Research
Research Interests
Phonetics
Voice quality in linguistics
Voice disorders
San Juan Piñas Mixtec
Tongue-larynx coordination
Current Projects
- Individual Variation in Perception and Production of Creaky Voice (dissertation, advised by Marc Garellek)
My dissertation examines factors that effect how creaky voice quality (e.g., the quality we hear in vocal fry) is produced and perceived. I examine individual variation in the phonetics of creaky voicing, how listeners use those individual changes in voice quality to make linguistic judgments, and what differences we see in the use of creaky voicing in people with voice disorders.
- Phonological and phonetic description of San Juan Piñas Mixtec (in collaboration with Gabriela Caballero, Michelle Yuan, and Claudia Duarte-Bórquez)
San Juan Piñas Mixtec is an Oto-Manguean language indigenous to San Juan Piñas, Oaxaca, Mexico and spoken by a large diaspora community in the United States. Together with our language teacher, Claudia Juarez-Chavez, we are working to develop a description of the phonology and phonetics of San Juan Piñas Mixtec.
Some interesting facts about San Juan Piñas Mixtec (for the layperson)
- it's not at all related to Spanish, but does have some borrowed words
- it's a tone languageǃ
- the English translation for "excuse me" or "I'm sorry" is, roughly, "make your heart bigger"
Publications
Duarte Borquez, C., Van Doren, M., & Garellek, M. (Under Review). Utterance-final voice quality in American English and Mexican Spanish bilinguals. Languages.
Van Doren, M., Duarte Borquez, C., Juarez Chavez, C., & Caballero, G. (Under Review). Illustration of San Juan Pinas Mixtec. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
Garellek, M., Chai, Y., Huang, Y., and Van Doren, M. (2021). Voicing of glottal consonants and non-modal vowels. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
Van Doren, M. (2021). Intrinsic F0 in Amharic. San Diego Linguistics Papers, 8.
Van Doren, M., Faudoa, E., and Carroll, T. (2018). Treatment of Patients with Vocal Fold Atrophy and Comorbid Essential Voice Tremor: Long-Term Injection Augmentation Outcomes After Successful Diagnostic Vocal Fold Injection Augmentation. Journal of Voice, 34(3), 471–476.
Carroll, T., Faudoa, E., and Van Doren, M. (2018). Evaluation of a shorter follow-up time in capture benefit of a trial vocal fold augmentation. Journal of Voice, 33(2), 169–175.
Conference Presentations
Van Doren, M. (2023). Individual Variation in the Phonetics of Modal and Creaky Voice in Typical Speakers, ASHA. Boston, MA
Van Doren, M. (2022). Hard glottal attacks in bilingual Spanish-English speakers (poster), The Fall Voice Conference. San Francisco, CA
Van Doren, M. (2019). Intrinsic fundamental frequency in Amharic. Poster, The Voice Foundation Symposium. Philadelphia, PA
Van Doren, M. (2019). Intrinsic fundamental frequency in Amharic. Acoustical Society of America, Fall 2019 Meeting. San Diego, CA
Van Doren, M., Faudoa, E., and Carroll, T. (2018). Injection augmentation for benign essential voice tremor. The Voice Foundation Symposium. Philadelphia, PA
Van Doren, M. and Thompson, C. (2017). The role of speech-language pathologists in evaluation and treating upper airway disorders. Multidisciplinary Symposium on Women’s Lung Health, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Van Doren, M., Thompson, C., and Dowdall, J. (2017). The impact of telepractice on adherence to voice therapy. The Voice Foundation Symposium, Philadelphia, PA
Carroll, T., Faudoa, E., and Van Doren, M. (2017). Determining success of a trial vocal fold injection augmentation. The Voice Foundation Symposium. Philadelphia, PA
Van Doren, M. and Oppenheimer, B. (2013). Application of segmental and whole-word phonological analysis in preschool-speech assessment: EBP Case Study. Poster, American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, Chicago, Illinois.