University Development
Resume:
Curriculum Vitae
Benjamin Munson
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I. Identifying
A. Academic Rank
1. Associate Professor with Tenure
2. Graduate Faculty Appointment in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
3. Affiliate Member, Graduate Faculty, Program in Linguistics
B. Degrees Awarded
Date Degree
Degree Institution Granted
B.A. State University of New York, Buffalo 1992
Graduate Coursework University of California, Los Angeles 1992-1994
M.A. The Ohio State University 1997
Ph.D. The Ohio State University 2000
Dissertation Title: Phonological Pattern Frequency and Speech
Production in Children and Adults
C. Certification Status: None
D. Employment
Associate Professor Department of Speech-Language Summer, 2006-present
with Tenure Hearing Sciences, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis
Assistant Professor Department of Communication Fall, 2000-Spring, 2006
Disorders (renamed Department
of Speech-Language-Hearing
Sciences, Fall 2004), University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
E. Current Membership in Professional Organizations
Acoustical Society of America, 1992-present
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (including Special Interest Division 1,
Language Learning and Education), 2000-present
Linguistic Society of America, 1992-2000
Cognitive Science Society, 1998-present
Psychonomic Society, Associate Member, 2000-present
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University of Minnesota Center for Cognitive Science
Faculty Affiliate, 2001-2005
Associate Member, 2005-present
Research and Scholarship
F. Honors and Awards
Acoustical Society of America Committee on Women in Acoustics Young Investigator
Travel Award, Spring, 2002, $200.
Students' Choice Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, 2002-2003, University of
Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Student Board
University of Minnesota Office of International Programs International Travel Award,
2004, $300
Editor's Award for Outstanding Article in Journal of Speech Language, and Hearing
Research (Hearing section), 2004. (Co-awarded to Elizabeth Collison, Benjamin
Munson, and Arlene E. Carney.)
Award for Early Career Contributions in Research, American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, 2005.
University of Minnesota Office of International Programs International Travel Award,
2006, $500
Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award, University of Minnesota College of
Liberal Arts, 2006
McKnight Presidential Fellow Award, University of Minnesota Provost, 2006-2009,
$45,000
University of Minnesota Office of International Programs International Travel Award,
2006, $1000
University of Minnesota Office of International Programs International Travel Award,
2007, $500
G. Editorships/Reviewer
Editorial Consultant:
Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research (both the speech and language
sections), 2000-present
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2000-present
Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2001-present
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001-present
Journal of Communication Disorders, 2001-present
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Ear and Hearing, 2001-present
Journal of Child Language, 2002-present
Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2003-present
Journal of Phonetics, 2004-present
Speech Communication, 2005-present
Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2005-present
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2005-present
Language, 2005-present
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, 2007-present
Editorial Board Member:
Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008-2009
Grant Reviewer:
National Science Foundation (linguistics section), 2004-present
Bamford-Lahey Children's Foundation, 2004-present
American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
Grants in Early Child Language, 2005
Dennis Klatt Grant in Speech Science (Grant Review Coordinator), 2005
Agence nationale de la recherch (France), 2007
Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, 2007
Fonds Soci t et Culture du Quebec, 2007
Associate Editor:
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (language section), 2004-2007
H. Consultantships
Departments of Linguistics and Psychology, Northwestern University,
project: "Sexual orientation and speech." Funding: Northwestern University Vice
President for Research, 2002-2005
I. Research and Training Grants:
1. Internal
"Speech motor control and spoken word recognition in children with phonological
impairments," Grant-in-aid for Research, Scholarship, and Artistry, University of
Minnesota Graduate School, $17,741
September, 2001-December, 2002
Cited as an exemplary proposal by the Dean of the Graduate School
"Cognitive factors influencing the transcription of phonologically disordered speech,"
University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, $5,000, Summer,
2002
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"The effect of perceived sexual orientation on speech perception," Grant-in-aid for
Research, Scholarship, and Artistry, University of Minnesota Graduate School,
$21,997, January, 2003-May, 2004
"Speech production in phonological impairment," Single Semester Leave, University
of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, Spring 2004
"Enhancing phonetics instruction with computer-based speech-perception training",
University of Minnesota Technology Enhanced Learning Grant Application
$11,092, August 2004-May 2005.
