There is a long-standing tradition to assess hearing-aid benefits using lab-based speech
intelligibility tests. Towards a more everyday-like scenario, the current study investigated the …

This study provides a framework for measuring conversational dynamics between
conversational partners (interlocutors). Conversations from 20 pairs of young, normal …

Mother-infant vocal interactions serve multiple functions in child development, but it remains
unclear whether key features of these interactions are community-common or community …

Purpose This article describes patterns of speech modifications produced by talkers as a
function of the degree of hearing impairment of communication partners during naturalistic …

This study describes the use of a novel conversation elicitation framework to collect fluent,
dynamic conversational speech in simulated realistic acoustic environments of varying …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to introduce a method of eliciting conversational
behavior with many aspects of realism, which may be used to study the impacts of hearing …

Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate how different types of background noise
that differ in their level of linguistic content affect speech acoustics, speech fluency, and …

This study investigated the effects of noise and hearing impairment on conversational
dynamics between pairs of young normal-hearing and older hearing-impaired interlocutors …

This is a cross-disciplinary thesis consisting of both acoustics science research and practice-
led research focused on improvised music performance. In very different ways, both types of …

Algorithmic modifications to the durational structure of speech designed to avoid intervals of
intense masking lead to increases in intelligibility, but the basis for such gains is not clear …