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Susannah Levi

Assistant Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Susannah Levi


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Acoustic Phonetics and Perception Lab

Susannah Levi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. She examines the interaction between processing linguistic information (what is being said) and talker information (who is doing the talking). 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 with 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.


Degrees Held

  • Ph.D. University of Washington (Seattle) 2004
    Linguistics
  • M.A. University of Washington (Seattle) 2000
    Linguistics
  • B.A. Washington University in St. Louis 1996
    Mathematics; French Language and Literature

Research interests

  • Speech Perception
  • Acoustic Analysis
  • Perception of linguistic and talker information in speech
  • Relationship between talker processing, working memory, and linguistic processing
  • Development of talker processing in children with both typical and impaired language development

Publications

  • Ronquest, R. E., Levi, S. V., & Pisoni, D. B. (2010). Language identification from visual-only speech. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 72, 1601-1613.
  • Levi, S. V. (2009). Perception of talker information by children with typical and impaired linguistic development. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 6. 1-7.
  • Winters, S. J., Levi, S. V., & Pisoni, D. B. (2008). Identification and discrimination of bilingual talkers across languages. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(6), 4524-4538.
  • Levi, S. V. (2008). Phonemic vs. derived glides. Lingua. 118, 1956-1978.
  • Levi, S. V., Winters, S. J., & Pisoni, D. B. (2008). A cross-language familiar talker advantage? Acoustics08-Paris: proceedings of the Acoustical Society of America meeting/Euronoise, Paris. 2435-2439.
  • Levi, S. V., Winters, S. J., & Pisoni, D. B. (2007). Speaker-independent factors affecting the degree of perceived foreign accent in a second language. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121(4), 2327-2338.
  • Burkholder-Juhasz, R. A., Levi, S. V., Dillon, C. M., & Pisoni, D. B. (2007). Nonword repetition with spectrally reduced speech: Some developmental and clinical findings. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 12, 472-485.
  • Pisoni, D. B. & Levi, S. V. (2007). Some observations on representations and representational specificity in speech perception and spoken word recognition. The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. (G. Gaskell, ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 3-18.
  • Levi, S. V. & Pisoni, D. B. (2007). Indexical and linguistic channels in speech perception: Some effects of voiceovers on advertising outcomes. Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing Communications (T. M. Lowrey, ed.). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. pp. 203-219.
  • Clopper, C. G., Levi, S. V., & Pisoni, D. B. (2006). Perceptual similarity of regional dialects of American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 566-574.
  • Levi, S. V. (2005). Acoustic correlates of lexical accent in Turkish. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 35, 73-97.

Awards

  • 2010 : NIH-NIDCD R03
  • 2010 : Lessons for Success: American Speech and Hearing Association
  • 2003 : American Association of University Women: Dissertation Fellowship
  • 2003 : Association for Women in Science: Dissertation Fellowship
  • 2002 : Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
  • 2002 : Chester William Fritz Endowed Scholarship in the Humanities
  • 2001 : Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
  • 2000 : Elizabeth Kerr Macfarlane Endowed Scholarship in the Humanities

Courses

  • Phonetics and Phonemics
  • Acoustic Phonetics
  • Science of Language
  • Critical Evaluation of Research
  • Speech Science: Instrumentation
  • Research Colloquium in CSD