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