Motor Speech Disorders Laboratory

 

Director: Carol Stoel-Gammon, Ph.D.
 
Infant Vocalization Study
As well as supervising a diverse group of doctoral students, Dr. Stoel-Gammon is exploring of the use of video of other babies babbling to elicit vocalization in 7- and 9-month old infants.
    
   
Stimulability and Treatment
Amy Glaspey studies stimulability as a dynamic assessment of phonological change.
   
  
Classifying Speech Disorders of Unknown Origin
Beate Peter studies naturally occurring subtypes of childhood speech disorders, by collecting a variety of data from an unlabeled sample of children with such disorders, then applying clustering algorithms to these data.
   
   
Acquisition of Korean Stops
Minjung Kim and Dr. Stoel-Gammon study the acoustic characteristics of Korean stops in Korean child-directed speech and the acquisition of Korean stops by Korean children.
       
      
Lexical Effects in Phonological Acquisition
Anna Sosa studies the effects of word frequency, neighborhood density, and
age-of-acquisition on phonological accuracy and variability in typically
developing toddlers.
   
   
Vowel Overlap
Amber Franklin studies the productions of the high-front vowels from
nine children from 21 to 33 months of age. Vowel overlap is analyzed in 2-D
and 3-D space.
   
   
Bilingual VOT & Vowels
Andrea MacLeod studies the production and perception of VOT and vowels by early and late bilinguals.