UW Linguistic Phonetics Lab Director

Richard Wright

phone:206-616-2426
office:Padelford A210-F
email:rawright@u.washington.edu
address:
University of Washington
Dept of Linguistics A210 Padelford Box 354340
Seattle, WA 98195-4340
Research Interests
The role of auditory perception in phonetic and phonological processes
Spoken word recognition
Sources of variability in spoken language
Prosodic influence on articulation
Variation in spoken language and speech synthesis and recognition
Speech technology
Austronesian languages of Taiwan
Languages of East Africa
Endangered Languages of the Pacific Northwest (Deg Xinag, Witsuwit'en)
Lab Projects

Current projects include:

Speech Peception:

The locus of variation effects in perceptual category formation for speech sounds.

Acoustic and perceptual effects of WDRC amplification (collaborator with Pamela Souza, P.I., UW Speech and Hearing Sciences)

Sources of variability in spoken language:

A corpus based approach to lexical effects in speech production

 

Speech Technology:

The vocal joystick: continuous control parameters with the human voice (Co-P.I. with Jeffrey Bilmes, P.I., UW Electrical Engineering)


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Academic Organizations
International Phonetic Association
Linguistic Societ of America
Acoustical Society of America

Languages
Swahili fluent written and spoken
French moderate written and spoken
Italian low written and spoken
Mandarin low spoken