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Santiago Barreda Castañón serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Davis and co-director of the UC Davis Phonetics Lab. His phonetic research centers on speech perception mechanisms, specifically investigating how listeners decode acoustic signals into speech sounds and vowel qualities. Key research questions explore the relationship between vocal acoustics and perceived speaker characteristics including age, gender identity, and sexual orientation. His methodological approach combines behavioral experiments with advanced statistical modeling. Dr. Barreda develops specialized phonetic analysis software with recent focus on formant tracking algorithms, while maintaining active interest in statistical methodologies for linguistic data interpretation. His laboratory work at the UC Davis Phonetics Lab drives innovation in experimental phonetics. Professional correspondence may be directed to sbarreda@ucdavis.edu at 265 Kerr Hall on the UC Davis campus.

• Phonetics
• Speech Perception
• Sociophonetics
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Santiago Barreda Castañón is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Davis, where he co-directs the UC Davis Phonetics Lab. His research focuses on speech perception, exploring how listeners decode acoustic information into phonetic elements and infer speaker characteristics like age, size, or gender identity. Using behavioral experiments and statistical models, he investigates auditory processing of vowel quality and speaker variability. He also develops phonetic analysis software, particularly for formant tracking. Affiliation: Department of Linguistics, UC Davis Lab: UC Davis Phonetics Lab Contact: sbarreda@ucdavis.edu | 265 Kerr Hall

• Speech Perception
• Phonetics
• Acoustic Analysis
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Michael Kiefte is a Professor and Director of the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Dalhousie University, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His academic roles include teaching, research leadership, and administrative oversight of clinical education programs. Education: BA in Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland PhD in Experimental Phonetics, University of Alberta Research interests focus on speech perception and production, psychoacoustics, signal processing in speech research, hearing aid and cochlear implant technologies, auditory physiology, and speech processing. His work integrates experimental methods with computational modeling to explore how acoustic features influence speech understanding in clinical and natural contexts. Recent publications emphasize vowel perception under varying acoustic conditions, applications of speech analysis in mental health, and modeling consonant-context effects in spontaneous speech. His research often employs large-scale datasets and web-based experiments to investigate perceptual phenomena. As Director, Kiefte oversees clinical education programs, including clinics associated with the School, ensuring alignment between academic training and real-world clinical practice. He is also involved in interdisciplinary collaborations, such as the use of cochlear implant processing strategies and speech analysis in psychiatric contexts. Lab/Team Affiliations: His research is conducted within the School's labs, focusing on auditory perception, speech technology, and clinical audiology.

• Speech Perception
• Psychoacoustics
• Signal Processing in Speech Research
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Daniel Novakovic is an Associate Professor in Otolaryngology at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Medicine and Health, specifically affiliated with the Central Clinical School. He serves as Director of the Dr Liang Voice Program and holds a leadership position as Head of the ENT department at Canterbury Hospital within the Sydney Local Health District. His research interests span multiple specialized areas including wound healing, vocal fold physiology, laser-tissue interactions, patient reported outcomes research for voice disorders, laryngeal botulinum toxin applications, and various laryngeal disorders. His current research projects focus on voice outcomes after thyroid surgery, development of a bionic larynx, laser tissue interactions, injection laryngoplasty, vocal fold pathologies, laryngopharyngeal reflux, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, and laryngeal botulinum toxin applications. His scholarly output demonstrates significant focus on voice disorders, laryngeal physiology, and innovative surgical techniques. Recent publications reveal strong emphasis on THRIVE ventilation techniques for laryngeal surgery, acoustic analysis of voice disorders, laser applications in laryngology, and botulinum toxin treatments for laryngeal conditions. His work appears in leading journals including The Laryngoscope, Journal of Voice, and various specialty surgical publications. Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Australian Society of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Australian Voice Association Laryngology Association of Australasia (Vice President) Australian Medical Association American Laryngological Association American Broncho-Esophagology Association International Association of Phonosurgeons Professor Novakovic maintains active clinical and research collaborations across multiple institutions and has contributed significantly to consensus statements in his field, including the International Consensus Statement on Systemic Bevacizumab for Treatment of Respiratory Papillomatosis. His work bridges clinical practice with innovative research approaches to voice and laryngeal disorders.

• Otolaryngology
• Laryngology
• Voice Disorders
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Lynn Clark is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, where she serves as Associate Head of School for Language, Social and Political Sciences and Head of the Linguistics Department. She has held her associate professorship since 2012 and continues to maintain active leadership roles within the faculty. Clark's educational background includes a PhD (2009), MSc (2005), and BA (hons) (2004), all from the University of Edinburgh. Her academic career has been focused on understanding the connections between phonetic variation, social meaning, and cognitive processing in language. Her primary research interests include: Phonetics & phonology, particularly vowel systems and speech production Sociolinguistics, examining how speech variation functions in social contexts Usage-based models of linguistics that bridge cognitive and social aspects of language New Zealand English speech patterns and variation Clark's work emphasizes that phonetic variation serves both as a vehicle for social cohesion and as a cognitive entity, requiring integrated understanding of social usage and mental representation. Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong focus on vowel variation in New Zealand English, particularly examining covariation patterns, social meaning construction, and the relationship between speech production and perception. Her research increasingly incorporates computational methods like Principal Component Analysis and leverages specialized corpora including the QuakeBox Corpus of post-earthquake Christchurch speech. Clark actively supervises numerous graduate students across diverse linguistic research topics and has secured significant research funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand for projects examining speech variation, covariation patterns, and language change mechanisms. Her professional activities include committee membership on the New Zealand Linguistics Society Executive Committee (2016-2024) and media appearances discussing New Zealand accents, including a notable broadcast interview on 'Our Changing World' about The Southland Accent.

• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Sociolinguistics
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Dr. Simon Betz is a Research Fellow at Bielefeld University, affiliated with both the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies and the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC). His primary academic home is within the Department of Linguistics, where he serves as an additional board member and is listed among Research Assistants and Lecturers. His research focuses on phonetic and linguistic aspects of speech disfluencies, particularly hesitations in dialogue systems. Dr. Betz completed his Magister Artium in General Linguistics, English Philology and Medieval History at WWU Münster in 2013, followed by his doctorate at Bielefeld University in 2020 with a dissertation on 'Hesitations in Dialogue Systems.' Since completing his doctorate, he has worked as a PostDoc in the Phonetics Group at Bielefeld University. His research interests center on hesitation phenomena across multiple dimensions: Analysis of disfluencies in natural speech across various languages Evaluation methods for speech synthesis systems Mouse tracking as a methodology for studying cognitive processing during speech Gamification approaches to hesitation research His work demonstrates a strong interdisciplinary approach, bridging linguistics, cognitive science, and human-computer interaction. Analysis of his recent publications (2021-2025) reveals a consistent research trajectory focused on hesitation phenomena across multiple languages and contexts. His work spans theoretical linguistic analysis, experimental methodologies, and practical applications in speech technology. The research shows increasing sophistication in methodology, moving from basic description of phenomena to more complex experimental designs and cross-linguistic comparisons. As a member of Bielefeld University's Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies and the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology, Dr. Betz contributes to the university's strategic research focus on the Socio-Technical World, particularly research on how humans and AI systems communicate in complex environments.

• Phonetics
• Speech Synthesis
• Linguistic Disfluencies
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Aude Noiray is a Senior Researcher at the Laboratoire de Psychologie & Neurocognition (LPNC), University of Grenoble Alpes, and an Associate Member of the Laboratoire de Phonétique de l’UQAM (Montréal) and Haskins Laboratories . Her work integrates experimental phonetics, developmental psychology, and neurocognitive methods to study spoken language fluency in typical and atypical populations. Research Focus: Speech motor control, coarticulation dynamics, sensorimotor integration, infant vocalization, reading acquisition, Parkinsonian speech, ultrasound imaging Methods: Ultrasound articulography, eye tracking, acoustic analysis, SOLLAR kinematic system She leads the Voc2Speak ANR-DFG project (2025-2028) on speech development and co-ordinates the Multimodal Speech UGA-INP initiative. Her team collaborates with institutions in the Netherlands, Germany, and Portugal. Recipient of multiple grants including DFG, ANR, NWO, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie funding, she mentors PhD candidates like Teja Rebernik and Elina Rubertus. Recent publications examine reading-spoken language interactions ( JEP: LMC ), articulatory Parkinsonian markers ( JSLHR ), and infant respiratory-vocal coupling. She actively presents at conferences like ISSP, ICPhS, and STEM workshops, advocating for open research and interdisciplinary methodologies. Collaborations: Speech Lab Groningen Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology (Lisbon) Collegium de Lyon

• Speech Development
• Language Fluency
• Sensorimotor Control
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