College of MedicineCollege of MedicineMark VanDam, PhD

Mark VanDam, PhD

  1. Associate Professor
Email Addressmark.vandam@wsu.edu
Phone509-358-7599

Speech & Language Lab
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Education

  • Postdoc, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 2007-2009
  • PhD, Linguistics, Indiana University, 2007
  • MA, Linguistics, Indiana University, 2003
  • BA, English, German, Calvin College, 1999

Courses Taught

  • SHS 501 – Research Methods
  • SHS 375 – Phonetics
  • EBM 503 – Scholarly Projects
  • SHS 378 – Speech and Hearing Sciences
  • SHS 490 – Advanced Topics in Speech Science

Biography

Education

  • Postdoc, Boys Town National Research Hospital, 2007-2009
  • PhD, Linguistics, Indiana University, 2007
  • MA, Linguistics, Indiana University, 2003
  • BA, English, German, Calvin College, 1999

Courses Taught

  • SHS 501 – Research Methods
  • SHS 375 – Phonetics
  • EBM 503 – Scholarly Projects
  • SHS 378 – Speech and Hearing Sciences
  • SHS 490 – Advanced Topics in Speech Science

Research

Interests

  • Acoustic phonetics
  • Childhood deafness
  • Development of speech and language
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Speech production/articulation/motor movement
  • Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
  • Speech perception, spoken language processing
  • Quantitative and complex modeling
  • Linguistics, computational linguistics