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Ann R. Bradlow

Professor of Linguistics

Northwestern University, Linguistics Department,

2016 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA

Tel: (847) 491-8054, Fax: (847) 491-3770

Email: abradlow@northwestern.edu

CV (with downloadable papers)

 

Teaching

 

Sample syllabi for courses that I teach regularly:

·       Linguistics 250: Sound Patterns in Human Language

·       Linguistics 450-2: Acoustic Phonetics & Speech Perception

·       Linguistics 451: Seminar in Sound Structure

 

“Special” course lectures notes:

Course title:  Clear speech: Applying Research Findings to the Classroom  [On-line seminar for Cochlear Corporation’s HOPE program, May 16, 2007 Archived version with audio available at: http://www.cochlearamericas.com/Support/791.asp).] 

 

Research

·       Speech Communication Research Group

·       Northwestern Phonetics Lab Facilities

 

Selected recent papers

·      Baker, R. E. and Bradlow, A. R. (In press) Variability in word duration as a function of probability, speech style and prosody. Language & Speech.

·      Van Engen, K. J., Baese-Berk, M., Baker, R. E., Choi, A., Kim, M. and Bradlow, A. R. (In press). The Wildcat Corpus of Native- and Foreign-Accented English: Communicative efficiency across conversational dyads with varying language alignment profiles. Language & Speech.

·      Smiljanic, R. and Bradlow, A. R. (2009) Speaking and hearing clearly: Talker and listener factors in speaking style changes. Linguistics and Language Compass, 3(1): 236–264.

·      Bradlow, A. R. and Bent, T. (2008) Perceptual adaptation to non-native speech. Cognition, 106, 707-729.

·      Hayes-Harb, R., Smith, B. L., Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R. (2008) Production and perception of final voiced and voiceless consonants by native English and native Mandarin speakers: Implications regarding the inter-language speech intelligibility benefit. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 664-679.

·      Clopper, C. G. and Bradlow, A. R. (2008) Perception of dialect variation in noise: Intelligibility and classification. Language and Speech, 51(3), 175-198.

·             Bradlow, A. R., Clopper, C. G. and Smiljanic, R. (2007). A perceptual similarity space for languages. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany.

·      Bradlow, A. R. and Alexander, J. A. (2007) Semantic-contextual and acoustic-phonetic enhancements for English sentence-in-noise recognition by native and non-native listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(4), 2339-2349.

·      Van Engen, K. and Bradlow, A. R. (2007) Sentence recognition in native- and foreign-language multi-talker background noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(1), 519-526.

·      Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R., and Wright, B. A (2006) The influence of linguistic experience on pitch perception in speech and non-speech sounds. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32(1), 97-103.

 

Last modified: July, 2009