"Alternative Measures for Assessing Childhood Speech Disorders"
University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, $5,000, Summer,
2006
Cited as an exemplary proposal by the Dean of the Graduate School
"Exploring the Origin of Gay Male Speech Styles,"
Stephen J Schochet GLBT Research Award
$5,091
Not funded
"Interactive Laboratories in Speech Analysis"
University of Minnesota Digital Media Center Fellowship
$20,000
August, 2006-May, 2007
"Interactive Laboratories in Speech Analysis"
College of Liberal Arts Office of Information Technology Small Grant
$2355
June, 2006-December, 2006
2. External
"Lexical access and motor planning by children with phonological impairments,"
American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Investigator Award, $5,000,
January, 2002-May, 2003
Role: PI
"Speech production in phonological impairment," NIH/NIDCD R03, $150,000, May,
2003-May, 2006
Role: PI
"The effect of perceived sexual orientation on speech perception"
Wayne Placek fund of the American Psychology Association, $5,000
Role: PI
Not funded
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"Origins and consequences of sociophonetic variation," National Science Foundation,
$162,258, January, 2006-December, 2007,
Role: PI
Not funded, resubmission encouraged
"Perceptual learning in typical and atypical speech-sound development," NIH/NIDCD,
R01, $500,000, August, 2006-July, 2010,
Not funded
Role: PI
"The Influence of Auditory Processing on Nonword Repetition in Children with and
without Language Impairment"
American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation New Century Scholar Grant,
$10,000
Role: PI
Not funded
"Gender typicality in children's speech," National Science Foundation, $230,000,
January, 2007-December, 2008,
Role: PI
Funding recommended but not available, resubmission encouraged
"Collaborative Research: Using Machine Learning to Model Production Dynamics
and Perception Dynamics during Phonological Acquisition across Languages", Human
and Social Dynamics Initiative, National Science Foundation,
$750,000 (University of Minnesota Portion: $130,000)
January, 2008-December, 2010
Role: Local PI
Lead PI: Mary Beckman, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University
Co-PI: Eric Fosler-Lussier, Department of Computer Science, Ohio State University
Additional Local PI: Jan Edwards, Department of Communicative Disorders and
Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Supporting Young Investigator Travel to the Eleventh Conference on Laboratory
Phonology," National Science Foundation, $15,500, February, 2008-January, 2009
Role: PI
"Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Phonological Development," NIH/NIDCD R01,
$2,500,000, June, 2008-May, 2013 (University of Minnesota Portion, $530,000)
Role: Local PI
Lead PI: Jan Edwards, Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Co-PI: Jenny Saffran, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Additional Local PI: Mary Beckman, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State
University
Scored but not funded, resubmission planned
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J. Research Mentoring:
"Phonological Priming in Speech Production," Undergraduate Research Partnership
Program, University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts
Student Partner: Molly Babel
$1,800
January, 2003-June, 2003
"Speech production and phonological processing in children with velocardiofacial
syndrome," Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota College
of Liberal Arts
Student PI: Adriane DeMarco
$7,197
June, 2003-September, 2003
"Cognitive Factors Influencing the Transcription of Phonologically Disordered
Speech," Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts
Student Partner: Kayla Brinkman
$1,620
January, 2004-June, 2004
"The neurological basis of prosody: evidence from on-line processing measures,"
Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota College of Liberal
Arts
Student PI: Hsin-Huei Chiou
$5,720
June, 2004-September, 2004
"Code-switching in gay, lesbian, and bisexual speech styles: evidence from acoustic
measures of structured conversations," Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Program
University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts
Student Partner: Frank Davis
$1,500
January, 2004-May, 2004
"Phoneme production in Spanish and English by Bilingual Speech-Language
Pathologists," Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of Minnesota
College of Liberal Arts
Student PI: Kelly Nett
$5,700
June, 2005-September, 2005
"Do social expectations influence the assessment of speech-production accuracy? An
experimental study of the myth of the 'gay lisp'," Undergraduate Research
Opportunities Program, University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts
Student Partner: Lindsey Zimmerman
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$1,700
September, 2005-December, 2005
"The Effect of Auditory Biofeedback on the Reduction of Audible Nasal Air Emission
in Speakers with Cleft Palate," Cleft Palate Association of America Foundation Grant
PI: Adriane Baylis
$5,000
September, 2006-August, 2007
"Perceptual Biases, Sociophonetic Variation, and the Assessment of Voice Quality in
Preadolescent Boys," Graduate Research Partnership Program, University of
Minnesota College of Liberal Arts
Student Partner: Kari Urberg-Carlson
$7,000
June, 2007-September, 2007
"The Influence of Linguistic Complexity on Gender Typicality in Children's Speech:
Perceptual Analyses," Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, University of
Minnesota College of Liberal Arts
Student Partner: Heather Bauer
$1,700
September, 2007-January, 2008
"The Influence of Linguistic Complexity on Gender Typicality in Children's Speech:
Acoustic Analyses," Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, University of
Minnesota College of Liberal Arts
Student Partner: Alysse Zittnan
$1,700
September, 2007-January, 2008
"The influence of task demands on perceived talker similarity," Undergraduate
Research Opportunities Program, University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts
Student Partner: Celina Marnie
$1,700
January, 2008-May, 2008
Publications
1. Refereed
Manis, F. R., McBride-Chang, C., Seidenberg, M. S., Keating, P., Doi, L. M., Munson, B., &
Peterson, A. (1997). Are speech perception deficits associated with developmental
dyslexia? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 66, 211-235.
Munson, B. (2001a). Relationships between vocabulary size and spoken word recognition in
children aged 3-7. Contemporary Issues in Communication Disorders and Sciences, 28,
20-29.
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Munson, B. (2001b). Phonological pattern frequency and speech production in children and
adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44, 778-792.
Munson, B. (2001c). A method for studying variability in fricatives using dynamic measures
of spectral mean. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 1203-1206.
Lahey, M., Edwards, J., & Munson, B. (2001). Is speed of processing related to severity of
language impairment? Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 44, 1354-
1362.
Munson, B., Bjorum, E., & Windsor, J. (2003). Acoustic and perceptual correlates of stress in
nonwords produced by children with suspected developmental apraxia of speech and
children with phonological disorder. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research, 46, 189-202.
Munson, B., Donaldson, G., Allen, S., Collison, E., & Nelson, D. (2003). Patterns of phoneme
misperceptions by individual with cochlear implants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 113, 925-935.
Munson, B. (2004). Variability in /s/ production in children and adults: evidence from
dynamic measures of spectral mean. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research, 47, 58-69.
Edwards, J., Beckman, M.E., & Munson, B. (2004). The interaction between vocabulary size
and phonotactic probability effects on children s production accuracy and fluency in
nonword repetition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47, 421-436.
Solomon, N.P., & Munson, B. (2004). The effect of jaw position on measures of tongue
strength and endurance. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47, 584-
594.
Collison, E.A., Munson, B., & Carney, A.E. (2004). Relations among linguistic and cognitive
skill and spoken word recognition in adults with cochlear implants. Journal of Speech,
Language, and Hearing Research, 47, 496-508.
Pierrehumbert, J.B., Bent, T., Munson, B., Bradlow, A.R., & Bailey, J.M. (2004). The
influence of sexual orientation on vowel production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 116, 1905-1908.
