Ann Bradlow
Department of Linguistics
2016 Sheridan Road
Evanston, Illinois 60208
Northwestern University
Tel.: (847) 491-8054
email: HUabradlow@northwestern.eduU
Education
1991-1993 Ph.D., Linguistics, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York
1988-1991 M. A., Linguistics, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York
1985-1986 Auditrice Libre (Visiting Scholar),
Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, Paris, France
1983-1987 A. B. (with honors), Linguistics,
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Professional Experience
2008-present Professor, Department of Linguistics,
Northwestern University
2007- present Chair, Department of Linguistics,
Northwestern University
2004-2008 Associate Professor, Department of
Linguistics, Northwestern University
1998-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of
Linguistics, Northwestern University
1996-1998 Postdoctoral Fellow, Auditory
Neuroscience Laboratory, Program in Audiology, Northwestern University
1993-1996 NIH Postdoctoral Trainee, Speech Research Laboratory,
Department of Psychology, Indiana University
October 1995 Invited Researcher, Advanced
Telecommunications Research - Human Information Processing Research
Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan
August 1995 Participant, Sensimetrics/MIT Special
Summer Course, Speech Synthesis Based on Source-Filter Models, Mariefred,
Sweden
July 1994 Invited Researcher, Advanced Telecommunications Research
- Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan
1988- 1993 Teaching Assistant, Department of Modern Languages &
Linguistics, Cornell University
Professional
Honors and Affiliations
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America,
elected 2008; citation: "For
contributions to variation in speech intelligibility.”
Fellow, Hugh Knowles Center for Clinical and Basic Science in Hearing
and Its Disorders at Northwestern University
Member, Linguistic Society of America
Associate Editor (Speech Perception): Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
Speech Perception (3-year term, 2004 – 2007)
Grants
External
Funding Agencies (PI, Co-PI, or Sponsor):
Bradlow, A. R. (Principal Investigator). Talker-Listener
Alignment during Speech Production and Perception. National Institute for Deafness & Other
Communication Disorders Grant # R56
DC005794. Direct costs: $200,000. Grant period: 7/24/09-6/30/10.
Bradlow,
A. R. (Principal Investigator). Production and perception of clear speech.
National Institute for Deafness & Other Communication Disorders Grant #
DC05794. Grant period: 7/1/04-6/30/08 (no-cost extensions to 6/30/09).
Competitive renewal pending.
Bradlow,
A. R. (Principal Investigator). Auditory training in learning-disabled
children. National Institute for Deafness & other Communication Disorders
Grant # DC03176. Grant period: 5/1/98 – 4/30/01 (no-cost extensions to
4/30/03).
Kraus,
N. (Principal Investigator), Bradlow, A. R., Zecker, S., and Nicol, T.
(Co-Investigators): Neural
representation of acoustic elements of speech.
National Institute for Deafness & Other Communication Disorders
Grant # DC001510. Grant period: 9/1/02-8/31/07.
Van Engen, K. (Principal Investigator), Bradlow, A. R. (Sponsor). Linguistic factors in speech-in-speech perception. Individual National Research Service Award (Pre-doctoral level) # F31 DC009516. Grant period: 2009-2011.
Clopper, C. G. (Principal Investigator), Janet Pierrehumbert
(Co-Sponsor), Bradlow, A. R.
(Co-Sponsor). Perception and Representation of Dialect Variation. Individual
National Research Service Award (Post-doctoral level) # F32 DC007237. Grant
period: 7/1/05-6/30/08.
Bent,
T. (Principal Investigator), Bradlow, A. R. (Sponsor). Perception and
production of non-native supra-segmental categories. Individual National
Research Service Award (Pre-doctoral level) # F31 CD006515. Grant period: 9/1/03-8/31/05.
External Funding Agencies
(Consultant/Project partner):
Hazan, V. (Principal
Investigator). Speaker-controlled variability
in connected discourse: acoustic-phonetic characteristics and impact on speech
perception. Economic and Social Research
Council, UK. Grant period: 03/01/08 – 2/28/11.
Boyce,
S. (Principal Investigator), Speech production and sleep deprivation. National Institute for Deafness & Other
Communication Disorders. Grant period:
4/1/06-3/31/08.
Internally funded:
Bradlow,
A. R. (Principal Investigator).
Northwestern University Research Grants Committee Individual Research
Grant. Production and Perception of Foreign-Accented English. Grant period: 05/17/02 – 05/17/03.
Bradlow, A. R. (Principal Investigator), Bruce Smith (Co-Principal Investigator): Northwestern University Seed Grant for Research on Culture, Language, and Cognition: Adult non-native language sound structure acquisition. Grant period: Summer 2001 – Spring 2002.
Bradlow, A. R. (Principal Investigator). Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Course Enhancement Grant for purchase of Speech Production and Perception CD-ROM (from Sensimetrics Corporation) and microphones for Linguistics 207 (Sound Patterns in Human Language.) Spring 2000.
