing and production of spontaneous speech.
Website

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Graham Feeny
Graduate Student (MSc)

Currently pursuing a PhD at NYU.
Emotional speech, language comprehension.

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Vincent Porretta

Language Engineer at Amazon
Psycholinguistics, second language processing and perception, bilingualism.
Thesis: Perception and lexical processing of gradient foreign accentedness
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Yoichi Mukai
Graduate Student (PhD)

Faculty Member, Department of Modern Languages, Vancouver Island University
Psycholinguistics, phonetics, second language speech (e.g., processing, perception, fluency)
Thesis: Production and perception of reduced speech and the role of phonological-orthographic consistency
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Abdulaziz Alarifi
Graduate Student (PhD)

Assistant Professor
Department of English Language & Literature
King Saud University
Phonetics, phonology, orthography and second language phonology
Thesis: The role of orthographic input in the distributional and lexical learning of non-native speech sounds

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Matthew C. Kelley
Graduate Student (MSc, PhD)

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington
Speech technology, speech perception, and phonetics.
Thesis: Acoustic Distance, Acoustic Absement, and the Lexicon
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Catherine Ford
Honors Student, Graduate Student (MSc)

Government of Alberta

Japanese linguistics, acoustic phonetics of under-documented languages, field linguistics, language documentation and revitalization.

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Filip Nenadić
GRaduate Student (PhD)

Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Serbia
Spoken word recognition, Literary reading, Psycholinguistics, Individual differences
Thesis:
Computational Modelling of Spoken Word Recognition in the Auditory Lexical Decision Task
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Stephanie Hedges
Graduate Student (PhD)
Phonetics, speech perception, acoustic correlates of aging

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Dylan Bernhard
Honors Student

Phonetics, processing of reduced speech, speech technology

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Atticus Harrigan
Honors Student

Cree linguistics, reduction.

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Bryce Wittrock
Honors Student

Research Interests: Phonetics, Sociophonetics, Nordic Languages