Dani Byrd

PhD 1994; Department of LinguisticsDissertation Title: Articulatory Timing in English Consonant Sequences [pdf]PhD Chair: Professor Patricia A. Keating

Yale University

MA, 1990; Department of Linguistics

Yale University

BA, 1990; magna cum laude with Distinction in the Major (Linguistics)

Professional History

Academic

February 2008 - presentProfessor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
2002 - February 2008Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
1999Research Affiliate, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut
1999-2011Director of Phonetics Laboratory, USC Department of Linguistics
1999 - 2002Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
1998 - 1999Research Affiliate, Department of Linguistics, Yale University
1997 - 1999Senior Scientist; Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut
Fall 1996Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Yale University
1994 - 1997NIH Training Grant Post-Doctoral Fellow; Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut

Administrative

December 1, 2015 - August 15, 2016Interim Dean, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
July 2015 - August 2016Executive Vice Dean, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
June 2012 - June 2015Vice Dean for Institutional Affairs, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
January 2011 - June 2012Vice Dean for Faculty, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
July 2008 - December 2010Vice Dean for Faculty and Research, USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
July 2007 - June 2008Vice Dean of USC College with responsibilities for Research Advancement

Awards and Honors

USC Dornsife Dean’s Award for Distinguished Service, 2012
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, elected 2008; citation:

"For research on the relation of linguistic structures to the temporal realization of speech."

2003 R. Bruce Lindsay Award, Acoustical Society of America

Presented to a member of the Society under 35 years of age who has been active in the affairs of the Society and has contributed substantially, through published papers, to the advancement of theoretical or applied acoustics, or both. Citation: "For research in motor control and timing in speech production."

Faculty Member of Phi Kappa Phi, elected 2003
Elected by the Executive Council to Full Member of the Acoustical Society of America, 1999
Certificate of Meritorious Service, City of New Haven, CT
Dernell Every Friends of Fencing Medal (Yale University)
UCLA College of Letters and Science Graduate Student Award, 1993 (awarded to one or two graduate students annually at UCLA)
UCLA Association of Academic Women, Graduate Woman of the Year Award, 1994
NSF Graduate Fellow, 1990-1992
Simultaneous MA/BA program, Yale University, 1988-1990
Sigma Xi Summer Research Fellow, Yale University, 1989
Richter Summer Research Fellow, Yale University, 1989

Professional Societies and Service

Full Member of the Acoustical Society of America
Editorial Board Member for Journal of Phonetics, 2008 - present
Editorial Board Member Equinox book series ‘Studies in Phonetics and Phonology’ 2014 -present
Ad-hoc reviewer for Phonetica, Language and Speech, Speech Communication, Journal of Phonetics, Phonology, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Frontiers in Communication, Papers in Laboratory Phonology, Blackwell Publishers, Interspeech, Nature Scientific Reports
Ad-hoc reviewer for the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health (NIDCD),
Member of the International Phonetic Association
International Advisory Committee, International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2015
Editorial Board Member, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1996 - December 2015
NIH LCOM Review Panel member, February 2007
Acoustical Society of America Technical Program Organizing Committee: 2000 Newport Beach; 2004 San Diego
Associate Editor for Journal of Phonetics (Elsevier), Sept. 2006 - Sept 2008
Acoustical Society of America Speech Communication Technical Committee 2003-2011
Acoustical Society of America Stetson Award Subcommittee, 1999
National Science Foundation, Panelist 1998
Interviewer for Yale University undergraduate admissions, 1991-1994; Area Coordinator, 1994-1998
President, UCLA Graduate Linguistics Circle, 1992

Grants and Funding

Current

NIDCD T-32 Training Grant. 2T32DC009975-16 July 1 2009-June 30 2030. C. Shera, Director. Training in Hearing & Communications Neuroscience. Role: Preceptor. $268,277
NSF 2311676 RI Core: Medium: Structured variability in vocal tract articulation dynamics in speech. Narayanan PI, Byrd co-PI. 05/15/2023-04/30/2027. $1,200,000.
NSF 2240349 CompCog: Deep causal inference grounds the perception of cognitive objects in speech. Iskarous (PI), Byrd co-PI. 08/15/23-07/31/26. $599,998.
IARPA Shadow: Spoken Human Signal Anonymization and Disentanglement for the Obfuscation of Various Voice Attributes. Narayanan PI, Byrd Inv. 9/2024-2/2027. Anticipated total costs for contract to USC $3,381,319.

Completed

DARPA PRECOG: Multimodal integration of neural and biobehavioral signals for predicting preconscious responses. Narayanan, PI; Byrd, co-Investigator. 2/1/2023 – 6/20/2025. $3,528,515.
NSF Major Research Instrumentation 1828736 Krishna Nayak (PI) “Development of a High-Performance Low-Field MRI for Dynamic Imaging.” Role: Co-PI. 10/1/2018-9/30/2024. $2,482,272.
NSF BCS-2116376 Doctoral Dissertation Research: Articulatory Dynamics and Stability of Multi-gesture Complexes. Role: PI; M. Oh Co-PI. (July 15 2021 - Dec 31 2023) $18,962.
NIDCD R01 Dynamics of vocal tract shaping. April 2005 - August 2021 Principal Investigator: Narayanan; Status: Key Investigator. April 2005-March 2009; Total Costs: $1,767,992. December 17, 2009 - November 30, 2014; Total Costs: $2,301,857. December 2015 - March 31 2021; Total Costs: ~$2.2M.
NIH R-01 Prosody and articulatory dynamics in spoken language. (2002 - 2019). Status: Principal Investigator. September 2002 - August 2006. Total Direct Costs: $910,000. September 2006 - August 2012; Total Costs: 2,848,550. April 2012 - September 2019; Total Costs: $2,453,430.
MURI Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Human-like speech processing. (May 2005-April 2008) [base] Jeff Blimes (PI), Status: Investigator. Total Award: $4,980,687; Sub Award to USC: $1,657,329.
NIH R-01.Temporal structuring of speech and manual gestures (January 2001 - December 2004) Principal Investigator: E. Saltzman, Status: Research Investigator. Total Direct Costs: $915,000.
NIH R-01. Task dynamics: Goals and time in speech production. (1997 - 1999) Principal Investigator: E. Saltzman, Status: Research Investigator. Total Direct Costs: $568,137
NIH R-29 FIRST Award. Articulatory timing: Organizing syllables and phrases. (1997 - 2002) Status: Principal Investigator. Total Direct Costs: $350,000.
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant. Electropalatographic study of coproduction in English consonant sequences. (1992) (P. Keating, dissertation Chair). Total Direct Costs: $12,897.
Teaching Assistant Mini Grant, UCLA (1992).
NSF Graduate Fellow. 1990-1992.

USC Internal Grants

- Toward natural child-machine communication: Spoken language interaction in preschoolers. (July 2002 - June 2003) USC James H. Zumberge Interdisciplinary Grant. Principal Investigators: E. Andersen, S. Narayanan, & P. McLaughlin; Status: Investigator. Total: $40,000.
- Toward natural child-machine communication: Spoken language interaction in preschoolers. (July 2002 - June 2003) USC James H. Zumberge Interdisciplinary Grant. Principal Investigators: E. Andersen, S. Narayanan, & P. McLaughlin; Status: Investigator. Total: $40,000.
- Understanding the production of English word stress in speaking. (July 2000 - June 2001) USC James H. Zumberge Individual Research Grant. Status: Principal Investigator. Total: $21,790.

