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Joseph S. Perkell

Joseph S. Perkell

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
42
Citations
8149
World Ranking
6475
National Ranking
1774

Overview

Joseph S. Perkell is affiliated with MIT in the United States, focusing on research in the field of Psychology with an emphasis on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Genetics, and Linguistics and Language. The scientist's work intersects multiple subfields that contribute to understanding the complexities of human speech, language development, and neurocognitive processes.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Cleft Lip and Palate Research
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology

Joseph S. Perkell has published research articles in peer-reviewed venues such as PLoS ONE and Speech Communication. Selected recent papers include:

  • "What anticipatory coarticulation in children tells us about speech motor control maturity" (2020) published in PLoS ONE
  • "Oral configurations during vowel nasalization in English" (2021) published in Speech Communication

Throughout their career, Perkell has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Guillaume Barbier, Pascal Perrier, Yohan Payan, Mark Tiede, and Silvain Gerber. These partnerships reflect a multidisciplinary approach to research, combining expertise in speech motor control, phonetics, and cognitive aspects of language.

The scientist's research provides insights into speech motor control maturity, the articulatory mechanisms underlying vowel nasalization, and various linguistic and developmental phenomena related to speech and language disorders. Their work contributes data relevant to understanding neurobiological aspects of language and the developmental trajectory of speech capabilities in children.

Best Publications

  • Glottal airflow and transglottal air pressure measurements for male and female speakers in soft, normal, and loud voice

    Eva B. Holmberg;Robert E. Hillman;Joseph S. Perkell

  • Electromagnetic midsagittal articulometer systems for transducing speech articulatory movements

    Joseph S. Perkell;Marc H. Cohen;Mario A. Svirsky;Melanie L. Matthies

  • Objective Assessment of Vocal Hyperfunction: An Experimental Framework and Initial Results

    Robert E. Hillman;Eva B. Holmberg;Joseph S. Perkell;Michael Walsh

  • Sensorimotor adaptation to feedback perturbations of vowel acoustics and its relation to perception

    Virgilio M. Villacorta;Joseph S. Perkell;Frank H. Guenther

  • A theory of speech motor control and supporting data from speakers with normal hearing and with profound hearing loss

    Joseph S. Perkell;Frank H. Guenther;Harlan Lane;Melanie L. Matthies

  • Comparisons Among Aerodynamic, Electroglottographic, and Acoustic Spectral Measures of Female Voice

    Eva B. Holmberg;Robert E. Hillman;Joseph S. Perkell;Peter C. Guiod

  • Speech motor control: acoustic goals, saturation effects, auditory feedback and internal models

    Joseph Perkell;Melanie Matthies;Harlan Lane;Frank Guenther

  • Trading relations between tongue-body raising and lip rounding in production of the vowel /u/: a pilot "motor equivalence" study.

    Joseph S. Perkell;Melanie L. Matthies;Mario A. Svirsky;Michael I. Jordan

  • Movement goals and feedback and feedforward control mechanisms in speech production

    Joseph S. Perkell

  • Articulatory tradeoffs reduce acoustic variability during American English /r/ production.

    Frank H. Guenther;Carol Y. Espy-Wilson;Suzanne E. Boyce;Melanie L. Matthies

  • The distinctness of speakers' productions of vowel contrasts is related to their discrimination of the contrasts.

    Joseph S. Perkell;Frank H. Guenther;Harlan Lane;Melanie L. Matthies

  • Economy of effort in different speaking conditions. I. A preliminary study of intersubject differences and modeling issues.

    Joseph S. Perkell;Majid Zandipour;Melanie L. Matthies;Harlan Lane

  • Aerodynamic and acoustic voice measurements of patients with vocal nodules: variation in baseline and changes across voice therapy

    Eva B. Holmberg;Patricia Doyle;Joseph S. Perkell;Britta Hammarberg

  • Influences of tongue biomechanics on speech movements during the production of velar stop consonants: a modeling study.

    Pascal Perrier;Yohan Payan;Majid Zandipour;Joseph Perkell

  • Variability in production of the vowels /i/ and /a/.

    Joseph S. Perkell;Winston L. Nelson

  • The Distinctness of Speakers' /s/—/∫/ Contrast Is Related to Their Auditory Discrimination and Use of an Articulatory Saturation Effect

    Joseph S. Perkell;Melanie L. Matthies;Mark Tiede;Harlan Lane

  • Glottal airflow and transglottal air pressure measurements for male and female speakers in low, normal, and high pitch

    Eva B. Holmberg;Eva B. Holmberg;Eva B. Holmberg;Robert E. Hillman;Robert E. Hillman;Joseph S. Perkell

  • Speech of cochlear implant patients: A longitudinal study of vowel production

    Joseph Perkell;Harlan Lane;Mario Svirsky;Jane Webster

  • Coarticulation strategies: preliminary implications of a detailed analysis of lower lip protrusion movements

    J S Perkell

  • Diffusion imaging of cerebral white matter in persons who stutter: evidence for network-level anomalies

    Shanqing Cai;Jason A. Tourville;Deryk S. Beal;Joseph S. Perkell

  • Focal Manipulations of Formant Trajectories Reveal a Role of Auditory Feedback in the Online Control of Both Within-Syllable and Between-Syllable Speech Timing

    Shanqing Cai;Satrajit S. Ghosh;Frank H. Guenther;Joseph S. Perkell

  • Effects of short‐term auditory deprivation on speech production in adult cochlear implant users

    Mario A. Svirsky;Harlan Lane;Joseph S. Perkell;Jane Wozniak

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank H. Guenther
Frank H. Guenther Boston University
Yohan Payan
Yohan Payan Grenoble Alpes University
Michael I. Jordan
Michael I. Jordan University of California, Berkeley
Carol Y. Espy-Wilson
Carol Y. Espy-Wilson University of Maryland, College Park
Kiyoshi Honda
Kiyoshi Honda Tianjin University
Louis Goldstein
Louis Goldstein University of Southern California
David J. Ostry
David J. Ostry McGill University

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