Munson, B., & Solomon, N.P. (2004). The effect of phonological neighborhood density on
vowel articulation. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 47, 1048-1058.
Munson, B., & Brinkman, K.N. (2004). The effect of multiple presentations on judgments of
children's speech production accuracy. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology,
13, 341-354.
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Munson, B., Edwards, J., & Beckman, M.E. (2005). Relationships between nonword
repetition accuracy and other measures of linguistic development in children with
phonological disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 61-78.
Munson, B., Swenson, C.L., & Manthei, S.C. (2005). Lexical and phonological organization
in children: evidence from repetition tasks. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing
Research, 48, 108-123.
Munson, B., & Babel, M.E. (2005). The sequential cueing effect in children's speech
production. Applied Psycholinguistics, 26, 157-174.
Munson, B., Kurtz, B.A., & Windsor, J. (2005). The Influence of Vocabulary Size,
Phonotactic Probability, and Wordlikeness on Nonword Repetitions of Children with and
without Language Impairments. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research,
48, 1033-1047.
Munson, B., & Nelson, P.B. (2005). Phonetic identification in quiet and in noise by listeners
with cochlear implants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118.
Munson, B., Edwards, J., & Beckman, M.E. (2005). Phonological knowledge in typical and
atypical speech-sound development. Topics in Language Disorders, 25, 190-206.
Munson, B., Jefferson, S.V., & McDonald, E.C. (2006). The influence of perceived sexual
orientation on fricative identification. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119,
2427-2437.
Munson, B., McDonald, E.C., DeBoe, N.L., & White, A.R. (2006). Acoustic and perceptual
bases of judgments of women and men's sexual orientation from read speech. Journal of
Phonetics, 34, 202-240.
Munson, B. (2006). Nonword repetition and levels of abstraction in phonological knowledge.
Applied Psycholinguistics, 27, 577-581.
Alamsaputra, D.M., Kohnert, K.J., Munson, B., & Reichle, J. (2006). Synthesized speech
intelligibility among non-native speakers of English. Augmentative and Alternative
Communication, 22, 258-268.
Munson, B. (2007). The acoustic correlates of perceived sexual orientation, perceived
masculinity, and perceived femininity. Language and Speech, 50, 125-142.
Beckman, M.E., Munson, B., & Edwards, J. (2007). The influence of vocabulary growth on
developmental changes in types of phonological knowledge. In press in J. Cole & J.
Hualde (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 9 (p. 241-264). New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Munson, B. (2007). Lexical access, lexical representation, and vowel articulation. In J. Cole
& J. Hualde (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 9 (p. 201-228) New York: Mouton de
Gruyter.
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Munson, B., & Babel, M. (2007). Loose lips and silver tongues: projecting sexual orientation
through speech. Linguistics and Language Compass 1, 416-449.
Munson, B. (2007). Lexical characteristics mediate the influence of talker sex and sex
typicality on vowel-space size. In J. Trouvain & W. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the
International Congress on Phonetic Sciences (p. 885-888). Saarbrucken, Germany:
University of Saarland.
Watson, P., & Munson, B. (2007). The Influence of Phonological Neighborhood Density and
Word Frequency on Vowel-Space Dispersion in Older and Younger Adults. In J.
Trouvain & W. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress on Phonetic
Sciences (p. 561-564). Saarbrucken, Germany: University of Saarland.
Baylis, A.L., Munson, B., & Moller, K. (2008). Factors affecting phonetic accuracy in
children with velocardiofacial syndrome and children with cleft palate or velopharyngeal
dysfunction: A preliminary report. Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal.
Munson, B., Baylis, A.L., Krause, M.O., & Yim, D.-S. (in Press). Representation and Access
in Phonological Impairment. Papers in Laboratory Phonology 10.
Munson, B., Yim, D.-S., Brincks, S.J., & White, A.R. (revised, resubmitted). Picture naming
in phonological disorder: lexical access. Manuscript under consideration in Journal of
Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Battaglia, M., Kelly, K., Munson, B., & Reichle, J. (submitted). Synthesized Speech
Intelligibility to Monolingual and Bilingual Children in Repeated Listening Opportunities.
Under consideration in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
Munson, B., Krause, M., & Blasing, K. (submitted). Picture naming in phonological disorder:
phonological encoding. Manuscript nder consideration in Applied Psycholinguistics.
Mack, S., Munson, B., & Kuntz, L. (in preparation). The association between /s/ quality and
perceived sexual orientation of men's voices: implicit and explicit measures.
Munson, B., Baylis, A., & Simmons, D. (in preparation). Perceptual learning in phonological
disorder: evidence from a primed nonword repetition task. Manuscript in preparation.
Munson, B., & Baylis, A. (in preparation). Gender Typicality in the Speech of Children with
Phonological Disorder: Methodological Issues and Preliminary Findings. Manuscript in
preparation.
Stoeckel, R., & Munson, B. (in preparation). Relationships between Measures of Levels of
Phonological Knowledge and Outcome Measures of Speech and Language Skills.
Manuscript in preparation.
Non-Refereed
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Munson, B. (2005). Simon LeVay postulates the "gay brain". In L. Faderman, Y. Retter, H.R.
Ramirez, S. Timmons, & E.C. Wat (Eds.), Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered
Lives (p. 535-537). Pasadena, CA: Salem Press.
Munson, B., & Watson, P.J. (2006). [Review of W.J. Hardcastle & J. Mackenzie Beck (Eds.),
A Figure of Speech: A Festschrift for John Laver]. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 20,
717-719.
Munson, B. (2007). [Review of M. Ball (Ed.), Clinical Sociolinguistics]. Journal of the
International Phonetics Association, 37, 235-238.
Edwards, J., & Munson, B. (in press). Bases: perception, production, and phonology. In R.
Schwartz (Ed.), Handbook of Child Language Disorders. New York: Psychology Press.