Grants in Support of Undergraduate Student Research

USC Undergraduate Research Program (2006) co-PI (with S. Narayanan) Analyzing real-time MRI movies to investigate Chinese and German. Total: $6,000.
USC Undergraduate Research Program (2005) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & S. Lee) Toward illuminating fine details in human speech production: Building a phonetic database of real-time moving speech images. Total: $5,000.
USC Undergraduate Research Program (2003-2004) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & S. Lee) Toward illuminating fine details in human speech production: Investigations of vocal tract movements. Total: $7,000.
USC Undergraduate Research Program (2002) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen) Developing Child-Machine Spoken Interfaces: A cross-disciplinary approach bridging technological, linguistic and social challenges Total: $9,000.
IMSC Research Program for Undergraduate Students (2001 – 2002) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen). Emotion appropriate text to speech synthesis. Total $5,000.
IMSC Research Program for Undergraduate Students (2001 – 2002) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen). Use of sociolinguistic markers in child-machine conversational interactions and implications for development of child-oriented ASR systems. Total $5,000.
IMSC Research Program for Undergraduate Students (2001 – 2002) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen). Effect of machine errors on adult discourse patterns in human-machine conversations. Total $5,000.
USC Undergraduate Research Program (2001) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen) Child and adult spoken language interaction with computers. Total: $7,360.
IMSC Research Program for Undergraduate Students (2000 – 2001) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen). Effect of machine errors on adult discourse patterns in human-machine conversations. Total $5,000.
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant—Research Experience for Undergraduates [REU] Supplement (1992) (with P. Keating). Total: $5,000.

Mentored Undergraduate Awards and High School Interns

Nyaeve Perkins Booker. Summer 2020. USC Provost Undergraduate Research Funds. Co-speech Laughter in a Conversational Speech Task. now a PhD student at UC Davis Linguistics.
Sally Ho, Summer 2019, high school intern. Now at UPenn. Software Engineering

Ph.D. Thesis Committees [* indicates Committee chair or co-chair]

Marc F. Joanisse, Department of Linguistics, USC. Connectionist Phonology. 2000.
John J. Stevens, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, USC. The Acquisition of L2 Spanish Phonology in a Study Abroad Context. 2000.
Suzanne Curtin, Department of Linguistics, USC. Representational Richness and Phonological Development. 2002.
Carolina Gonzalez, Department of Linguistics, USC. The Effect of Stress and Foot Structure on Consonantal Processes. 2003.
Jason Zevin, USC Program in Neuroscience. Age-Limited Learning Effects in Reading and Speech Perception, 2003.
Guanjun Feng, Department of Linguistics, USC. Morpheme-Syllable Alignment and its Impact on Affixation, and Reduplication and Syllable Structure. 2006.
Simona Montanari, Department of Linguistics, USC. Language Differentiation in Early Trilingual Development. 2006.
*Jelena Krivokapić, Department of Linguistics, USC. The Planning, Production, and Perception of Prosodic Structure. 2007. [Chair]
Rebeka Campos, Department of Linguistics, USC. Minimal Contrast and the Phonology-Phonetics Interface. 2007.
Abhinav Sethy, Department of Electrical Engineering, USC. Active Data Acquisition for Building Language Models for Speech Recognition. 2007.
Hua Lin, Department of Linguistics, USC. In progress.
Murtaza Bulut, Department of Elec. Engineering, USC. Data-Driven Approaches to Expressive Speech Synthesis. 2007.

[note: no PhD chairmanships accepted while in College administration 2007-2016]

Jennifer Bruno, Department of Psychology, USC. Neurobiological Correlates of Skilled and Disabled Reading. 2008.
Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Department of Elec. Engineering, USC. Categorical Prosody Models for Spoken Language Applications. 2008.
Chuping Liu, Department of Elec. Engineering, USC. Speech Enhancement and Intelligibility Modeling in Cochlear implants. 2008.
Vivek Rangarajan Sridhar, Department of Elec. Engineering, USC. Enriching Spoken Language Processing: Representation and Modeling of Suprasegmental events. 2008.
Benjamin Parrell, Linguistics, USC. Dynamics of Consonant Reduction. 2014.
David Li, Linguistics, USC. Investigating the Production and Perception of Reduced Speech: A Cross-Linguistic Look at Articulatory Coproduction and Compensation for Coarticulation. 2014.
Vikram Ramanarayanan, Elec. Eng., USC. Understanding Speech Planning by Observing its Execution—Representations, Modeling, and Analysis. 2014.
Christine Hagedorn, Linguistics, USC. Speech Production in Post-Glossectomy Speakers: Articulatory Preservation and Compensation, 2015.
Fang-Ying Hsieh, Linguistics, USC. Gesture Organization of English Diphthongs. 2017.
Samantha Gordon Danner, Linguistics, USC. Coordination in Multimodal Spontaneous Speech, Fall 2017.
*Yoonjeong (Cynthia) Lee, Linguistics, USC. The Prosodic Substrate of Consonant and Tone Dynamics, Spring 2018. [co-Chair]
Weiyi (Wayne) Chen, Elec. Eng., USC. Tracking the Motion of the Internal Tongue using Tagged Real-time MRI. Spring 2019.
Pavlos Papadopulos, Elec. Eng. USC. Noise Aware Methods for Robust Speech Processing Applications. Spring 2020.
Yongwan Lim, Elec. Eng., USC. Improved Real-Time MRI of Speech Production. Spring 2020.
Sarah Harper, Linguistics, USC. Individual Differences in Phonetic Variability and Phonological Representation. Fall 2021.
*Miran Oh, Linguistics, USC. Articulatory Dynamics and Stability in Multi-Gesture Complexes. Fall 2021 [chair].
Mairym Lloréns Monteserín, Linguistics, USC. Signs of Skill in the Co-Speech Ticcing of Adult Tourette’s Ticcers. Fall 2022.
Yijing Lu, Linguistics, USC. Articulatory Dynamics of Stuttering. 2024.
Yubin Zhang, Linguistics, USC. Sentence Intonation: A Dynamical Gestural Approach. Fall 2025.
*Jessica Campbell, USC [In progress]
Haley Hsu, USC [In progress]

Publications

Textbook

D. Byrd & T. Mintz. (2010) Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.

arXiv and OSF Preprints

Kleanthis Avramidis, Woojae Jeong, Aditya Kommineni, Sudarsana R. Kadiri, Marcus Ma, Colin McDaniel, Myzelle Hughes, Thomas McGee, Elsi Kaiser, Dani Byrd, Assal Habibi, B. Rael Cahn, Idan A. Blank, Kristina Lerman, Takfarinas Medani, Richard M. Leahy and Shrikanth Narayanan. (2025) Deep learning characterizes depression and suicidal ideation from eye movements. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20944.

Tiantian Feng, Jihwan Lee, Anfeng Xu, Yoonjeong Lee, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Xuan Shi, Helin Wang, Thomas Thebaud, Laureano Moro-Velazquez, Dani Byrd, Najim Dehak, Shrikanth Narayanan. Vox-Profile: A speech foundation model benchmark for characterizing diverse speaker and speech traits. arXiv:2505.14648

Kommineni, A., Jeong, W., Avramidis, K., McDaniel, C., Hughes, M., McGee, T., Kaiser, E., Lerman, K., Blank, I.A., Byrd, D., Habibi, A., Cahn, B.R., Kadiri, S.R., Medani, T., Leahy, R.M., Narayanan, S., & California, S. (2025). Neural Responses to Affective Sentences Reveal Signatures of Depression. ArXiv, abs/2506.06244.

