books
The Navajo Sound System, Kluwer, 2003
articles
Bowern, C., J. McDonough, K. Kelliher, 2012, in press. ``The phonetics of Bardi (Nyulnyulan)" Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
Carney, L., J. McDonough. 2012, in press. ``Predicting discrimination of formant frequencies in vowels with a computational model of the auditory midbrain.'' IEEE-CISS, Princeton.
Iskarous, K, J. McDonough, D. H. Whalen. 2012 ``A gestural account of velar contrast: the back fricatives in Navajo'' Laboratory Phonology 3.1: 195-210 .
J. McDonough, B. Tucker. 2012 ``Replicating P. E. Goddard: A contemporary airflow and EGG study of Dene Sųłiné.'' University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences (WPLS: UR) Volume 4:1. P 45-56.
J. McDonough, H. Lenhert-LeHouiller, N. Bardhan, 2009. ``The perception of Nasalized Vowels in American English: An investigation of online use of vowel nasalization in lexical access.'' in University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences (WPLS: UR) Volume 5:1.
McDonough, J., V. Wood. 2008. ``Athabaskan stops''' Journal of Phonetics. V36.3, 427-449
McDonough, J., D.H. Whalen. 2008. ``The phonetics of native North American languages'' {Journal of Phonetics. V36.3, 423-426.
Jacob, M., H. Lehnert-LeHouillier, S. Bora, S. McAleavey, D. Dialecki, J. McDonough. 2008. ``Speckle Tracking for the Recovery of Displacement and Velocity Information from Sequences of Ultrasound Images of the Tongue''. Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production, Strasbourg France, 53-57.
Diehl, J., D. Watson,, L. Bennetto, J. McDonough, C. Gunlogson. 2008. ``An Acoustic Analysis of Prosody in High-Functioning Autism'' Applied Psycholinguistics (in press)
Diehl, J. J., L. Bennetto, D. Watson, C. Gunlogson and J. McDonough. 2008. ``Resolving ambiguity: A psycholinguistic approach to understanding prosody processing in high-functioning autism'' Brain and Language. Aug;106(2):144-52
Salverda, A.P., Dahan, D., Tanenhaus, M.K., Crosswhite, K., Masharov, M., McDonough, J. 2007. ``Effects of prosodically modulated sub-phonetic variation on lexical competition''. Cognition, 105(2), 466--476.
McDonough, J., H. Danko, J. Zentz. 2007. ``Rhythmic structure of music and language: an empirical investigation of American jazz masters Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton''. University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences WPLS: UR Volume 3:1. P 45-56.
McDonough, J., R. Sussman. 2005. ``A preliminary methodology for the investigation of speaker's knowledge of structure in Athabaskan'' BLS 2004
McDonough, J. 2002. ``The intonation of Navajo focus and interrogative constructions'', in Formal Approaches to Functional Phenomena, eds. Carnie, Harley and Willie. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
McDonough, J. 2001. ``Incorporating onsets in Navajo: the d-effect'', Papers in honor of Ken Hale}, ed. by Carnie, Jelinek and Willie, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics:177-88.
McDonough, J. 2000. ``On the bipartite model of the Athabaskan verb'' {\it The Athabaskan Languages: Perspectives on a Native American Language Family}. T. B. Fernald and P. R. Platero. Oxford University Press: 139-166.
McDonough, J. 2000. ``Athabaskan redux: Against the position class as a morphological category'', In Morphological Analysis in Comparison edited by Dressler, Pfeiffer, Pochtrager and Rennison. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 155-78
McDonough, J., Mary Willie. 2000. ``Allowable variability: A preliminary investigation of word recognition in Navajo'', University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences (WPLS:UR), vol. Spring 00-1:1-23
McDonough, J. 1999. ``Tone in Navajo'', Anthropological Linguistics. V41.4, 503-539.
presentations
Laurel Carney , J. McDonough, (May, 2012). “Neural representations of vowels and vowel- like sounds ”. Acoustic Society of America (ASA) Hong Kong. Acoust. Soc. Am. 131, 3309 (one page)
Carbary, K., C. Gunlogson, J.McDonough, A.Fazlipour, S.Glacken, R.Goldstein, M.Tanenhaus. (September 2011) “Deaccenting in Language Comprehension: a Phonemic Restoration Study.” Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody2 Montreal.. Talk.
J. McDonough. (February 2011) “The Speech Atlas of the Mackenzie Basin Dene: language conservation and identity in the Mackenzie Basin”.Conference on Language Documen- tation and Conservation University of Hawai’i
J. McDonough. (October 2010) “Reconsidering Dene tonogenesis”. Workshop on Pho- netic Universals Max Plank, Leipzig.
LSA (January 2011) Pittsburgh J. McDonough and P. Platero. “Parsimonious Intona- tion: an AM analysis of intonational events in Navajo”.
12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (July 2010). Talk. “A gestural account of velar contrast in a coronal heavy inventory: the back fricatives in Navajo”. K. Iskarous, J. McDonough, D. Whalen.