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Douglas H. Whalen

Douglas H. Whalen

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
45
Citations
8656
World Ranking
3872
National Ranking
1841

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Douglas H. Whalen is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of psychology and computer science, with a particular focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience, signal processing, and linguistics and language.

The primary areas of Douglas H. Whalen's work include phonetics and phonology research, speech recognition and synthesis, speech and audio processing, linguistic variation and morphology, hearing loss and rehabilitation, language development and disorders, and voice and speech disorders.

Whalen has published extensively in several scholarly venues. Frequent publication venues include The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, with 13 publications; Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, with 5 publications; Journal of Phonetics and Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, each with 3 publications; and Phonetica, with 2 publications.

The recent papers they have contributed to are:

  • Health effects of Indigenous language use and revitalization: a realist review, 2022, International Journal for Equity in Health
  • A dual mechanism for intrinsic f0, 2021, Journal of Phonetics
  • Formants are easy to measure; resonances, not so much: Lessons from Klatt (1986), 2022, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Auditory-perceptual acuity in rhotic misarticulation: baseline characteristics and treatment response, 2020, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
  • Vowel Acoustics and Speech Intelligibility in Young Adults With Down Syndrome, 2020, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

Frequent collaborators working with Douglas H. Whalen include Mark Tiede, Weirong Chen, Tara McAllister, Christine H. Shadle, and Heather Kabakoff.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Whalen was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • On the relation of speech to language

    Alvin M. Liberman;Doug H. Whalen

  • The universality of intrinsic F0 of vowels

    D.H. Whalen;Andrea G. Levitt;Andrea G. Levitt

  • Information for Mandarin tones in the amplitude contour and in brief segments.

    D.H. Whalen;Yi Xu

  • Coarticulation is largely planned

    D.H. Whalen

  • Speech perception takes precedence over nonspeech perception

    D. H. Whalen;Alvin M. Liberman;Alvin M. Liberman

  • Voice Onset Time (VOT) at 50: Theoretical and practical issues in measuring voicing distinctions.

    Arthur S. Abramson;Douglas H. Whalen;Douglas H. Whalen;Douglas H. Whalen

  • Parametrically dissociating speech and nonspeech perception in the brain using fMRI.

    Randall R. Benson;Randall R. Benson;D.H. Whalen;Matthew Richardson;Matthew Richardson;Brook Swainson

  • F0 gives voicing information even with unambiguous voice onset times

    D. H. Whalen;Arthur S. Abramson;Leigh Lisker;Maria Mody

  • Healing through language: Positive physical health effects of indigenous language use

    D. H. Whalen;Margaret Moss;Daryl Baldwin

  • Audiovisual processing in children with and without autism spectrum disorders.

    Elizabeth A. Mongillo;Julia R. Irwin;D. H. Whalen;Cheryl Klaiman

  • Intonational differences between the reduplicative babbling of French- and English-learning infants

    D. H. Whalen;Andrea G. Levitt;Qi Wang

  • Subcategorical phonetic mismatches slow phonetic judgments.

    D. H. Whalen

  • Effects of vocalic formant transitions and vowel quality on the English [s]–[š] boundary

    D. H. Whalen

  • A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of language processing and its cognitive correlates in prematurely born children.

    Bradley S Peterson;Betty Vohr;Michael J Kane;Douglas H Whalen

  • Responses of adults who stutter to the anticipation of stuttering

    Eric S. Jackson;J. Scott Yaruss;Robert W. Quesal;Valerie Terranova

  • Can children with autism spectrum disorders "hear" a speaking face?

    Julia R. Irwin;Lauren A. Tornatore;Lawrence Brancazio;D. H. Whalen

  • Cricothyroid activity in high and low vowels: exploring the automaticity of intrinsic F0

    D.H Whalen;Bryan Gick;Masanobu Kumada;Kiyoshi Honda

  • The Haskins optically corrected ultrasound system (HOCUS)

    D. H. Whalen;Khalil Iskarous;Mark K. Tiede;David J. Ostry

  • Perception of pitch location within a speaker's F0 range.

    Douglas N. Honorof;D. H. Whalen

  • Lexical effects in the perception and production of American English /p/ allophones

    D.H. Whalen;Catherine T. Best;Julia R. Irwin

  • Information for Mandarin tones in the amplitude contour and in brief segments

    Yi Xu;D. H. Whalen

Frequent Co-Authors

Alvin M. Liberman
Alvin M. Liberman Haskins Laboratories
Carol A. Fowler
Carol A. Fowler University of Connecticut
Shlomo Bentin
Shlomo Bentin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Susan Nittrouer
Susan Nittrouer University of Florida
Leonard Katz
Leonard Katz Haskins Laboratories
James S. Magnuson
James S. Magnuson University of Connecticut
Catherine T. Best
Catherine T. Best Haskins Laboratories
Leon Y. Deouell
Leon Y. Deouell Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Robert K. Fulbright
Robert K. Fulbright Yale University
Arthur G. Samuel
Arthur G. Samuel Stony Brook University

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