Hughes, Myzelle, Colin McDaniel, Takfarinas MEDANI, Woojae Jeong, Idan Blank, Dani Byrd, Thomas Austin McGee, Kleanthis Avramidis, Sudarsana R. Kadiri, Aditya K, Chinmay Chinara, Kristina Lerman, Elsi Kaiser, Richard M. Leahy, Shrikanth Narayanan, and B. Rael Cahn. July 21 2025. PRECOG: Comprehensive Experimental Design and Stimuli Protocol for Investigating Depression and Suicidal Ideation. OSF, https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/nxvz5_v1

Foley, S., Nguyen, H., Lee, J., Kadiri, S.R., Byrd, D., Goldstein, L., & Narayanan, S. (2025). Towards disentangling the contributions of articulation and acoustics in multimodal phoneme recognition. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.24059.

Journal Publications and Book Chapters

Yijing Lu., Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2025) Effective elicitation of stuttering in MRI data collection using a suite of connected speech tasks. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00764

Jessica Campbell, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein. (2025) The stability of articulatory and acoustic oscillatory signals derived from speech, JASA Express Lett. 5, 045203 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0036389

S. Reddy Kadiri, K. Huang, C. Hagedorn, D. Byrd, P. Alku, S. Narayanan. (2025) Formant tracking by combining deep neural network and linear Prediction. IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing 6, 222-230, DOI: 10.1109/OJSP.2025.3530876.

M. Oh, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, S. Narayanan (2024) Vertical larynx actions and intergestural timing stability in Hausa ejectives and implosives. Phonetica, vol. 81, no. 6, pp. 559-597. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2023-0052

J. Krivokapić, W. Styler, D. Byrd. (2022) The role of speech planning in the articulation of pauses. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (151), 402-413. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0009279 [pdf]

D. Byrd and J. Krivokapić. (2021) Cracking prosody in Articulatory Phonology. Annu. Rev. Linguist. 7:31-53. http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/3HCGPQ757NSDUKR7WJQG/full/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-030920-050033

Z. Zhao, Y. Lim, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan, K.S. Nayak. (2021) Improved 3D real-time MRI of speech production. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 85(6): 3182-3195 https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28651 [pdf]

Y. Tian, Y. Lim, Z. Zhao, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan, K.S. Nayak. (2021) Aliasing artifact reduction in spiral real-time MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 86(2): 916-925. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28746

Y. Lee, L. Goldstein, B. Parrell, D. Byrd. (2021) Who converges? Variation reveals individual speaker adaptability. Speech Communication. 131:23-34.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2021.05.001

Yongwan Lim, Asterios Toutios, Yannick Bliesener, Ye Tian, Sajan Lingala, Colin Vaz, Tanner Sorensen, Miran Oh, Sarah Harper, Weiyi Chen, Yoonjeong Lee, Johannes Töger, Mairym Montesserin, Caitlin Smith, Bianca Godinez, Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd, Krishna Nayak, and Shrikanth Narayanan (2021) A multispeaker dataset of raw and reconstructed speech production real-time MRI video and 3D volumetric images. Scientific Data 8, 187 (Nature Press). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00976-x

S. Gordon Danner, J. Krivokapić, D. Byrd. (2021) Co-speech movement in conversational turn-taking. Frontiers in Communication, 16 December 2021, https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.779814

W. Chen, N. Lee, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan, K. S. Nayak. (2020) Improved real-time tagged MRI using REALTAG. Magn, Reson. Med. 84(2): 838-846. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28144 [pdf]

A. Toutios, M. Xu, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, S. Narayanan. (2020) How an aglossic speaker produces an alveolar-like percept without a functional tongue tip. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters. 147, EL460–EL464 https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001329

C. Hagedorn, T. Sorensen, A. Lammert, A. Toutios, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan. (2019) Engineering innovation in speech science: Data and technologies. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Group, SIG 19, Speech Science (4:2), 411-420.

A. Toutios, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein and S. Narayanan. (2019) Advances in vocal tract imaging and analysis. The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics. William F. Katz and Peter F. Assmann (Eds.). (Abingdon: Routledge, 04 Apr 2019 ), Routledge Handbooks Online. online

W. Chen, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan, K.S. Nayak. (2019) Intermittently tagged real-time MRI reveals internal tongue motion during speech production. Magn, Reson. Med. 2019;00:1–14. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.27745 [pdf]

M. Oh, D. Byrd. (2019) Syllable-internal corrective focus in Korean. Journal of Phonetics, 77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2019.100933

Y. Lee, S. Gordon Danner, B. Parrell, S. Lee, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd. (2018) Articulatory, acoustic, and prosodic accommodation in a cooperative maze navigation task. PLoS ONE 13(8): e0201444. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201444

Y. Lim, Y. Zhu, S. G. Lingala, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan, K. Nayak. (2018) 3D real-time MRI of the vocal tract during natural speech. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.27570 [pdf]

S. Harper, S. Lee, Goldstein, D. Byrd. (2018) Simultaneous electromagnetic articulography and electroglottography data acquisition of natural speech. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Express Letters, 144, EL380 https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5066349

B. Parrell, L. Goldstein, S. Lee, D. Byrd (2014) Spatiotemporal coupling between speech and manual motor actions. Journal of Phonetics (42), 1-11 [pdf]

S. Narayanan, A. Toutios, V. Ramanaraynan, A. Lammert, J. Kim, S. Lee, K. Nayak, Y.-C. Kim, Y. Zhu, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, E. Bresch, P. Ghosh, A. Katsamanis, and M. Proctor. (2014) Real-time magnetic resonance imaging and electromagnetic articulography database for speech production research (TC). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 136, 1307. [link] [pdf].

M. Proctor, K. Nayak, E. Bresch, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan. (2013) Para-linguistic mechanisms of production in human "beatboxing:" a real-time magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(2): 1043–1054. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan. (2013) An investigation of articulatory setting using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (134,1), 510-519. [pdf]

B. Parrell, D. Byrd, S. Lee. (2013) Evaluation of prosodic juncture strength using functional data analysis. Journal of Phonetics (41,6), 442-452. [pdf]

J. Krivokapić & D. Byrd. (2012) Prosodic boundary strength: An articulatory and perceptual study. Journal of Phonetics. Volume 40, 3, 430–442. [pdf]

D. Byrd and S. Choi. (2010) At the juncture of prosody, phonology, and phonetics—The interaction of phrasal and syllable structure in shaping the timing of consonant gestures. Papers in Laboratory Phonology 10. Ed. by Fougeron, Cécile / Kuehnert, Barbara /d'Imperio, Mariapaola / Vallee, Nathalie. Mouton de Gruyter. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (2010) Phonetics. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences. Patrick Colm Hogan (Ed.) Cambridge University Press.

D. Byrd, S. Tobin, E. Bresch, S. Narayanan. (2009) Timing effects of syllable structure and stress on nasals: a real-time MRI examination. Journal of Phonetics 37, 97-110. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, E. Bresch, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, S. Narayanan. (2009) Analysis of pausing behavior in spontaneous speech using real-time magnetic resonance imaging of articulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(5), pp. EL160-EL165. [pdf]

D. Byrd & D. Riggs (2008) Locality interactions with prominence in determining the scope of phrasal lengthening. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 38, 187-202. [pdf] [HHS Public Access]

R. Walker, D. Byrd, & F. Mpiranya. (2008) An articulatory view of Kinyarwanda’s coronal harmony. Phonology 25,3, pp. 499-535. [pdf]

D. Byrd, S. Lee, R. Campos-Astorika. (2008) Phrase boundary effects on the temporal kinematics of sequential tongue tip consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(6). 4456-4465. [pdf]

L. Goldstein, M. Pouplier, L. Chen, E. Saltzman, and D. Byrd. (2007) Dynamic action units slip in speech production errors. Cognition 103, 3, 386-412. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (2006) Relating prosody and dynamic events: Commentary on the papers by Cho, Navas, and Smiljanic´. Papers in Laboratory Phonology 8. Goldstein, L., Whalen, D. H., Best, C. (Eds.) Mouton de Gruyter, 549-561. [pdf]

S. Lee, D. Byrd, and J. Krivokapić. (2006) Functional data analysis of prosodic effects on articulatory timing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 1666-1671. [pdf]

L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, and E. Saltzman. (2006) The role of vocal tract gestural action units in understanding the evolution of phonology. Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System. M. Arbib (Ed.) Cambridge University Press, pp. 215-249. [pdf]

E. Saltzman, H. Nam, L. Goldstein, and D. Byrd. (2006) The distinctions between state, parameter and graph dynamics in sensorimotor control and coordination. In M. L. Latash and F. Lestienne, (Eds.). Motor Control and Learning. New York: Springer pp. 63-73. [pdf]

D. Byrd, J. Krivokapić, and S. Lee. (2006) How far, how long: On the temporal scope of phrase boundary effects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, 1589-1599. [pdf]

T. Fukaya and D. Byrd (2005) An articulatory examination of word-final flapping at phrase-edges and interiors. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 35,1, 45-58. [pdf ].

