The University of California at Santa Cruz
Department of Linguistics
Stevenson College
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
gmcguir1 (at) ucsc (dot) edu
I am primarily studying perception as it relates to phonetics and phonology. My current research is aimed at perceptual learning, phonetic categorization and language specific perception. I have been tackling these issues through training and discrimination experiments. Previously, I have looked into interdental fricative substitution and am generally interested in perception and laboratory phonology.
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Dissertation (Scripts to make the stimuli are here)
"Selective attention and English listeners' perceptual learning of the Polish post-alveolar sibilant contrast" (Under revision)
"Effects of the distribution of cues in infants' discrimination of speech sounds" (with Alejandrina Cristia, Amanda Seidl, and Alexander Francis (Under revision)
"A comparison of English and Mandarin listeners' perception of post-alveolar sibilant cues" (Draft: Submitted)
Current Projects (may be written up in some form; let me know if you want more info)
-- Genralizing different dimensions of non-speech categories
-- Notes on Probability and Statistics for Analyzing the Sounds of Languages (with Mary Beckman)
-- The acoustic affects of high respiratory drive on speech production (with Sam Tilsen)
-- Fricative perception in SAE, AAVE, and Greek (with Molly Babel)
I am currently teaching a seminar on perceptual learning, Ling 229
Previously I have taught Phonetic Analysis and Language and Social Identity