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Dani Byrd

Vice Dean for Faculty
USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences

Professor
USC Department of Linguistics

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photo credit: H. Foellmer

Education

	University of California, Los Angeles PhD, 1994; Department of Linguistics Dissertation Title: Articulatory Timing in English Consonant Sequences [pdf] PhD Chair: Professor Patricia A. Keating
	Yale University MA, 1990; Department of Linguistics
	Yale University BA, 1990; magna cum laude with Distinction in the Major (Linguistics)

Professional History

January 2011 -	Vice Dean for Faculty, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
July 2008 - December 2010	Vice Dean for Faculty and Research, USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
February 2008 -	Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
July 2007 - June 2008	Vice Dean of USC College with responsibilities for Research Advancement
2002 - February 2008	Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
1999 -	Research Affiliate, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut
1999 - 2011	Director of Phonetics Laboratory
1999 - 2002	Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
1998 - 1999	Research Affiliate, Department of Linguistics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1997 - 1999	Senior Scientist; Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut
Fall 1996	Lecturer, Yale University
1994 - 1997	NIH Training Grant Post-Doctoral Fellow; Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut

USC Courses

Language and Mind (an Investigations in Science and Technology General Education course), Falls 1999-2001, 2003-2004, 2006
Advanced Phonetics, Spring 2000-2001; renamed General Phonetics, Springs 2002-2005, 2007
USC micro-seminar for incoming students August 2006-2007, August 2009-2011
“Human Speech Production: Cross-Linguistic and Cognitive Aspects”, “Human Speech: Articulation, Acoustics, and Perception“

Awards and Honors

Sigma Xi Summer Research Fellow, Yale University, 1989

Richter Summer Research Fellow, Yale University, 1989

Simultaneous MA/BA program, Yale University, 1988-1990

NSF Graduate Fellow, 1990-1992

UCLA College of Letters and Science Graduate Student Award, 1993
(awarded to one or two graduate students annually at UCLA)

UCLA Association of Academic Women, Graduate Woman of the Year Award, 1994

Certificate of Meritorious Service, City of New Haven

Dernell Every Friends of Fencing Medal (Yale University)

Elected by the Executive Council to Full Member of the Acoustical Society of America, 1999

2003 R. Bruce Lindsay Award, Acoustical Society of America [citation]

Faculty Member of Phi Kappa Phi, elected 2003

Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, elected 2008; citation: "For research on the relation of linguistic structures to the temporal realization of speech."

Professional Societies and Service

Full Member of the Acoustical Society of America

Member of the International Phonetic Association

President, UCLA Graduate Linguistics Circle, 1992

Interviewer for Yale University undergraduate admissions, 1991-1994; Area Coordinator, 1994-1998

Editorial Board Member, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1996 - 2011

National Science Foundation, Panelist 1998

Ad-hoc reviewer for Phonetica, Language and Speech, Speech Communication, Journal of Phonetics, Phonology, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Blackwell Publishers

Ad-hoc reviewer for the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health

Acoustical Society of America Speech Communication Technical Committee 2003-2011

Acoustical Society of America Stetson Award Subcommittee, 1999

Acoustical Society of America Technical Program Organizing Committee: 2000 Newport Beach; 2004 San Diego

Associate Editor for Journal of Phonetics (Elsevier), Sept. 2006 - Sept 2008

NIH LCOM Review Panel member, February 2007

Editorial Board for Journal of Phonetics, 2008 -

Grants and Funding

Electropalatographic study of coproduction in English consonant sequences. (1992) NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant. (P. Keating, dissertation Chair). Total Direct Costs: $12,897.

Teaching Assistant Mini Grant, UCLA (1992).

Task dynamics: Goals and time in speech production. (1997 - 1999) NIH R-01. Principal Investigator: E. Saltzman, Status: Research Investigator. Total Direct Costs: $568,137

Articulatory timing: Organizing syllables and phrases. (1997 - 2002) NIH R-29 FIRST Award. Status: Principal Investigator. Total Direct Costs: $350,000.

Understanding the production of English word stress in speaking. (July 2000 - June 2001) James H. Zumberge Individual Research Grant. Status: Principal Investigator. Total: $21,790.

Temporal structuring of speech and manual gestures (January 2001 - December 2004) NIH R-01. Principal Investigator: E. Saltzman, Status: Research Investigator. Total Direct Costs: $915,000.

Prosody and articulatory dynamics in spoken language. (September 2002 - August 2006) NIH R-01. Status: Principal Investigator. Total Direct Costs: $910,000.

Toward natural child-machine communication: Spoken language interaction in preschoolers. (July 2002 - June 2003) James H. Zumberge Interdisciplinary Grant. Principal Investigators: E. Andersen, S. Narayanan, & P. McLaughlin; Status: Investigator. Total: $40,000.