D. Byrd, S. Lee, D. Riggs, and J. Adams. (2005) Interacting effects of syllable and phrase position on consonant articulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118(6), 3860-3873. [pdf]

S. Narayanan, K. Nayak, S. Lee, A. Sethy, D. Byrd (2004) An approach to real-time magnetic resonance imaging for speech production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 1771-1776. [pdf] [web movies]

D. Byrd & E. Saltzman. (2003) Speech production. in M. Arbib (Ed.) The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. 2nd Edition. Cambridge:MIT Press. 1072-1076. [pdf]

D. Byrd & E. Saltzman. (2003) The elastic phrase: Modeling the dynamics of boundary-adjacent lengthening. Journal of Phonetics, 31,2, 149-180. [pdf] DOI: 10.1016/S0095-4470(02)00085-2

I. Chitoran, L. Goldstein, & D. Byrd. (2002) Gestural overlap and recoverability: Articulatory evidence from Georgian. In C. Gussenhoven & Warner (Eds.) Laboratory Phonology 7 . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 419-448. [pdf]

D. Byrd, A. Kaun, S. Narayanan, & E. Saltzman. (2000) Phrasal signatures in articulation. In M. B. Broe and J. B. Pierrehumbert, (Eds.). Papers in Laboratory Phonology V. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 70 - 87. [download].

D. Byrd. (2000) Articulatory vowel lengthening and coordination at phrasal junctures. Phonetica, 57(1):3-16. [pdf]

E. Saltzman & D. Byrd (2000) Task-dynamics of gestural timing: Phase windows and multifrequency rhythms. Human Movement Science, 19:499-526. [pdf]

S. Narayanan, D. Byrd, & A. Kaun. (1999) Geometry, kinematics, and acoustics of Tamil liquid consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106(4):1993-2007. [pdf]

D. Byrd & E. Saltzman. (1998) Intragestural dynamics of multiple phrasal boundaries. Journal of Phonetics, 26:173-199. [pdf protected by Academic Press] [alternative pdf]

E. Saltzman & D. Byrd. (1998) Tending the garden or the plant? Bulletin de la Communication ParlÈe, 4:79-83. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1996) Influences on articulatory timing in consonant sequences. Journal of Phonetics, 24(2):209-244. [pdf] correct Fig 6 [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1996) A phase window framework for articulatory timing. Phonology, 13(2):139-169. [pdf]

D. Byrd & C. C. Tan. (1996) Saying consonant clusters quickly. Journal of Phonetics, 24(2):263-282. [pdf]

K. R. Pugh, B. A. Shaywitz, S. E. Shaywitz, R. K. Fulbright, D. Byrd, P. Skudlarski, D. P. Shankweiler, L. Katz, R. T. Constable, J. Fletcher, C. Lacadie, K. Marchione, & J. C. Gore. (1996) Auditory selective attention: An fMRI investigation. Neuroimage, 4:159-173. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1995) C-Centers revisited. Phonetica, 52:263-282. [pdf]

D. Byrd, E. Flemming, C. A. Mueller, & C. C. Tan. (1995) Using regions and indices in EPG data reduction. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 38:821-827. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1995) Palatogram reading as a phonetic skill: The answer to issue 24(1)'’s EPG "mystery" sentence. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 25(2):65-70. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1994) Relations of sex and dialect to reduction. Speech Communication, 15:39-54. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1994) Palatogram reading as a phonetic skill: A short tutorial. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 24(1):21-34. [pdf]

P. Keating, D. Byrd, E. Flemming, & Y. Todaka. (1994) Phonetic analyses of word and segment variation using the TIMIT corpus of American English. Speech Communication, 14:131-142. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1992) Perception of assimilation in consonant clusters: A gestural model. Phonetica, 49:1-24. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1992) Preliminary results on speaker-dependent variation in the TIMIT database. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 92(1):593-596. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1992) Pitch and duration of yes-no questions in Nchufie. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 22(1/2):12-26. Reprinted in H. Koopman and M. Kural, (Eds.), 1994, Aspects of Nchufie Grammar, UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics, vol. 14, 17-36. [pdf]

Conference Proceedings

Haley Hsu, Dani Byrd, Khalil Iskarous, Louis Goldstein. (2025) Instantaneous changes in acoustic signals reflect syllable progression and cross-linguistic syllable variation. Proceedings of Interspeech 2025. 96-100 https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2025/hsu25_interspeech.html

Kevin Huang, Sean Foley, Jihwan Lee, Yoonjeong Lee, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2025) On the relationship between accent strength and articulatory features. Proceedings of Interspeech 2025. 4538-4542 [best student paper winner]. https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2025/huang25h_interspeech.html

Tiantian Feng, Thanathai Lertpetchpun, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2025) Developing a top-tier framework in naturalistic conditions challenge for categorized emotion prediction: From speech foundation models and learning objective to data augmentation and engineering choices. Proceedings of Interspeech 2025. 4643-4647 https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2025/feng25_interspeech.html

Lertpetchpun, T., Feng, T., Byrd, D., & Narayanan, S. (2025). Developing a high-performance framework for speech emotion recognition in naturalistic conditions challenge for emotional attribute prediction. arXiv [Cs.LG]. Proceedings of Interspeech 2025. 4648-4652 https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2025/lertpetchpun25_interspeech.html

Prakash Kumar, Ye Tian, Yongwan Lim, Sophia X. Cui, Christina Hagedorn, Dani Byrd, Uttam K. Sinha, Shrikanth Narayanan, Krishna S. Nayak. (2024) State-of-the-art speech production MRI protocol for new 0.55 Tesla scanners. Proc. Interspeech 2024, 2590-2594.

J. Campbell, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein. (2023) Viable signal periodicities in speech rhythm. In: R. Skarnitzl, & J. Volín (Eds.) Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences – ICPhS 2023 (pp. 659-663). International Phonetic Association. [pdf]

M. Oh, D. Byrd, and S. Narayanan. (2021) Leveraging real-time MRI for illuminating linguistic velum action. Proc. Interspeech 2021, 3964-3968, http://dx.doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1823

M. Oh, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein and S. Narayanan. (2020) Velum-oral timing and its stability in Korean nasal consonants. Proceedings of the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production. Tiede, Whalen, & Gracco (Eds.) Haskins Press. 164-167. [Miran Oh received 2nd place for outstanding student presentation] [pdf]

J. Krivokapić, W. Styler and D. Byrd. (2020) The role of speech planning in the articulation of pause postures. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP 2020).

