The following people are (or have been) involved with the Douglass Phonetics Lab in various ways. Many of them have broad interdisciplinary interests, and also work in other labs or research groups on campus.

Current

Lynnika Butler has carried out analysis of Japanese intonation in various speech styles for the lab’s project on the relationship between intonation and speech segmentation. She is currently investigating the role of literacy in phonological representation. She is also working on the Mutsun database project. Lynnika is a graduate student in the Linguistics Department.

Maggie Camp is investigating Japanese lesbian speech, both in terms of acoustic
and perceptual analyses as well as sociolinguistic expressions of identity.
Maggie is a graduate student in the East Asian Studies department.

Erin Good has been working on perception of intonation, as well as working in the Phonological Acquisition Lab. Erin is a graduate student in the Linguistics Department.

 

Amy LaCross currently takes care of the lab schedule and is interested in Mongoloian phonology and phonetics. She is also intersted in speech perception, psycholinguistics, phonology, phonetics. Amy is a graduate student in the Linguistics Department.

Yuka Matsugu has performed acoustic analyses for a project on the realization of fricatives and affricates in Japanese. Yuka is a graduate student in the Department of East Asian Studies.

 

Natalya Samokhina is investigating phonetics and phonology of voicing assimilation in consonant clusters in Russian native and non-native speech. She is a PhD candidate in the SLAT program.

 

Natasha Warner is the director of the Douglass Phonetics Lab, and is an associate professor in the Linguistics Department. She is working on Navajo spoken word recognition and L1/L2 phonological influence, as well as a project on the relationship between intonation and speech segmentation. She has also recently worked on incomplete neutralization and the effects of orthography in Dutch, effects of language-specific phonology on the segmentation and processing of Korean, the role of acoustic change in speech perception, and the processing of epenthetic stops.

Alumni

Sonya Bird completed her dissertation, “Phonetics and Phonology of Intervocalic Consonants of Lheidli,” in 2002. Sonya performed extensive acoustic analysis of Lheidli, an endangered Native American language spoken in British Columbia . She is a faculty member at the University of Victoria, where she is working on timing properties of doubly articulated sounds in Dakelh and St’at’imcets as well as other topics.

Rachel Hayes-Harb completed her dissertation in the SPAM lab and the Douglass Phonetics lab in 2003 with work on acquisition of second language phonological categories. She is a faculty member at the University of Utah.

Cathy Hicks Kennard (2006) completed her dissertation on the ways female and male drill instructors use their voices to convey authority as drill instructors. She is a faculty member at Central Michigan University.

Keith Johnson (2007) is investigating second language acquisition of the Spanish trill, using both acoustic and aerodynamic methods. Keith is a faculty member at California State University, Fresno.




Kyoko Masuda works on Japanese speakers’ acquisition of the r/l contrast. Kyoko is a graduate of the SLAT Program, and is a faculty member at Georgia Tech.

Naomi Ogasawara (2007) is working on psycholinguistic processing of Japanese devoiced or deleted vowels.

 

 

Benjamin V. Tucker (2007) is interested in fine phonetic detail and the production and processing of spontaneous speech. He is also working on documenting and describing the phonetics and phonologies of two highly endangered languages, Chemehuevi and Mohave. Ben is a faculty member of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta.

 

Heather Van Volkinburg (2007) worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant on the Mutsun database project. She is currently a graduate student in the Psychology department at Columbia University working in primate cognition.

 

 

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