Publications
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Refereed
Articles
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Accepted/In press |
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. Clopper, C. G. and Bradlow, A. R. (Accepted). Perceptual dialect classification by native
and non-native listeners. Journal of
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2009 |
Baker, R. E. and Bradlow, A. R. (2009) Variability in word duration as a function of probability, speech style and prosody. Language & Speech, 52(4), xx-xx. |
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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. |
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2008 |
Clopper, C. G. and Bradlow, A. R. (2008). Perception of dialect variation in noise: Intelligibility and classification. Language and Speech, 51(3), 175-198. |
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Smiljanic, R. and Bradlow, A. R. (2008a) Temporal organization of English clear and plain speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,124(5), 3171-3182. |
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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. |
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Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R. and Smith, B. L. (2008). Production and perception of temporal contrasts in native and non-native speech. Phonetica, 65, 131-147. |
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Smiljanic, R. and Bradlow, A. R. (2008b). Stability of temporal contrasts across clear and conversational speech. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 91-113. |
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Bradlow, A. R. and Bent, T. (2008) Perceptual adaptation to non-native speech. Cognition, 106, 707-729. |
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Johnson KL, Nicol TG, Zecker SG, Bradlow A. R., Skoe E, Kraus N. (2008). Brainstem encoding of voiced consonant-vowel stop syllables. Clinical Neurophysiology 119, 2623-2635. Russo,N. M., Skoe, E.,Trommer, B., Nicol, T. Zecker, S., Bradlow, A. R., Kraus, N. (2008) Deficient brainstem encoding of pitch in children with autism spectrum disorders. Clinical Neurophysiology, 119, 1720-1731. |
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2007 |
Bradlow, A. R. and Alexander, J. A. (2007). HUSemantic-contextual and acoustic-phonetic enhancements for English sentence-in-noise recognition by native and non-native listeners.UH Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(4), 2339-2349. |
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Van Engen, K. and Bradlow, A. R. (2007). HUSentence recognition in native- and foreign-language multi-talker background noise.UH Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(1), 519-526. |
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2006 |
Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R., and Wright, B. A (2006). HUThe influence of linguistic experience on pitch perception in speech and non-speech sounds.UH Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32(1), 97-103 |
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2005 |
Smiljanic, R. and Bradlow, A. R. (2005) HUProduction and perception of clear speech in Croatian and English.UH Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118 (3), 1677-1688. |
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2004 |
Pierrehumbert, J. B., Bent, T., Munson, B., Bradlow, A. R., and Bailey, J. M. (2004). HUThe influence of sexual orientation on vowel productionUH. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116 (4), 1905-1908 Liu, S., Del Rio, E., Bradlow, A. R., and Zeng, F.-G. (2004). HUClear speech perception in acoustic and electrical hearing. UH Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116 (4), 2374-2383. |
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2003 |
Bent, T. and Bradlow, A. R. (2003). HUThe interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit.UH Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114 (3), 1600-1610. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Kraus, N., and Hayes, E. (2003). HUSpeaking clearly for learning-impaired children: Sentence perception in noise. UH Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46, 80-97. |
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2002 |
Bradlow, A. R., and Bent, T. (2002). HUThe clear speech effect for non-native listeners.UH Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112 (1), 272-284. |
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Bradlow, A. R. (2002). HUConfluent talker- and listener-related forces in clear speech production. UH In Gussenhoven, C. & Warner, N. (Eds.) ULaboratory Phonology 7U. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 241-273. |
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2001 |
Cunningham, J., Nicol, T., Zecker, S., Bradlow, A. R., and Kraus, N. (2001). HUNeurobiologic responses to speech in noise in children with learning problems: Deficits and strategies for improvementUH. Clinical Neurophysiology, 112 (5), 758-767. |
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2000 |
Allen, J., Kraus, N. and Bradlow, A. R. (2000). HUNeural representation of consciously imperceptible speech stimuli.UH Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 1383-1393. |
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Kraus, N., Bradlow, A. R., Cheatham, M. A., Cunningham, J., King, C. D., Koch, D. B., Nicol, T. G., McGee, T. J., Stein, L. and Wright, B. A. (2000). HUConsequences of neural asynchrony: A case of auditory neuropathy.UH Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 1, 46-63. |
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1999 |
Bradlow, A. R., Kraus, N., Nicol, T. G., McGee, T. J., Cunningham, J. and Carrell, T. D. (1999). HUEffects of lengthened transition duration on discrimination and neural representation of synthetic CV syllables by normal and learning-disabled children. UH Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106 (4), 2086-2096. |
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Bradlow, A. R. and Pisoni, D. B. (1999). HURecognition of spoken words by native and non-native listeners: Talker-, listener- and item-related factors.UH Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106 (4) , 2074-2085. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Akahane-Yamada, R., Pisoni, D. B. and Tohkura, Y. (1999). HUTraining Japanese listeners to identify English /r/ and /l/: Long-term retention of learning in perception and production.UH Perception & Psychophysics, 61 (5), 977-985. |
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Koch, D. B., McGee, T, J., Bradlow, A. R. and Kraus, N. (1999). HUAn acoustic-phonetic approach toward understanding neural processes and speech perceptionUH. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 10, 304-318. |
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Bradlow,
A. R., Nygaard, L. C. and Pisoni, D. B. (1999). HUEffects of talker, rate and amplitude
variation on recognition memory for spoken wordsUH. Perception
& Psychophysics, 61 (2), 206-219. |
