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Susannah Levi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University (NYU), where she also serves as Director of the Undergraduate Program. She holds a doctorate from the University of Washington's Department of Linguistics and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Indiana University's Department of Brain and Psychological Sciences. Prior to NYU, she taught at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on spoken language processing, particularly how listener characteristics (e.g., bilingualism, language ability) and speech properties (e.g., talker familiarity, semantic predictability) interact during perception. Key areas include talker recognition, bilingual advantages in voice processing, and applications to clinical populations with language or reading disorders. She directs the Acoustic Phonetics and Perception Lab and has published extensively in journals like the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Her work explores how familiarity with a speaker's voice enhances comprehension across languages and dialects, as well as acoustic correlates of gender expression in speech. She has investigated phonetic factors influencing talker discrimination and the role of training in improving perception of non-native speech. Levi is also committed to pedagogical innovation, developing undergraduate courses in acoustic phonetics for communication sciences and disorders students.
Her research portfolio spans developmental studies (e.g., children's talker processing), clinical applications (e.g., improving speech intelligibility for disordered populations), and methodological advancements in speech perception research. She has contributed to understanding how phonological and lexical cues interact with indexical properties of speech, and her lab employs interdisciplinary approaches combining behavioral experiments, acoustic analysis, and computational modeling.