Munson, B. (in press). Pathology or social indexing? In C. Bowen, Children's speech sound
disorders. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
K. Presentations at Scientific and Professional Meetings
1. Refereed with Abstracts
Munson, B. (1993). Comprehension and Production of Intonation Contours in one Aphasic
Patient. The Academy of Aphasia, Tucson, AZ.
Munson, B., Edwards, J., & Fox, R. A. (1996). Preschool children's use of dynamic acoustic
information in word recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 99, p. 2591
[abstract].
Edwards, J., Munson, B., & Fox, R. A. (1997). Dynamic Word Recognition in Children with
Phonological Disorders. Presented at the 1997 Annual Convention of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA.
Edwards, J., Munson, B., & Fox, R. A. (1997). Word recognition skills in children with
phonological disorder. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 101, p. 3154
[abstract].
Munson, B. (1999). Relationships between expressive vocabulary growth and spoken word
recognition in children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 106, p. 2245
[abstract].
Edwards, J., Lahey, M. & Munson, B. (1999). The Generalized Slowing Hypothesis
Revisited: an Examination of Individual Subject Data and Models of Naming Speed.
Poster presented at the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison,
WI.
Lahey, M., Edwards, J. & Munson, B. (1999). Processing Deficits in SLI: General or
Specific? Mini-seminar presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, San Francisco, CA.
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Edwards, J., Beckman, M., Munson, B., Yoneyama, K., Katagiri, S. & Draper, L. (2000).
Lexical Influences on Children s Production Accuracy and Fluency. Mini-seminar
presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Washington, DC.
Munson, B. (2001a). Phonological Pattern Frequency and Speech Production in Children and
Adults. Poster presented at the Society for Research on Child Development, Minneapolis,
MN.
Munson, B. (2001b). A method for studying variability in fricatives using time-dependent
changes in spectral mean. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, p. 2293
[abstract].
Edwards, J., Beckman, M., Munson, B., Holtschulte, M., & Katagiri, S. (2001). Influence of
the Lexicon on Children's Production Accuracy and Fluency. Mini-seminar presented at
the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New Orleans, LA. [Presenters: J.
Edwards and B. Munson].
Bjorum, E., Munson, B., & Windsor, J. (2001). Stress Production in Developmental Apraxia
of Speech. Poster presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New
Orleans, LA.
Munson, B., Bjorum, E., & Windsor, J. (2001). Relationships between acoustic and perceptual
measures of stress in nonwords produced by children with developmental apraxia of
speech and children with phonological disorders. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 110, p. 2704 [abstract].
Collison, E., Munson, B., & Carney, A. (2002a). Factors Affecting Word Recognition in
Adults with Cochlear Implants. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.
Collison, E., Munson, B., & Carney, A. (2002b). Relationships among Vocabulary Size,
Nonverbal Cognition, and Spoken Word Recognition in Adults with Cochlear Implants.
Presentation at the annual meeting of the Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, St. Cloud, MN.
Collison, E., Munson, B., & Carney, A. (2002c). Relationships among Vocabulary Size,
Nonverbal Cognition, and Spoken Word Recognition in Adults with Cochlear Implants.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111, p. 2428 [abstract].
Munson, B. (2002a). Real-Word and Nonword Repetition in Children with Phonological
Impairment. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-
Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.
Munson, B. (2002b). Spectral variability of /s/ in sV and sCV sequences. Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, 111, p. 2479 [abstract].
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Munson, B., & Windsor, J. (2002). The influence of Phonotactic Probability on Nonword
Repetition in Children with Language Impairment. Poster presented at the annual meeting
of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.
Munson, B. (2003a). Phonological Priming in Children's Speech Production. Poster
presented at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development,
Tampa, FL.
Munson, B. (2003b). Does the Verbal Transformation Effect Influence the Reliability of
Phonetic Transcriptions of Children's Speech? Poster presented at the annual Symposium
for Research on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Munson, B. (2003c). Phonological and Lexical Processing in Children: Evidence from
Repetition Tasks. Poster presented at the annual Child Phonology Conference,
Vancouver, BC.
Munson, B., & Solomon, N.P. (2003). Effects of Lexical Competition and Jaw Fixation on
Speech Production. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-
Language-Hearing Association, Chicago, IL.
Solomon, N.P., & Munson, B. (2003). Effect of Jaw Position on Nonspeech Tongue Function.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, Chicago, IL.
Munson, B., & Nelson, P.B. (2003). Perception of synthetic speech in quiet and in noise by
adults with cochlear implants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, p. 2360
[abstract].
Munson, B., & DeBoe, N. (2003). Vowel production, speech-motor control, and phonological
encoding in people who are lesbian, bisexual, or gay, and people who are not. Journal of
the Acoustical Society of America, 114, [abstract].
Solomon, N.P., Munson, B., & Makashay, M. (2004). The Influence of Bite Blocks on
Perceptual and Acoustic Characteristics of Speech. Poster presented at the annual
conference on motor speech, Albuquerque, NM.
Solomon, N.P., & Munson, B. (2004). The Effect of Bite Blocks on Nonspeech Tongue
Function: Assessing Tongue Strength and Endurance. Invited presentation at the District
of Columbia Speech-Language-Hearing Association Continuing Education Workshop,
Washington, DC.
Solomon, N.P., Makashay, M., & Munson, B. (2004). Spectral characteristics of speech with
fixed jaw positions. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 2451 [abstract].
Babel, M., & Munson, B. (2004). The influence of phonological priming on variability in
articulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 2427 [abstract].
