Current Lab Members
Left-to-right, Front: Sofia James, Nadia Clement, Carissa Diantoro, Lukas Klotz. | Left-to-right, Yellow Couch: Sarah Shellow, Brenna Gupta, Dakota Whisler. | Left-to-right, Middle: Siri Chotechuang, Bess Frerichs, Ella MacIsaac. | Left-to-right, Back: Jay Taylor, Matan Goldman, Lisa Redford.
Individual members
Director/PI: Melissa (Lisa) Redford, PhD
Research interests: Development of the parameters that control rate, emphasis, and style changes in spoken language; how language and non-language subsystems interact to support the acquisition and production of articulatory timing and prosodically-related temporal patterns; inter-relationship between speech and language factors in speech planning and disordered prosody; the relative weighting of factors that contribute to intelligibility and the perception of disorder.
Graduate Student: Siri Chotechuang, CDS MSc Program
Research interests: Speech breathing; language development; developmental and acquired language disorder; alternative communication modalities.
Graduate Student: Nadia Clement, LING PhD Program
Research interests: Language production; speech breathing; language development; physiology & language interface; psycholinguistics of phonology.
Graduate Student: Carissa Diantoro, LING PhD Program
Research interests: Acoustic phonetics; speech perception and production; second language acquisition; bilingualism and multilingualism.
Graduate Student: Dakota Whisler, LING PhD Program
Research interests: Atypical language acquisition; bilingualism and multilingualism; second language acquisition; teaching and intervention.
Lab Manager: Bess Frerichs, Clark Honors College
Research interests: Fluency; child language acquisition; psycholinguistics; corpus linguistics.
Former Lab Members
Ira Ashwood (UG Research Assistant + Testing Team 2018-2019),
David Bebee (Testing Team 2013-14; UG Research Assistant 2012-14),
Ella Bruckner (UR Research Assistant + Testing Team, 2022-2023),
Hailey Bullard (UG Research Assistant 2021-22),
Sarah Burlingame (Testing Team 2009-10),
Ying Chen (PhD, 2014; currently Assoc. Prof. at Nanjing University, China),
Wook Kyung Choe (PhD, 2013; currently Asst. Prof. Dong-A University, S. Korea),
Aubrianne Carson (Testing Teams 2010-11, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2016),
Rachel Cicerrella (Testing Teams 2009-10, 2010-11),
Nicole Coronado (UR Research Assistant + Testing Team, 2022-2023),
Julia Conway (UG Research Assistant + Lab Manager 2014-2016, 2018-2019),
Mallory Dawson (UG Research Assistant, 2014-15),
Maya Davis (MSc in Math, 2018; Research Assistant 2018-23),
Lily Gilmore (UG Research Assistant + Testing Team, 2021-22),
Zara Foroughifar Harmon (PhD 2019; currently NIH postdoc fellow at UMIACS),
Faire Holliday (Testing Teams 2011-12, 2013-14; Post-bac Research Assistant 2012-14),
Phil Howson (Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-2020; currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at ZAS, Germany),
Jeff Kallay (PhD, 2020; Postdoctoral Research Assistant, 2020-22),
Mya Lansing (Postbac Research Assistant + Testing Team 2021-22),
Ogyoung Lee (Graduate Student 2012-2017),
Henry Lin (UG Research Assistant + Testing Team 2020-22),
Megan Littlejohn (Testing Team 2010-11),
Erin Maloney (Graduate Research Assistant 2010-12),
Siobhan McCarthy (UG Research Assistant 2017-18, Testing Team 2018),
Melanie McGuire (Testing Team 2013-2014),
Kailea Messenger (UG Research Assistant + Testing Team 2019-2021),
Quinn Mitchell (UG Research Assistant + Testing Team 2018-2019),
Jayme Monroe (Testing Team 2009-11; Post-bac Research Assistant 2010-11),
Mary-Kate Moroney (Testing Team 2013-2014),
Ashton Newton (Testing Team 2018),
Khalid O’Donnell (Postbac Research Assistant 2021-22),
Grace Oh (PhD, 2011; currently Assoc. Prof. at Konkuk U, S. Korea),
Paul Olejarczuk (PhD, 2018; currently Asst. Prof. at CSU, Chico, CA),
Alison Oriba (UG Research Assistant 2017-18, Testing Team 2018),
Ryan Perkins (Testing Teams 2010-11, 2011-2012),
Jill Potratz (PhD, 2022; currently Asst. Prof. at Augustana College, IL),
Nina Rinaldi (Testing Teams 2010-11, 2011-2012),
Ally Shaw (UG Research Assistant, 2018),
Irina Shport (PhD, 2011; Research Associate 2011-13; currently Assoc. Prof. at LSU, LA),
Julisa Silva Ramirez (UG Research Assistant + Testing Team 2021-22),
Hema Sirsa (PhD, 2014; Graduate Research Assistant 2009-12; currently Senior Multimodal Data Scientist at Amazon),
Joy Steele (Testing Team 2013-2014),
Jessica Stine (Testing Teams 2011-12, 2013-14; UG Research Assistant 2011-2013),
Ilsa Trummer (LTS-MA; Testing Team 2021),
Aislinn Williams (UG Research Assistant 2021),