Sorensen, T., Skordilis, Z., Toutios, A., Kim, Y. C., Zhu, Y., Kim, J., Lammert, A., Ramanarayanan, V., Goldstein, L., Byrd, D., Nayak, K. & Narayanan, S. S. (2017) Database of volumetric and real-time vocal tract MRI for speech science. Proceedings of Interspeech 2017. [pdf]

A. Toutios, S. G. Lingala, C. Vaz, J. Kim, J. Esling, P. Keating, M. Gordon, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, K. S. Nayak, S. S. Narayanan. (2016) Illustrating the production of the International Phonetic Alphabet sounds using fast real-time magnetic resonance imaging. Proceedings of Interspeech 2016. [pdf]

F.-Y. Hsieh, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd and S Narayanan. (2013) Truncation of pharyngeal gesture in English diphthong [aI]. Proceedings of Interspeech 2013 [pdf]

M. Proctor, L. Goldstein, A. Lammert, D. Byrd, A. Toutios and S. Narayanan. (2013) Velic coordination in French nasals: Real-time magnetic resonance imaging study. Proceedings of Interspeech 2013, 973-977. [pdf]

Z. Yang, V. Ramanarayanan, D. Byrd and S. Narayanan. (2013) The effect of word frequency and lexical class on articulatory-acoustic coupling. Proceedings of Interspeech 2013. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, A. Lammert, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein and S. Narayanan. (2011) Planning and execution in soprano singing and speaking behavior: An acoustic/articulatory study using real‐time MRI. International Seminar on Speech Production, Montreal, Canada.

V. Ramanarayanan, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd and S. Narayanan. (2011) An MRI study of articulatory settings of L1 and L2 speakers of American English. International Seminar on Speech Production, Montreal, Canada.

B. Parrell, L. Goldstein, S. Lee and D Byrd. (2011) Temporal coupling between speech and manual motor actions. International Seminar on Speech Production, Montreal, Canada.

B. Parrell, S. Lee, & D. Byrd (2010) Evaluation of juncture strength using articulatory synthesis of prosodic gestures and functional data analysis. Speech Prosody 2010.

E. Holsinger, D. Cheng-Huan Li, E. Kaiser and D. Byrd. (2010) Visual grouping and prosodic grouping: Effects of spatial information on prosodic boundary strength. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

B. Parrell, L. Goldstein, S. Lee, and D. Byrd. (2010) Articulatory evidence for functional coupling of speech and non-speech motor tasks. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein and S. Narayanan. (2010) A joint acoustic-articulatory study of nasal spectral reduction in read versus spontaneous speaking styles. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein and Shrikanth S. Narayanan. (2010) Investigating articulatory setting—pauses, ready position, and rest—using Real-Time MRI, In Proceedings of InterSpeech, 2010 [pdf]

Y.C. Kim, J.F. Nielsen, S. Narayanan, D. Byrd, K.S. Nayak. (2008). Application of compressed sensing to 3D imaging of the vocal tract for speech MRI. Proc. ISMRM 16th Scientific Sessions, Toronto, May 2008, p. 2003. [pdf]

E. Bresch, D. Riggs, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, S. Lee and S. Narayanan. (2008) An analysis of vocal tract shaping in English sibilant fricatives using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. Proceedings of InterSpeech, 2823-2826. [pdf]

D. Byrd & K. Harris. (2007) Identifying and evaluating apraxic speech deficits using magnetometry. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Saarbrucken, Germany). [pdf]

D. Byrd, R. Campos-Astorkiza, M. Shepherd (2006). Gestural de-aggregation via prosodic structure. Proceedings of the 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil. [pdf]

E. Bresch, J. Adams, A. Pouzet, S. Lee, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan (2006). Semi-automatic processing of real-time MR image sequences for speech production studies. Proceedings of the 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil. pp. 427-434. [pdf]

D. Byrd (2003) Frontiers and challenges in Articulatory Phonology. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. (Barcelona, Spain). [pdf]

S. Yildrim, S. Narayanan, D. Byrd, S. Khurana (2003) Acoustic analysis of preschool children's speech. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. (Barcelona, Spain). [pdf]

J. Shin, S. Narayanan, L. Gerber, A. Kazemzadeh, D. Byrd (2002) Analysis of user behavior under error conditions in spoken dialogs. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, (September, 2002, Colorado). [pdf]

S. Arunachalam, D. Gould, E. Andersen, D. Byrd, and S. Narayanan. (2001) Politeness and frustration language in child-machine interactions. In Proc. Eurospeech, (Aalborg, Denmark), pp. 2675-2678, 2001. [pdf]

S. Curtin, T. H. Mintz, & D. Byrd. (2000) Coarticulatory cues enhance infants' recognition of syllable sequences in speech. In Anna H.-J. Do, Laura Domínguez, and Aimee Johansen (Eds.) BUCLD 25: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 190-201. [pdf]

D. Byrd, C. P. Browman, L. Goldstein, & D. Honorof. (1999) Magnetometer and X-ray microbeam comparison. In J. J. Ohala, Y. Hasegawa, M. Ohala, D. Granville, & A. C. Bailey (Eds.). Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, New York: American Institute of Physics, 627-630. [pdf]

E. Saltzman & D. Byrd. (1999) Dynamical simulations of a phase window model of relative timing. In J. J. Ohala, Y. Hasegawa, M. Ohala, D. Granville, & A. C. Bailey, (Eds.). Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, New York: American Institute of Physics, 2275-2278. [pdf]

S. Narayanan, A. Kaun, D. Byrd, P. Ladefoged, & A. Alwan. (1996) Liquids in Tamil. In H. T. Bunnell & W. Idsardi (Eds.), Proceedings of ICSLP 96. Philadelphia, PA (Oct 1996) [invited paper], 797-800.

D. Shankweiler, K. S. Harris. W. Ni, D. Byrd, & S. Avrutin. (1996) Production in Broca’s aphasia: A case study of syntactic and phonetic aspects. Platform presentation at the 34th Academy of Aphasia Conference, November 3-5, London, UK. Brain and Language, 55(1), 14-16.

D. Byrd. (1995) Articulatory characteristics of single and blended lingual gestures. in K. Elenius & P. Branderud (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 438-441. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1993) Marshallese suffixal reduplication. In J. Mead, (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 61-77. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1992) Sex, dialects and reduction. In J. J. Ohala, T. M. Nearey, B. L. Derwing, M. M. Hodge & G. E. Wiebe (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 2, 827-830.

P. Keating, B. Blankenship, D. Byrd, E. Flemming, & Y. Todaka. (1992) Phonetic analyses of the TIMIT corpus of American English. In J. J. Ohala, T. M. Nearey, B. L. Derwing, M. M. Hodge & G. E. Wiebe (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 2, 823-826. [pdf]

Other Publications

D. Byrd (2016) "Our Un-Labelable Selves" USC Dornsife Magazine (Spring-Summer, 2016).

E. Bresch, Y.-C. Kim, K. Nayak, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan. (2008) Seeing speech: Capturing vocal tract shaping using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 25(3): 123-132, May, 2008. [pdf]

D. Byrd & J. Kreiman. (2006) Peter Nielsen Ladefoged • 1925 - 2006. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119(5), 2555. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1994) Articulatory Timing in English Consonant Sequences. as UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 86, Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1993) 54,000 American stops. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 83, 97-116. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1992) A note on the English palatalization process. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 81, 34-36. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1992) A note on English sentence-final stops. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 81, 37-38. [pdf]

Abstracts and Conference Presentations (without proceedings) chronological

E. Zsiga & D. Byrd. (1990) Acoustic evidence of overlap in consonant sequences. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 88(1):S127(A). [abstract]

D. Byrd. (1991) Segmental realization and sex-dependent variability in the TIMIT database. Presented at the Third Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Los Angeles, California.

