Dissertation students supervised
Current
Ana Medina-Murillo
- Ph.D. Linguistics, in progress.
- Dissertation title: The Sound System of Warihó-Makurawe
- Funded by a Doctoral Dissertation Grant from the National Science Foundation.
Susan Brumbaugh
- Ph.D. Linguistics, in progress.
- Dissertation title: Vowel Space Measurements of Speakers of Chicano English in Albuquerque
Previous
Brenda Nicodemus
- Ph.D. Educational Linguistics, May 2007.
- Dissertation title: The use of prosodic markers to indicate utterance boundaries in American Sign Language interpretation
- Soon to be Director of the Interpretation and Translation Research Center, Gallaudet 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
- Now Director of the Center for English Language and American Culture at UNM.
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.
Basic courses taught regularly
Linguistics / Speech & Hearing 303: Introduction to Phonetics
(taught almost every fall; taught by Prof. Amy Neel of Speech & Hearing every spring)
- When I teach this course, it 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 (taught every spring)
- The most recent (2012) offering of this course used Bruce Hayes's textbook, Introductory Phonology
More advanced courses
Linguistics 406 / 506: Experimental Phonetics (Last taught: Spring 2007, taught more recently by Ian Maddieson)
Linguistics 502: Generative Theories of Phonology (Last taught: Spring 2011)
Linguistics 503: Usage-Based Phonology (Last taught: Spring 2010)
Linguistics 505: Survey of Phonetic Theory (Last taught: Fall 2007)
Graduate seminars I have taught
Computational Linguistics, with George Luger, Computer Science
Prosody and Discourse
Developing Professional Skills
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)
Phonetics courses at UCLA (1992-3)