Students

Prospective Students and Postdocs

I mentor/supervise graduate students and postdocs who are interested in becoming researchers in the empirical and theoretical foci of the Speech Acquisition Lab. I do not mentor/supervise students outside of these foci. Before reaching out, please study our advice for prospective graduate students carefully.

Current University of Utah students are invited to learn more about the Speech Acquisition Lab by visiting our join the lab page.

Student Theses

To learn about current students, please visit the Speech Acquisition Lab website.

Julia Vonessen (Honors BA 2020) -
The relationship between listener attitudes and the comprehension of nonnative-accented speech

Taylor Anne Barriuso (PhD 2018) -
The L2 acquisition of phonemes and allophones under various exposure conditions

Catherine Showalter (PhD 2018) -
Orthographic input familiarity and congruence effects on phono-lexical acquisition of Russian by native speakers of English

Daina Eve Olson (Honors BA 2017) -
Voice onset time in Arabic and English stop consonants

Joshua Jackson (MA 2016) -
The effects of novel orthographic input and phonetic instruction in second language phonological acquisition

Kelsey Brown (MA 2015) -
The influence of explicit instruction on failure to acquire a phonological rule due to orthographic input: The case of native English speakers learning German

Amanda Rabideau (MA 2014) -
Talker background and individual differences in the speech intelligibility benefit

Asmaa Shehata (PhD 2013) -
When variability matters in second language word learning: Talker variability and task type effects

Mara Haslam (MA 2008, PhD 2012) -
The effect of perceptual training including required lexical access and meaningful linguistic context on L2 phonology

Catherine Showalter (MA 2012) -
The influence of novel orthographic information on second language word learning: the case of native English speakers learning Arabic

Jenia Ivanova (MA 2011) -
The effects of teacher talk on L2 learners’ comprehension

Sadie Dickman (MA 2009) -
Differences in intelligibility of non-native directed speech and hearing-impaired-directed speech for non-native listeners

Albert Jarvi (MA 2008) -
Effect of lexical access and meaningful linguistic context on second language speech perception

Kaitlin Bolewicz (MA 2008) -
The effects of lexical characteristics on second language phonological acquisition

Aleksandra Zaba (PhD 2008) -
Investigation of the relationship between relative frequency and learnability in adults: The case of phonological harmony

Jennifer Leparmentier (MA 2007) -
Novel feature processing in children and adults

Zachary Rasmussen (Honors BA 2007) -
Phonetic approximation and the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit hypothesis: Arabic accented English