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Dani Byrd's special interest is in articulatory timing or how the skilled, sound producing movements of the vocal tract are coordinated as a result of linguistic structuring, such as phrasal and syllable structure.
(Professor, Dept. Linguistics)

Louis Goldstein's work has been the development, with Catherine Browman, of a gesture-based approach to phonological and phonetic structure--Articulatory Phonology. His current research within this framework includes (1) phonological encoding in speech production; (2) the emergence of phonological structure in development, modelled via  the interaction of computational agents; and (3) syllable structure understood as intergestural coordination. (Professor, Dept. Linguistics; Haskins Laboratories)

Khalil Iskarous's work focuses on the links between speech production and speech perception and the implication of these links to the phonological structure of languages. The specific goal of my research program is to understand how the dynamics of tongue and vocal fold movement structure acoustic signals and perceptual processes. To support this program, I have been active in developing hardware and software platforms for measuring and simulating tongue and vocal fold motion. (Assistant Professor, Dept. Linguistics)

Karen Jesney's primary interests are in phonological theory, phonological acquisition, and learnability.  In particular, her work examines harmonic grammar and child phonology. (Assistant Professor, Dept. Linguistics)

Shrikanth Narayanan's interests include speech and language processing systems, with a focus on automatic speech recognition. Additionally, he explores biomedical imaging of articulation and modeling of speech production and speech acoustics.
(Andrew J. Viterbi Professor of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, and College Depts. of Computer Science, Psychology, & Linguistics)

Rachel Walker's chief interest is in the theoretical characterization of grammaticalized sound patterns and how cognitive factors play a role in determining those patterns. A special focus of her work is understanding why and how sounds tend to share characteristics both locally and globally within words. (Assoc. Professor, Dept. Linguistics)

Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

Sandra Ferrari Disner works in the area of phonetics and forensic linguistics.  She is also interested in speaker identification, trademark law, enhanced transcription techniques, speech technology, and language translation. (Lecturer, Dept. Linguistics)

Sungbok Lee's research interests include speech production modeling, automatic speech recognition, and speech and language processing for human-machine interaction.  (Research Assistant Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering)

Affliliated Faculty

Abigail Kaun
Adjunct Asst. Professor, Linguistics; Associate Dean, Academic Programs & Student Affairs, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism

Peter Ladefoged (in memoriam)
Adjunct Professor, USC; Professor Emeritus, UCLA