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Munson, B., Nelson, P., & Muecke, J. (2004). The effect of noise on the perception of
phonetic features in acoustic simulations of cochlear implant speech. Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, 115, 2425
DeMarco, A., Munson, B., Moller, K., & Glaze, L. (2004). Update in Communicative Profiles
of Children with Velocardiofacial Syndrome (22q11.2 deletion syndrome). Presentation
given at the biannual meeting of the Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Munson, B., Nelson, P.B., & Muecke, J.E. (2004). The effect of noise on the perception of
phonetic features in acoustic simulations of cochlear implant speech. Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, 115, 2425 [abstract].
Edwards, J., Munson, B., & Beckman, M. (2004). Nonword Repetition in Children with
Phonological Disorders. Poster presentation at the Symposium for Research on Child
Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Kurtz, B., Munson, B., & Windsor, J. (2004). Vocabulary Size, Phonotactic Probability and
Nonword Repetition in Children with Language Impairments. Poster presentation at the
Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Munson, B. (2004). Lexical Access and Hyperarticulation. Oral presentation given at the 9th
Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Champaign, IL.
Beckman, M., Edwards, J., & Munson, B. (2004). The Influence of Vocabulary Growth on
Developmental Change in Types of Phonological Knowledge. Oral presentation given at
the 9th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Champaign, IL.
DeMarco, A., & Munson, B. (2004). Speech Production and Phonological Processing in
Children with VCFS. Presentation given at the joint Tenth Annual International Meeting
of The Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome Educational Foundation, Inc., and the Fourth
International Conference for the 22q11.2 Deletions, Atlanta, GA.
DeMarco, A., Munson, B., & Moller, K. (2004) Communicative Profiles and Research Update
on Children with Velocardiofacial Syndrome. Two-hour seminar presented at the annual
meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Munson, B., & Brinkman, K.N. (2004) Cognitive Factors Influencing the Transcription of the
Speech of Children with Phonological Disorders. Poster presented at the annual meeting
of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Munson, B., DeMarco, A., Yim, D.-S., & Babel, M. (2004). Lexical and Phonological
Processing in Children with Phonological Impairments. One-hour seminar presented at
the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia,
PA.
Munson, B., McDonald, E., & DeBoe, N. (2004). Sexual Orientation and Speech. One-hour
seminar presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, Philadelphia, PA.
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DeMarco, A., Munson, B., & Moller, K. (2005). Speech Production and Phonological
Processing in Children with 22q11.2 Deletion. Oral presentation at the annual meeting of
the American Cleft Palate Association, Myrtle Beach, FL, April 4-9, 2005.
Munson, B., Jefferson, S.V., & McDonald, E.C. (2005). The gradient influence of talker sex
and perceived sexual orientation on fricative perception. Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, 117, 2618. [abstract]
Munson, B., & McDonald, E.C. (2005). Relationships among perceived sexual orientation,
perceived height, and perceived speech clarity. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 117, 2568. [abstract]
Munson, B. (2005). Talker sex mediates the influence of neighborhood density on vowel
articulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118 [abstract].
Watson, P.J., Munson, B., & Belgum, E.H. (2005). Phonological neighborhood density and
vowel production in older and younger adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 118 [abstract].
Padgitt, N.R., Munson, B., & Carney, E.J. (2005). A speech-perception training tool to
improve phonetic transcription. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118
[abstract].
Chiou, H.-H., Munson, B., & Kennedy, M.R.T. (2005). Prosody and sentence processing in
adults with and without RHD. Oral presentation at the annual meeting of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Baylis, A., & Munson, B. (2006). Demographic factors associated with phonological
impairment in children. Poster presentation at the biannual meeting of the Minnesota
Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Brainerd, MN
Padgitt, N.R., Carney, E.C., Kan, P.-F., & Munson, B. (2006). Technology-enhanced learning
tools for phonetics coursework. Poster presentation at the biannual meeting of the
Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Brainerd, MN
Thurmes, A., Munson, B., & Moller, K. (2006). Speech Perception Skills of Adolescents with
Repaired Cleft Palate. Poster presentation at the biannual meeting of the Minnesota
Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Brainerd, MN
Munson, B., Brincks, S.J., Yim, D.-S., & White, A.R. (2006). Lexical Access in Phonological
Impairment: Evidence from a Delayed Naming Experiment. Poster presentation at the
annual Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Munson, B., Baylis, A.L., & Simmons, D. (2006). Perceptual Learning in Phonological
Impairment: Evidence from a Long-Term Repetition Priming Experiment. Poster
presentation at the annual Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders,
Madison, WI.
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Krause, M.O., Munson, B., & Blasing, K.M. (2006). Phonological Encoding in Phonological
Impairment: Evidence from a Cross-Modal Picture-Word Interference Experiment.
Poster presentation at the annual Symposium for Research on Child Language Disorders,
Madison, WI.
Munson, B., Baylis, A.L., Krause, M.O., & Yim, D.-S. (2006). Representation and Access in
Phonological Impairment. Oral Presentation at the Tenth Conference on Laboratory
Phonology, Paris, FR.
Crocker, L., & Munson, B. (2006). Speech Characteristics of Gender-Nonconforming Boys.
Oral Presentation given at the Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in
Language, Columbus, OH.
Munson, B., & Zimmerman, L.J. (2006a). The Perception of Sexual Orientation, Masculinity,
and Femininity in Formant-Resynthesized Speech. Oral Presentation given at the
Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Language, Columbus, OH.
Munson, B., & Zimmerman, L.J. (2006b). Perceptual Bias and the Myth of the 'Gay Lisp'.
Poster Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, Miami, FL.
Baylis, A., Munson, B., & Moller, K.T. (2006). Methodologic Issues in the Perceptual
Analysis of Audible Nasal Emission. Oral Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Miami, FL.
Padgitt, N.R., Carney, E.J., & Munson, B. (2006). A Novel Computer-Based Speech-
Perception Training Tool to Enhance Phonetics Instruction. Oral Presentation at the
Annual Meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Miami, FL.
