Education
Department of Linguistics, The University of Chicago, Ph.D., June 1978
Department of English, The University of Maryland, B.A., August 1970

Current Research Interests
1) Sociophonetics: transgenerational and gender variations among speakers in
Central Ohio, Central Wisconsin, and Western North Carolina
2) The phonetic bases of sound change
3) Auditory spectral integration in speech perception
4) Phonetics in second language acquisition: Perception and Production
5) Modeling vowel perception
6) Formant amplitude variation

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