Melissa Annette
Redford (w/ Max & Luka)
Associate
Professor of Linguistics,
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 1999 (December)
M.A. in Linguistics, University of Texas
at Austin, 1995
B.A. in Anthropology, University of California in
Berkeley, 1992
TEACHING
2010–11 Academic Year
LING 202: Language Learning and Change
LING 407/507: Pragmatics and Prosody in Autism
RESEARCH
We are currently pursuing
several lines of research in my lab. In one line of work, we are investigating the
structure of the speech plan in child and adult language and the typical development
of parameters that control rate, emphasis, and style changes. In a second line
of work, we are investigating how language and nonlanguage subsystems interact
to support the development of hierarchically organized speech. In a third line of work, we are investigating the relative
weightings of factors that contribute to the perception of disordered prosody
and the social import of these weightings.
Selected
Recent Publications
Redford, M.A. (2009). The development of distinct speaking styles in preschool children.
Journal of Speech,
Language, and Hearing Research, 52, 1434—48.
Redford, M.A. (2008). Production constraints on learning novel onset phonotactics.
Cognition, 107,
785—816.
Redford, M.A.,
Miikkulainen, R. (2007). Rate effects on structure in a source-filter model of
phonological development. Language,
83, 737—69.
All publications w/ hyperlinks.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of
Linguistics
Eugene, OR 97403-1290
tel. (541) 346-3818, fax
(541) 346-5961
redford@uoregon.edu
boys
Summer 2008
family Spring 2008
dog Fall 2007
