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BS, Communicative Sciences and Disorders

Recent Undergraduate Theses

2023

Joyce Chung (Advisor: Dr. Tara McAllister)
Do speakers of a non-tone language benefit from real-time pitch biofeedback in learning lexical tones?

Kenzo Kimura (Advisor: Dr. Susannah Levi)
Listener bias and intelligibility of unfamiliar varieties of a language

Sara Miranda-Finetti (Advisor: Dr. Maria Grigos)
Diphthong changes in Childhood Apraxia of Speech following motor-based intervention

2021

Elizabeth Barbier (Advisor: Dr. Christina Reuterskiöld)
Relative Clause Production in Children: Elicitation Context and Clause Type

Gissell Cuevas (Advisor: Dr. Sudha Arunachalam)
Color Word Learning in Spanish-English Bilingual Children

Janie Rist (Advisor: Dr. Susannah Levi)
Children’s Phonetic Imitation of Dialect-Specific Features

Dilys Tan (Advisor: Dr. Celia Stewart)
An Evaluation of Fundamental Frequency, Intonation Patterns, and Vocal Fry in Multilingual Singlish and Manglish Speakers

2020 

Annika Canta (Advisor: Dr. Tara McAllister)
Do Variability and Accuracy Trade Off in Bilingual Speech Acquisition?
Published in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Olesia Gritsyk (Advisor: Dr. Tara McAllister)
Establishing an Index of Somatosensory Acuity: Comparison of Three Measures in Adults
Published in Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups

2019

Seyoung Lanie Jung (Advisor: Dr. Maria Grigos)
Graduate Student Clinicians’ Perceptions of Child Speech Sound Errors 
Published in Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups

Julia Kharlamenko (Advisor: Dr. Susannah Levi)
Changes to Perceptual Assimilation Following Training
Published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Stefania Marchitelli (Advisor: Dr. Susannah Levi)
Semantic Predictability and the Use of Creaky Voice in Female Speakers
Published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

2018 

Samantha Ayala (Advisor: Dr. Tara McAllister)
Does Auditory Acuity Predict Response to Visual-acoustic Biofeedback?
Published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Gretchen Go (Advisor: Dr. Susannah Levi)
Using Perceptual Training to Change the Production of Non-Native Speech Sounds
Published in Journal of Phonetics

Grace Tsang (Advisor: Dr. Susannah Levi)
Effect of Musical Training on Perception of Shadowed-Speech 
Published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

2017

Laine Ciadella (Advisor: Dr. Tara McAllister)
Does Perceptual Training Enhance /r/ Misarticulation?
Published in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Mehak Noorani (Advisor: Dr. Sonja Molfenter)
Examining The Relationship Between Swallowing and Sarcopenia in Healthy, Community-Dwelling Seniors
Published in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Keziah St. Louis (Advisor: Dr. Maria Grigos)
Coarticulation Seen in Formant Transitions of Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Sara Zhong (Advisor: Dr. Maria Grigos)
Acoustic Cues of English Lexical Stress in Cantonese and Mandarin Speakers

2016

Ashley Quinto (Advisor: Dr. Susannah Levi)
Effect of Time and Lexical Frequency on Memory
Published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Tappy Tong (Advisor: Dr. Adam Buchwald)
Production of Native and Non-Native Clusters

Recent Undergraduate Thesis Advisors

Adam Buchwald

Professor; Director, Center of Health and Rehabilitation Research

buchwald@nyu.edu

Maria Grigos

Professor; Department Chair

maria.grigos@nyu.edu

Susannah Levi

Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies

svlevi@nyu.edu

Tara McAllister

Associate Professor; Director, Doctoral Program

tkm214@nyu.edu

Christina Reuterskiöld

Small Talk Child Language Development and Disorders Lab

christina.reuterskiold@nyu.edu