Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Education

2006 - present
Ph.D. in Linguistics
University of Michigan
Specialization: Phonetics & Speech Perception
Advisors: Steven P. Abney & Patrice Speeter Beddor
2007
Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America
Stanford University
2006
JHU Summer School on Human Language Technology
Johns Hopkins University
1996
B.A. in Linguistics
University of Michigan

Research Interests

Phonetics/Phonology
speech perception, speech production, the lexicon, socioindexical influences on perception, language acquisition & change
Computational Ling.
speech synthesis, speech recognition, machine learning

Fellowships & Awards

2010 - 2011
Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan
2010
Humanities Candidacy Fellowship, University of Michigan
2008
National Science Foundation, Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship
2008
Pre-Candidate Research Grant, Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
2007
Linguistic Society of America, LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowship, LSA Summer Institute, Stanford University
2007
Summer Research Grant, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
2006 - 2007
First-Year Fellowship, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
2006
NAACL Summer School, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
2005 - 2006
Non-Traditional Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan

Teaching

Fall 2011
Linguistics/Anthropology 200,
Introduction to the Scientific Study of Language
Rice Univerisity
 
Linguistics/Anthropology 301/501,
Phonetics
Rice Univerisity
Fall 2009
Linguistics 209/Pyschology 242
Language & the Human Mind
Graduate Student Instructor
Professor Sam Epstein
Fall 2008
English 125
College Writing
English Language & Literature
Primary Instructor
Spring 2008
Linguistics 111
Introduction to Language
Primary Instructor
2006 - 2007
Introductory JavaScript Workshop
School of Information, University of Michigan
2004 - 2007
Web Security and Kerberos
Information Technology Security Services, University of Michigan
1997 - 1999
UNIX, perl programming, and various computing workshops
Information Technology Division, University of Michigan

Guest Teaching

September 2010
Topic: Exemplar Theories and Social Perception
Class: Advanced Phonetics
Professor Pam Beddor
July 2010
Topic: Montana Salish and Ultrasound Field Research
Class: Languages of the World
Jon Yip, Instructor
March 2010
Topic: Processing Figurative Speech
Class: Talking Minds
Professor Julie Boland
October 2009
Topic: Phonology, Speech Perception and Perceptual Illusions
Class: Language and Mind
Professor Sam Epstein
October 2008
Topic: Sound Change
Class: Historical Linguistics
Professor Sally Thomason
September 2008
Topic: Aerodynamic Measurement of Nasality
Class: Graduate Phonetics
Professor Pam Beddor

Professional Experience

2011 - 2012
Lecturer --Laboratory Phonology, Department of Linguistics, Rice University
2007 - 2010
Journal Assistant & Student Board Member, Language Learning Journal, Blackwell Publishing
2009 - 2010
Research Assistant, Professor Pam Beddor, Michigan Phonetics & Phonology Laboratory
2007 - 2008
Research Assistant, Professors Pam Beddor & A. Coetzee, Michigan Phonetics & Phonology Laboratory
1997 - 2007
Webmaster, University of Michigan
1996 - 1997
Network Administrator, School of Education, University of Michigan
1993-1994
Research Assistant, Richard W. Bailey, Department of English Language & Literature, University of Michigan

Presentations & Publication

(in preparation)
“The Perceptual Time Course of Coarticulation” — P.S. Beddor, Julie Boland, Andries Coetzee and Kevin B. McGowan
November 2010
New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 39) — “Examining Listeners' Use of Sociolinguistic Information During Early Phonetic Judgments”
October 2010
Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology (MCWOP 16) — “Listener Expectations and the Processing of Foreign-Accented Speech.”
July 2010
Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 12) — Poster: “The Perceptual Time Course of Coarticulation”, P.S. Beddor, Kevin B. McGowan, Julie Boland, and Andries Coetzee
January 2010
Linguistic Society of America — Poster: “Aerodynamic Modeling of Coarticulation for Unit Selection Synthesis”
December 2009
University of Michigan Colloquium: “Aerodynamic Modeling of Coarticulation Improves Concatenative Synthesis”
October 2009
158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America — Poster: “The Perceptual TIme Course of Coarticulatory Nasalization”, P.S. Beddor, Julie Boland, Andries Coetzee and Kevin B. McGowan
October 2009
158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America — Poster: “Aerodynamic Modeling for Concatenative Speech Synthesis”
(in press)
Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 45) proceedings — “Lexical Reflexes of the Syllable Contact Law”
October 2008
Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology (MCWOP 14) — “Pointwise Mutual Information and the Syllable Contact Law”
January 2008
CUNY Conference On The Syllable — “Allophonic cues to syllabification”
(Presented by first author Andries Coetzee)
November 2004
Internet2 — WebISO Versions and Implementation Strategies, Panel member, San Diego
November 2003
EduCause — The Quest for Web Single-SignOn, Presenter, Anaheim
November 2003
ApacheCon — Open Source Web Single SignOn, Presenter, Las Vegas
July 2003
Internet2 — Open-Source Web Initial SignOn Packages, Presenter, Enterprise Authentication Workshop, Boulder

Departmental Service & Participation

2010-2011
Graduate Student Member of Linguistics Executive Committee
2010-2011
Graduate Student Representative at Faculty Meetings
2007-2009
Co-chair of Michigan Linguistics Colloquium Committee
April 2007
Contributed review of the Experimental Methods in Optimality Theory (ExPOT) conference.
2006 - 2010
Member of web site oversight and programming committee
2006 - present
Active in recruitment events and in support of the linguistics undergraduate club.
2006 - present
Active partipant and presenter at:
  • Phonetics/Phonology Discussion Group (Phondi)
  • Computational Linguistics Lab Group
  • Psycholinguistics Lab Group

Selected Software Projects

Technologies

Programming
python, perl, Praat, C, Bourne shell, JavaScript, awk, tcl, SQL, PL/SQL, Objective C
Systems
RDBMS systems (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL), UNIX administration & programming (Linux, OpenBSD, MacOS, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, etc.), HTML, XML, CSS, LaTeX

Languages

  • English (native)
  • German (intermediate)
  • Irish (beginner)
  • Montana Salish (articulatory research)

Affiliations

  • 2006 - present Linguistic Society of America
  • 2009 - present Acoustical Society of America
  • 2010 - present Association for Laboratory Phonology