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1997 |
Bradlow, A. R., Pisoni, D. B., Yamada, R. A. and Tohkura, Y. (1997). HUTraining Japanese listeners to identify English /r/ and /l/: IV. Some effects of perceptual learning on speech production.UH Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101 (4), 2299-2310. |
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1996 |
Bradlow, A. R., Torretta, G. M. and Pisoni, D. B. (1996). HUIntelligibility of normal speech I: Global and fine-grained acoustic-phonetic talker characteristics.UH Speech Communication, 20, 255-272. |
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Bradlow, A. R. (1996). HUA perceptual comparison of the /i/-/e/ and /u/-/o/ contrasts in English and Spanish: Universal and language-specific aspects. UH Phonetica, 53, 55-85. |
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1995 |
Bradlow, A. R. (1995). HUA comparative acoustic study of English and Spanish vowels. UH Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97 (3), 1916-1924. |
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Chapters and Proceedings
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2008 |
Bradlow, A. R. (2008). Training non-native language sound patterns: Lessons from training Japanese adults on the English /r/-/l/ contrast. In Hansen Edwards, J. G. and Zampini, M. L. (Eds.), Phonology and Second Language Acquisition, John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp.287-308. |
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2007 |
Bradlow, A. R. (2007). HUInformation Flow and
Plasticity across Levels of Linguistic Sound Structure: Responses to the Target Papers by Cutler
& Weber and by Goldinger. UH Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of
Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany Bradlow, A. R., Clopper, C. G. and Smiljanic, R. (2007). HUA perceptual similarity space for languages.UH Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany |
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Clopper, G. G. and Bradlow, A. R. (2007). HUNative and non-native perceptual dialect similarity spaces.UH Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany. |
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Smiljanic, R. and Bradlow, A. R. (2007). HUClear speech intelligibility: Listener and talker effectsUH. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany. |
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Dees, T., Bradlow, A. R., Dhar, S., and Wong, P.C. (2007). HUEffects of noise on lexical tone perception by native and non-native listenersUH. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany. |
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Bent,
T., Bradlow, A. R., and Smith,
B. (2007). HUPhonemic errors in different word positions and their effects
on intelligibility of non-native speech: All's well that begins wellUH. In
O.-S. Bohn
& M. J. Murray J. (Eds.), ULanguage Experience in Second Language Speech
Learning: In honor of James Emil FlegeU, John Benjamins Publishing Company. Pp.331-348. |
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2005 |
Alexander, J. A., Wong, P. C. M. and Bradlow, A. R. (2005) HULexical tone perception by musicians and non-musicians.UH Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, Lisbon, Portugal. |
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2003 |
Bradlow, A. R. and Bent, T. (2003). HUListener adaptation to foreign accented EnglishUH. Proc. XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain. |
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Smith, B., Bradlow, A. R., and Bent, T. (2003). HUProduction and perception of temporal contrast in foreign accented English.UH Proc. XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain. |
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2001 |
Wright, B. A. and Bradlow, A. R. (2001). HUExplanations of auditory perceptual learning from the perspectives of psychophysics and speech scienceUH. In D. J. Breebaart, A. J. M. Houtsma, A. Kohlrausch, V. F. Prijs, & R. Schoonhoven (Eds.), UPhysiological and Psychophysical Bases of Auditory FunctionU. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing. Pp. 477-484. |
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1999 |
Bradlow, A. R., Koch, D. B., Kraus, N. and Pisoni, D. B. (1999). Effects of talker and lexical variability on speech perception by “special populations.” Proc XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, CA, Pp. 1953-1956. |
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1996 |
Akahane-Yamada, R., Tohkura, Y., Bradlow, A. R. and Pisoni, D. B. (1996). Does training in speech perception modify speech production? Proc. Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Philadelphia, PA, Vol. 2, Pp. 606-609. |
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1995 |
Bradlow, A. R., Nygaard, L. C. and Pisoni, D. B. (1995). Indexical and linguistic attributes in speech perception: A review of some recent findings. In B. Kanki and R. Prinzo (Eds.), UMetrics and Methods in Speech CommunicationU. Office of Federal Aviation Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Department of Defense, Pp. 67-78. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Nygaard, L. C. and Pisoni, D. B. (1995). On the contribution of instance-specific characteristics to speech perception. In J. Schoentgen, J-M. Ramlot, C. Sorin, H. Méloni, and J. Mariani (Eds.), ULevels in Speech Communication: Relations and Interactions.U The Netherlands: Elsevier. Pp. 13-24. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Pisoni, D. B., Yamada, R. A. and Tohkura, Y. (1995). The effect of training in /r/-/l/ perception on /r/-/l/ production by Japanese speakers. Proc. XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. 4, Pp. 562-565. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Pisoni, D. B. and Torretta, G. M. (1995). Paralinguistic aspects of speech intelligibility. Proc. XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. 1, Pp. 198-201. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Port, R. F. and Tajima, K. (1995). The combined effects of prosodic variation on Japanese mora timing. Proc. XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, Vol. 4, Pp. 344-347. |
Letter
to the Editor and Book Review
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1999 |
Carrell, T. D., Bradlow, A. R., Nicol, T. G., Koch, D. B. and Kraus, N. (1999). Interactive software for evaluating auditory discrimination. Ear and Hearing, April, 175-176. |
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1996 |
Bradlow, A. R. (1996). Review of P. A. Keating (Ed.) UPapers in Laboratory Phonology III: Phonological Structure and Phonetic FormU. Phonology, 13, 275-279. |
Invited
Presentations and Colloquia
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2009 |
Bi-directional
talker-listener adaptation in speech communication. Invited
talk to the Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, April, 2009 Invited
talk to the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto-Mississauga,
March, 2009 |
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2007 |
0BLevels
of Speech and Noise Interaction.
