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.

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

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.

Marina Oganyan

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Email: marina0@uw.edu




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

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.

Jessica Luo

Linguistics

Email: jluo316@uw.edu

Advisor: Myriam Lapierre




Research Interests: Phonology, Language documentation, Wu Chinese, Tone.

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