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Meghan Sumner is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Phonetics Lab. Her research focuses on the intersection of acoustic phonetics, spoken language understanding, and social meaning, addressing how phonetic variation influences attention, perception, memory, and comprehension in speech. She is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Politics of Inequality at the University of Konstanz and a member of the Maternal & Child Health Research Institute at Stanford. Her work has been recognized with the Hellman Faculty Scholar award and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Sumner investigates talker-specific and token-specific effects in recognition memory, cross-linguistic speech patterns, and the social dimensions of speech perception. Her recent projects examine speech markers in Alzheimer's disease and bilingualism's impact on prosodic variation. A dual-route model underpins her theoretical framework, emphasizing the integration of linguistic and social information in speech processing.
- Hellman Faculty Scholar (2008-2009)
- Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching (2001)
She advises doctoral candidates like Bran Papineau and collaborates with researchers such as Will Clapp. As a reviewer for over 25 journals and a founder of Gender Issues in Linguistics, she contributes to academic governance and diversity initiatives. Her lab explores adaptive models of speech perception and socially anchored memory encoding mechanisms.