Munson, B., Baylis, A., Blasing, K., Brincks, S., Krause, M., Simmons, D., & Yim, D.-S.
(2006). Exploring the Etiology of Phonological Impairment in Children. Oral
Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association, Miami, FL.
Munson, B., & Baylis, A. (2007). Gender Typicality in the Speech of Children with
Phonological Disorder. Accepted for Poster Presentation at the Symposium for Research
on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
Munson, B, & Baylis, A. (2007). Predicting Phonetic Accuracy in Children with
Phonological Disorder. Invited Oral Presentation to be given at the Conference on
Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia (PAPI), Braga, Portugal.
Munson, B. (2007). Lexical characteristics mediate the influence of talker sex and sex
typicality on vowel-space size. Poster presentation at the International Congress on
Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany.
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Watson, P., & Munson, B. (2007). The Influence of Phonological Neighborhood Density and
Word Frequency on Vowel-Space Dispersion in Older and Younger Adults. Poster
presentation at the International Congress on Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany.
Mack, S., & Munson, B. (2007). Implicit Processing, Memory for Voices, and the Gay Lisp
Stereotype. Poster presentation given at the Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology,
Columbus, Ohio.
Stockel, R., & Munson, B. (2007). The Development of Phonological Knowledge in Children.
Poster presentation given at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language-
Hearing Association, Boston, MA.
Munson, B., & Baylis, A. (2007). Predicting Phonetic Variation in Children Aged 3 to 7
Years. Poster presentation given at the annual meeting of the American Speech-
Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA.
Baylis, A., Munson, B., & Moller, K. (2007). Perceptions of Nasal Air Emission in Children
with Cleft Palate. Poster presentation given at the annual meeting of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA.
Munson, B. (2007). Splitting Saussure's Signifi . Oral presentation given at the annual
meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, MA, as part of
the panel discussion Word Learning in Situ (K. McGregor, coordinator).
Mack, S., & Munson, B. (2008). Implicit Processing, Social Stereotypes, and the 'Gay Lisp'.
Oral presentation given at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America,
Chicago, IL.
Munson, B., Li, F., Yoneyama, K., Hall, K., Beckman, M., Edwards, J., & Sunawatari, Y.
(2008). Sibilant Fricatives in English and Japanese: Different in Production or in
Perception? Oral presentation given at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of
America, Chicago, IL.
1. Non-refereed (State, National and International Conferences)
Munson, B. (1997). Can the Development of Spoken Word Recognition be Modeled as a
Dynamical System? Invited presentation given at the Indiana University department of
psychology, Bloomington, IN.
Munson, B. (1999). Factors Affecting Spoken Word Recognition Accuracy in Children.
Poster presented at the John Black Symposium, Columbus, OH.
Munson, B. (2001). Phonological Pattern Frequency and Speech Production in Children and
Adults. Invited presentation given at the University of Minnesota program in linguistics,
Minneapolis, MN.
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Munson, B. (2001). Treatment Efficacy for Phonological Disorders in Children. Invited
presentation given to the West Metro Speech-Language Pathology Association,
Minneapolis, MN.
Munson, B., and others (2001). Our Assistant Professors Speak: Lessons Learned and Visions
Shared. Panel discussion at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, New
Orleans, LA.
Munson, B. (2002a). Lexical and Phonological Processing in Children. Invited presentation,
Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota.
Munson, B. (2002b). Lexical and Phonological Processing in Children. Invited presentation,
Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University.
Munson, B. (2002c). The Influence of Vocabulary Growth on Phonological Development.
Invited presentation, Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Munson, B. and others (2002). The Academic Job Search and Finding a Place that Fits.
Panel discussion organized as part of the University of Minnesota's Teaching Enrichment
Series.
Munson, B. (2002d). Ph.D. Programs in Speech-Language Pathology. Interactive on-line
discussion (archives available on http://www.speech-languagepathologist.org)
Munson, B. (2002e). Speech-Language Pathology Chat: Phonology. Interactive on-line
discussion (archives available on http://www.speech-languagepathologist.org)
Munson, B. (2002f). The Influence of Lexical and Phonological Processing on Speech
Production in Children and Adults. Invited presentation, Language and Mind series,
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Munson, B. (2003). Emergent Phonological Knowledge. Brown Bag Presentation, University
of Minnesota Institute on Child Development.
Munson, B. (2004a). The Sociophonetics of Sexual Orientation. Presentation given at the
University of Minnesota Linguistics Club, Minneapolis, MN.
Munson, B. (2004b). The Sociophonetics of Sexual Orientation. Invited presentation given at
the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris, FR.
Munson, B. (2004c). Emergent Phonological Knowledge. Invited presentation given at the
Institute de la Commuicacion Parlee, Universite Stendahl, Grenoble, FR.
Munson, B. (2004d). Reducing Perceptual Biases in the Assessment of Articulation and
Phonological Disorders. Presentation given to the Twin Cities Speech-Language
Pathologists' group.
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Munson, B. (2004e). The Sociophonetics of Sexual Orientation. Invited presentation given at
the Ohio State University Department of Linguistics.
Munson, B. (2004f). The Articulation of Sexual Orientation: Social Indexing and Phonetic
Variation. Invited presentation given in the language and cognition series, Northwestern
University.
Munson, B. (2005a). Articulation Disorders in Children: Research Update and Stubborn
Problems. Invited seminar given to the West Metro Speech-Language Pathology
Association, Minneapolis, MN.
Munson, B. (2005b). Vocabulary Growth and Representational Specificity in Typical and
Atypical Phonological Development. Invited seminar given at the Indiana University
Department of Psychology.
Munson, B. (2005c). Factors Affecting Phonetic Accuracy in Typical and Atypical
Phonological Development. Invited seminar given at the University of South Florida
Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences.
