Student Researchers
Caroline Chang
Caroline Chang is a senior at The Ohio State University majoring in Speech and Hearing Science and English. She is currently working on her Undergraduate B. A. Honors Thesis which examines sound change in progress in two regional varieties of American English, to be completed in the spring 2012. She is a recipient of Buckeye Language Network Scholarship, College of Arts and Science Research Scholarship, and Social and Behavioral Science Research Scholarship.

  


Alison Davis
Alison Davis is a first year student in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science working towards her M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology at Ohio State. She earned her B.S. degree at Ohio University in Hearing, Speech and Language Sciences with minors in Spanish, Linguistics, and Psychology and certificates in the Global Leadership Center and Teaching English as a Foreign Language. She has strong interests in cultural factors affecting language and second language acquisition.

  


Florence Hardjono
Florence L. Hardjono is a first year Ph.D. student in speech science in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Ohio State (Prof. Robert Fox, advisor). In her B. A. Honors Thesis, she examined characteristics of stop consonants of Indonesian Bilingual Children. Her research interests include second language acquisition, bilingual literacy and developmental disorders in clinically and linguistically diverse populations. She is the recipient of several scholarships at Ohio State, including the Critical Difference for Women Scholarship, OSU Women's Club Scholarship, College of Arts and Science Research Scholarship, and Social and Behavioral Science Research Scholarship.

  


Katarzyna Lozanska
Katarzyna Lozanska is a senior at The Ohio State University majoring in Speech and Hearing Science. She is currently working on her Undergraduate B. A. Honors Thesis which examines cross-generational changes to vowel production in two regional varieties of American English, to be completed in the spring 2012. She is a recipient of the Provost Scholarship, College of Arts and Science Research Scholarship, and Social and Behavioral Science Research Scholarship.

  


Donna Moore
Donna Moore is a first year AuD student at The Ohio State University. Donna graduated summa cum laude from West Virginia University with a B.S. in Speech Pathology and Audiology and an Interdisciplinary Certificate in Disability Studies. Her current research interests include speech perception and auditory processing disorders.

  


Leigh Smitley
Leigh Smitley, ABD, is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Ohio State. She received her B.A. degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology and M. A. degree in Speech Pathology from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. Her research interests include speech perception with regard to dialects and sociolinguistics. Her desire to examine variations in the Appalachian English of the state of West Virginia in her dissertation study came after working on research related to variation in the production of the /ai/ diphthong among children in North Carolina.

  


Jing Yang
Jing Yang, ABD, is a Ph.D. candidate in speech science in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Ohio State. She received her M.A degree in Experimental Phonetics in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her primary research interest is acquisition and development of phonetic system in bilinguals. She is also interested in acoustic phonetics and speech perception. She is currently completing research examining variation in vowel perception among monolingual and bilingual speakers of Mandarin. She is also conducting a longitudinal study of vowel development in bilingual Mandarin/English children and working on her dissertation entitled "Acoustic characteristics of vowels in early sequential bilingual Mandarin-English children" (Prof. Robert Fox, director).