Principal investigators

Fred Eckman, co-director and Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Jae Yung Song, co-director and Associate Professor

Current lab members
Robin Fritche (Doctoral student)
Doaa Alosaimi (Doctoral student)
Maaly Al Omary (Doctoral student)
Ke Zhang (Doctoral student)

Alumni
• Nicole Ludmer (MA, 2022)
The importance of using AI personal assistants in teaching English voicing contrast to adult language learners
• Doaa Alosaimi (MA, 2019)
The effects of visual inputs on second language perception
• Aya Awwad (MA, 2019)
Acoustic prosodic features in children with autism
• Paul Goeden (MA, 2019)
Determinant acoustic cues in L2 speech perception
• Erica Reisinger (MA, 2018)
The effectiveness of using contrastively focused vowels in training L2 listeners to perceive English vowels
• Robin Fritche (MA, 2017)
A comparison of the production of alveolar stop allophones in child-directed speech versus adult-directed speech

Current and past undergraduate RAs
Tessa Culleton (UWM)
Annika Huber (UWM)
Aimee Roekle (UWM)
Valerie Perkins (University of Minnesota Law School)
Abbey Palmer (graduate student at University of Oxford)
Sarah Gilbert (graduate student at UT Austin)
Samantha Wanta (graduate student at UW-Madison; founder of Memra Language Services)