Hi! š I am an Assistant Professor in the Communicative Disorders and Sciences department at the University at Buffalo. I completed a combined MClSc/PhD in Communication Sciences & Disorders (Speech-Language Pathology) at Western University in London, Ontario. My research focuses on describing the acoustic-phonetic characteristics of dysarthria, a group of motor speech disorders. In particular, I am interested in how changes in the acoustic speech signal modulate speech intelligibility, that is, how understandable one’s speech is to a typical listener. Informed by my background in linguistics and speech acoustics, my research can broadly be categorized into three themes:
While much of my research has focused on hypokinetic dysarthria, a motor speech disorder associated with Parkinson’s disease, I am also interested in the differential speech processes in younger and older healthy adults, as well as individuals with other neurological speech disorders.
As a means to constantly striving to improve myself as a researcher, I also have a strong interest in tools for data analysis. Much of what I post here includes my musings on these tools (oftentimes this is the R programming language and environment) and tips or tricks I’ve tried to work through. See my posts and projects for more information.
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Also feel free to ask me about:
MClSc/PhD in Speech-Language Pathology, 2019
Western University
BA (Hons) in Linguistics, 2012
McGill University
University at Buffalo
Western University
Presentation | Date | Group | Additional Materials |
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Academic Writing with RMarkdown and Bookdown | January 2020 | R-Ladies #LdnOnt | Link |
Dissertating with RMarkdown and Bookdown | April 2019 | R-Ladies #LdnOnt | Link |
Figuring out figures in R | October 2018 | R-Ladies #LdnOnt | Link |
Using RMarkdown to generate reports and manuscripts | March 2018 | R-Ladies #LdnOnt | Link |
Introduction to Praat Scripting | Spring 2014 | McGill Linguistics | Scripts & tutorial |
Code, projects, and media
Recent posters and talks
Read/watch/listen to me describing some of my work.
Information about meetups and links to workshop materials.
Trainable algorithm for automatic measurement of voice onset time.
Tutorial for a workshop I gave for our R-Ladies #LdnOnt group, focused on learning to use rmarkdown and bookdown R packages to write your dissertation.
A subset of Praat scripts I have written for various purposes.