Congratulations to Rajka on her promotion to full professor! This is hard-earned recognition of her many accomplishments in research, teaching, mentoring, and professional service. The Department of Linguistics and the UT Sound Lab all gathered last Friday at Gabriel’s cafe to celebrate the event!
New publication!
Alcorn, S., Meemann, K., Clopper, C., & Smiljanic, R. (2020). “Acoustic cues and linguistic experience as factors in regional dialect classification.” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Special Issue “The Southern United States: Social Factors and Language Variation.” https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0000551
Congrats Kirsten!
Congratulations to Kirsten Meemann who has been named recipient of the Technical Committee on Speech Communication Best Paper Award—Second Place for her presentation of “The effect of clear speech and masking noise on listening effort in native and non-native listeners” at the ASA meeting in San Diego!
New publication!
Keerstock, S., & Smiljanic, R. (2019). Clear speech improves listeners’ recall. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(6), 4604–4610. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5141372
ASA178 in San Diego
It was a great week of presentations and meetings with friends! Kirsten presented “The effect of clear speech and masking noise on listening effort in native and non-native listeners” and Zhe-chen presented “Speaking clearly improves speech segmentation in optimal listening conditions“.
New publication!
Hoyoung Yi, Rajka Smiljanic and Bharath Chandrasekaran (2019). The Effect of Talker and Listener Depressive Symptoms on Speech Intelligibility. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 1-13
https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-S-19-0112
Linguistics Colloquy: Rajka Smiljanic – Department of Linguistics Kansas University
Rajka will be giving a talk at the Linguistics Colloquy in the Linguistics Department at Kansas University on Thursday, November 21, 2019, 4 – 6PM, Blake Hall, Room 206:
