Douglas Whalen, Vice President of Research, Haskins Laboratories and Professor, CUNY

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, 1982 (Linguistics)
M.Phil., Yale University, 1979 (Linguistics)
M.A., Yale University, 1978 (Linguistics)
B.A., Rice University (cum laude), 1976

Representative Publications

Whalen, D. H., Chen, W.-R., Tiede, M. K., & Nam, H. (2018). Variability of articulator positions and formants across nine English vowels. Journal of Phonetics, 68, 1-14. 

DiCanio, C. T., Nam, H., Amith, J. D., Whalen, D. H., & Castillo García, R. (2015). Vowel variability in elicited versus running speech: Evidence from Mixtec. Journal of Phonetics, 48, 45-59.

Yang, B., & Whalen, D. H. (2015). Perception and production of American English vowels by American males and females. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 35, 121-141.

Noiray, A., Iskarous, K., & Whalen, D. H. (2014). Variability in English vowels is comparable in articulation and acoustics. Laboratory Phonology, 5, 271–288.

DiCanio, C. T., Nam, H., Whalen, D. H., Bunnell, H. T., Amith, J. D., & Castillo García, R. (2013). Using automatic alignment to analyze endangered language data: Testing the viability of untrained alignment. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, 2235-2246.

Iskarous, K., Mooshammer, C. M., Hoole, P., Recasens, D., Shadle, C. H., Saltzman, E., & Whalen, D. H. (2013). The Coarticulation/Invariance Scale: Mutual Information as a measure of coarticulation resistance, motor synergy, and articulatory invariance in speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, 1271-1282.

Supported Grant

PI, A-93: Links Between Production and Perception in Speech

PI, A-206: Improving Clinical Speech Remediation with Ultrasound Technology