Faculty

Canaan Breiss's research is in theoretical, computational, and experimental phonology, with particular interest in learning/acquisition, representation of overlapping and interacting phonological processes, and phonology’s interfaces with (morpho)syntax and the lexicon. He uses a diverse methodological toolkit: computational modeling (Bayesian & otherwise), corpus methods, online surveys of understudied languages, and behavioral experiments. (Assistant Professor, Dept. Linguistics)

Dani Byrd's particular interest is in articulatory timing or how the skilled, sound producing movements of the vocal tract are coordinated to reflect linguistic structuring, such as phrasal and syllable structure.  Her instrumentation portfolio includes kinematic point-tracking and real-time MRI of the moving vocal tract. (Professor, Dept. Linguistics)

Sandra Ferrari Disner works in the areas of phonetics and forensic linguistics. She is also interested in speaker identification, trademark law, enhanced transcription techniques, speech technology, and language translation. (Associate Professor [Teaching], Dept. Linguistics)

Louis Goldstein's work has been the development, with Catherine Browman, of a gesture-based approach to phonological and phonetic structure--Articulatory Phonology. His current research within this framework includes: phonological encoding in speech production; the emergence of phonological structure in development, modeled via the interaction of computational agents; and syllable structure understood as intergestural coordination. (Professor, Dept. Linguistics)

Khalil Iskarous's work focuses on the links between speech production and speech perception and the implication of these links to the phonological structure of languages with the specific goal of understanding how the dynamics of tongue and vocal fold movement structure acoustic signals and perceptual processes, supported by the development hardware and software platforms for measuring and simulating tongue and vocal fold motion. (Associate Professor, Dept. Linguistics)

Shrikanth Narayanan's interests include speech and language processing systems, with a focus on automatic speech recognition. Additionally, he explores biomedical imaging of articulation and modeling of speech production and speech acoustics. (University Professor; Niki & C. L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery )

Stephanie Shih's research centers on the role of sound structures in the cognitive system and in the external world:  how phonology interacts with phonetics, phonological influences on morphosyntax and lexical variation, feature discovery in category learning, and the intersection of music and language.  Her work deploys statistical machine learning and corpus-based methods for natural language research. (Associate Professor, Dept. Linguistics)

Affiliated Faculty and Scholars

Deniz Rudin

Toben Mintz

Jason Zevin

Samantha Gordon Danner

Krishna Nayak

Sungbok Lee

Peter Ladefoged (in memoriam)