| Email: | benjamin.tucker@nau.edu |
| Address: | Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Northern Arizona University 208 E. Pine Knoll Dr. PO Box: 15045 Flagstaff, AZ 86011 |
Curriculum Vitae
Research
Spoken Word Recognition/Speech Perception:
- Massive Auditory Lexical Decision
- Computational models of spoken word recognition
- Processing of reduced speech
- Dissertation: Spoken Word Recognition of the Reduced American English flap. PDF
- The processing of reduction by older and younger listeners
- The effect of fine phonetic detail on perception
- Recognition of accented speech
Speech Production:
- Acoustic characteristics of spontaneous reduced speech
- Voicing properties of nasals (Romanian, Miyako Ikema)
- Effects of aging on speech production
- Effects depression and schitzophrenia on speech production
Language documentation work:
- I have worked with the Colorado River Indian Tribes focusing on the documentation of Mohave and Chemehuevi
- Phonetic documentation (often with students) of Plautdietsch, Tsuut’ina, Temne, Upper Necaxa Totonac, Northern Pwo Karen, and Miyako Ikema