Invited talk to the Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Institut des
Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon, France.
December, 2007 1BWhat
Humans do and what computers should do to handle speech in noise. Invited
“Hot Topics in Acoustics lecture” to be presented with Carol Espy-Wilson at
the 154th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. New
Orleans, LA. November, 2007. 2BSpeech
Intelligibility and the Vowel Space: Clear Speech. Invited talk for a special session on
“Speech Intelligibility and the Vowel Space” at the 154th meeting
of the Acoustical Society of America. New Orleans, LA. November, 2007. To be presented with Rajka Smiljanic. 3BInvited commentator. Special session on Second Language
Acquisition and Exemplar Theory. XVIth International Congress of
Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany.
August 2007. 4BInvited speaker, The 4th International Conference on
Phonology and Morphology, Seoul, Korea, June 2007. Clear
Speech: Applying Research Findings to the Classroom. HOPE online seminar, Cochlear America, May
2007. |
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2006 |
5BListener Adaptation to Foreign-Accented Speech. Invited talk to the Language Comprehension
Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Nijmegen, The Netherlands, November, 2006. Language-Specificity and Speech Intelligibility Invited talk to the
Speech Communication Group of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT,
May, 2006. |
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2005 |
6BSecond
Language Phonetics and Phonology.
Invited lecturer at the Summer School on Language Contact and Language
Acquisition. Norwegian University of
Science and Technology. Trondheim,
Norway. August, 2005. |
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7BSystematic
Variability in Foreign-Accented Speech
Intelligibility. Invited talk at the 1st
Acoustical Society of America Workshop on Second Language Speech
Learning. Vancouver, BC. May, 2005. |
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Production
and Perception of Clear Speech across Languages and Listeners. Invited talk to the
DeVault Otologic Research Laboratory, Indiana University School of
Medicine. February, 2005. |
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2004 |
Understanding
foreign-accented speech. Invited talk
for a special session on “Foreign-Accented Speech: Production, Perception and
Applications” at the 148th meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America. San Diego, CA. November, 2004. |
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Production
and perception of clear speech: Implications for children with learning
disabilities. Invited talk for the
Northwestern University Annual Learning Disabilities Spring Conference. Conference theme: Listening and language. |
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2003 |
Sentence
perception in noise by children with learning disabilities. Invited talk for
a special session on "Children and auditory based learning
disabilities" at the Annual Meeting of the American Speech–Language-Hearing
Association. Chicago, IL. |
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Training
non-native language sound patterns. Invited talk for a special session on
“Second Language Phonology” at the 2003 Second Language Research Forum.
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. |
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Bradlow,
A. R. (2003). Production and
perception of clear speech. Invited talk for a special session on “Acoustical
and Perceptual Characteristics of Special Speech Registers” at the 145th
meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.
