Lab Members

Lab Directors

Richard Wright

Professor

Office: GUG 415B

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.

Yuan Chai

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Acting Lab Director

Office: GUG 407A

Email: yuanchai@uw.edu

Website

Research Interests: Language documentation on Zapotec and Chinese languages, voice quality, tone.

Faculty Lab Members and Postdocs

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.

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.

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.