Laura C. Dilley, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Communication Disorders - Bowling Green State University

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Educational Experience

2004. Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

1997. B.S., Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Research Interests

Processing and representation of intonational and tonal characteristics of speech

Acoustic and prosodic characteristics of maternal speech

Word segmentation by infants and adults

Voice quality variation

Speech rhythm

Cognitive representation of phonetic variants

Auditory perceptual processing of speech and music

Research Grants

“Development of Attention to Maternal Speech in Infants with Hearing Loss.” Role: Co-Investigator. Other investigators: Dr. Tonya Bergeson-Dana, Indiana University School of Medicine, Dr. Devin McAuley, Bowling Green State University. Funding source: National Institutes of Health (R01), $1,958,090 (direct), $394,362 (BGSU subcontract), 7/1/07 – 6/30/12.

“Acoustic Characteristics of Speech to Infants.” Role: Principal Investigator. Funding source: Faculty Research Committee Research Incentive Grant, Bowling Green State University, $11,396, 5/21/07 – 12/31/07.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Dilley, L., and Brown, M. (2007). Effects of pitch range variation on f0 extrema in an imitation task. Journal of Phonetics, in press.

Dilley, L. and Pitt, M. (2007). A study of regressive place assimilation in spontaneous speech and its implications for spoken word recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122(4), 2340-2353..

Nazzi, T., Dilley, L., Jusczyk, A.M., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., and Jusczyk, P.W. (2005) English-learning infants’ segmentation of verbs from fluent speech. Language and Speech, 48(3), 279-298.

Dilley, L., Ladd, D.R., and Schepman, A. (2005) Alignment of L and H in bitonal pitch accents: Testing two hypotheses. Journal of Phonetics, 33 (1), 115-119.

Doherty, C., West, W., Dilley, L., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., and Caplan, D. (2004) Question/statement judgments: An fMRI study of intonation processing. Human Brain Mapping, 23 (2), 85-98.

Redi, L. and Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2001) Variation in realization of glottalization in normal speakers. Journal of Phonetics, 29, 407-429.

Dilley, L., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., and Ostendorf, M. (1996) Glottalization of vowel-initial syllables as a function of prosodic structure. Journal of Phonetics, 24, 423-444.

Articles under review

Dilley, L. and McAuley, J.D. (under review). Distal prosodic effects on word segmentation and lexical processing. Submitted to Journal of Memory and Language.

Dilley, L. (under review). The role of F0 alignment in distinguishing categories in American English intonation. Submitted to Language and Speech.

Refereed Conference Proceedings and Book Chapters

Dilley, L. (2007). Pitch range variation in English tonal contrasts: Continuous or categorical? Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Fosler-Lussier, E., Dilley, L., Tyson, N., and Pitt, M. (2007). The Buckeye Corpus of Speech: Updates and Enhancements. Proceedings of Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.

Dilley, L., Breen, M., Bolivar, M., Kraemer, J., and Gibson, E. (2006). A comparison of inter-transcriber reliability for two systems of prosodic annotation: RaP (Rhythm and Pitch) and ToBI (Tones and Break Indices). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA.

Cummins, F., Doherty, C., and Dilley, L. (2006). Phrase-final pitch discrimination in English. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2006, Dresden, Germany.

Dilley, L. On the dual relativity of tone. To appear in Proceedings of the 41st Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.

Cummins, F., Doherty, C., and Dilley, L. (2004) Discrimination of pitch change in speech and non-speech stimuli. In Proceedings of the 15th Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, Castlebar, Ireland, 29-38.

Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., Dilley, L., Veilleux, N., Brugos, A., and Speer, R. (2004) F0 peaks and valleys aligned with non-prominent syllables can influence perceived prominence in adjacent syllables. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan.

Redi, L. (2003) Categorical effects in production of pitch contours in English. In Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, p. 2921-2924.

Doherty, C., West, W., Evans, C., and Redi, L. The processing of question intonation: An fMRI study. (2003) In Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, p. 1647-1650.

Dilley, L. and Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (1999) Effects of repeated intonation patterns on perceived word-level organization. In Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, Vol. I, 1487-1490.

Dilley, L. and Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (1998) Ambiguity in prominence perception in spoken utterances of American English. In Proceedings of the 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, Vol. II, 1237-1238.

Dilley, L., and Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (1995) Variability in glottalization of word onset vowels in American English. In Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, 4, 586-58

 

Published Abstracts

Dilley, L. and McAuley, J.D. (2006). Beyond metrical stress: Effect of prosodic context on speech segmentation. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 11, 108.

Dilley, L. Pitt, M., and Johnson, K. (2005). Using pronunciation data to constrain models of spoken word recognition. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 10, 96.

McAuley, D., and Dilley, L. (2004) Acoustic correlates of perceived rhythm in spoken English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 2397.

Dilley, L. and Brown, M. (2004) Distinct relative F0 levels elicit categorical effects in F0 maximum and minimum alignment. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 115, 2398.

Redi, L. (2002) Categorical distinctions based on F0 peak location: Evidence from production studies. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112(5), Pt. 2, 2442.

Dilley, L. and Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (1998) Ambiguity in prominence perception in spoken utterances of American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 103, 2889.

Dilley, L. (1997) Some factors influencing duration between syllables judged perceptually isochronous. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102(5), Pt. 2, 3205-3206.

Dilley, L., and Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (1996) Rhythm and intonational phrase structure influences on the placement of pitch accents within words in American English utterances. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100(4), Pt. 2, 2826.

Dilley, L., and Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (1995) Individual differences in the glottalization of vowel-initial syllables. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97(5), Pt. 2, 3418-3419.

Dilley, L., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., and Ostendorf, M. (1994) Prosodic constraints on glottalization of vowel-initial syllables in American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 95(5), Pt. 2, 2978-2979.

Professional Affiliations

Acoustical Society of America 1998-present

International Phonetic Association 2002-present

International Society of Phonetic Sciences 2002-present

Linguistic Society of America 2002-present

Psychonomic Society 2005-present

Society for Music Perception and Cognition 2005-present

Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Honor Society 1997-present