Human-like speech processing. [May 2005-April 2008 [base] Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI). Jeff Blimes (PI), Status: Investigator. Total Award: $4,980,687; Sub Award to USC: $1,657,329.

NIDCD 2009. T-32 Training Grant. S. Bottjer and N. Seigel, Directors. Training in Hearing & Communications Neuroscience. Role Preceptor.

Dynamics of vocal tract shaping. NIH R-01. Principal Investigator: Narayanan; Status: Co-lead Investigator.
April 2005-March 2009: Total Costs: $1,767992.
12/17/09 - 11/30/14 Total Costs: $2,301,857.

Prosody and articulatory dynamics in spoken language.
September 2006 - August 2011, NCE 2011-2012 NIH R-01. Status: Principal Investigator. Total Costs: 2,848,550.
April 2012 - March 2017 Total Costs $2,453430.

Grants in Support of Undergraduate Student Research

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant—Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplement (1992) (with P. Keating). Total: $5,000.

IMSC Research Program for Undergraduate Students (2000 - 2001) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen). Effect of machine errors on adult discourse patterns in human-machine conversations. Total $5,000.

IMSC Research Program for Undergraduate Students (2000 - 2001) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen). Use of sociolinguistic markers in child-machine conversational interactions and implications for development of child-oriented ASR systems. Total $10,000.

USC Undergraduate Research Program (2001) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen) Child and adult spoken language interaction with computers. Total: $7,360.

IMSC Research Program for Undergraduate Students (2001 – 2002) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen). Effect of machine errors on adult discourse patterns in human-machine conversations. Total $5,000.

IMSC Research Program for Undergraduate Students (2001 – 2002) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen). Use of sociolinguistic markers in child-machine conversational interactions and implications for development of child-oriented ASR systems. Total $5,000.

IMSC Research Program for Undergraduate Students (2001 – 2002) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen). Emotion appropriate text to speech synthesis. Total $5,000.

USC Undergraduate Research Program (2002) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen) Developing Child-Machine Spoken Interfaces: A cross-disciplinary approach bridging technological, linguistic and social challenges Total: $9,000.

IMSC Research Program for Undergraduate Students (2002-2003) co-PI (with S. Narayanan & E. Andersen). Human factors in child-machine spoken language interaction. Total $5,000

USC Undergraduate Research Program (2003-2004) co-PI (with S. Narayanan) Toward illuminating fine details in human speech production: investigations of vocal tract movements Total: $7,000.

USC Undergraduate Research Program (2005) co-PI (with S. Narayanan and S. Lee) Toward illuminating fine details in human speech production: Building a phonetic database of real-time moving speech images. Total: $5,000.

USC Undergraduate Research Program (2006) co-PI (with S. Narayanan) Toward illuminating fine details in human speech production: Analyzing real-time MRI movies to investigate Chinese and German. Total: $6,500.

Ph.D. Thesis and Qualifying Committees

Marc F. Joanisse, Dept. of Linguistics. Connectionist Phonology, 2000.

John J. Stevens, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. The Acquisition of L2 Spanish Phonology in a Study Abroad Context, 2000.

Suzanne Curtin, Dept. of Linguistics. Representational Richness and Phonological Development, 2002.

Carolina Gonzalez, Dept. of Linguistics. The Effect of Stress and Foot Structure on Consonantal Processes, 2003.

Jason Zevin, Program in Neuroscience. Age-Limited Learning Effects in Reading and Speech Perception. 2003.

Guanjun Feng, Department of Linguistics, USC. Morpheme-Syllable Alignment and its Impact on Affixation, and Reduplication and Syllable Structure. In progress.

Simona Montanari, Department of Linguistics, USC. Language Differentiation in Early Trilingual Development. 2006.

Abhinav Sethy, Department of Elec. Engineering, USC. Active data acquisition for building language models for speech recognition. 2007.

Jelena Krivokapic, Department of Linguistics, USC. The Planning, Production, and Perception of Prosodic Structure. 2007.

Rebeka Campos, Department of Linguistics, USC. Minimal Contrast and the Phonology-Phonetics Interface. 2007.

Hua Lin, Department of Linguistics, USC. In progress.

Murtaza Bulut, Department of Elec. Engineering, USC. Data-driven approaches to expressive speech synthesis. 2007.

Jennifer Bruno, Department of Psychology, USC. Neurobiological correlates of skilled and disabled reading. 2008.

Sankaranarayanan Ananthakrishnan, Department of Elec. Engineering, USC. Categorical Prosody Models for Spoken Language Applications. 2008.

Chuping Liu, Department of Elec. Engineering, USC. Speech enhancement and intelligibility modeling in cochlear implants. 2008.

Vivek Rangarajan Sridhar, Department of Elec. Engineering, USC. Enriching spoken language processing: Representation and modeling of suprasegmental events. 2008.

