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 Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on speech acoustics and perception with applications to sociophonetics and second language acquisition. Since her appointment at Ohio State in 2003, Dr. Jacewicz's research has centered on dynamic vowel properties, including variation in vowel amplitude in coarticulatory context, dynamic formant pattern in relation to sound change and cross-dialectal variation in vowels. She is currently principal investigator of the NIH-funded project "Cross-generational sound change in American English."http://www.sphs.osu.edu/Faculty/Jacewicz/Jacewicz.html