Principal Investigator
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Susannah Levi, Lab Director Dr. Levi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at NYU. She completed her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Washington and a post-doctoral position in the Speech Research Lab in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. Her work examines the perception of talkers’ voices and the relationship between the talker and linguistic dimensions of the speech signal. Current research in the lab examines how familiarity with a talker improves spoken language processing and the relationship between language and reading ability on the perception of a talker information. She is also an affiliate in the Department of Linguistics at NYU and the Department of Psychology at NYU. |
Doctoral Students
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Sarah Bellavance, Doctoral Student Sarah is a PhD student in the Communicative Sciences and Disorders department at NYU. Their research focuses on acoustic variability, sociolinguistic acquisition, and children’s speech. Sarah completed their M.S. in Linguistics at Georgetown University, where they investigated sociostylistic creaky voice in young speakers for their Master’s thesis. Prior to Georgetown, Sarah obtained their B.A. at the University of Vermont. There, they examined phonetic variation of /t/ glottalization across school-aged speakers for their undergraduate thesis, and coded phonological processes in the speech of children with Dup7 syndrome in Dr. Shelley Velleman’s lab. Sarah is currently working on a paper looking at epistemic responsibility and frame awareness development in child-parent conversations. |
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Jailyn Peña, Doctoral Student Jai is a PhD student in the Linguistics department at NYU. Her research concentrates on phonetics, laboratory phonology, and psycholinguistics, with particular interest in bilingual populations. She has completed her first qualifying paper on the effects of syllable shape on the timing of phonologically contrastive creaky voice in Danish, and is currently working on her second qualifying paper examining the effects of variable talker intelligibility and various types of babble maskers on speech perception in noise by early bilinguals. Before coming to NYU, Jai was an undergraduate researcher at the UTSoundLab at The University of Texas at Austin for two and a half years, where she obtained her BA in Linguistics and Korean Culture and Language. She also completed an undergraduate thesis examining the vowel space of L2 learners of Korean |
Research Assistants
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Kelsey Carlson, Research Assistant (2020- ) Kelsey is a Master’s student in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. She previously received a MA in Early Childhood Education/Special Education from NYU and has a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. Her research interests include talker processing as it relates to the lexical development and literacy skills of young children. |
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Helen Carodonna, Research Assistant (2020- ) Helen is a Master’s student in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. She completed her M.A. in English Literature and her B.A. in English, with a minor in Women’s Studies, from The College of Saint Rose. She is interested in the neurodiversity paradigm and assistive technologies. She plans to become a licensed speech-language pathologist. |
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Angela Ding, Research Assistant (2020- ) Angela Ding is an undergraduate senior majoring in French & Linguistics and minoring in Mathematics who is interested in language sound acquisition, speech perception, and bilingualism. She hopes to become a licensed speech-language pathologist and work with bilingual populations. |
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Deanna Goudelias, Research Assistant (2019- ) Deanna Goudelias is pursuing her Master of Science in Communicative Sciences and Disorders at NYU. She received her Bachelor in Music Education from Bucknell University with a minor in Linguistics. She has been a research assistant at APPL since Fall 2019, and is a research assistant in Dr. Aaron Johnson’s voice lab at the NYU Medical Center’s Voice Center. When Deanna becomes a certified speech-language pathologist, she plans to treat patients with voice and swallowing disorders and continue conducting research in both of these disciplines. |
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Minhee Han, Research Assistant (2020- ) Minhee is an undergraduate student in the Communicative Sciences and Disorders program at NYU. She is interested in exploring the research field of speech-language pathology, and she hopes to become an SLP for children with special needs. |
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Kenzo Kimura, Research Assistant (2020- ) Kenzo is an undergraduate student at NYU majoring in Communicative Sciences and Disorders and minoring in Chemistry on the Pre-Med track. Aside from his honors thesis pursuits, he aspires to find a career intersecting with Speech-Language Pathology and Medicine. |
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Adi Magid, Research Assistant (2020- ) Adi Magid is a Masters student in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at NYU. Her Bachelor Degree is in Industrial Engineering from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. After spending years as a project manager in the telecommunication world, and years as a stay-at-home mom to 4 bilingual daughters, she is now in pursuit of becoming a licensed SLP and helping people change their lives. |
Collaborators
Melissa Baese-Berk, University of Oregon, Department of Linguistics
Cynthia Clopper, Ohio State University, Department of Linguistics
Mary Farbood, NYU Steinhardt, Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions
Daphna Harel, NYU Steinhardt, Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities
Jennifer Pardo, Montclair State, Department of Psychology
David Pisoni, Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Richard Schwartz, CUNY Graduate Center, Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences