Susannah Levi

• Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

Susannah Levi is a linguist and speech scientist who examines the interaction between processing linguistic information and talker information. In particular, she has looked at whether people sound the same when speaking different languages and how familiarity with a talker's voice enhances linguistic performance. She is expanding her work on adult listeners to include typically developing children and children with specific language impairment. Levi received her doctorate from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington in 2004, completed a postdoctoral research position in the Department of Brain and Psychological Sciences at Indiana University, and taught at the University of Michigan.