Nashville, TN. April 2003. |
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Bradlow, A. R. (2003) Perceptual adaptation to foreign accented speech. Invited talk to the Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. |
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Bradlow, A. R. (2003). Perceptual learning of speech patterns. Invited talk at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. February, 2003. Daytona Beach, FL. Symposium title: Auditory learning: Principles, applications and mechanisms. |
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2002 |
Bradlow, A. R. (2002). Perception and production of clear speech. Invited talk co-sponsored by the Department of Cognitive Science, the Speech and Hearing Independent Research Unit, and the Ear, Nose and Throat Department at the University of California – Irvine. |
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2001 |
Bradlow, A. R. (2001). Listener-oriented within-talker variability. Invited talk to Motorola Corporation. Schaumburg, IL. |
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Bradlow, A. R. (2001). Access to the code versus access to the signal: The clear speech effect for learning-impaired children and non-native adults. Invited talk to the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. |
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2000 |
Bradlow, A. R. (2000). Production and perception of clear speech. Invited talk to the Linguistic Program and Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. |
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Bradlow, A. R. (2000). Production and perception of clear speech. Invited talk to the Speech Research Laboratory, Psychology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. |
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1999 |
Bradlow, A. R. (1999). Speech perception and spoken word recognition by normal and "special" populations: Talker-, item-, and listener-related factors. Invited talk to the Department of Speech and Hearing and the Central Institute for the Deaf at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. |
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Bradlow, A. R. (1999). Spoken word recognition by non-native listeners. Invited talk (delivered in absentia) for a special session on “Cross-language and L2 phonetics” at the joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the European Acoustics Association, Berlin, March, 1999. Abstract published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 105(2), Pt. 2, 1032. |
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Bradlow, A. R. (1999). Speech perception and neural representation of speech sounds in normal and learning-disabled children. Invited talk as part of a series of talks on neurobiology of perception and language processes sponsored by the Language & Cognition program at Northwestern University. |
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1997 |
Bradlow, A. R., Pisoni, D. B. and Torretta, G. M. (1997). Variability in normal speech intelligibility: Separate and combined effects of talker-, listener-, and item-related characteristics. Invited talk for a special session on “Individual variability in speech production and perception” at the 134th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Abstract published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102(5), Pt. 2, 3115. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Pisoni, D. B. and Torretta, G. M. (1997). Stimulus variability and spoken word recognition by non-native listeners. Invited talk at the International Symposium on Speech Perception by Non-Native Listeners, Boston, MA. |
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Pisoni, D. B., Bradlow, A. R. and Greene, B. G. (1997). Perception of natural and synthetic speech by non-native speakers of English. Invited talk at the International Symposium on Speech Perception by Non-Native Listeners, Boston, MA. |
Abstracts and Contributed Presentations
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2009 |
Bradlow, A. R., Baese-Berk, M. and Wright, B. W.
(2009) Perceptual adaptation to foreign-accented speech. International
Symposium on Bilingualism 7, Utrecht, Netherlands, July, 2009 Smiljanic, R, and Bradlow, A.R. (2009) Native and non-native
clear speech production. Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America. 125(4), Pt. 2, 2753. Calandruccio, L., Yuen, K., Dhar, S., and Bradlow, A. R (2009) Foreign accented speech: Energetic or
informational masking?. Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America. 125(4), Pt. 2, 2760. Piccinini, P., and Bradlow, A.R. (2009) Semantic
contextual cues and listener adaptation t foreign-accented English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America. 125(4), Pt. 2, 2765. |
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2008 |
Calandruccio, L., Kim, N., Dhar, S., and Bradlow, A. R. (2008) Lexical salience
and temporal dips: How does clear speech act as a masker? Auditory
Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Chicago, IL, November, 2008. Calandruccio, L, Van Engen, K., Yuen, C., Dhar, S.,
and Bradlow, A. R. (2008) Assessing the clear speech benefit with competing speech
maskers. ASHA Convention, Chicago, IL, November, 2008. Alexander, J. A., Bradlow, A. R., Ashley, R. and
Wong, P. C. M. (2008) Music melody perception
in tone-language and non-tone-language speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America. 12x(x), Pt. 2,
xxxx. Bradlow, A. R. (2008). Sound structure and function of English as a global language. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America. 123(5), Pt. 2, 3879. Smiljanic, R, and Bradlow, A.R. (2008) Clear speech intelligibility and
accentedness ratings for native and non-native talkers and listeners. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America. 123(5), Pt. 2, 3883.
Boyce, S., MacAuslan, J., Bradlow, A.R., and Smiljanic, R.
(2008) Landmark-based analysis
of sleep-deprived speech . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 123(5), Pt. 2, 3887.
Russo, N. M., Trommer, B. L., Skoe, E. E., Nicol, T.
G., Zecker, S. G., Bradlow, A. R., Hornickel, J. M., and Kraus, N.
(2008) Brainstem transcription of
speech in autism spectrum disorders.
International Meeting for Autism Research, London. May 15-17. |
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2007 |
Smiljanic, R, and Bradlow, A.R. (2007) Clear speech effect on vowel production
across languages. of the Acoustical Society of America, 122(5), Pt. 2, 3016. Baese, M., Bradlow, A. R. and Wright, B. A. (2007) Enhancing learning on foreign-accent adaptation with a combination of active training and passive stimulus exposure. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122(5), Pt. 2, 2995. Baker, R. E. and Bradlow, A. R. (2007) Second Mention Reduction in Korean and Indian English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122(5), Pt. 2, 2993. Boyce, S., MacAuslan, J., and Bradlow, A. R. (2007) Automatic
Detection of Differences Between Clear and Conversational Speech. ASHA Convention, Boston, MA, November,
2007. Kim, M., Bradlow, A. R., and Horton, W. S. (2007) Listener-talker adaptation between native and non-native speakers of English. The 4th International Conference on Phonology and Morphology, Seoul, Korea, June 2007. |
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Smiljanic, R., Viau,
J. and Bradlow, A. R. (2007) Global Temporal Characteristics of English
Clear and Conversational Speech.
Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, 121(5), Pt. 2,
3043. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Baker,
R. E, Choi, A., Kim, M., and Van Engen, K. J.
(2007) The Wildcat Corpus of Native- and Foreign-Accented
English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(5), Pt. 2, 3072. |
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Alexander, J. A., Wong, P. C. M. and
Bradlow, A. R. (2007) On the interaction between speech-pitch
processing and music-pitch processing.
Conference on Language and Music as Cognitive Systems, Cambridge, UK, May,
2007. |
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2006 |
Smiljanic, R., Viau,
J. and Bradlow, A. R. (2006) The effect of phonological neighborhood
density and word frequency on vowel production and perception in clear
speech . Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 120(5), Pt. 2, 3291. |
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Hayes-Harb, R., Smith,
B. S., and Bradlow, A. R. (2006) Relationships between the intelligibility
and acoustic properties of native English and Mandarin-accented English Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America,
120(5), Pt. 2, 3174. |
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Smiljanic, R., Viau, J.
and Bradlow, A. R. (2006)
Lexical effects on vowel production and perception in clear speech. Third International Workshop on Language
Production, Chicago, Illinois. August,
2006. |
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Russo, N., Skoe, E., Bradlow, A., Zecker, S., Trommer, B.
and Kraus, N. (2006) The integrity of
the auditory brainstem in autism.
Society for Neuroscience, Atlanta, Georgia. |
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Smiljanic, R. and Bradlow, A. R. (2006) Rhythmic Characteristics
of English Clear and Conversational Speech.
10th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Paris, France, June, 2006. |
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Clopper, C. G. and Bradlow, A. R. (2006) Linguistic
experience and perceptual free classification of regional dialects. 10th Conference on Laboratory Phonology,
Paris, France, June, 2006. |
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Smiljanic, R., Viau, J.
and Bradlow, A. R. (2006)
Rhythm in English Clear Speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 119(5), Pt. 2, 3304. |
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Clopper, C. G. and Bradlow, A. R. (2006) Effects of
dialect variation on speech intelligibility in noise. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America,
119(5), Pt. 2, 3424. |
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2005 |
Smiljanic, R. and Bradlow, A. R. (2005) Does Clear
Speech Enhance the Voice Onset Time Contrast in Croatian and English? Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America,
118(4), Pt. 2, 1900. |
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Konopka, K., Smiljanic,
R. and Bradlow, A. R. (2005)
Variability in the clear speech intelligibility advantage. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America,
118(4), Pt. 2, 1931. |
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Van Heukelem, K. and Bradlow, A. R. (2005) Tuning in and
tuning out: speech perception in native- and foreign-talker babble. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America,
118(4), Pt. 2, 1900. |
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Boyce, S., Bradlow, A. R. and MacAuslan, J. (2005) Landmark
analysis of clear and conversational speaking styles. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America,
118(4), Pt. 2, 1932. |
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2004 |
Smiljanic, R. and
Bradlow, A. R. (2004) Production and perception of clear speech in Croatian
and English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116(4), Pt. 2, 2627. |
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Bradlow, A. R. (2004)
Understanding foreign-accented speech.
Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, 116(4), Pt. 2, 2603. |
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Nissen, S., Smith, B. L., Bradlow,
A. R. and Bent, T. (2004) Accuracy and variability in vowel targets produced
by native and non-native speakers of English.
Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, 116(4), Pt. 2, 2604. |
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Smiljanic, R. and Bradlow,
A. R. (2004) Contrast enhancement in Croatian and English clear
speech. Poster presented at the 9th Conference on Laboratory Phonology,
Champaign, Illinois, June 2004. |
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Smiljanic, R. and Bradlow,
A. R. (2004) Phonetic and phonological effects in production and perception
of Croatian clear speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America,115(5), Pt. 2, 2395. |
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Ortiz, J., Bradlow, A.
R. and Pierrehumbert, J. (2004) Voiceless stop duration under narrow focus
and in clear speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 115(5), Pt. 2, 2541. |
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Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R.