D. Byrd. (1994) Gestural and prosodic influences on the articulation of consonant sequences. Presented at the June, 1994 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cambridge, Massachusetts. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 95(5,2):2820.

D. Byrd. (1994) Rate and reduction in consonant sequences. Presented at the 1994 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts.

D. Byrd, C. P. Browman, L. Goldstein, & D. Honorof. (1995) EMMA and X-ray microbeam comparison. Presented at the May 1995 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Washington D.C. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 97(5,2): 3365.

D. Byrd, A. Kaun, & S. Narayanan. (1996) Prosodic boundary effects in Tamil: an articulatory study. Presented at the January, 1996, meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Diego, California.

D. Byrd, S. Narayanan, A. Kaun, & E. Saltzman. (1996) Phrasal signatures in articulation. Presented at Fifth Conference on Laboratory Phonology, July, 1996, Evanston, Illinois.

D. Byrd & E. Saltzman. (1996) Distinguishing multiple prosodic boundaries in articulatory kinematics and dynamics. Presented at Third Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, December, 1996, Honolulu, Hawaii. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 100(4,2): 2823.

K. R. Pugh, B. A. Shaywitz, S. E. Shaywitz, D. Byrd, R. Fulbright, J. Gore. (1996) Auditory selective attention: An fMRI investigation. Presented at the October, 1996, meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, Illinois.

D. Shankweiler, K. S. Harris. W. Ni, D. Byrd, & S. Avrutin. (1996) Production in Brocas aphasia: A case study of syntactic and phonetic aspects. Platform presentation at the 34th Academy of Aphasia Conference, November 3-5, London, UK. Brain and Language, 55(1), 14-16.

D. Byrd & E. Saltzman. (1997) Distinguishing multiple prosodic boundaries in articulation. Presented at the January, 1997, meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, Illinois.

K. S. Harris, D. Shankweiler, W. Ni, & D. Byrd. (1997) Articulation and agrammatism in Brocas aphasia. Presented at the meeting of the American Speech and Hearing Association, Boston, Massachusetts.

D. Byrd. (1998) Intergestural coordination adjacent to multiple prosodic boundaries. Presented at the June 1998 meeting of the International Congress on Acoustics and the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, Washington. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress on Acoustics and the 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1255-1256.

M. Pouplier, L. Chen, L. Goldstein, & D. Byrd. (1999) Kinematic evidence for the existence of gradient speech errors. Presented at the November 1999 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Columbus, Ohio. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 106(4,2): 2242. [abstract]

D. Byrd, C. P. Browman, L. Goldstein, & D. Honorof. (1999) Magnetometer and X-ray microbeam comparison. In J. J. Ohala, Y. Hasegawa, M. Ohala, D. Granville, & A. C. Bailey, (Eds.). Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, New York: American Institute of Physics, 627-630.

I. Chitoran, L. Goldstein, & D. Byrd. (2000) Recoverability constraints on gestural overlap in Georgian stop sequences. Presented at the May 2000 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, Georgia. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 107(5,2): 2804.

E. Saltzman & D. Byrd. (2000) Demonstrating effects of parameter dynamics on gestural timing. Presented at the May 2000 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, Georgia. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 107(5,2): 2904.

I. Chitoran, L. Goldstein, & D. Byrd. (2000) Gestural overlap and recoverability: Articulatory evidence from Georgian. Presented at the June 2000 Seventh Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Netherlands.

M. Pouplier, L. Chen, L. Goldstein, & D. Byrd. (2000) Articulatory evidence for the existence of gradient speech errors. Presented at the June 2000 Seventh Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Netherlands.

S. Curtin, T. H. Mintz, & D. Byrd. (2000) Coarticulatory cues enhance infants' recognition of syllable sequences in speech. Presented at the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2000.

S. Curtin, T. H. Mintz, & D. Byrd. (2000) Coarticulatory information in natural speech stimuli is crucial for infant recognition of syllable sequences. Presented at the December 2000 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Newport Beach, California. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 108(2,2): 2480. [abstract]

L. Goldstein & D. Byrd. (2001) Dynamic units in speech production: Evidence from speech production errors. Invited talk at the June 2001 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 109(5,2): 2381.

E. Saltzman & D. Byrd. (2001) Accommodating underlying invariance and surface variability at phrasal junctures. CREST Workshop on Speech Motor Control and Modeling, Sapporo, Japan, September, 2001.

S. Curtin, T. H. Mintz, & D. Byrd. (2001) Stress, segmentation, and early representations. Workshop on Early Phonological Acquisition. Carry-le-Rouet (Marseilles), France, October, 2001.

D. Byrd. (2002) Commentary: Relating prosody and dynamic action units. The VIIIth Conference on Laboratory Phonology. New Haven, Connecticut, June 2002.

T. Fukaya & D. Byrd (2003) An articulatory examination of variable word-final flapping at phrase edges and interiors. Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, Tennessee, April 2003. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 113(4,2): 2258.

S. Narayanan, Nayak, D. Byrd, & S. Lee (2003) An approach to real-time magnetic resonance imaging of speech production. Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, Tennessee, April 2003. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113(4,2): 2258.

S. Yildrim, S. Narayanan, D. Byrd, S. Khurana (2003) Acoustic analysis of preschool children's speech. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, August 2003.

S. Lee, S. Narayanan, & D. Byrd (2003) Asymmetric kinematic changes in speaking rate explored with FDA. Acoustical Society of America, Austin, Texas, November 2003. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 114(4,2): 2393. [abstract]

A. Sethy, S. Narayanan, S. Lee & D. Byrd (2003) Toward data-driven modeling of dynamic vocal-tract data. Acoustical Society of America, Austin, Texas, November 2003. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 113(4,2): 2392. [abstract]

H. Nam, L. Goldstein, E. Saltzman & D. Byrd (2004) TADA: An enhanced, portable Task Dynamics model in MATLAB. Acoustical Society of America, New York, New York, May 2004. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 115(5,2): 2430. [abstract]

S. Lee, S. Narayanan, D. Byrd (2004) A developmental acoustic characterization of English diphthongs. Acoustical Society ofAmerica, New York, New York, May 2004. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. , 115(5,2): 2628. [abstract].

D. Byrd (2004) [invited address] Future challenges in speech communication research. Acoustical Society of America, New York, New York, May 2004. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 115(5,2): 2511-2512 [pdf]

D. Byrd, J. Krivokapić, S. Lee. (2004) On the temporal scope of boundary effects in articulation. Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, November 2004. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116(4,2): 2643. [abstract]

S. Lee, D. Byrd, J. Adams, D. Riggs. (2004) Interacting effects of phrasal and syllable position on consonant production. Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, November 2004. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116(4,2): 2643.

D. Byrd and S. Choi (2005) Syllable and phrase structure effects on consonant sequence timing. Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, October 2005. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118(3,2): 2035.

S. Choi and D. Byrd (2005) Evaluating gestural overlap as an influence on perception of consonant clusters. Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, October 2005. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118(3,2): 2036. [abstract]

S. Narayanan, E. Bresch, S. Tobin, D. Byrd, K. Nayak, & J. Nielsen (2006) Resonance tuning in soprano singing and vocal tract shaping: Comparison of sung and spoken vowels. Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI, June 2006. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119(5,2):3305 [abstract]

S. Tobin, D. Byrd, E. Bresch, S. Narayanan (2006) Syllable structure effects on velum-oral coordination evaluated with real-time MRI. Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI, June 2006. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119(5,2):3302.

S. Lee, S. Narayanan, and D. Byrd. (2006) Effects of varying speaking rates on spatiotemporal tongue-tip movement patterns. 5th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 7-10, 2006

D. Byrd and S. Choi (2006) At the juncture of prosody, phonology, and phonetics—The interaction of phrasal and syllable structure in shaping the timing of consonant gestures. 10th Conference on Laboratory Phonology June 2006.

