Category: Publications

Word/Voice Gender paper accepted

4/24/2025

My paper with Brooke Merritt at UT El Paso, now-grad student Athena Kirby, and OSU audiologist Tori Courouleau has been accepted to the Journal of Language and Social Psychology! In short, we found that listeners with more gender diversity experience were better able to separate perceived vocal gender from conceptual word gender compared to listeners who don't know anyone transgender or nonbinary.

Writing retreat

3/9/2025

Just got back from a four-day writing retreat with Kimberly Hale, Lisa Sullivan, and three others from far and wide. Worked on revisions for my Word/Voice Gender paper and finished my IRB application for a new SoTL study about my Deaf Lived Experience research/honors course. A very productive getaway!

Dysarthric familiarization paper submitted

1/2/2025

After several rounds of editing with former student Mik Martinelli and colleagues Sara Loss and Sabiha Parveen, we've submitted a new version of a paper on Mik's project about training techniques for helping listeners understand dysarthric speech. Now, we wait.

Rejoining stance

6/1/2024

I've recently rejoined work on the ATAROS project, which funded my dissertation. A graduating PhD student at the University of Washington, Sara Ng, has been leading related work on the prosodic interactions of information load (new/given info) and stance. Our mutual adviser, Richard Wright, gave several talks in France and Japan during his sabbatical this spring. We wrote a conference proceedings paper for one, and we're working on a journal article for next year.

Article accepted: Prevelar merger in production and perception

1/13/2023

My latest paper on the bag-beg-vague merger in the Pacific Northwest has been accepted to the Journal of Phonetics. The title explains: Production and perception of prevelar merger: Two-dimensional comparisons using Pillai scores and confusion matrices. I've been considering ways to compare the two types of data for a long time, so I'm very pleased with this one. Special thanks to Santiago Barreda for the direction on confusion matrices (and bootstrapping confidence intervals on stats that don't normally provide things like p-values).

Revisions

10/3/2022

This has been a busy few weeks, with three revisions recently submitted to journals:

"Employers’ speech-based first impressions of cochlear implant users," Part 3 of my series on how listeners judge the personalities and competence of cochlear implant users
"Production and perception of prevelar merger: Two-dimensional comparisons using Pillai scores and confusion matrices," which addresses the challenge of comparing continuous vowel production measures with responses from discrete perception tasks
"Dysarthric speech familiarization: Distributed practice and interleaving," spearheaded by Mik Martinelli, former linguistics grad student and now faculty at Midwestern State, and my OSU colleagues Sara Loss and Sabiha Parveen

Part 3 accepted

9/22/2022

Part 3 of a series of experiments about listeners' evaluations of cochlear implant speech has been accepted to the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. Titled "Employers’ speech-based first impressions of cochlear implant users," hiring managers rated talkers with typical hearing most positively, followed by highly-intelligible CI users and then less-intelligible CI users -- the same patterns as in Parts 1 and 2 (both 2018), which used college students listeners. Listeners didn't know the talkers were deaf. This unconscious bias could have negative effects on deaf/hard-of-hearing employment opportunities.

Three papers submitted

2/24/2022

This has been a busy winter, with three new manuscripts recently submitted to journals:

"Employers’ speech-based first impressions of cochlear implant users," Part 3 of my series on how listeners judge the personalities and competence of cochlear implant users
"Production and perception of prevelar merger: Two-dimensional comparisons using Pillai scores," which addresses the challenge of comparing continuous vowel production measures with responses from discrete perception tasks
"Dysarthric speech familiarization: Distributed practice and interleaving," spearheaded by Mik Martinelli, former linguistics grad student and now faculty at Midwestern State, and my OSU colleagues Sara Loss and Sabiha Parveen

Second remote data collection ("Zoom quality") paper published

8/2/2021

My second article with Paul De Decker in Newfoundland has been published in Language and Linguistics Compass. This journal spans linguistic disciplines to reach a broader audience. This paper compares recordings made on various popular consumer devices (smartphones, laptops, iPad) to professional equipment. Fortunately, vowel patterns are pretty comparable across devices, so researchers can collect audio data from afar, even after the pandemic subsides.

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