and Smith, B. L. (2004) Production and perception of a temporal contrast by
native and non-native speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 115(5), Pt. 2, 2391. |
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2003 |
Bent, T. and Bradlow, A. R. (2003) The influence of linguistic experience on pitch perception in speech and nonspeech sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113(4), Pt. 2, 2256. |
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Bradlow, A. R. (2003) Production and perception of clear speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113(4), Pt. 2, 2295. |
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Liu, S, Del Rio, E, Bradlow, A. R. and Zeng, F.-G. (2003) Clear speech perception in normal-hearing and cochlear-implant listeners. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Daytona Beach FL. |
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2002 |
Smith, B. L., Bradlow, A. R. and Bent, T. (2002) Temporal characteristics of Chinese-accented English: Preliminary findings. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112(5), Pt. 2, 2250. |
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Liu, S., Zeng, F-G, Bradlow, A. R. (2002) Making speech clear. International Hearing Aid Research Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA, August 2002. |
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Bent, T. and Bradlow, A. R. (2002) Interlanguage intelligibility benefit as a function of talker and listener language background and L2 proficiency. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111(5), Pt. 2, 2362. |
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Iverson, P. and Bradlow, A. R. (2002) The recognition of clear speech by adult cochlear implant users. ISCA International Tutorial and Workshop on Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech, Aix-en-Provence, France. |
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Bradlow, A. R. (2002). Inter-talker differences in clear speech production and perception. Annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, San Francisco, California. |
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2001 |
Bradlow, A. R., and Bent, T. (2001). Non-native speech production I: Listener-talker adaptation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110(5), Pt. 2, 2684. |
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Bent, T., Smith, B., Lodewyck, D. and Bradlow, A. R. (2001). Non-native speech production II: Phonemic errors by position-in-word and intelligibility. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110(5), Pt. 2, 2684. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Bent, T, and Schwarzlose, R. (2001). Speaking clearly for non-native listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109(5), Pt. 2, 2473. |
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2000 |
Schwarzlose, R. and Bradlow, A. R. (2001). What happens to segment durations at the end of a word? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109(5), Pt. 2, 2292. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Kraus, N., and Hayes, E. (2000). Speaking clearly for learning-disabled children: Sentence perception in noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108(5), Pt. 2, 2603. |
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Zhang, J., Hayes, E., Nicol, T., Zecker, S., Bradlow, A. R. and
Kraus, N. (2000). Brain/behavior changes
and commercial auditory training programs in children with learning
problems. Association for Research in
Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, FL. |
|
1999 |
Bradlow, A. R. and Miller, L. S. (2000). Coarticulation as a listener-oriented source of variability. Annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, January 6-9, 2000. |
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Cunningham, J., King, C., Nicol, T., Bradlow, A.R., McGee, T. and
Kraus, N. (1999). Neurophysiologic representation of "clear" speech
in the midbrain, thalamus and cortex.
Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, FL. |
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1998 |
Koch, D. B., Bradlow, A. R., Bellis, T., Cunningham, J. and Kraus, N. (1999). Effects of age on speech-sound representation and perception in normal-hearing women. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, FL. |
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1997 |
Bradlow, A. R., Kraus, N., Nicol, T., McGee, T., Cunningham, J. and Carrell, T. (1998). Speech-sound perception in normal and learning-disabled children: Effect of lengthened CV transition duration. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 103(5), Pt. 2, 2985. |
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Akahane-Yamada, R., Bradlow, A. R., Tohkura, Y. and Pisoni, D. B. (1997). Effects of audio-visual training on the identification of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102(5), Pt. 2, 3137. |
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1996 |
Cunningham, J., Nicol, T., Bradlow, A. R., McGee, T. and Kraus, N. (1997). Speech-evoked P1/N1 response in normal and learning disabled children. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg, FL. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Akahane-Yamada, R., Pisoni, D. B. and Tohkura, Y. (1996). Three converging tests of improvement in speech production after perceptual identification training on a non-native phonetic contrast. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100(4), Pt. 2, 2725. |
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Bradlow, A. R. and Nygaard, L. C. (1996). The effect of talker, rate and amplitude variation on the memory representation of spoken words. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99(4), Pt. 2, 2588. |
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1995 |
Torretta, G. M., Bradlow, A. R. and Pisoni, D. B. (1995). Intelligibility of normal speakers: Vowel space characteristics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98(5), Pt. 2, 2983. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Yamada, R. A., Pisoni, D. B. and Tohkura, Y. (1995). Perception and production of the English /r/-/l/ contrast by Japanese speakers: Relationship between performance and learning in the two domains. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98(5), Pt. 2, 2892. |
