Although previous research has shown that there exist individual and cross-linguistic
differences in planning strategies during language production, little is known about how …

In my dissertation I examined the interaction of the phonological grammar and lexicon
through the lens of Lexical Conservatism (Steriade, 1997). Lexical Conservatism is a theory …

Extensive research has found that the duration of a pause is influenced by the length of an
upcoming utterance, suggesting that speakers plan the upcoming utterance during this time …

Language production is incremental in nature; we tend to plan linguistic chunks prior to
articulating the first word of the utterance. Researchers have acquired knowledge about how …

Individual speakers' speech patterns differ from one another, despite presumably similar
language input. What are the sources of this individual variability? In this dissertation, I …

Purpose: The Motor Planning Theory of Prosody and reading prosody research indicate that
“out of the blue” oral reading, as practiced in clinical and research settings, invokes surface …

In speech perception, timing and content are interdependent. For example, in distal rate
effects, context speech rate determines the number of words, syllables, and phonemes …

It is known that prosodic structure and co-speech gestures are temporally related to each
other, but the exact nature of this coordination and how it arises is not understood. In this …