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Dani Byrd's special interest is in articulatory timing or how the skilled, sound producing movements of the vocal tract are coordinated as a result of linguistic structuring, such as phrasal and syllable structure.
(Dept. Linguistics)

Louis Goldstein's work has been the development, with Catherine Browman, of a gesture-based approach to phonological and phonetic structure--Articulatory Phonology. His current research within this framework includes (1) phonological encoding in speech production; (2) the emergence of phonological structure in development, modelled via  the interaction of computational agents; and (3) syllable structure understood as intergestural coordination. (Dept. Linguistics; Haskins Laboratories)

Ania Lubowicz's primary interest is in developing a theory of phonological mappings that takes into account lexical contrast preservation, including considerations related to cross-linguistic patterning, morphology, and child language.  (Dept. Linguistics)

Shrikanth Narayanan's interests include speech and language processing systems, with a focus on automatic speech recognition. Additionally, he explores biomedical imaging of articulation and modeling of speech production and speech acoustics.
(USC Viterbi School of Engineering, IMSC, Dept. Computer Science, Dept. of Psychology, & Dept. Linguistics)

Rachel Walker's chief interest is in the theoretical characterization of grammaticalized sound patterns and how cognitive factors play a role in determining those patterns. A special focus of her work is understanding why and how sounds tend to share characteristics both locally and globally within words. (Dept. Linguistics)

Affiliated Researchers

Abigail Kaun
Adjunct Asst. Professor, Linguistics
Associate Dean of the Graduate School

Peter Ladefoged (in memoriam)
Adjunct Professor, USC
Professor Emeritus, UCLA

Sungbok Lee
Senior Research Associate, Department of Linguistic &
Research Assistant Professor, Viterbi School of Engineering