R. Walker, D. Byrd, F. Mpiranya, C. DeFreitas, S. Lee (2006) The articulation of consonants in Kinyarwanda’s sibilant harmony. Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI, December 2006. J. Acoust. Soc. Am.

D. Byrd, R. Campos-Astorkiza, M. Shepherd (2006). Gestural de-aggregation via prosodic structure. 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil.

E. Bresch, J. Adams, A. Pouzet, S. Lee, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan (2006) Semi-automatic processing of real-time MR image sequences for speech production studies. 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil.

D. Byrd and J. Krivokapić (2008, invited oral presentation) Prosodic variation: Understanding scope, categoricity, and recursion in speech production and perception. Acoustical Society of America, Paris, France, June 2008. [pdf]

D. Riggs and D. Byrd (2008, invited oral presentation) The scope of phrasal lengthening in articulation: Prosody and prominence. Conference on Laboratory Phonology 11, New Zealand, 2008.

V. Ramanarayanan, Erik Bresch, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth S. Narayanan. (2009) Real-time MRI tracking of articulation during grammatical and ungrammatical pauses in speech. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, Portland, Oregon, May 2009. [pdf]

S. Lee, Benjamin Parrell, Dani Byrd. (2009) Computational modeling of juncture strength using articulatory synthesis of prosodic gestures. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, Portland, Oregon, May 2009. [pdf]

A. Lammert, Erik Bresch, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2009) An articulatory study of lexicalized and epenthetic schwa using real time magnetic resonance imaging. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, Portland, Oregon, May 2009. [pdf]

S. Lee, Dani Byrd. (2009) A study of articulatory kinematics of American English diphthongs. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, Portland, Oregon, May 2009. [pdf]

M. Proctor, Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd, Erik Bresch, Shri Narayanan. (2009) Articulatory comparison of Tamil liquids and stops using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, Portland, Oregon, May 2009. [pdf]

E. Holsinger, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2009) Beyond acoustic data: Characterizing disordered speech using direct articulatory evidence from real time imaging. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, Portland, Oregon, May 2009. [pdf]

J. Tepperman, Erik Bresch, Yoon-Chul Kim, Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd, Krishna Nayak, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2009) Articulatory analysis of foreign-accented speech using real-time MRI. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, Portland, Oregon, May 2009. [pdf]

B. Parrell, S. Lee, & D. Byrd (2010) Evaluation of juncture strength using articulatory synthesis of prosodic gestures and functional data analysis. Speech Prosody 2010.

E. Holsinger, D. Cheng-Huan Li, E. Kaiser and D. Byrd. (2010) Visual grouping and prosodic grouping: Effects of spatial information on prosodic boundary strength. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

B. Parrell, L. Goldstein, S. Lee, and D. Byrd. (2010) Articulatory evidence for functional coupling of speech and non-speech motor tasks. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein and S. Narayanan. (2010) A joint acoustic-articulatory study of nasal spectral reduction in read versus spontaneous speaking styles. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein and Shrikanth Narayanan (2010). Investigating articulatory setting - pauses, ready position and rest - using real-time MRI, in proceedings of: Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan, Sept 2010. [pdf]

B. Parrell, Sungbok Lee, Dani Byrd. (2010) Quantifying prosodic boundary strength using functional data analysis of articulatory movement. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (128, No. 4), October 2010.

S. Lee, Dani Byrd. (2010) Exploring a canonical correlation analysis technique for the study of articulatory coordination. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (128, No. 4), 2289. [pdf]

J. Krivokapić & D. Byrd. (2010). Prosodic boundaries and what they tell us about the nature of gestural goals in production. Poster presented at the Conference on Laboratory Phonology 12, July 8-10, 2010, Albuquerque, New Mexico. [pdf]

E. Kaiser, Holsinger, E., Li, D. C-H., Byrd, D. (2011) From seeing to saying: On the relation between visual grouping and prosodic grouping. New Trends in Experimental Psycholinguistics, Madrid, 28-30 September 2011.

B. Parrell, A. Lammert, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, & S. Narayanan (2011). Imaging and quantification of glottal kinematics with ultrasound during speech. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., November 2011. [pdf]

D. Riggs & D. Byrd (2011). The scope of phrasal lengthening: Articulatory and acoustic evidence. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., November 2011.

V. Ramanarayanan, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan. (2011) Statistical analysis of constriction task and articulatory posture variables during speech and pausing intervals using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., November 2011. [pdf]

S. Lee, J. Kim, D. Byrd (2011) Emotion effects on speech articulation: Local or global? J. Acoust. Soc. Am., November 2011. [pdf]

Fang-Ying Hsieh, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan. (2013) Pharyngeal constriction in English diphthong production. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 133(5):3607. DOI:10.1121/1.4806707 pp. 3607. [pdf]

Zhaojun Yang; V. Ramanarayanan; D. Byrd; S. Narayanan. (2013) An examination of the articulatory characteristics of prominence in function and content words using real-time magnetic resonance imaging . J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 133. [DOI: 10.1121/1.4800676] Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 19, 060195, p. 1. [pdf]

S. Lee, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan. (2016) Representations of electromagnetic articulography data for tongue shaping and vocal tract configuration. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 139(4):2221. [pdf]

Lee, Y., Danner, S.G., Parrell, B., Lee, S., Goldstein, L., Byrd, D. (2016) Prosodic convergence during and after a cooperative maze task. Conference on Laboratory Phonology.

Lee, Y., Danner, S.G., Parrell, B., Lee, S., Goldstein, L., Byrd, D. (2016) Acoustic and articulatory measures of prosodic convergence in a cooperative maze navigation task. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 140: 344. [pdf]

S. Lee, S. Harper, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd. (2017) On simultaneous electromagnetic articulography and electroglottography data acquisition. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 142, No. 4, Pt. 2, October 2017, 2582. [pdf]

A. Toutios, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, S. Narayanan. (2017) Articulatory compensation strategies employed by an aglossic speaker. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 142, No. 4, Pt. 2, October 2017, 2639. [pdf]

M. Oh, A. Toutios, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, S. Narayanan. (2017) Tracking larynx movement in real-time MRI data. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 142, No. 4, Pt. 2, October 2017, 2579. [pdf or abstract] [poster]

M. Llorens, D. Byrd, N. Vazquez, L. Goldstein, T. Sorensen, A. Toutios, S. Narayanan. (2017) Indexing tongue profile narrowing for English lateral consonants using 3D volumetric MR imaging. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 142, No. 4, Pt. 2, October 2017, 2581. [pdf]

M. Oh, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, S. Narayanan. (2018) Enriching the understanding of glottalic consonant production: Vertical larynx movement in Hausa ejectives and implosives. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. [abstract][poster]

Y. Lee, L. Goldstein and D. Byrd. (2019) Dynamical systems model of prosodic asymmetries in the co-expression of phrasal and segmental tone. Talk at the Linguistic Society of America 2019 Annual Meeting in New York City, New York, USA.

S. Danner, J. Krivokapić, and D. Byrd. (March 2019) Co-speech movement behavior at floor exchanges and interruptions. 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Denver, CO.

W. Chen, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan, K. Nayak. (May 2019) Intermittently Tagged Real-Time MRI Reveals Internal Tongue Motion during Speech Production. ISMRM 27th Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Montreal, Canada.