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Yamada, R. A., Tohkura, Y., Bradlow, A. R. and Pisoni, D. B. (1995). Self-evaluation of Japanese production of American English /r/ and /l/: Sensitivity to the improvement in perception training. Proceedings of the 1995 Fall Meeting of the Acoustical society of Japan (in Japanese). |
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Yamada, R. A., Tohkura, Y., Bradlow, A. R. and Pisoni, D. B. (1995). The effect of perception training on Japanese speakers’ production of the American English /r/-/l/ contrast. Proceedings of the 1995 Spring Meeting of the Acoustical society of Japan. |
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Magnuson, J. S., Yamada, R. A., Tohkura, Y., Pisoni, D. B., Lively, S. E. and Bradlow, A. R. (1995). The role of talker variability in non-native phoneme training. Proceedings of the 1995 Spring Meeting of the Acoustical society of Japan. |
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Yamada, R. A., Tohkura, Y., Bradlow, A. R. and Pisoni, D. B. (1995). Effects of perceptual learning on the production of a non-native contrast. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97(5), Pt. 2, 3418. |
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1994 |
Magnuson, J. S., Yamada, R. A., Tohkura, Y. and Bradlow, A. R.(1995). Testing the importance of talker variability in non-native speech contrast training. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97(5), Pt. 2, 3417. |
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1992 |
Bradlow, A. R. (1994). Using a multi-talker database to identify sentence- and talker-dependent correlates of speech intelligibility: Preliminary results. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 95(5), Pt. 2, 3010. |
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Bradlow, A. R. (1992). A cross-language study of vowel production and perception: a pilot study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 91(4), Pt. 2, 2421. |
|
1990 |
Bradlow, A. R. (1992). Phonetic, phonological, and typological evidence for a complex segment analysis of click consonants. 23rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. |
|
1988 |
Bradlow, A. R. and Kingston, J. (1990). Cognitive processing in speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Supplement 1, S56. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Carragher, B., McDade, W. A. and Josephs, R. (1988). Modeling of longitudinal sections of sickle hemoglobin fascicles. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Electron Microscopy Society of America. G. W. Bailey (Ed.), San Francisco Press, San Francisco, 160-161. |
Working Papers and Progress
Reports
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1998 |
Bradlow, A. R. and Pisoni, D. B. (1998). Recognition of spoken words by native and non-native listeners: Talker-, listener-, and item-related factors. Research on Spoken Language Processing, 22, Indiana University, Pp. 73-94. |
|
1997 |
Bradlow, A. R., Nygaard, L. C. and Pisoni, D. B. (1997). Effects of talker, rate and amplitude variation on recognition memory for spoken words. Research on Spoken Language Processing, 21, Indiana University, Pp. 367-384. |
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Neel, A. T., Bradlow, A. R. and Pisoni, D. B. (1997). Intelligibility of normal speech II: Analysis of transcription errors. Research on Spoken Language Processing, 21, Indiana University, Pp. 421-438. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Akahane-Yamada, R., Pisoni, D. B. and Tohkura, Y. (1997). Training Japanese listeners to identify English /r/ and /l/: Long-term retention of learning in perception and production. Research on Spoken Language Processing, 21, Indiana University, Pp. 487-502. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Torretta, and G. M., Pisoni, D. B. (1997). Some factors affecting recognition of spoken words by normal hearing adults. Research on Spoken Language Processing, 21, Indiana University, Pp. 557-566. |
|
1995 |
Bradlow, A. R., Pisoni, D. B., Akahane-Yamada, R. and Tohkura, Y.(1995). Training Japanese listeners to identify English /r/ and /l/ IV: Some effects of perceptual learning on speech production. Research on Spoken Language Processing, 20, Indiana University, Pp. 51-88. |
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Bradlow, A. R., Torretta, G. M. and Pisoni, D. B. (1995). Intelligibility of normal speech I: Global and fine-grained acoustic-phonetic talker characteristics. Research on Spoken Language Processing, 20, Indiana University, Pp. 89-116. |
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1994 |
Bradlow, A. R., Nygaard, L. C. and Pisoni, D. B. (1994). On the contribution of instance-specific characteristics to speech perception. Research on Spoken Language Processing, 19, Indiana University, Pp. 27-40. |
|
1993 |
Bradlow, A. R. (1993). A cross-language comparison of vowel production and perception: Language-specific and universal aspects. Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory, 8, Pp. 29-86. |
|
1992 |
Bradlow, A. R. (1992). On the representation of clicks. Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory, 7, Pp. 83-102. |
Teaching
and Advising
Courses
taught
Linguistics 250: Sound Patterns
in Human Language
Linguistics 350: Fundamentals of
Laboratory Phonology
Linguistics 309:
Psycholinguistics
Linguistics 321: Bilingualism
Linguistics 450-1: Laboratory
Phonology 1
Linguistics 450-2: Laboratory
Phonology II
Linguistics 451: Pro-Seminar in
Sound Structure (Inter- and Intra-Talker Variability)
Linguistics 424: Seminar in
Advanced Phonetics
Linguistics 550: Research Seminar
Summer Research Seminar
Graduate and Undergraduate
Advising:
Ph.D. thesis supervision:
Midam Kim, Department of
Linguistics, Northwestern University. In progress.
Rachel Baker, Department of
Linguistics, Northwestern University. In progress.
Jennifer Alexander, Department of
Linguistics, Northwestern University. In progress.
Kristin Van Engen, Department of
Linguistics, Northwestern University. In progress.
Tessa Bent, Department of
Linguistics, Northwestern University. August 2005.
M.A. thesis supervision:
Page Piccinini, Department of
Linguistics, Northwestern University, 2009
Arim Choi, Department of
Linguistics, Northwestern University. June, 2007.
Niklaus Kaspar, Department of
Linguistics, Northwestern University. June, 2003.
Lyla Miller, Department of
Linguistics, Northwestern University. December, 2000.
Languages
Native
Speaker: English
Speaking and
Reading knowledge: French, Spanish,
Afrikaans, Hebrew