Joyce McDonough
Chair, Linguistics
Associate
Professor, Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Contact
Office: 505 Lattimore Hall
Phone: (585) 275-2895
E-mail: user@ling.rochester.edu (user=jmmcd)
Office hours: by appointment
Current Courses (Fall 2012)
- LIN 210 Language Sound Structures
Research Interests
Phonetics, phonetic fieldwork,phoentic typology, laboratory phonology, morphology. Prosody. Athabaskan linguistics; morphology and paradigmatic processes. Music, speech and language.
Research
UR Research University of Rochester's online research repository.
The description and documentation of the phonetic, prosodic and morphological structure of the Dene (Athabaskan) languages. Prosody, rhythm and speech. Dene migration in North America.
The Dene Speech Atlas the development of an online speech Atlas of the Dene languages in the Mackenzie Basin, a geotagged database of folios containing baseline documentation of the phonemic and prosodic structures of the individual Dene speaking communities in the Mackenzie Basin and surrounding communities, working with Sally Rice and colleagues at the University of Alberta, Edmonton (NSF).
Imaging the tongue in speech using ultrasound, with Heike Lehnert-Lehouiller (CLS), Khalil Iskarous (Haskins Lab), Steve McAleavey (BioMedical Engineering) and Mathews Jacob (Electrical and Computer Engineering).
Investigating rhythm in speech, and the relationship between speech and music, with Harold Danko (Eastman School of Music) and the relationship between music and language with Elizabeth Marvin
Academic Service
- Faculty Senate Executive Committee, -2013
- Faculty Senate, 2007-2013
- University Committee on Tenure and Privileges, -2014
- Committee of Chairs, Executive Committee, -2013
- Organizing Committee, Music Cognition Symposium, 2006-present
- Faculty Associate, Susan B Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, 1999-present
- Curriculum Director, Susan B Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, 2003-2005
Courses Taught
- LIN 210 Language Sound Structures
- LIN 227 Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
- LIN 389 Senior Seminar: Field Methods
- LIN 527 Prosody Seminar
Labs
- Phonetics Lab
- Lattimore Eye Tracker Lab - Jeff Runner
- Music Cognition Symposium
- Michael Berger, M.A. 2007, Centre for Speech Technology Research, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- Jill Thorson, M.A. 2007, Fulbright Fellow, Centre de Linguistica Teorica, Universitat Automona de Barcelona
- Wilson de Lima Silva, M.A. 2005, Center for American Indian Languages, Department of Linguistics, University of Utah
- Predicting discrimination of formant frequencies in vowels with a computational model of the auditory midbrain., Laurel Carney & J. McDonough IEEE-CISS, Princeton 2012.
- The phonetics of Bardi (Nyulnyulan), Claire Bowern, Joyce McDonough, Kate Kelliher. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2012.
- A gestural account of velar contrast: the back fricatives in Navajo, Khalil Iskarous, J. McDonough, D. H. Whalen. Laboratory Phonology, 2012 Volume 3 , (2012)
- Replicating P. E. Goddard: A contemporary airflow and EGG study of Dene Sųłiné, Joyce McDonough and Ben Tucker. University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences, (WPLS: UR) Volume 4:1, (WInter 2012)
- The stop contrasts of the Athabaskan languages, Joyce McDonough and Val Wood. Journal of Phonetics, Volume 36 , Issue 3, Pages 423-536 (July 2008)
- The Navajo Sound System. Joyce McDonough. Kluwer (now Springer). 2003.
- The prosody of interrogative and focus constructions in Navajo, Joyce McDonough. In Formal Approaches to Functional Phenomena, Eds. Carnie and Harley. John Benjamins, 2002