M. Oh and D. Byrd (May 2019) The prosody of corrective focus and its domain in Korean. 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Louisville, KY, USA. [abstract][poster]

M. Oh, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, S. Narayanan. (June 2019) Vertical larynx actions and larynx-oral timing in ejectives and implosives. 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) conference, Lecce, Italy. [abstract]

M. Oh, D. Byrd. (June 2019) Focus-induced articulatory prominence on velum actions in nasal geminates. presented at the CfP Workshop COFLIS Workshop on Prominence between Cognitive Functions and Linguistic Structures, satellite workshop at the 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) conference at Università di Bari, Dpt. Sc. della Formazione, Bari, Italy. [abstract][poster]

M. Oh, D. Byrd. ( 2019) Oral-velum actions in the articulation of nasal juncture geminates and singletons. San Diego December 2019 meeting of the Acoustical Meeting of America. [abstract][poster]

Nynaeve Perkins Booker, Cheyenne Laroque, Samantha Gordon Danner, Jelena Krivokapić and Dani Byrd. (2019) Co-speech laughter in a conversational speech task. San Diego December 2019 meeting of the Acoustical Meeting of America.

S. Gordon Danner, J. Krivokapić and D. Byrd. (2019) Co-speech movement behavior in a conversational turn-taking. San Diego December 2019 meeting of the Acoustical Meeting of America. JASA 146, 3082 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5137700

Y. Lee, L. Goldstein and D. Byrd. (2020) Laryngeal consonant and phrasal tone dynamics in Seoul Korean. Talk at the Linguistic Society of America 2020 Annual Meeting.

Z. Zhao, Y. Lim, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan, and K. Nayak. (2020) Improved 3D real-time MRI with Stack-of-Spiral (SOSP) trajectory and variable density randomized encoding of speech production. ISMRM August 2020.

M. Oh, D. Byrd. (2020) Internal gestural coordination for derived long nasals. Acoustical Society of America Meeting: Acoustics Virtually Everywhere, December 2020.

M. Oh, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein. (2021) Gestural timing and stability in Hausa implosives. Acoustical Society of America Meeting. Seattle, December 2021. [abstract]

S. Narayanan, D. Byrd. (2021). Inclusive machine intelligence and its promise for speech-centered societal application. Acoustical Society of America Meeting. Seattle, December 2021.

M. Oh, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd. (2022) Positional asymmetries in intra-segmental timing: Variability and modeling. Linguistics Society of America talk, January 2022. [pdf]

Y. Tian, W. Chen, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan, K. S. Nayak. (2022) Tongue deformation and strain estimation using tagged RT-MRI and optical flow. Power Pitch Presentation. ISMRM May 2022.

J. Campbell, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein. (2022) Frequency stability of articulatory and acoustic modulation functions. Acoustical Society of America.

J. Campbell, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein. (2023) Does the articulatory modulation function encode stress? Acoustical Society of America.

Woojae Jeong, Takfarinas Medani, Hamzeh Alturk, Colin McDaniel, Idan Blank, Dani Byrd, Assal Habibi, Baruch Cahn, Shrikanth Narayanan, Richard Leahy. Affective Response Modeling Leveraging EEG and Deep Learning Toward Mental Health Assessment. Poster at Organization for Human Brain Mapping Seoul Korea 2024 [site]

C. McDaniel, B. Cahn, W. Jeong, T. McGee, T. Medani, R. Leahy, K. Lerman, D. Byrd, I. Blank, S. Narayanan, A. Habibi. (2024) Individuals with and without suicidal ideation exhibit differences in N400 during suicide-related sentence processing. Program No. PSTR129.17/H38. Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, 2024. Online.

Sudarsana Kadiri, Rael Cahn, Dani Byrd, Idan Blank, Assal Habibi, Kristina Lerman, Takfarinas Medani, Colin McDaniel, Thomas McGee, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2024) Novel Measure for Predicting Depression and Suicidal Ideation: The Death Association-Reaction Score from a Sentence Classification Task. Program No. LBA007.040/LBA40. Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, 2024. Online.

Hsu, Byrd, Iskarous, Goldstein. (2024) Phase-locking of oscillatory acoustic signals reflects syllable progression and variation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 156, No. 4, Pt. 2, October 2024, A55.

Ng, K., Qureshi, A., Hsu, H., Byrd, D., Iskarous, K. (2024) Implementing Artificial Intelligence models for automatic vocal tract image segmentation. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Vol. 156, No. 4, Pt. 2, October 2024, A48.

T. Medani, S.R. Kadiri, W. Jeong, A. Kommineni, K. Avramidis, C. McDaniel, M. Hughes, I. Blank, D. Byrd, E. Kaiser, K. Lerman, B. Cahn, A. Habibi, R.M. Leahy, S. Narayanan. Multimodal neural and biobehavioral integration for predicting preconscious responses in mental health risk assessment. 2025. Workshop on Mapping Brain-Body-Behavior Signal Dynamics in Human Speech Production and Interaction (WMB&SPI), a Satellite Workshop of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025).

Woojae Jeong, A. Kommineni, K. Avramidis, Takfarinas Medani, C. McDaniel, Blank, I., Byrd D., R. Cahn, A. Habibi, S. Narayanan, R. M. Leahy, K. Lerman. (March 2025) Decoding Depression and Suicidality Related Neural Features from EEG. Poster at 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders. Breckenridge, CO.

Teaching of Record

USC Courses (*indicates originated course)

*Core 103 The Process of Change in Science: Human Speech (an honors GE "Thematic Option" course); Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Springs 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, upcoming 2026
*How We Speak. Freshman Seminar. Falls 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
*Speech and Hearing in Health and Breakdown. Freshmen General Education Seminar in the Life Sciences. Fall 2024, Fall 2025
Ling 275 Language and Mind (a Science and Technology General Education course); Falls 1999-2001, 2003-2004, 2006
*Ling 580 Advanced Phonetics, Springs 2000, 2001; renamed General Phonetics; Springs 2002-2005, 2007
Bisc 521/Neur 542/HCN 101, Hearing & Communication Neuroscience Core Course (team-taught); 2010, 2018, 2020, 2022
*USC micro-seminar for incoming students: Augusts 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018, 2009-2014, 2006, The Gift of Gab, Human Speech Production: Cross-Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects, Human Speech: Articulation, Acoustics, and Perception.

Yale Course

General Phonetics, Fall 1996

Invited Guest Lectures in Courses

Biocomplexity in speech production. Invited lecture, Bi/CNS 286bc Biocomplexity of Visual, Auditory, and Speech Perception,
California Institute of Technology, January 2000.

Electrical Engineering 114 Introduction to Speech and Image Processing, UCLA, April 2001.

At USC:

For Linguistics 115 (Fall 2003)

For Thematic Option Honors Program Core 103 (Spring 2005)

For Biological Sciences 462 (Fall 2005)

For Linguistics 580 (Fall 2006)

For Arts & Letters 100g (Fall 2003, Spring 2006)

For Linguistics 110 (Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2011)

For Linguistics 275 (Spring 2018)

For Linguistics 505a and Linguistics 505c (Falls 2017, 2018, 2019)

For Biological Sciences 321 (Springs 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

For Quantitative Biology 105 (Springs 2019, 2020, 2023, 2025)

Invited USC Presentations

Freshman Orientation, July 2000; July 2002; July 2004, July 2006, July 2007 “A little bit of linguistics”

Presentation at USC Parents Weekend, October 2003 “Producing & perceiving words”

Undergraduate Recruitment Faculty Panel, November 2004.

Faculty Showcase Presentation at New Student Orientation, July 2006

Graduate Student Symposium, February 2006, “Phonetics Laboratory: Goals and Approaches. Interdisciplinary approaches to psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research: Investigating speech perception and production”

Parkside Residential College, Guest Lecture, February 2008

Explore USC presentations, Spring 2008 - 2012

USC Academic and Professional Development Series: "Interviewing, Negotiating and Accepting Job Offers" (2012-2017)

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