Hello! I’m a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Phonetics Lab in the UC Davis Department of Linguistics. I received my Ph.D in Linguistics in 2018 from UC Davis, as well. _[bio]

My research program tests how people produce, perceive, and learn speech patterns with voice technology. In particular, I am interested in the flexibility of the speech system based on of top-down factors. These include of real (or assumed) barriers (e.g., ASR errors), perceptions of the social attributes of another talker (e.g., human-likeness, emotional expressiveness), and individual variation (e.g., by age, cognitive characteristics).

Broadly, my research focus is in the areas of psycholinguistics, phonetics, and human-computer interaction using experimental methods to probe speech behavior. For a list of papers, see Research.

Contact

mdcohn at ucdavis dot edu

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Recent News

• 4/21: Paper accepted to the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• 4/20: UC Davis Picnic Day: Speech Science Booth
• 4/9: Paper accepted to Frontiers in Com: Laughter in human-socialbot interactions
• 4/4: Paper accepted to Glossa
• 3/18: Paper accepted to JASA-EL Special Issue on Human/Machine Speech Interaction
• 3/1: 2 papers accepted to late-breaking CHI
• 1/16: Editorial Board Member for Speech Section (JSLHR)
• 11/21: Paper accepted to JASA-EL: Acoustic cue weighting across speech style
• 11/19: Language paper (“Listener beliefs and perceptual learning”) now available
• 9/21: Talk + poster on human-computer interaction accepted for presentations @ LSA 2024
• 9/19: Unfold Podcast: Hey Siri, Why Do I Speak Differently to You?