Research Interests

Infant speech production and perception.

Education

- Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, Acoustics, 1991.
- M.S., The Pennsylvania State University, Acoustics, 1988.
- B.S., Northeastern University, Electrical Engineering, 1984.

Publications

Vihman, M.M., DePaolis, R.A. & Davis, B.L. (1998). Is There a “Trochaic Bias” in Early Word Learning? Evidence from Infant Production in English and French, Child Development, 69, 933-947.

Vihman, M.M., & DePaolis, R. A. (1998). Perception and production in early
Vocal development: Evidence from the acquisition of accent. April. To appear
in Papers from the 34th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

DePaolis, R.A. & Vihman, M.M. (1998). Cross Linguistic Evidence for the Early Acquisition of Accent, Proceedings of the 16th International Congress on Acoustics and the 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, volume IV, 5pSC44, 3007-3008.

DePaolis, R.A., Janota, C.P. & Frank, T. (1996). Frequency Importance Functions for Words, Sentences, and Continuous Discourse, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 39, 714-723.

Christman, S.S. & DePaolis, R.A. (1996). Sonority as a Constraint on Word Identification Processes, Applied Psycholinguistics, 17, 273-291.

Vihman, M.M., Davis, B.L. & DePaolis, R.A. (1995). Prosodic Analysis of Babbling and First Words: A Comparison of English and French, The XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, August 13-19.

Funded Research

DePaolis, R.A. (1999). The Emergence of Word Representation Independent of Context, CISAT Summer Research Grant.

Vihman, M.M. & DePaolis, R.A. (1997). The Role of Accentual Pattern in Early Lexical Representation,  Economic & Social Research Council (United Kingdom).

Vihman, M.M . (1997). Prosodic Development: A Cross-linguistic Analysis of the First Word-period, Economic & Social  Research Council (United Kingdom).

Vihman, M.M. & DePaolis, R.A. (1994). Production and Perception in the Transition to Speech (funded by the SLU Office of Research and Grants).

DePaolis, R.A. & Christman, S.S. (1992). Sonority as a Constraint on Speech Perception (funded by the SLU Office of Research and Grants).

Presentations (since 1996)

DePaolis, R.A., Vihman, M.M. & Bywater, T. (1998). The Emergence of Word Representation Independent of Context, Presented at the 136th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Norfolk, VA.

DePaolis, R.A. & Vihman, M.M. (1998). Cross Linguistic Evidence for the Early Acquisition of Accent, Presented at the joint meeting of Acoustical Society of America and International Congress on Acoustics, Seattle.

Vihman, M.M.& DePaolis, R.A. (1998). The role of mimesis in infant language
development: Evidence for phylogeny. Presented at the 2d International Evolution of Language Conference, London, April.

DePaolis, R.A. & Vihman, M.M. (1997). The Role of Accentual Pattern in Early Lexical Representation, Presented at the University of Wales School of Psychology Conference, United Kingdom, June 27.

Vihman, M.M. & DePaolis, R.A. (1996). Perception, Production, and Prosodic Development in the Transition to Language, Seminar presented at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Stockholm, September 21.

DePaolis, R.A., Vihman, M.M. & Davis, B.L. (1996). Acoustic and Perceptual Evaluation of Stress, International Conference on Infant Studies, Providence RI, April 18-21.

Vihman, M.M., Davis, B.L. & DePaolis, R.A. (1996). Trochees and Iambs in Early Word Production, International Conference on Infant Studies, Providence, RI, April 18-21.

Current Lecture Assignments:

CSD 209 Acoustics of Speech and Hearing (co-lecture with Dr. Halling)
CSD 310 Biostatistical Methods for Communication Sciences and Disorders
CSD 500 Research in Communication Sciences and Disorders
CSD 605 Physiological and Acoustical Phonetics