Recent Master’s Theses
2025
Madelyn Escario (Advisor: Dr. Sudha Arunachalam)
The Role of Word Order in Toddlers’ Acquisition of Novel Adjectives
2024
Mridula Anandhakrishnan (Advisor: Dr. Sonja Molfenter)
The Relationship between Residue, Edema and Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion Surgery: A Prospective Study
Emelia BensonMeyer Advisor: Dr. Susannah Levi)
The Influence of Listener Gender on Sibilant Perception
Sydney Keller (Advisor: Dr. Maria Grigos)
Training on Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Experiences of Speech-Language Pathologists
Sarah Sokolowski (Advisor: Dr. Sonja Molfenter)
Exploring the Relationship Between Pooled Secretions on Laryngoscopy and Swallow Timing on Videofluoroscopy
2023
Emily Brady (Advisor: Dr. Sudha Arunachalam)
Child and caregiver language in two different play contexts
Published in Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America
Ivy Yen (Advisor: Dr. Susannah Levi)
The effects of talker variability on word-learning in a blocked design paradigm
Published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
2022
Taina Hernandez McShane (Advisor: Dr. Sudha Arunachalam)
Novel Noun Acquisition on Zoom
Adi Magid (Advisor: Dr. Susannah Levi)
Perceived naturalness of speech with shifted fundamental frequency
Amanda Maniscalco (Advisor: Dr. Sudha Arunachalam)
Verb Learning: Reducing the Processing Demands
Elizabeth Strano (Advisor: Dr. Celia Stewart)
NYU CSD Graduate Students’ Vocal Awareness and Experiences as Organized within the WHO-ICF Framework
Raquel Tripp (Advisor: Dr. Aaron Johnson)
Use of Crowdsourced Listeners’ Ratings to Measure Listener Estimates of Talker Age: A Feasibility Study
Published in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Santiago Sanchez (Advisor: Dr. Aaron Johnson)
Relationships between reported emotional well-being and voice problems: A retrospective national database analysis
2021
Sarah Kervin (Advisor: Dr. Celia Stewart)
The Key to Singing Off-key: The Trained Singer and Pitch Perception Distortion
Taisha Pelletier (Advisor: Dr. Sudha Arunachalam)
Supporting Word Learning through Preferred Interests in Children: A Pilot Study
Published in Autism Research
2020
Tabitha McCloud-James (Advisor: Dr. Tara McAllister)
StaRt: Does Visual-Acoustic Biofeedback Contribute More Than Traditional Treatment in App-Based Intervention for /r/ Misarticulation?
Haley Warner (Advisor: Dr. Eric S. Jackson)
The Effect of Gap Duration on the Perception of Fluent Versus Disfluent Speech
2019
Laine Cialdella (Advisor: Dr. Tara McAllister)
Perceptual Characteristics of Children with Rhotic Misarticulation
Published in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
Kristina Doyle (Advisor: Dr. Tara McAllister)
Acoustic Predictors of Vowel and Gender Identification in the Speech of Transgender Women
Published in Journal of Voice
Serena Piol (Advisor: Dr. Susannah Levi)
Influence of Semantics on the Perception of Gender and Femininity
Published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
2018
Ashley Quinto (Advisor: Dr. Susannah Levi)
Re-examining the Effect of Top-Down Processing on Voice Perception
Published in Cognitive Science
2017
Erica Herzberg (Advisor: Dr. Sonja Molfenter)
Swallow Event Sequence Variability in Healthy Older Adults
Published in Dysphagia
2016
Wendy Liang (Advisor: Dr. Tara McAllister)
App-Delivered Biofeedback Intervention: A Case Study
Published in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Maria Turcotte (Advisor: Dr. Sonja Molfenter)
Edema in Head and Neck Cancer: Exploring Risk for Aspiration
Published in Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology
