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Joyce Mary McDonough is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Rochester. Her work focuses on phonetics, morphology, and neurolinguistics with a specialization in endangered and under-resourced languages. She leads the Dene Speech Atlas project, funded by the NSF, documenting phonetic and prosodic systems of Dene languages. Key collaborations include work with Laural Carney on speech coding in the brain and Olivier Bonami on Navajo morphology.
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Her research interests include: 1) Phonetic fieldwork and documentation methods, 2) Morphology of complex lexicons in Dene languages, and 3) Neural mechanisms of speech sound perception. Recent work explores vowel formant representations in midbrain neurons and the interplay between phonetics and morphology in Navajo verbs.
Notable projects include the Dene Speech Atlas (online since 2013) and the How to Use Young and Morgan's The Navajo Language tutorial. She has presented at major conferences like the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas and the Acoustical Society of America.
Current research emphasizes baseline phonetic descriptions for endangered languages and computational models of auditory processing. Ongoing projects involve data collection from CILLDI conferences and midbrain neuron studies with neurobiological methods.
