Lab Members

Lab Directors

Richard Wright

Professor

Office: GUG 415B

Email: rawright@uw.edu

Website


Research Interests: Phonetics, speech perception and spoken word recognition, sources of variability in spoken language, Austronesian langauges of Taiwan, Endangered languages of the Northwest, speech technology.

Marina Oganyan

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Acting Lab Director

Office: GUG 407A

Email: marina0@uw.edu


Research Interests: Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Morphology, Phonetics, Semitic Languages

Faculty Lab Members and Postdocs

Shigeaki Amano

Professor

Faculty of Human Informatics, Aichi Shukutoku University, Japan

Email: amano560@uw.edu



Research Interests: Psycholinguistics, speech perception and production

Betsy E. Evans

Associate Professor

Office: GUG 415D

Email: evansbe@uw.edu

Website


Research Interests: Sociophonetics, Pacific Northwest English, imitation of dialects, attitudes to language variation.

Zev Handel

Associate Professor - Chinese Language and Linguistics

Office: Gowen 245

Email: zhandel@uw.edu

Website


Research Interests: Chinese linguistics, historical phonology, minority languages of China.

Sharon Hargus

Professor

Office: GUG 415J

Email: sharon@uw.edu

Website


Research Interests: Laboratory phonology, phonology-morphology interface, historical phonology, Sahaptin linguistics, Athabaskan linguistics.

Ellen Kaisse

Professor

Office: GUG 415K

Email: kaisse@uw.edu




Research Interests: Phonological theory, intonation, the phonetics and phonology of Turkish, Greek, and Argentinian Spanish.

Myriam Lapierre

Assistant Professor

Office: GUG 415F

Email: mylapier@uw.edu

Website


Research Interests: Phonology, phonetics, language documentation, typology, and Amazonian languages.

Gina-Anne Levow

Associate Professor

Office: GUG 418D

Email: levow@uw.edu

Website


Research Interests: Computational linguistics, prosody in spoken language understanding, discourse and dialog.

Daniel McCloy

Research Scientist

Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences

Website



Research Interests: Acoustic phonetics, speech perception, auditory neuroscience, phonetic & phonological typology.

Alicia Beckford Wassink

Professor

Office: GUG 415E

Email: wassink@uw.edu

Website


Research Interests: Sociophonetics, spectral overlap and trajectory analysis in vowel systems, dialect contact and contact-induced change, Pacific Northwest English, Jamaican Creole phonetics and phonology.

Student Lab Members

Emily Ahn

Linguistics

Email: eahn@uw.edu

Website

Advisor: Gina-Anne Levow



Research Interests: Corpus Phonetics, Phonetic/Phonological Typology, Language Variation, Forced Alignment.

Ella Deaton

Linguistics

Email: edeaton@uw.edu

Advisor: Richard Wright



Research Interests: Applied linguistics, phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, speech perception, Spanish.

Ben Jones

Linguistics

Email: jonesb28@uw.edu

Advisor: Betsy Evans




Research Interests: (Perceptual) dialectology, linguistic geography, language contact, ideologies, attitudes, sociophonetics.

Ted Kye

Linguistics

Email: tkye29@uw.edu

Advisor: Richard Wright




Research Interests: Acoustic phonetics, speech production, signal processing, phonology, Salish linguistics.

Sara Ng

Linguistics

Email: sbng@uw.edu

Advisor: Richard Wright




Research Interests: Computational Linguistics, Signal Processing, Prosody, Spoken language modeling.

Rob Squizzero

Linguistics

Email: rsquizz@uw.edu

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink



Research Interests:Acoustic Phonetics, Articulatory Phonetics, Language Attitudes, Second Language Acquisition, Sociophonetics

Nicole Chartier

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

Jamie Andrus

MA year: 2009

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Thesis: A sociophonetic investigation of creaky voice in Pacific Northwest English

Misty Azara

MA year: 2002

Advisor: Richard Wright

Thesis: The role of pitch accent in discourse.

Misha Burgess

PhD year: 2015

Advisor: Betsy Evans

Dissertation: Faculty attitudes towards heritage language and heritage language teaching policy in Washing State community college Spanish departments

Lesley Carmichael

PhD year: 2005

Advisor: Richard Wright

Dissertation: Situation-based intonation pattern distribution in a corpus of American English

Haewon Cho

MA year: 2004

Advisor: Richard Wright

Thesis: Intonation transfer in second language acquisition: An analysis of English intonation by Korean speakers

Emily Curtis

PhD year: 2003

Advisor: Sharon Hargus

Dissertation: Geminate weight: Case studies and formal models.

Valerie Freeman

PhD year: 2015

Advisor: Richard Wright

Website

Dissertation: The phonetics of stance-taking

Lisa Galvin

MA year: 2005

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Thesis: Dubliners in Seattle: A sociophonetic analysis of Irish-English in the U.S.

Jessica Geisler

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.

Steven Gianakas

Speech and Hearing Sciences

Advisor: Matthew B. Winn

Research Interests: Speech perception and processing in listeners with cochlear implants and hearing loss.

Jennifer Haywood

Linguistics

Advisor: Richard Wright

Research Interests: Phonetics, phonology, speech perception, language acquisition.

Wendy C. Kempsell Jacinto

PhD year: 2015

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Dissertation: Language attitudes and bilingualism in Turkish-German popular film.