Textbook

D. Byrd & T. Mintz. (2010) Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.

Journal Publications and Book Chapters

D. Byrd. (1992) Perception of assimilation in consonant clusters: A gestural model. Phonetica, 49:1-24. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1992) Preliminary results on speaker-dependent variation in the TIMIT database. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 92(1):593-596.

D. Byrd. (1992) Pitch and duration of yes-no questions in Nchufie. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 22(1/2):12-26. Reprinted in H. Koopman and M. Kural, (Eds.), 1994, Aspects of Nchufie Grammar, UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics, vol. 14, 17-36. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1994) Relations of sex and dialect to reduction. Speech Communication, 15:39-54. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1994) Palatogram reading as a phonetic skill: A short tutorial. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 24(1):21-34. [pdf]

P. Keating, D. Byrd, E. Flemming, & Y. Todaka. (1994) Phonetic analyses of word and segment variation using the TIMIT corpus of American English. Speech Communication, 14:131-142. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1995) C-Centers revisited. Phonetica, 52:263-282. [pdf]

D. Byrd, E. Flemming, C. A. Mueller, & C. C. Tan. (1995) Using regions and indices in EPG data reduction. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 38:821-827. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1995) Palatogram reading as a phonetic skill: The answer to issue 24(1)'’s EPG "mystery" sentence. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 25(2):65-70. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1996) Influences on articulatory timing in consonant sequences. Journal of Phonetics, 24(2):209-244. [pdf] correct Fig 6 [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1996) A phase window framework for articulatory timing. Phonology, 13(2):139-169. [pdf]

D. Byrd & C. C. Tan. (1996) Saying consonant clusters quickly. Journal of Phonetics, 24(2):263-282. [pdf]

K. R. Pugh, B. A. Shaywitz, S. E. Shaywitz, R. K. Fulbright, D. Byrd, P. Skudlarski, D. P. Shankweiler, L. Katz, R. T. Constable, J. Fletcher, C. Lacadie, K. Marchione, & J. C. Gore. (1996) Auditory selective attention: An fMRI investigation. Neuroimage, 4:159-173. [pdf]

D. Byrd & E. Saltzman. (1998) Intragestural dynamics of multiple phrasal boundaries. Journal of Phonetics, 26:173-199. [pdf protected by Academic Press] [alternative pdf]

E. Saltzman & D. Byrd. (1998) Tending the garden or the plant? Bulletin de la Communication ParlÈe, 4:79-83. [pdf]

S. Narayanan, D. Byrd, & A. Kaun. (1999) Geometry, kinematics, and acoustics of Tamil liquid consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106(4):1993-2007. [pdf]

D. Byrd, A. Kaun, S. Narayanan, & E. Saltzman. (2000) Phrasal signatures in articulation. In M. B. Broe and J. B. Pierrehumbert, (Eds.). Papers in Laboratory Phonology V. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 70 - 87. [pdf].

D. Byrd. (2000) Articulatory vowel lengthening and coordination at phrasal junctures. Phonetica, 57(1):3-16. [pdf]

E. Saltzman & D. Byrd (2000) Task-dynamics of gestural timing: Phase windows and multifrequency rhythms. Human Movement Science, 19:499-526. [pdf]

I. Chitoran, L. Goldstein, & D. Byrd. (2002) Gestural overlap and recoverability: Articulatory evidence from Georgian. In C. Gussenhoven & Warner (Eds.) Laboratory Phonology 7 . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 419-448. [pdf]

D. Byrd & E. Saltzman. (2003) Speech production. in M. Arbib (Ed.) The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. 2nd Edition. Cambridge:MIT Press. 1072-1076. [pdf]

D. Byrd & E. Saltzman. (2003) The elastic phrase: Modeling the dynamics of boundary-adjacent lengthening. Journal of Phonetics, 31,2, 149-180. [pdf protected by Academic Press] [alternative pdf]

S. Narayanan, K. Nayak, S. Lee, A. Sethy, D. Byrd (2004) An approach to real-time magnetic resonance imaging for speech production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 1771-1776. [pdf] [web movies]

T. Fukaya and D. Byrd (2005) An articulatory examination of word-final flapping at phrase-edges and interiors. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 35,1, 45-58. [pdf ].

D. Byrd, S. Lee, D. Riggs, and J. Adams. (2005) Interacting effects of syllable and phrase position on consonant articulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118(6), 3860-3873. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (2006) Relating prosody and dynamic events: Commentary on the papers by Cho, Navas, and Smiljanic´. Papers in Laboratory Phonology 8. Goldstein, L., Whalen, D. H., Best, C. (Eds.) Mouton de Gruyter, 549-561. [pdf]

S. Lee, D. Byrd, and J. Krivokapic. (2006) Functional data analysis of prosodic effects on articulatory timing. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119, 1666-1671. [pdf]

L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, and E. Saltzman. (2006) The role of vocal tract gestural action units in understanding the evolution of phonology. Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System. M. Arbib (Ed.) Cambridge University Press, pp. 215-249. [large pdf] [less large but harder to read pdf]

E. Saltzman, H. Nam, L. Goldstein, and D. Byrd. (2006) The distinctions between state, parameter and graph dynamics in sensorimotor control and coordination. In M. L. Latash and F. Lestienne, (Eds.). Motor Control and Learning. New York: Springer pp. 63-73. [pdf]

D. Byrd, J. Krivokapic, and S. Lee. (2006) How far, how long: On the temporal scope of phrase boundary effects. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, 1589-1599. [pdf]

L. Goldstein, M. Pouplier, L. Chen, E. Saltzman, and D. Byrd. (2007) Dynamic action units slip in speech production errors. Cognition 103, 3, 386-412. [pdf]

D. Byrd & D. Riggs (2008) Locality interactions with prominence in determining the scope of phrasal lengthening. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 38, 187-202.

R. Walker, D. Byrd, & F. Mpiranya. (2008) An articulatory view of Kinyarwanda’s coronal harmony. Phonology 25,3, pp. 499-535. [pdf]

E. Bresch, Y.-C. Kim, K. Nayak, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan. (2008) Seeing speech: Capturing vocal tract shaping using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. 25(3): 123-132, May, 2008. [pdf]

D. Byrd, S. Lee, R. Campos-Astorika. (2008) Phrase boundary effects on the temporal kinematics of sequential tongue tip consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(6). 4456-4465. [pdf]

D. Byrd, S. Tobin, E. Bresch, S. Narayanan. (2009) Timing effects of syllable structure and stress on nasals: a real-time MRI examination. Journal of Phonetics 37, 97-110. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, E. Bresch, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein, S. Narayanan. (2009) Analysis of pausing behavior in spontaneous speech using real-time magnetic resonance imaging of articulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126(5), pp. EL160-EL165. [pdf]

D. Byrd and S. Choi. (2010) At the juncture of prosody, phonology, and phonetics—The interaction of phrasal and syllable structure in shaping the timing of consonant gestures. Papers in Laboratory Phonology 10. Mouton de Gruyter. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (2010) Phonetics. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language Sciences. Patrick Colm Hogan (Ed.) Cambridge University Press.

J. Krivokapic & D. Byrd. (2012) Prosodic boundary strength: An articulatory and perceptual study. Journal of Phonetics. Volume 40, 3, 430–442.

Papers in Conference Proceedings and Working Papers

D. Byrd. (1992) Sex, dialects and reduction. In J. J. Ohala, T. M. Nearey, B. L. Derwing, M. M. Hodge & G. E. Wiebe (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 2, 827-830.

D. Byrd. (1992) A note on the English palatalization process. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 81, 34-36. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1992) A note on English sentence-final stops. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 81, 37-38. [pdf]

P. Keating, B. Blankenship, D. Byrd, E. Flemming, & Y. Todaka. (1992) Phonetic analyses of the TIMIT corpus of American English. In J. J. Ohala, T. M. Nearey, B. L. Derwing, M. M. Hodge & G. E. Wiebe (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, vol. 2, 823-826.

D. Byrd. (1993) 54,000 American stops. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 83, 97-116. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1994) Articulatory Timing in English Consonant Sequences. as UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 86, Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1993) Marshallese suffixal reduplication. In J. Mead, (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 61-77. [pdf]

D. Byrd. (1995) Articulatory characteristics of single and blended lingual gestures. in K. Elenius & P. Branderud (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 438-441. [pdf]

S. Narayanan, A. Kaun, D. Byrd, P. Ladefoged, & A. Alwan. (1996) Liquids in Tamil. In H. T. Bunnell & W. Idsardi (Eds.), Proceedings of ICSLP 96. Philadelphia, PA (Oct 1996) [invited paper], 797-800. [pdf]

D. Byrd, C. P. Browman, L. Goldstein, & D. Honorof. (1999) Magnetometer and X-ray microbeam comparison. In J. J. Ohala, Y. Hasegawa, M. Ohala, D. Granville, & A. C. Bailey (Eds.). Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, New York: American Institute of Physics, 627-630. [pdf]

E. Saltzman & D. Byrd. (1999) Dynamical simulations of a phase window model of relative timing. In J. J. Ohala, Y. Hasegawa, M. Ohala, D. Granville, & A. C. Bailey, (Eds.). Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, New York: American Institute of Physics, 2275-2278. [pdf]

S. Curtin, T. H. Mintz, & D. Byrd. (2000) Coarticulatory cues enhance infants' recognition of syllable sequences in speech. In Anna H.-J. Do, Laura Domínguez, and Aimee Johansen (Eds.) BUCLD 25: Proceedings of the 25^th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 190-201. [pdf]

S. Arunachalam, D. Gould, E. Andersen, D. Byrd, and S. Narayanan. (2001) Politeness and frustration language in child-machine interactions. In Proc. Eurospeech, (Aalborg, Denmark), pp. 2675-2678, 2001. [pdf]

