Co-Directors
Robert Allen Fox, Ph.D.
Dr. Fox is a Professor in and Chair of the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at The Ohio State University. He is best known for his contributions to speech perception, especially for his work on the perceptual structure of vowels and diphthongs. He has also studied behavioral aspects of speech perception such as changes in listener response as a function of human aging and second language learning as well as dialectal variation. He has chaired the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Ohio State since 1995, recently reappointed until 2011.http://www.sphs.osu.edu/Faculty/Fox/Fox.html
Ewa Jacewicz, Ph.D.
Dr. Jacewicz is a Research Scientist in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at The Ohio State University. Initially, she worked on the acquisition of vowels in a second language. Since her appointment at Ohio State in 2003, Dr. Jacewicz's research has focused on acoustics and perception of vowels and diphthongs. Her interests center on dynamic vowel properties and include variation in vowel amplitude in coarticulatory context, prosodic effects on formant pattern in relation to sound change, and cross-dialectal characteristics of vowels. She is currently principal investigator and co-investigator of several NIH-funded grants.http://www.sphs.osu.edu/Faculty/Jacewicz/Jacewicz.html