As a phonetician, I am interested in the study of speech. My research program investigates units and levels of representation in terms of speech perception and speech production. I use detailed acoustic and perceptual analyses of the speech signal to understand the complex interaction between phonetic, phonological, and lexical information.
Acoustic analyses identify cues that uniquely characterize classes of speech sounds.
Perceptual experiments investigate the roles these cues play in speech perception. Such issues also enable me to investigate the contribution of language-specific versus more general auditory mechanisms in perception. Education B.A., Slavic languages and literature, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1980. M.A., Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1982. M.A., Linguistics, Brown University, 1985.