J. Shin, S. Narayanan, L. Gerber, A. Kazemzadeh, D. Byrd (2002) Analysis of user behavior under error conditions in spoken dialogs. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, (September, 2002, Colorado). [pdf]

D. Byrd (2003) Frontiers and challenges in Articulatory Phonology. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. (Barcelona, Spain). [pdf]

S. Yildrim, S. Narayanan, D. Byrd, S. Khurana (2003) Acoustic analysis of preschool children's speech. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. (Barcelona, Spain). [pdf]

D. Byrd, R. Campos-Astorkiza, M. Shepherd (2006). Gestural de-aggregation via prosodic structure. Proceedings of the 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil. [pdf]

E. Bresch, J. Adams, A. Pouzet, S. Lee, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan (2006). Semi-automatic processing of real-time MR image sequences for speech production studies. Proceedings of the 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil. pp. 427-434. [pdf] or [pdf]

D. Byrd & K. Harris. (2007) Identifying and evaluating apraxic speech deficits using magnetometry. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Saarbrucken, Germany). [pdf]

Y.C. Kim, J.F. Nielsen, S. Narayanan, D. Byrd, K.S. Nayak. (2008). Application of compressed sensing to 3D imaging of the vocal tract for speech MRI. Proc. ISMRM 16th Scientific Sessions, Toronto, May 2008, p. 2003. [pdf]

E. Bresch, D. Riggs, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, S. Lee and S. Narayanan. (2008) An analysis of vocal tract shaping in English sibilant fricatives using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. Proceedings of InterSpeech, 2823-2826.

B. Parrell, S. Lee, & D. Byrd (2010) Evaluation of juncture strength using articulatory synthesis of prosodic gestures and functional data analysis. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

E. Holsinger, D. Cheng-Huan Li, E. Kaiser and D. Byrd. (2010) Visual grouping and prosodic grouping: Effects of spatial information on prosodic boundary strength. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

B. Parrell, L. Goldstein, S. Lee, and D. Byrd. (2010) Articulatory evidence for functional coupling of speech and non-speech motor tasks. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein and S. Narayanan. (2010) A joint acoustic-articulatory study of nasal spectral reduction in read versus spontaneous speaking styles. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

Vikram Ramanarayanan, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein and Shrikanth S. Narayanan. (2010) Investigating Articulatory Setting—Pauses, Ready Position, and Rest—Using Real-Time MRI, in: In Proceedings of InterSpeech, 2010 [pdf]

B. Parrell, L. Goldstein, S. Lee and D Byrd. (2011) Temporal coupling between speech and manual motor actions. International Seminar on Speech Production, Montreal, Canada. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, A. Lammert, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein and S. Narayanan. (2011) Planning and execution in soprano singing and speaking behavior: An acoustic/articulatory study using real‐time MRI. International Seminar on Speech Production, Montreal, Canada.

V. Ramanarayanan, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd and S. Narayanan. (2011) An MRI study of articulatory settings of L1 and L2 speakers of American English. International Seminar on Speech Production, Montreal, Canada.

Abstracts and Conference Presentations

E. Zsiga & D. Byrd. (1990) Acoustic evidence of overlap in consonant sequences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 88(1):S127(A).

D. Byrd. (1991) Segmental realization and sex-dependent variability in the TIMIT database. Presented at the Third Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Los Angeles, California.

D. Byrd. (1994) Gestural and prosodic influences on the articulation of consonant sequences. Presented at the June, 1994 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 95(5,2):2820.

D. Byrd. (1994) Rate and reduction in consonant sequences. Presented at the 1994 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts.

D. Byrd, C. P. Browman, L. Goldstein, & D. Honorof. (1995) EMMA and X-ray microbeam comparison. Presented at the May 1995 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Washington D.C. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97(5,2): 3365.

D. Byrd, A. Kaun, & S. Narayanan. (1996) Prosodic boundary effects in Tamil: an articulatory study. Presented at the January, 1996, meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Diego, California.

D. Byrd, S. Narayanan, A. Kaun, & E. Saltzman. (1996) Phrasal signatures in articulation. Presented at Fifth Conference on Laboratory Phonology, July, 1996, Evanston, Illinois.

D. Byrd & E. Saltzman. (1996) Distinguishing multiple prosodic boundaries in articulatory kinematics and dynamics. Presented at Third Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, December, 1996, Honolulu, Hawaii. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100(4,2): 2823.

S. Narayanan, A. Kaun, D. Byrd, P. Ladefoged, & A. Alwan. (1996) Liquids in Tamil. In H. T. Bunnell & W. Idsardi (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing 96. Philadelphia, PA (Oct 1996) [invited paper], 797-800.

K. R. Pugh, B. A. Shaywitz, S. E. Shaywitz, D. Byrd, R. Fulbright, J. Gore. (1996) Auditory selective attention: An fMRI investigation. Presented at the October, 1996, meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, Illinois.

D. Shankweiler, K. S. Harris. W. Ni, D. Byrd, & S. Avrutin. (1996) Production in Brocas aphasia: A case study of syntactic and phonetic aspects. Platform presentation at the 34th Academy of Aphasia Conference, November 3-5, London, UK. Brain and Language, 55(1), 14-16.

D. Byrd & E. Saltzman. (1997) Distinguishing multiple prosodic boundaries in articulation. Presented at the January, 1997, meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, Illinois.

K. S. Harris, D. Shankweiler, W. Ni, & D. Byrd. (1997) Articulation and agrammatism in Brocas aphasia. Presented at the meeting of the American Speech and Hearing Association, Boston, Massachusetts.

D. Byrd. (1998) Intergestural coordination adjacent to multiple prosodic boundaries. Presented at the June 1998 meeting of the International Congress on Acoustics and the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, Washington. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress on Acoustics and the 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 1255-1256.

M. Pouplier, L. Chen, L. Goldstein, & D. Byrd. (1999) Kinematic evidence for the existence of gradient speech errors. Presented at the November 1999 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Columbus, Ohio. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106(4,2): 2242. [abstract]

D. Byrd, C. P. Browman, L. Goldstein, & D. Honorof. (1999) Magnetometer and X-ray microbeam comparison. In J. J. Ohala, Y. Hasegawa, M. Ohala, D. Granville, & A. C. Bailey, (Eds.). Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, New York: American Institute of Physics, 627-630.

I. Chitoran, L. Goldstein, & D. Byrd. (2000) Recoverability constraints on gestural overlap in feorgian stop sequences. Presented at the May 2000 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, Georgia. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107(5,2): 2804.

E. Saltzman & D. Byrd. (2000) Demonstrating effects of parameter dynamics on gestural timing. Presented at the May 2000 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, Georgia. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107(5,2): 2904.

I. Chitoran, L. Goldstein, & D. Byrd. (2000) Gestural overlap and recoverability: Articulatory evidence from Georgian. Presented at the June 2000 Seventh Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Netherlands.

M. Pouplier, L. Chen, L. Goldstein, & D. Byrd. (2000) Articulatory evidence for the existence of gradient speech errors. Presented at the June 2000 Seventh Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Netherlands.

S. Curtin, T. H. Mintz, & D. Byrd. (2000) Coarticulatory cues enhance infants' recognition of syllable sequences in speech. Presented at the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2000.

S. Curtin, T. H. Mintz, & D. Byrd. (2000) Coarticulatory information in natural speech stimuli is crucial for infant recognition of syllable sequences. Presented at the December 2000 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Newport Beach, California. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108(2,2): 2480. [abstract]

L. Goldstein & D. Byrd. (2001) Dynamic units in speech production: Evidence from speech production errors. Invited talk at the June 2001 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, Illinois. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109(5,2): 2381.

E. Saltzman & D. Byrd. (2001) Accommodating underlying invariance and surface variability at phrasal junctures. CREST Workshop on Speech Motor Control and Modeling, Sapporo, Japan, September, 2001.

S. Curtin, T. H. Mintz, & D. Byrd. (2001) Stress, segmentation, and early representations. Workshop on Early Phonological Acquisition. Carry-le-Rouet (Marseilles), France, October, 2001.

D. Byrd. (2002) Commentary: Relating prosody and dynamic action units. The VIIIth Conference on Laboratory Phonology. New Haven, Connecticut, June 2002.

T. Fukaya & D. Byrd (2003) An articulatory examination of variable word-final flapping at phrase edges and interiors. Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, Tennessee, April 2003. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113(4,2): 2258.

S. Narayanan, Nayak, D. Byrd, & S. Lee (2003) An approach to real-time magnetic resonance imaging of speech production. Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, Tennessee, April 2003. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113(4,2): 2258.

S. Yildrim, S. Narayanan, D. Byrd, S. Khurana (2003) Acoustic analysis of preschool children's speech. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, August 2003.

S. Lee, S. Narayanan, & D. Byrd (2003) Asymmetric kinematic changes in speaking rate explored with FDA. Acoustical Society of America, Austin, Texas, November 2003. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114(4,2): 2393. [abstract]

A. Sethy, S. Narayanan, S. Lee & D. Byrd (2003) Toward data-driven modeling of dynamic vocal-tract data. Acoustical Society of America, Austin, Texas, November 2003. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, , 113(4,2): 2392. [abstract]

H. Nam, L. Goldstein, E. Saltzman & D. Byrd (2004) TADA: An enhanced, portable Task Dynamics model in MATLAB. Acoustical Society of America, New York, New York, May 2004. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, , 115(5,2): 2430.[abstract]

S. Lee, S. Narayanan, D. Byrd (2004) A developmental acoustic characterization of English diphthongs. Acoustical Society ofAmerica, New York, New York, May 2004. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, , 115(5,2): 2628. [abstract].

