Lab Director
Richard Wright
Associate Professor (Linguistics)
Office: Padelford A-210-F
Email: rawright[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://depts.washington.edu/phonlab/people/wright.htm
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.
Faculty Lab Members
Betsy E. Evans
Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Office: Padelford A-214
Email: evansbe[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://faculty.washington.edu/evansbe/
Research interests: sociophonetics, Pacific Northwest English, imitation of dialects, attitudes to language variation.
Zev Handel
Assistant Professor (Asian Languages and Literature)
Office: Gowen 245
Email: zhandel[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://faculty.washington.edu/zhandel/
Research interests: Chinese linguistics, historical phonology, minority languages of China.
Sharon Hargus
Professor (Linguistics)
Office: Padelford A-211
Email: sharon[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://faculty.washington.edu/sharon/
Research interests: Laboratory phonology, phonology-morphology interface, historical phonology, Sahaptin linguistics, Athabaskan linguistics.
Ellen M Kaisse
Professor (Linguistics)
Office: Padelford A-210-B
Email: kaisse[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Phonological theory, intonation, the phonetics and phonology of Turkish, Greek, and Argentinian Spanish.
Gina-Anne Levow
Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Office: Padelford B-201
Email: levow[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Discourse and dialogue, prosody in spoken language understanding.
Ruiqin Miao
Visiting Researcher, Feb 2011 - Feb 2012 (Linguistics)
Office: Padelford A-216
Email: rmiao[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://sfl.sjtu.edu.cn/en/index.php?case=archive&act=show&aid=284
Research interests: phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, Chinese.
Alicia Beckford Wassink
Associate Professor (Linguistics)
Office: Padelford A-217
Email: wassink[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://faculty.washington.edu/wassink/
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.
Students
Maria Burgess
Linguistics
Email: mapnea[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, Mixtec, Nahuatl, Mexican dialects of Spanish, Linguistic syncretism, language policies.
Valerie Freeman
Linguistics
Email: valerief[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/valerief/6374/29485
Research interests: Sociophonetics, dialect differences, phonetic correlates of discourse functions.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Jennifer Haywood
Linguistics
Email: jhaywood[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, speech perception, language acquisition.
Wendy C. Kempsell Jacinto
Linguistics
Email: kempsell[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, language mixing, Spanish, Turkish.
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Kathleen A. Langr
Linguistics
Email: klangr[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Phonetics, syntax, other as yet undecided things.
Daniel McCloy
Linguistics
Email: drmccloy[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://students.washington.edu/drmccloy/
Research interests: Acoustic phonetics, speech perception, language documentation.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Julia Colleen Miller
Linguistics
Email: jcmiller[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Athabaskan phonetics, tone and tonogenesis, language contact, language/dialect variation, cartography, fieldwork.
Steven Moran
Computational Linguistics
Email: stiv[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://staff.washington.edu/stiv/
Research interests: Computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, language technology.
Kathy Nagle
Speech & Hearing Science
Email: kfnagle[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Articulation & voice disorders, acoustic & articulatory phonetics, speech perception.
Advisor: Tanya Eadie
Meghan Oxley
Linguistics
Email: what[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://students.washington.edu/what/
Research interests: Sociophonetics, sound change, /ai/ monophthongization in Texan English.
Stella Podgornik
Computational Linguistics
Email: stellap[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://www.stellamarie.net/
Research interests: Research areas: computational linguistics, language technology, BioNLP, data mining, speech characteristics in learning disabilities, prosody and pitch.
Advisor: Gina Levow
John M. Riebold
Linguistics
Email: riebold[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Research areas: sociophonetics, dialect differences, sound change, Pacific Northwestern English.
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Michael Scanlon
Linguistics
Email: ms27[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://students.washington.edu/ms27/
Research interests: Research areas: dialect contact, social networks, sociophonetics, African American English.
Alumni
Jamie Andrus
MA year: 2009
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Misty Azara
User interface program manager, IAS, Microsoft
MA year: 2002
Thesis: The role of pitch accent in discourse.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Lesley Carmichael
Project manager, Speech Group, Microsoft
PhD year: 2005
Thesis: Situation-based intonation pattern distribution in a corpus of American English.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Haewon Cho
Lecturer II, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
MA year: 2004
Thesis: Intonation transfer in second language acquisition: An analysis of English intonation by Korean speakers.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Emily Curtis
Post-doc, Linguistics, University of British Columbia
PhD year: 2003
Thesis: Geminate weight: Case studies and formal models.
Advisor: Sharon Hargus
Lisa Galvin
MA year: 2005
Thesis: Dubliners in Seattle: A sociophonetic analysis of Irish-English in the U.S.
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Jessica Giesler
School of Medicine, University of Washington
MA year: 2004
Thesis: A conflicting cue study examining the relative strength of consonant transition cues as affected by vowel, noise, and position.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Kelley Kilanski
PhD year: 2009
Webpage: http://www.kelleykilanski.com/
Thesis: The Effects of Token Frequency and Phonological Neighborhood Density on Speech Production for Native and Non-Native Speakers of English
Advisor: Richard Wright
Soohee Kim
Senior Lecturer (Korean), Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington
PhD year: 1999
Thesis: Sub-phonemic duration difference in English /s/ and few-to-many borrowing from English to Korean.
Advisor: Sharon Hargus, Richard Wright
Jinyeoun Kwon
MA year: 2005
Thesis: Effects of oral-nasal consonantal contexts on the perception of English consonant contrasts by Korean listeners.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Susannah Levi
Assistant Professor, Communicative Sciences and Disorders, NYU
Webpage: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Susannah_Levi
Thesis: The representation of underlying glides: A crosslinguistic study.
Advisor: Ellen Kaisse
Lotus Jo-Fu Lin
Postdoctoral Fellow, ILABS, University of Washington
Research interests: Second language learning, bilingualism, interactions of memory and cognition in language acquisition, neuroimaging methods.
Advisor: Patricia Kuhl
David Montero
MA year: 2007 (Romance Linguistics)
Webpage: http://www.davidmontero.net/
Thesis: The Perception of the Acoustic Correlates of Stress: A Cross-linguistic Study on English, French, and Spanish.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Jay Munson
Program Manager, Text-to-Speech, Microsoft
PhD year: 2005
Thesis: 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.
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Melissa Preston
MA year: 2003
Thesis: An acoustic study of Turkish vowel harmony.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Lorna Rozelle
PhD year: 2003
Thesis: The structure of Sign Language lexicons: Inventory and distribution of handshape and location.
Advisor: Sharon Hargus
Setsuko Shirai
Assistant Professor, Ming Dao University (Taiwan)
PhD year: 2005
Thesis: Lexical effects in Japanese vowel reduction.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Miriam Stone
MA year: 2005
Thesis: Hemispheric lateralization for linguistic intonation: a dichotic listening study.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Alice Taff
PhD year: 1998
Thesis: Phonetics and phonology of Unangan (Eastern Aleut) intonation.
Advisor: Sharon Hargus
Gabriel Webster
PhD year: 2002
Thesis: Toward a psychologically and computationally adequate model of speech perception.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Chih-Chi Wen
MA year: 2003
Thesis: Phonological change in Atayal.
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Yungdo Yun
PhD year: 2004
Thesis: Glides and high vowels in Korean.
Advisor: Ellen Kaisse
