Joyce McDonough

Chair, Linguistics
Associate Professor, Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Research Interests

Phonetic theory, linguistic phonetic fieldwork. Prosodic typology. Neural encoding of speech (with Laurel Carney). Morphology. Athabaskan (Dene) linguistics. Music, speech and language.

Online resources

Internet

Dene Speech Atlas

Website for Dene Speech Atlas. This is a beta version, still under development. Feedback welcome. Contact me.

This is the Google Earth Interface developed for Dene Speech Atlas (.kmz file). A Google Earth layer file (.kmz) that identifies the Dene communities in the Mackenzie Basin Drainage. The Google earth interface is also available on the DSA website.

Field data collection techniques

Toy Game (McDonough & Lachler) and Toy Game Protocol (1 page). The Toy Game is a field technique for collecting natural conversation. It is based on the Map Task but adapted to field situations.

Some Current Papers

• Bowern, McDonough & Kelliher The phonetics of Bardi (Nyulnyulan) JIPA (pdf)
• Carney and McDonough Predicting discrimination of formant frequencies in vowels with a computational model of the auditory midbrain IEEE-CISS, Princeton. (pdf)
• Iskarous, McDonough & Whalen A gestural account of velar contrast: the back fricatives in Navajo (pdf) Laboratory Phonology V3.1
• McDonough and Tucker 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
• McDonough, Lehnert-LeHoullier & Bardhan The perception of nasalized vowels in American English: An investigation of online use of vowel nasalization in lexical access (pdf)
• 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

UR Research University of Rochester's online research repository.

Academic Service

• Co-Chair, Faculty Senate Executive Committee, -2013
• Faculty Senate, 2007-2013
• University Committee on Tenure and Privileges, -2014
• Committee of Chairs, Executive Committee, -2013
• 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

Courses Taught

• LIN 210 Language Sound Structures
• LIN 227 Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
• LIN 389 Senior Seminar: Field Methods
• LIN 527 Prosody Seminar

Labs

• Phonetics Lab
• Lattimore Eye Tracker Lab - Jeff Runner

Links: Music Cognition Symposium

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