D. Byrd (2004) [invited address] Future challenges in speech communication research. Acoustical Society of America, New York, New York, May 2004. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115(5,2): 2511-2512 [pdf]

D. Byrd, J. Krivokapic, S. Lee. (2004) On the temporal scope of boundary effects in articulation. Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, November 2004. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116(4,2): 2643. [abstract]

S. Lee, D. Byrd, J. Adams, D. Riggs. (2004) Interacting effects of phrasal and syllable position on consonant production. Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, November 2004. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116(4,2): 2643. [abstract]

D. Byrd and S. Choi (2005) Syllable and phrase structure effects on consonant sequence timing. Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, October 2005. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118(3,2): 2035. [abstract]

S. Choi and D. Byrd (2005) Evaluating gestural overlap as an influence on perception of consonant clusters. Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN, October 2005. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118(3,2): 2036. [abstract]

S. Narayanan, E. Bresch, S. Tobin, D. Byrd, K. Nayak, & J. Nielsen (2006) Resonance tuning in soprano singing and vocal tract shaping: Comparison of sung and spoken vowels. Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI, June 2006. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119(5,2):3305 [abstract]

S. Tobin, D. Byrd, E. Bresch, S. Narayanan (2006) Syllable structure effects on velum-oral coordination evaluated with real-time MRI. Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI, June 2006. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119(5,2):3302 [abstract]

S. Lee, S. Narayanan, and D. Byrd. (2006) Effects of varying speaking rates on spatiotemporal tongue-tip movement patterns. 5th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 7-10, 2006

D. Byrd and S. Choi (2006) At the juncture of prosody, phonology, and phonetics—The interaction of phrasal and syllable structure in shaping the timing of consonant gestures. 10th Conference on Laboratory Phonology June 2006.

R. Walker, D. Byrd, F. Mpiranya, C. DeFreitas, S. Lee (2006) The articulation of consonants in Kinyarwanda’s sibilant harmony. Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI, December 2006. J. Acoust. Soc. Am.

D. Byrd, R. Campos-Astorkiza, M. Shepherd (2006). Gestural de-aggregation via prosodic structure. 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil.

E. Bresch, J. Adams, A. Pouzet, S. Lee, D. Byrd, S. Narayanan (2006) Semi-automatic processing of real-time MR image sequences for speech production studies. 7th International Seminar on Speech Production, Ubatuba, Brazil.

D. Byrd and J. Krivokapic (2008, invited oral presentation) Prosodic variation: Understanding scope, categoricity, and recursion in speech production and perception. Acoustical Society of America, Paris, France, June 2008.

D. Riggs and D. Byrd (2008, invited oral presentation) The scope of phrasal lengthening in articulation: Prosody and prominence. Conference on Laboratory Phonology 11, New Zealand, 2008.

V. Ramanarayanan, Erik Bresch, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth S. Narayanan. (2009) Real-time MRI tracking of articulation during grammatical and ungrammatical pauses in speech. Proceedings of the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, 18-22 May 2009. [pdf]

S. Lee, Benjamin Parrell, Dani Byrd. (2009) Computational modeling of juncture strength using articulatory synthesis of prosodic gestures. Proceedings of the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, 18-22 May 2009. [pdf]

A. Lammert, Erik Bresch, Louis Goldstein, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2009) An articulatory study of lexicalized and epenthetic schwa using real time magnetic resonance imaging. Proceedings of the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, 18-22 May 2009. [pdf]

S. Lee, Dani Byrd. (2009) A study of articulatory kinematics of American English diphthongs. Proceedings of the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, 18-22 May 2009. [pdf]

M. Proctor, Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd, Erik Bresch, Shri Narayanan. (2009) Articulatory comparison of Tamil liquids and stops using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. Proceedings of the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, 18-22 May 2009. [pdf]

E. Holsinger, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2009) Beyond acoustic data: Characterizing disordered speech using direct articulatory evidence from real time imaging. Proceedings of the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Oregon, 18-22 May 2009. [pdf]

J. Tepperman, Erik Bresch, Yoon-Chul Kim, Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd, Krishna Nayak, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2009) Articulatory analysis of foreign-accented speech using real-time MRI. Proceedings of the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, Oregon, 18-22 May 2009. [pdf]

B. Parrell, S. Lee, & D. Byrd (2010) Evaluation of juncture strength using articulatory synthesis of prosodic gestures and functional data analysis. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

E. Holsinger, D. Cheng-Huan Li, E. Kaiser and D. Byrd. (2010) Visual grouping and prosodic grouping: Effects of spatial information on prosodic boundary strength. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

