Speech Acoustics & Perception Laboratory

Mission Statement

Research in this laboratory is concerned with understanding the nature of the acoustic structure of speech and how it is perceived by normal hearing adults and children. A central emphasis of this research is the investigation of speech materials that more closely resemble "real world" utterances, i.e., continuous speech utterances in which phonetic segments are co articulated within a prosodic structure. Another theme is the investigation of cross-language differences in speech production (as examined by acoustical analysis) and speech perception. A major project, funded by NSF, investigates the cross-language differences in production and perception of vowels of American English, German, French, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. Other projects examine perception and production patterns of adult second-language learners of English (native speakers of Japanese, Russian, and Spanish). Finally, experiments are currently underway which examine similarities and differences in perception of speech and meaningful (environmental) non-speech acoustic signals.

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Principal Investigator:

Winifred Strange, Ph.D.
Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences,
Graduate School and University Center,
City University of New York,
365 Fifth Ave
New York, New York 10016-4309

Phone: 212-817-8801
Fax: 212-817-1537
email: strangepin@aol.com

Professor Emeritus: James J. Jenkins

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