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Louis GoldsteinProfessor of LinguisticsContact Information E-mail: louisgol@usc.edu Phone: (213) 821-4150 Office: GFS 301G LINKS Curriculum Vitae |
Education |
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 Ph.D. Linguistics, UCLA, 9/1977
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B.A. Psychology, Brandeis Univerity, 6/1972
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Postdoctoral Training |
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Post-graduate Researcher, Brandeis University, 1978-1979
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Tenure Track Appointments |
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Professor, Yale University, 07/01/1998-06/30/2007
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Associate Professor, Yale University, 07/01/1986-06/30/1990
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Assistant Professor, Yale University, 07/01/1980-06/30/1986
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Non-Tenure Track Appointments |
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Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, 07/01/1980-
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Associate Professor Adjunct, Yale University, 07/01/1990-07/30/1998
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| The central concern of my work has been the development of a gesture-based approach to phonological and phonetic structure, dubbed articulatory phonology. The aim is to develop an explicit dynamical model of the “dance of the tongue,” analyzing the observed motion of the human vocal organs during speech into “steps” (or gestures), and investigating the inventory of such steps that are used in the world’s languages and the range of different dances that languages assemble from these steps. The construction of the dance in a particular language is hypothesized to be central to the cognitive activities surrounding speech, “sound structure,” and reading: acquisition, perception, production, and breakdown in disease. The theoretical approach is incorporated in a computational model that generates speech from a gesturally-specified lexicon. The development includes theoretical work, computational simulation, and empirical experimentation. | |
Research Specialties |
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| Phonetics Speech Production Articulatory Modeling Dynamical Models | |
Funded Research |
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Contracts and Grants Awarded |
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Variability and Error in Speech Production (NIH: NIDCD), Louis Goldstein, $2,115,023, 09/01/2007-08/31/2012
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Landmark-based Robust Speech Recognition (NSF), Louis Goldstein, $1,650,000, 06/01/2007-05/31/2010
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Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions |
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Haskins Laboratories, Senior Scientist,http://www.haskins.yale.edu
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Service to the Profession |
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Professional Memberships |
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Linguistic Society of America, 07/01/1980-
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Acoustical Society of America, 08/01/1975-
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