Sarah Harper

Research

The primary aim of my research is to use variation in speech production and perception to improve our understanding of the cognitive and biomechanical systems involved in speech communication. My current work focuses specifically on determining whether and when interspeaker differences in the perception and production of phonemes suggest that speakers differ in their cognitive representations of phonological units, and what the functional consequences of these differences may be for communication and language learning.

Individual Differences in Speech Production and Perception

Speech Articulation and Acoustic-Articulatory Relations

Perception-Production Relationships

Dynamical Systems and Modeling

Sound Change

Language Acquisition

Development of Tools for Corpus-Based Research on Articulation and Acoustics