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Phonatics Group
Northwestern University

The Phonatics Group brings together researchers across the Northwestern University community that are interested in all aspects of sound structure and processing. We examine a wide variety of issues in various populations using a variety of methods:

    Issues
  • Perception, production and acquisition of first and second languages
  • Dynamics of language: experience-related plasticity; diachronic change
  • Generalized speech intelligibility
  • Language and music: Parallels and interactions
  • Individual-to-population level sound systems
    Populations
  • Mono- and multilingual
  • Infant, young adult and elderly
  • Acquired and developmental disorders
    Methods
  • Acoustic phonetics
  • Experimental psycholinguistics
  • Functional and structural neuroimaging; electrophysiology
  • Formal analysis; mathematical and statistical modeling
  • Machine learning and natural language processing
  • Psychophysical-perceptual

Phonatics Members, 2007-2008