Kelley Kilanski

PhD year: 2009

Advisor: Richard Wright

Website

Dissertation: The Effects of Token Frequency and Phonological Neighborhood Density on Speech Production for Native and Non-Native Speakers of English

Soohee Kim

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

Jinyeoun Kwon

MA year: 2005

Advisor: Richard Wright

Thesis: Effects of oral-nasal consonantal contexts on the perception of English consonant contrasts by Korean listeners

Susannah Levi

PhD year: 2004

Advisor: Ellen Kaisse

Website

Dissertation: The representation of underlying glides: A crosslinguistic study

Esther S Le Grezause

PhD year: 2017

Advisor: Richard Wright

Dissertation: Um and uh, the expression of stance in conversational speech

Kathleen A. Manlove (Langr)

PhD year: 2016

Advisor: Barbara Citko

Dissertation: How peripheral a phenomenon is it?: On the interaction of DP-internal ellipsis, degree inversion, and islands

Courtney Mansfield

PhD Year: 2021

Advisor: Gina Levow

Dissertation: ASR and Human Recognition Errors: Predictability and Lexical Factors

Julia Colleen Miller

PhD year: 2013

Advisor: Sharon Hargus

Dissertation: The Phonetics of tone in two dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabaskan)

David Montero

MA year: 2007

Advisor: Richard Wright

Thesis: The Perception of the Acoustic Correlates of Stress: A Cross-linguistic Study on English, French, and Spanish

Steven Moran

PhD year: 2012

Advisors: Emily Bender, Richard Wright

Dissertation: Phonetics Information Base and Lexicon

Anna Moroz

PhD year: 2021

Advisor: Betsy Evans

Dissertation: Exploring Applications of Rootedness in Sociolinguistic Research in Southern Oregon

Jay Munson

PhD year: 2005

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Dissertation: The relative degree of difficulty of L2 Spanish /d, t/, trill and tap by L1 English speakers: Auditory and acoustic methods of defining pronunciation accuracy

Kathy Nagle

PhD year: 2014

Advisor: Tanya Eadie

Dissertation: Utility of Perceived Listener Effort as an Outcome Measure for Disordered Speech and Voice

Meghan Oxley

PhD year: 2015

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Website

Dissertation: Southern, Texan, or Both?: Southernness and Identity in Deer Park, Texas

Laura Panfili

Linguistics

Email: lpanfili@uw.edu

Advisor: Richard Wright

Dissertation: Cross-Linguistic Acoustic Characteristics of Phonation: A Machine Learning Approach

Stella Podgornik

MA year: 2012

Advisor: Gina Levow

Thesis: Automatic Detection of Language Levels in L2 English Learners

Melissa Preston

MA year: 2003

Advisor: Richard Wright

Thesis: An acoustic study of Turkish vowel harmony

Sarala Puthuval

PhD year: 2017

Advisor: Sharon Hargus

Website

Dissertation: Language maintenance and shift across generations in Inner Mongolia

Leanne Rolston

PhD year: 2021

Advisor: Gina Levow

Dissertation: Dialogical Signals of Stance Taking in Spontaneous Conversation

Lorna Rozelle

PhD year: 2003

Advisor: Sharon Hargus

Dissertation: The structure of Sign Language lexicons: Inventory and distribution of handshape and location

John Riebold

PhD year: 2015

Advisors: Alicia Beckford Wassink & Richard Wright

Website

Dissertation: The Social Distribution of a Regional Change: /æg, ɛg, eg/ in Washington State

Michael Scanlon

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

Setsuko Shirai

PhD year: 2005

Advisor: Richard Wright

Dissertation: Lexical effects in Japanese vowel reduction

Michael L. Smith

Audiology

MA year: 2019

Website

Miriam Stone

MA year: 2005

Advisor: Richard Wright

Thesis: Hemispheric lateralization for linguistic intonation: a dichotic listening study

Alice Taff

PhD year: 1998

Advisor: Sharon Hargus

Dissertation: Phonetics and phonology of Unangan (Eastern Aleut) intonation

Rachael Tatman

PhD year: 2017

Advisor: Richard Wright

Website

Dissertation: Modeling the perceptual learning of novel dialect features

Gabriel Webster

PhD year: 2002

Advisor: Richard Wright

Dissertation: Toward a psychologically and computationally adequate model of speech perception

Chih-Chi Wen

MA year: 2003

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Thesis: Phonological change in Atayal

Yungdo Yun

PhD year: 2004

Advisor: Ellen Kaisse

Dissertation: Glides and high vowels in Korean

Gašper Beguš

Assistant Professor: 2018 - 2020

Website

Research Interests: Experimental and computational phonology, phonetics, sound change, historical linguistics.

Lotus Jo-Fu Lin

Postdoctoral Fellow

ILABS

University of Washington

Advisor: Patricia Kuhl

Elizabeth McCullough

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Acting Lab Director: 2015 - 2017

Research Interests: Phonetics, foreign accent, regional accent, second language acquisition, first language acquisition.

Ruiqin Miao

Visiting Researcher: 2011 - 2012

Research Interests: phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, Chinese

Matthew Winn

Assistant Professor - Speech and Hearing Sciences

Office: Eagleson 158

Email: mwinn2@uw.edu

Website

Research Interests: Speech perception, listening effort, hearing impairment, psychoacoustics.