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Recent Master’s Theses

MS, Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Recent Master’s Theses

2023

Emily Brady (Advisor: Dr. Sudha Arunachalam)
Child and caregiver language in two different play contexts

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

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

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

Recent Graduate Thesis Advisors

Eric S. Jackson

Associate Professor

Susannah Levi

Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies

svlevi@nyu.edu

Tara McAllister

Associate Professor; Director, Doctoral Program

tkm214@nyu.edu