MA year: 2009
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Thesis: A sociophonetic investigation of creaky voice in Pacific Northwest English
MA year: 2002
Advisor: Richard Wright
Thesis: The role of pitch accent in discourse.
PhD year: 2015
Advisor: Betsy Evans
PhD year: 2005
Advisor: Richard Wright
Dissertation: Situation-based intonation pattern distribution in a corpus of American English
PhD year: 2020
Advisors: Betsy Evans & Alicia Beckford Wassink
Dissertation: Old Stereotypes “Live Free or Die”: Addressing the Evaluation Problem of non-rhoticity in southeastern New Hampshire
MA year: 2004
Advisor: Richard Wright
Thesis: Intonation transfer in second language acquisition: An analysis of English intonation by Korean speakers
PhD year: 2003
Advisor: Sharon Hargus
Dissertation: Geminate weight: Case studies and formal models.
MA year: 2005
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Thesis: Dubliners in Seattle: A sociophonetic analysis of Irish-English in the U.S.
MA year: 2004
Advisor: Richard Wright
Thesis: A conflicting cue study examining the relative strength of consonant transition cues as affected by vowel, noise, and position.
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Advisor: Matthew B. Winn
Research Interests: Speech perception and processing in listeners with cochlear implants and hearing loss.
Linguistics
Advisor: Richard Wright
Research Interests: Phonetics, phonology, speech perception, language acquisition.
PhD year: 2015
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Dissertation: Language attitudes and bilingualism in Turkish-German popular film
PhD year: 2009
Advisor: Richard Wright
PhD year: 1999
Advisors: Sharon Hargus, Richard Wright
Dissertation: Sub-phonemic duration difference in English /s/ and few-to-many borrowing from English to Korean
MA year: 2005
Advisor: Richard Wright
Thesis: Effects of oral-nasal consonantal contexts on the perception of English consonant contrasts by Korean listeners
PhD year: 2004
Advisor: Ellen Kaisse
Dissertation: The representation of underlying glides: A crosslinguistic study
PhD year: 2017
Advisor: Richard Wright
Dissertation: Um and uh, the expression of stance in conversational speech
PhD year: 2016
Advisor: Barbara Citko
Dissertation: How peripheral a phenomenon is it?: On the interaction of DP-internal ellipsis, degree inversion, and islands
PhD Year: 2021
Advisor: Gina Levow
Dissertation: ASR and Human Recognition Errors: Predictability and Lexical Factors
PhD year: 2013
Advisor: Sharon Hargus
Dissertation: The Phonetics of tone in two dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabaskan)
MA year: 2007
Advisor: Richard Wright
Thesis: The Perception of the Acoustic Correlates of Stress: A Cross-linguistic Study on English, French, and Spanish
PhD year: 2012
Advisors: Emily Bender, Richard Wright
Dissertation: Phonetics Information Base and Lexicon
PhD year: 2021
Advisor: Betsy Evans
Dissertation: Exploring Applications of Rootedness in Sociolinguistic Research in Southern Oregon
PhD year: 2014
Advisor: Tanya Eadie
Dissertation: Utility of Perceived Listener Effort as an Outcome Measure for Disordered Speech and Voice
PhD year: 2015
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Dissertation: Southern, Texan, or Both?: Southernness and Identity in Deer Park, Texas
Linguistics
Email: lpanfili@uw.edu
Advisor: Richard Wright
Dissertation: Cross-Linguistic Acoustic Characteristics of Phonation: A Machine Learning Approach
MA year: 2012
Advisor: Gina Levow
Thesis: Automatic Detection of Language Levels in L2 English Learners
MA year: 2003
Advisor: Richard Wright
Thesis: An acoustic study of Turkish vowel harmony
PhD year: 2017
Advisor: Sharon Hargus
Dissertation: Language maintenance and shift across generations in Inner Mongolia
PhD year: 2021
Advisor: Gina Levow
Dissertation: Dialogical Signals of Stance Taking in Spontaneous Conversation
PhD year: 2003
Advisor: Sharon Hargus
Dissertation: The structure of Sign Language lexicons: Inventory and distribution of handshape and location
PhD year: 2015
Advisors: Alicia Beckford Wassink & Richard Wright
Dissertation: The Social Distribution of a Regional Change: /æg, ɛg, eg/ in Washington State
PhD year: 2020
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Dissertation: Stylistic variation in African American Language: examining the social meaning of linguistic features in a Seattle community
PhD year: 2005
Advisor: Richard Wright
Dissertation: Lexical effects in Japanese vowel reduction
MA year: 2005
Advisor: Richard Wright
Thesis: Hemispheric lateralization for linguistic intonation: a dichotic listening study
PhD year: 1998
Advisor: Sharon Hargus
Dissertation: Phonetics and phonology of Unangan (Eastern Aleut) intonation
PhD year: 2017
Advisor: Richard Wright
Dissertation: Modeling the perceptual learning of novel dialect features
PhD year: 2005
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
PhD year: 2002
Advisor: Richard Wright
Dissertation: Toward a psychologically and computationally adequate model of speech perception
MA year: 2003
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Thesis: Phonological change in Atayal
PhD year: 2004
Advisor: Ellen Kaisse
Dissertation: Glides and high vowels in Korean
Assistant Professor: 2018 - 2020
Research Interests: Experimental and computational phonology, phonetics, sound change, historical linguistics.
Postdoctoral Fellow
ILABS
University of Washington
Advisor: Patricia Kuhl
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Acting Lab Director: 2015 - 2017
Research Interests: Phonetics, foreign accent, regional accent, second language acquisition, first language acquisition.
Visiting Researcher: 2011 - 2012
Research Interests: phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, Chinese
Assistant Professor - Speech and Hearing Sciences
Office: Eagleson 158
Email: mwinn2@uw.edu
Research Interests: Speech perception, listening effort, hearing impairment, psychoacoustics.