Joyce McDonough
Chair, Linguistics
Associate
Professor, Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Contact
Office: 505 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-2895
E-mail: user@ling.rochester.edu (user=jmmcd)
Office hours: by appointment
Current Courses (Spring 2010)
- LIN 527 Topics in Phonetics and Phonology: Prosody
- LIN 389 Senior Seminar: Field Methods
Research Interests
Phonetics, laboratory phonology, morphology. The sound (phonetic) structures in the Dene languages and phonetic typology; Athabaskan linguistics; morphology and paradigmatic processes; speech production (ultrasound) and online speech processing. Music, speech and language.
Research
UR Research University of Rochester's online research repository.
The description and documentation of the phonetic, prosodic and morphological structure of the Dene (Athabaskan) languages. Prosody, rhythm and speech. Dene migration in North America.
The Dene Speech Atlas the development of an online speech Atlas of the Dene languages in the Mackenzie Basin, a geotagged database of folios containing baseline documentation of the phonemic and prosodic structures of the individual Dene speaking communities in the Mackenzie Basin and surrounding communities, working with Sally Rice and colleagues at the University of Alberta, Edmonton (NSF).
Imaging the tongue in speech using ultrasound, with Heike Lehnert-Lehouiller (CLS), Khalil Iskarous (Haskins Lab), Steve McAleavey (BioMedical Engineering) and Mathews Jacob (Electrical and Computer Engineering).
Investigating rhythm in speech, and the relationship between speech and music, with Harold Danko (Eastman School of Music)
Academic Service
- Provost's Multidisciplinary Advisory Counsel, 2008
- Steering Committee, Sound and Music Initiative, 2007-2008
- Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 2007-2009
- Faculty Senate, 2007-2009
- Organizing Committee, Music Cognition Symposium, 2006-present
- Faculty Associate, Susan B Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, 1999-present
- Curriculum Director, Susan B Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, 2003-2005
- Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation, CELP, Linguistic Society of America, 2006-2008
Courses Taught
- LIN 210 Language Sound Structures
- LIN 227 Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
- LIN 389 Senior Seminar: Field Methods
Labs
- Phonetics Lab
- Lattimore Eye Tracker Lab - Jeff Runner
- Music Cognition Symposium
- Michael Berger, M.A. 2007, Centre for Speech Technology Research, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- Jill Thorson, M.A. 2007, Fulbright Fellow, Centre de Linguistica Teorica, Universitat Automona de Barcelona
- Wilson de Lima Silva, M.A. 2005, Center for American Indian Languages, Department of Linguistics, University of Utah
- The stop contrasts of the Athabaskan languages, Joyce McDonough and Val Wood. Journal of Phonetics, Volume 36 , Issue 3, Pages 423-536 (July 2008)
- The Navajo Sound System. Joyce McDonough. Kluwer (now Springer). 2003.
- The prosody of interrogative and focus constructions in Navajo, Joyce McDonough. In Formal Approaches to Functional Phenomena, Eds. Carnie and Harley. John Benjamins, 2002