First Publication of 2022!

Despite quite a few hurdles, 2021 was a successful year of research for our lab, and we had five different papers published! To start off another productive year in 2022, our latest paper was published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research:

Meemann, K., & Smiljanic, R. (2022). Intelligibility of Noise-Adapted and Clear Speech in Energetic and Informational Maskers for Native and Non-native Listeners. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00175

Read the full-text here, or head over to our publications page to see even more of our work!

181st ASA meeting

Seattle had some rainy winter weather, but indoors, everyone enjoyed being in person again to meet and discuss their work! Zhe-Chen presented “Speakers coarticulate less when facing real and imagined communicative difficulties: An analysis of read and spontaneous speech from the LUCID corpus.” and Rajka presented a talk on “Speech Communication: Talkers, listeners and signals.” We even ran into some lab alumni: so proud of Kevin and Jai’s graduate work!!

Wrapping up a unique semester

Spring 2020 was uniquely challenging and nothing like what we had imagined due to the pandemic. Fortunately, everyone in our lab was mostly healthy. Our regular Zoom meetings allowed us to maintain discussions about science and research moving forward, but most importantly lifted everyones’ spirit and strengthened our group during these challenging times. We obviously went all out to remotely celebrate in Zoom the conclusion of a semester like no other. Featuring wall decor made by Marlo, silly hats, and a song written and interpreted by Sarah Ransom-Laud. Congrats to the four lab members who are graduating this semester (who were with us for several years and will be greatly missed): Frida Ballard, Gabby Shaddock, Riley Prudent and (Dr.!) Sandie Keerstock. And congrats to everyone for holding on!

Congratulations, Dr. Keerstock!

Sandie successfully defended her dissertation: “Memory for speech of varying intelligibility: Effects of the perception and production of clear speech on recall and recognition memory for native and non-native listeners and talkers” (see the video of her presentation below). Congratulations, Dr. Keerstock!

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

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