Munson, B. (2005d). Articulation Therapy Update. Invited seminar given to the Minneapolis
Public School District speech-language pathologists.
Munson, B. (2005e). Representation and Access in Phonological Impairment. Invited
presentation given to the University of Minnesota Center for Cognitive Sciences.
Munson, B. (2006a). The Sociophonetics of Sexual Orientation. Invited Presentation given to
the University of Iowa Department of Linguistics.
Munson, B. (2006b). Representation and Access in Phonological Impairment. Invited
Presentation given to the University of Iowa Department of Speech Pathology and
Audiology.
Goldstein, H., Munson, B., and others (2006). Foundations for Career Development: Secrets
of Success. Panel Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Speech-Language-
Hearing Association, Miami, FL.
Munson, B. (2007). Why do Children with Phonological Disorder Produce Speech Sounds
Less Accurately than their Peers? Colloquium given in the Department of Linguistics,
University of California, Berkeley.
Munson, B. (2007). The Co-Development of Indexical and Lexical Categories, or, How Kids
Learn how to Talk Straight. Invited Colloquium given in the Department of Linguistics,
Stanford University.
Munson, B. (2007). The Co-Development of Indexical and Lexical Categories, or, How Kids
Learn how to Talk Straight. Colloquium given in the Department of Linguistics,
University of California, Los Angeles.
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Kemper, S., & Munson, B. (2007). A Tongue-Twisting Exploration of Sexual Orientation and
Speech. Presented at the Annual Cognitive Science REU Symposium, Center for
Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota.
Munson, B. (2007). Out of the Streets and into the Soundbooths: A Laboratory Phonologist
Talks about Sexual Orientation. Invited Colloquium given in the Department of
Linguistics, University of Michigan.
II. Teaching and Advising
A. M.A. Students
Advisees:
Stephanie Allen, Spring 2003
Elissa Bjorum, Spring 2001 (co-advisor: Jennifer Windsor)
Karie Breen, Spring 2003
Elizabeth Collison, Spring 2002 (co-advisor: Arlene Carney)
Karry Danahy, (9/2001 9/2002)
Stephanie Graham, Spring 2002
Kari Hovey, Spring 2002
Elizabeth McDonald, Spring 2005
Beth Kurtz, Spring 2004
Laura Medema, Spring 2004
Courtney Straka, Spring 2004
Cyndie Swenson, Spring 2003
Katherine Taylor, Spring 2004
Lauren Headley, Spring 2004
Jenna Aberson, Spring 2005
Jessica Nordstrom, Spring 2005
Heather Nadeau, Spring 2005
Joan Cromwell, Fall 2005
Kristine Davies, Spring 2005
Noelle Padgitt, Spring 2006
Elizabeth Farnum, Spring 2006
Karlene Schmidt, 9/2004-1/2005
Emily Aust, Fall 2006
Jennifer Hanson, Fall 2006
James Vollhaber, Spring 2007
Emily Koerner, Spring 2007
Margaret McLennahan, Spring 2007
Katherine Croswell, Spring 2007
Chrisenda Hasenbank, Spring 2007
Sarah Jefferson, Spring 2007
Janet Zylinski, Current Student
Lindsey Kuntz (nee Zimmerman), Current Student
Marisa Irwin, 8/2006-8/2007
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Nicole Schadt, Current Student
Amy Sauerer, Current Student
Eleanor Purdy, Current Student
Kristy Benoit, Current Student
Committee Membership:
1. Plan A thesis
Elissa Bjorum, Summer, 2001 (co-advised by Jennifer Windsor)
Title: Stress Production in Children with Developmental Apraxia of Speech
Elizabeth Collison, Spring 2002 (co-advised by Arlene Carney)
Title: Relationships among Vocabulary Size, Nonverbal Cognition, and Spoken Word
Recognition in Adults with Cochlear Implants
Ching-Fang Lin, Summer 2003 (committee member). A study of the CBM MAZE
Format as a Measure of Reading in Traditional Chinese Words. (Department of
Educational Psychology, Susan Rose, advisor).
Beth Kurtz, Spring 2004 (advisor)
Title: Vocabulary Size, Phonotactic Probability, and Nonword Repetition in Children
with Language Impairments.
Dian Mayasari Alsamsaputra, Fall 2004 (committee member). The Intelligibility of
Synthetic English Speech to Speakers of Indonesian (Joe Reichle, advisor)
Anna Thurmes, Fall 2005 (committee member).
Title: Multitalker Speech Perception in Noise by People with a History of Cleft
Palate (Karlind Moller, Advisor)
Kate Kelly, Fall 2005 (committee member)
Title: The Intelligibility of Synthesized Speech and Human Recorded Speech in Young
Children and the Effect of Practice (Joe Reichle, Advisor)
Noelle Padgitt, Spring 2006 (advisor).
Title: The efficacy of computer-based speech-perception training to enhance
phonetics instruction
Miriam Krause, Summer 2007 (committee member)
Title: A Meta-analysis of Meta-memory abilities in Traumatic Brian Injury Survivors
(Mary RT Kennedy, Advisor)
Kimberly Moreau, TBD (committee member).
