Caroline L. Smith

Dissertation students supervised

Current

Aaron Marks

Ph.D. Linguistics, in progress.
Dissertation title: Phonetics and Phonology of Wappo

Daejin Kim

Ph.D. Linguistics, in progress.
Dissertation title: Articulation of the tongue back in phonetically- and phonologically-contrasting speech patterns in English and Korean

Lukas Denk (co-chair with Bill Croft)

Ph.D. Linguistics, December 2023.
Dissertation title: Stable Complexity: Verbal Inflection in Prominent and Frequent Environments

J. Mitchell Sances

Ph.D. Linguistics, May 2022.
Dissertation title: Seeing is Believing: The Role of the Visual Stimulus in Cognitive Knowledge of Sound Structure

Tim Zingler (co-chair with Bill Croft)

Ph.D. Linguistics, December 2020.
Dissertation title: Wordhood Issues: Typology and Grammaticalization
Lecturer at the University of Innsbruck

Ricardo Napoleão de Souza

Ph.D. Linguistics, July 2019.
Dissertation title: The Interaction of Domain-initial Effects with Lexical Stress: Acoustic Data from English, Spanish, and Portuguese
Post-doc with Alice Turk at the University of Edinburgh project on Prosodic Structure at the Interface of Language and Speech

Susan Brumbaugh

Ph.D. Linguistics, December 2017.
Dissertation title: Anglo and Hispanic vowel variation in New Mexican English
Honeywell Inc., Albuquerque

Shelece Easterday

Ph.D. Linguistics, July 2017.
Dissertation title: Highly complex syllable structure: a typological study of its phonological characteristics and diachronic development
Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Elizabeth Stelle, University of British Columbia (co-chair with the late, much-lamented Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson)

Ph.D. Linguistics, UBC, December 2016.
Dissertation title: Visual feedback during speech production
Human Subjects Research Review Board Coordinator, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Paul De Palma

Ph.D. Computational Linguistics (chaired by George Luger, Computer Science), May 2010.
Dissertation title: Syllables and concepts in large vocabulary automatic speech recognition
Now (as before) Professor of Computer Science, Gonzaga University.

Paul Edmunds

Ph.D. Linguistics with a concentration in Speech and Hearing Sciences, December 2009.
Dissertation title: ESL speakers' production of English lexical stress: The effect of variation in acoustic correlates on perceived intelligibility and nativeness
Director of the Center for English Language and American Culture at UNM.

Brenda Nicodemus

Ph.D. Educational Linguistics, May 2007.
Dissertation title: The use of prosodic markers to indicate utterance boundaries in American Sign Language interpretation
Department of Interpretation and Translation, Gallaudet University, retired.

Basic courses taught regularly

Linguistics / Speech & Hearing 303: Introduction to Phonetics
(taught in alternation with Chris Koops, and Amy Neel from the Dept. of Speech & Hearing Sciences )

My version of this course is organized around a packet of materials I created, whose content is inspired by Peter Ladefoged's A Course in Phonetics, and by courses taught by Louis Goldstein.

Linguistics 304 / 504: Phonological Analysis

To be taught Spring 2024. I use Bruce Hayes's textbook, Introductory Phonology.

Some of the more advanced courses I have taught recently

Linguistics 502: Current Approaches to Phonology (Last taught: Fall 2022)
In its current instantiation, this is a course in Laboratory Phonology.

Linguistics 503: Usage-Based Phonology (Last taught: Fall 2023)

Linguistics 490/590 Seminar: Prosody seminar (Last taught: Spring 2023)

Linguistics 490/590 Seminar: Experimental Phonetics (Last taught: Spring 2017)

Other teaching

Psycholinguistics of prosody, at the Université Lyon 2 (Spring 2009)

Phonetics and phonology courses in English and French at the University of Ottawa (1995-6)