My Research
Pre-Acoustic Speech Postures
Video Measures of Lip Articulation
Video Measures of Lip Articulation
Speech begins in the body long before sound is ever produced. My main line of research looks at the conditions under which speech plans are first realized as articulatory events. I carry out this work through a novel coupling of psycholinguistic tasks (word reading and, more recently, conversation analysis) with articulatory measurement. My work suggests that even fragmentary plans of what to say next can measurably influence the set of the lips, long before the high-speed movements traditionally associated with articulation kick in. These “early” embodied anticipations arise not just in controlled laboratory tasks but in unstructured natural conversation.
Video Measures of Lip Articulation
Video Measures of Lip Articulation
Video Measures of Lip Articulation
In conjunction with my hypothesis-driven work, I have also developed new measures of lip movement. My work in this area has emphasized cost-free face-tracking software. Recently, this approach has yielded a means of using web-based tools to measure lip movements through participants’ webcams, allowing articulation to be captured in the context of remote, in-browser experiments.