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 2008)
- LIN 227/427 Topics in Phonetics and Phonology: Prosody
- LIN 389 Senior Seminar: Field Methods
Research Interests
Phonetics, laboratory phonology, Athabaskan linguistics, morphology, speech production and processing.
Research
Professor McDonough is working on a long-term project documenting and modeling the phonetic and phonological structure of the Athabaskan language, with special attention to the interaction of phonetic and morphological structure.
Specific current interests are the interrelationship of phonetic structure and morphology, online speech processing (with the Tanenhaus lab), and the confluence of prosody, phonetic structure and syntactic typology in morphologically complex languages.
Academic Service
- Provost's Multidisciplinary Advisory Counsel, 2008
- Steering Committee, Sound and Music Initiative, 2007-2008
- Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 2007-2008
- 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
Students
- 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
Recent Publications
- The stop contrasts of the Athabaskan languages, Joyce McDonough and Val Wood. Journal of Phonetics, to appear, 2008
- The Navajo Sound System. Joyce McDonough. Kluwer (now Springer). 2003 (Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,349,159, and rising.)
- The prosody of interrogative and focus constructions in Navajo, Joyce McDonough. In Formal Approaches to Functional Phenomena, Eds. Carnie and Harley. John Benjamins, 2002