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

Curriculum Vitae

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)


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