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Overview

Dani Byrd is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, notably Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Language and Linguistics, and Linguistics and Language. They contribute to interdisciplinary areas combining aspects of psychology, language studies, and imaging technologies.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

Dani Byrd has published in a variety of academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Default Digital Object Group
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • Annual Review of Linguistics

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Cracking Prosody in Articulatory Phonology" (2021), published in Annual Review of Linguistics
  • "Improved 3D real-time MRI of speech production" (2021), published in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • "Co-Speech Movement in Conversational Turn-Taking" (2021), published in Frontiers in Communication
  • "The role of speech planning in the articulation of pauses" (2022), published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • "Aliasing artifact reduction in spiral real-time MRI" (2021), published in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Dani Byrd include:

  • Louis Goldstein
  • Shrikanth Narayanan
  • Asterios Toutios
  • Melissa Xu

Best Publications

  • The elastic phrase: modeling the dynamics of boundary-adjacent lengthening

    Dani Byrd;Elliot Saltzman;Elliot Saltzman

  • Influences on articulatory timing in consonant sequences

    Dani Byrd

  • Relations of sex and dialect to reduction

    Dani Byrd

  • An approach to real-time magnetic resonance imaging for speech production.

    Shrikanth Narayanan;Krishna Nayak;Sungbok Lee;Abhinav Sethy

  • The role of vocal tract gestural action units in understanding the evolution of phonology

    Louis Goldstein;Dani Byrd;Elliot Saltzman

  • Dynamic action units slip in speech production errors.

    Louis Goldstein;Marianne Pouplier;Marianne Pouplier;Larissa Chen;Larissa Chen;Elliot Saltzman;Elliot Saltzman

  • Intragestural dynamics of multiple prosodic boundaries

    Dani Byrd;Elliot Saltzman

  • Auditory selective attention: an fMRI investigation.

    Kenneth R. Pugh;Kenneth R. Pugh;Bennett A. Shaywitz;Sally E. Shaywitz;Robert K. Fulbright

  • Articulatory vowel lengthening and coordination at phrasal junctures.

    Dani Byrd

  • How far, how long: On the temporal scope of prosodic boundary effects

    Dani Byrd;Jelena Krivokapić;Sungbok Lee

  • Gestural overlap and recoverability: Articulatory evidence from Georgian

    Ioana Chitoran;Louis Goldstein;Dani Byrd

  • Real-time magnetic resonance imaging and electromagnetic articulography database for speech production research (TC)

    Shrikanth Narayanan;Asterios Toutios;Vikram Ramanarayanan;Adam Lammert

  • Task-dynamics of gestural timing: Phase windows and multifrequency rhythms

    Elliot Saltzman;Elliot Saltzman;Dani Byrd;Dani Byrd

  • Saying consonant clusters quickly

    Dani Byrd;Cheng Cheng Tan

  • A Phase Window Framework for Articulatory Timing

    Dani Byrd

  • An articulatory view of Kinyarwanda coronal harmony

    Rachel Walker;Dani Byrd;Fidèle Mpiranya

  • Articulatory timing in English consonant sequences

    Dani Margaret Byrd

  • Seeing speech: Capturing vocal tract shaping using real-time magnetic resonance imaging [Exploratory DSP]

    E. Bresch;Yoon-Chul Kim;K. Nayak;D. Byrd

  • Preliminary results on speaker-dependent variation in the TIMIT database.

    Dani Byrd

  • TADA: An enhanced, portable Task Dynamics model in MATLAB

    Hosung Nam;Louis Goldstein;Elliot Saltzman;Dani Byrd

  • Timing effects of syllable structure and stress on nasals: a real-time MRI examination.

    Dani Byrd;Stephen J. Tobin;Erik Bresch;Shrikanth S. Narayanan

Frequent Co-Authors

Shrikanth S. Narayanan
Shrikanth S. Narayanan University of Southern California
Louis Goldstein
Louis Goldstein University of Southern California
Sungbok Lee
Sungbok Lee University of Southern California
Krishna S. Nayak
Krishna S. Nayak University of Southern California
Elliot Saltzman
Elliot Saltzman Boston University
Kenneth R. Pugh
Kenneth R. Pugh Haskins Laboratories
Donald Shankweiler
Donald Shankweiler University of Connecticut
Leonard Katz
Leonard Katz Haskins Laboratories
Sally E. Shaywitz
Sally E. Shaywitz Yale University
Jack M. Fletcher
Jack M. Fletcher University of Houston

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