Title TBA (Mary RT Kennedy, advisor)
Student currently inactive
Kristy Benoit, Spring 2008 (advisor)
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Factors Affecting Listeners' Perception of Speech Naturalness in Young Adults with
a History of Cleft Palate
2a. Plan B Paper
Leah Hamilton, Spring 2001 (committee member)
Title: Relationships between Phonological Awareness and Literacy in Early
Elementary Children
Cyndie Swenson, Spring 2003 (chair)
Title: Interactions between Parents and Children with and without Cleft Palate
Kirstin Todt (program in linguistics), Spring 2005 (committee member)
Title: Two Approaches to Case Assignment: Ergative, Accusative, and Active Systems
Ellen Lucast (program in linguistics), Spring 2005 (committee member)
Title TBA
N.S. Gill (program in linguistics), Spring 2006 (committee member)
Yinwum Syllabic Constraints
Mohammed Abdurrahman (program in linguistics), Spring 2007 (committee member)
Multi-DE-ism: A unified analysis of the particle DE in Mandarin
Mary Roguski (program in linguistics),TBA
2b. Plan B comprehensive examination defense
Stephanie Anderson, Spring 2002 (chair)
Kari Hovey, Spring 2002 (chair)
Kathryn Walters, Spring 2002 (committee member)
Laurie Wright, Spring, 2002 (committee member)
Julie Zandstra, Spring 2002 (committee member)
Linda Cumming, Fall 2002 (committee member)
Shayla Manthei, Fall 2002 (committee member)
Stefanie Allen, Spring 2003 (chair)
Anne Benkusky, Spring 2003 (committee member)
Karie Breen, Spring 2003 (chair)
Sarah Tebbe, Spring 2003 (committee member)
Laura Medema, Spring 2004 (chair)
Courtney Straka, Spring 2004 (chair)
Katherine Taylor, Spring 2004 (chair)
Samantha Sawyer, Spring 2004 (committee member)
Kendra Rupp, Spring 2004 (committee member)
Caroline Weatherby, Spring 2004 (committee member)
Lauren Headley, Spring 2005 (chair)
Jenna Hoeckman, Spring 2005 (chair)
Elizabeth McDonald, Spring 2005 (chair)
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Heather Nadeau, Spring 2005 (chair)
Jessica Nordstrom, Spring 2005 (chair)
Kristine Davies, Spring 2005 (chair)
Molly Zifko, Spring 2005 (committee member)
Melissa Mayes, Spring 2005 (committee member)
Nancy Lupardus, Spring 2005 (committee member)
April Johnson, Spring 2005 (committee member)
Emily Wagner, Spring 2005 (committee member)
Lorena Pardun, Summer 2005 (committee member)
Rebecca Kavalar, Fall 2005 (committee member)
Joan Cromwell, Fall 2005 (chair)
Amy Murphy, Spring 2006 (committee member)
Jason Cardosi, Spring 2006 (committee member)
Anna Guenther, Spring 2006 (committee member)
Debbie DeLoye, Summer 2006 (committee member)
Emily Aust, Fall 2006 (chair)
Jennifer Hanson Lorenz, Fall 2006 (chair)
James Vollhaber, Spring 2007 (chair)
Chrisenda Hasenbank, Spring 2007 (chair)
Anna Tauer, Spring 2007 (committee member)
Emily Koerner, Spring 2007 (chair)
Sarah Jefferson, Spring 2007 (chair)
Kenda Blasing, Spring 2007 (chair)
Kate Croswell, Spring 2007 (chair)
Catherine Toborg, Spring 2007 (committee member)
Nicole Schultz, Spring 2007 (committee member)
Margaret McClennahan, Spring 2007 (chair)
Sarah Oberg, Spring 2007 (committee member)
Kendra Krasin, Spring 2007 (committee member)
B. Ph.D. Students
Advisees
Ruth Stoeckel (Advisor)
Kari Urberg-Carlson (Advisor)
Anna Thurmes (Co-Advisor, 9/05-5/06)
Kerry Danahy (Co-Advisor)
Adriane Baylis (Co-Advisor)
Sara Mack (Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Co-Advisor)
Eden Kaiser (Program in Linguistics, Co-Advisor)
Committee Membership
Ruth Stoeckel (Preliminary examination committee chair, dissertation examining
committee chair)
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Adriane Baylis (nee DeMarco) (Preliminary examination committee member,
dissertation committee member)
Hsin-Huei Chiou (Preliminary examination committee member, dissertation
committee member and examining committee chair)
Cheryl Street (Dissertation committee member and reader)
Miriam van Mersbergen (Preliminary examination committee member, dissertation
committee member and reader)
Scott Alvord (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) (Preliminary exam committee
member, dissertation committee member)
Shu-Fen Cheng (Department of Educational Psychology) (Preliminary exam
committee member, dissertation committee member)
Sharon Gerlach (Program in Linguistics) (Preliminary exam committee member)
Pradeep Ramanathan (preliminary examination committee member, dissertation
committee member)
Kelly Nett Cordero (preliminary examination committee member)
Sarah Mack (Department of Spanish and Portuguese) (Preliminary exam committee
member, Dissertation Co-Advisor)
C. Undergraduate Projects
Senior Papers
Hoover, Jill. Phonological Awareness and Reading: A Dynamic Relationship. Senior
Paper, December, 2000 (reader).
Babel, Molly. Language Contact in Latin America. Summa Cum Laude Thesis, May,
2004 (reader).
Simmons, Dawn. Implicit Phonological Learning in Children with Phonological
Impairments and Children with Typical Language Development. Summa Cum Laude
Thesis, December, 2004 (chair).
Jefferson, Sarah. The Gradient Influence of Sex and Perceived Sexual Orientation on
Fricative Perception, Summa Cum Laude Thesis, December, 2004 (chair).
Blasing, Kenda. Phonological Encoding in Atypical and Typical Phonological
Development: Evidence from a Picture-Word Interference Task, Summa Cum Laude
Thesis, Spring 2005 (chair).
Moreno, Nicholas. Laughing 'Till It's Over: Laughter as a Topic Closure Initiator.
Summa Cum Laude Thesis, Spring 2005 (reader).
Crocker, Laura. Acoustic and Perceptual Correlates of Gender Typicality in
Children's Speech. Summa Cum Laude Thesis, Spring 2006 (chair)
Brinks, Sarah. Lexical Access in Typical and Atypical Phonological Development:
Evidence from a Delayed Naming Task. Summa Cum Laude Thesis, Spring 2006
(chair)
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