B. Parrell, L. Goldstein, S. Lee, and D. Byrd. (2010) Articulatory evidence for functional coupling of speech and non-speech motor tasks. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, D. Byrd, L. Goldstein and S. Narayanan. (2010) A joint acoustic-articulatory study of nasal spectral reduction in read versus spontaneous speaking styles. Speech Prosody 2010. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, Dani Byrd, Louis Goldstein and Shrikanth Narayanan (2010). Investigating articulatory setting - pauses, ready position and rest - using real-time MRI, in proceedings of: Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan, Sept 2010. [pdf]

B. Parrell, Sungbok Lee, Dani Byrd. (2010) Quantifying prosodic boundary strength using functional data analysis of articulatory movement. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (128, No. 4), October 2010. [pdf]

B. Parrell, A. Lammert, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, & S. Narayanan (2011). Imaging and quantification of glottal kinematics with ultrasound during speech. Poster presented at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, November 2011. [pdf]

D. Riggs & D. Byrd (2011). The scope of phrasal lengthening: Articulatory and acoustic evidence. Poster presented at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, November 2011. [pdf]

V. Ramanarayanan, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, S. Naryanan. (2011) Statistical analysis of constriction task and articulatory posture variables during speech and pausing intervals using real-time magnetic resonance imaging. Poster presented at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, November 2011. [pdf]

S. Lee, J. Kim, D. Byrd (2011) Emotion effects on speech articulation: Local or global? Poster presented at the 162nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, November 2011. [pdf]

E. Kaiser, Holsinger, E., Li, D. C-H., Byrd, D. (2011) “From seeing to saying: On the relation between visual grouping and prosodic grouping” New Trends in Experimental Psycholinguistics, Madrid, 28-30 September 2011.

Invited Lectures and Colloquia

Articulatory timing in English consonant sequences. Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, April 1994.

Articulatory timing in English consonant sequences. City University of New York, Graduate Center, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, April, 1994.

Articulatory Phonology In-House Workshop: Notes on timing and contrast. Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, April 1995.

Phonological influences on articulatory timing. Stanford University, Department of Linguistics, January 1996.

Phonological influences on articulatory timing. University of Texas, Austin, Department of Linguistics, February 1996.

Phonological influences on articulatory timing. University of Connecticut, Department of Linguistics, February, 1996.

The infusion of prosody into articulation. University of Southern California, Department of Linguistics, February 1998.

What's been done. In-house seminar Haskins Laboratories Speech Production Conference, New Haven, CT, May 1998.

Sub-lexical phonological units in articulation and speech errors. Invited talk at the Ahmanson Foundation Language and Mind Forum, University of Southern California, April 2000.

Temporal patterning of articulatory gestures. Colloquium with E. Saltzman, UCLA Linguistics, May 2000.

Biocomplexity in speech production. Invited lecture, Bi/CNS 286bc Biocomplexity of Visual, Auditory, and Speech Perception, California Institute of Technology, January 2000.

Dynamic units in speech production: Evidence and ramifications. Colloquium, UCSB Linguistics, November 2001.

On the characterization and evolution of phonological units. Presented at Action Recognition and Language Workshop, M. Arbib, Director, January 2003.

The primate mirror system & human language: Connections and challenges. Presented at Action Recognition and Language Seminar, M. Arbib, Director, February 2003.

Frontiers and challenges in Articulatory Phonology. Invited talk for the Symposium on Articulatory Phonology at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, Spain, August 2003.

Dynamic units in speech production. Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. September 2003.

Future challenges in speech communication research. Acoustical Society of America, New York, New York, May 2004. invited address at the Celebratory Future Session at the 75th Anniversary Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 2004. [pdf]

Linguistic structuring of speech articulation. University Seminar on Language and Cognition, Barnard College and Columbia University, New York. March 2007.

At the juncture of prosody, phonology, and phonetics, Stanford University colloquium, 2010

Invited Guest Teaching and Lay Lectures

Presentation at USC Freshman Orientation meeting, July 2000; July 2002; July 2004, July 2006, July 2007.
    “A little bit of linguistics”
Presentation at USC Parents Weekend, October 2003
    “Producing & perceiving words”
Undergraduate Recruitment Faculty Panel, November 2004.
Faculty Showcase Presentation at New Student Orientation, July 2006
Graduate Student Symposium, February 2006, “Phonetics Laboratory: Goals and Approaches. Interdisciplinary approaches to psycholinguistic and
    neurolinguistic research: Investigating speech perception and production”
Parkside Residential College, Guest Lecture, February 2008
Explore USC presentations, Spring 2008 - present

Guest Teaching Lectures:

Electrical Engineering 114 Introduction to Speech and Image Processing, UCLA, April 2001.
For Ling 115 (Fall 2003)
For Thematic Option Honors Program 103 (Spring 2005)
For BISC 462 (Fall 2005)
For Ling 580 (Fall 2006)
For ARLT 100g (Fall 2003, Spring 2006)
For Linguistics 110 (Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008)

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