Faculty and Staff Directory

Associate Professor
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences

• The Speech and Language Lab
• HomeBank
• Daylong Audio Recordings of Children’s Linguistic Environments, (DARCLE)
• Washington Center for Muscle Biology (WCMB)
• Hearing Oral Program of Excellence HOPE of Spokane

Education

• CV, Dec. 2022 (PDF, 300kb)
• 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