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, 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
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.
Specific current interests include development of a Speech Atlas of the Northern Dene languages, 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)
Modeling paradigmatic processes in Dene morphology with Harald Baayens (UAlberta)
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
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