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Khalil Iskarous

Associate Professor of Linguistics
Email kiskarou@usc.edu Office GFS 301 Office Phone (213) 740-9197

Research & Practice Areas

Laboratory Phonology, Motor Control, Computational Linguistics, Hydrostatic Skeletons, Experimental Methods in Linguistics, Endangered Languages

Education

  • Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001

  • Research, Teaching, Practice, and Clinical Appointments

    • Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories, 2001-2010

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Laboratory Phonology, Motor Control, Hydrostatic Skeletons, Experimental Methods in Linguistics, Endangered Languages

    Research Keywords

    Laboratory Phonology, Motor Control, Hydrostatic Skeletons, Experimental Methods in Linguistics, Endangered Languages

  • Contracts and Grants Awarded

    • Dynamical Principles of Animal Movement, (National Science Foundation), Khalil Iskarous $973,963, 2012-2013

  • Book Chapter

    • iskarous, k., Goldstein, L. (2018). The dynamics of prominence profiles: from local computation to global patterns. Shaping Phonology University of Chicago Press
    • Iskarous, K. R. (2011). Articulatory-­-Acoustic Relations. The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology, Chapter 18.
    • Fowler, C., Iskarous, K. R. (2011). Speech Production and Perception. (Vol. 4) Wiley Handbook of Psychology.

    Journal Article

    • Alupay, J., Mather, J., Iskarous, K. (2023). A syntactic analysis of a complex motor action, the octopus arm ‘slap’. Marine Biology.
    • Iskarous, K., Pouplier, M. (2022). Advancements of Phonetics in the 21 Century: A Critical Appraisal of Time and Space in Articulatory Phonology  . Journal of Phonetics.
    • Iskarous, K., Mather, J., Alupay, J. (2022). A Turing-based bimodal population code can specify Cephalopod chromatic skin displays. Arxiv. ArXiv
    • Iskarous, k. (2019). The Morphogenesis of Speech Gestures: From Local Computations to Global Patterns. Frontiers in Psychology. Vol. 12, pp. 11.
    • Abakarova, D., Iskarous, K., Noiray, A. (2018). Quantifying lingual coarticulation in German using mutual information: An ultrasound study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Vol. 144 (2), pp. 897-907.
    • Iskarous, K., Kavitskaya, D. (2018). Sound change and the structure of synchronic variability: Phonetic and phonological factors in Slavic palatalization. Language. Vol. 94 (1), pp. 4383. PubMed Web Address
    • Iskarous, K. (2017). The relation between the continuous and the discrete: A note on the first principles of speech dynamics. Journal of Phonetics. Vol. 64, pp. 8-20.
    • Iskarous, K. (2016). Compatible dynamical models of environmental, sensory, and perceptual systems. Ecological Psychology.
    • Chen, W., Chang, Y., Iskarous, K. (2015). Vowel coarticulation: Landmark statistics measure vowel aggression. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
    • Noiray, A., Iskarous, K., Whalen, D. (2014). Variability in English vowels in comprable in articulation and acoustics. Laboratory Phonology. Vol. 5 (2), pp. 271-288.
    • Nam, H., Mooshammer, C., Iskarous, K., Whalen, D. (2013). Hearing Tongue Loops: Perceptual Sensitivity to Acoustic Signatures of Articulatory Dynamics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
    • Iskarous, K., Mooshammer, C., Hoole, P., Recasens, D., Shadle, C. H., Saltzman, E., Whalen, D. H. (2013). The Coarticulation/Invariance Scale: Mutual Information as a measure of coarticulation resistance, motor synergy, and articulatory invariance. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
    • Lammert, A., Goldstein, L., Narayanan, S., Iskarous, K. (2012). Statistical methods for estimation of direct and differential kinematics of the vocal tract. Speech Communication. Corrected Proofs
    • Noiray, A., Menard, L., Iskarous, K. (2012). The Development of Motor Synergies in Children: Ultrasound and Acoustic Measurements. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
    • Iskarous, K., McDonough, J., Whalen, D. (2012). A gestural account of the velar fricative in Navajo. Laboratory Phonology. Vol. 3 (1)
    • McMicken, B., Von Berg, S., Iskarous, K. (2011). Acoustic and perceptual description of vowels in a speaker with aglossia. Communication Disorders Quarterly.
    • Iskarous, K. R., Shadle, C., Proctor, M. (2011). Articulatory-acoustic kinematics: The production of American English /s/. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Vol. 129 (2), pp. 944-954. PubMed Web Address
    • Iskarous, K. R., Kavitskaya, D. (2010). The Interaction between Contrast, Prosody, and Coproduction in the Structuring of Phonetic Variability. Journal of Phonetics. Vol. 38, pp. 625-639. PubMed Web Address
    • Iskarous, K. R. (2010). Vowel constrictions are recoverable from formants. Journal of Phonetics. Vol. 38, pp. 375-387. PubMed Web Address
    • Iskarous, K. R., Nam, H. (2010). Perception of articulatory dynamics from acoustic signatures. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Vol. 127, pp. 3717-­-3728. PubMed Web Address
    • Iskarous, K. R., Fowler, C., Whalen, D. H. (2010). Locus equations are an acoustic expression of articulator synergy. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Vol. 127, pp. 2021-­2032. PubMed Web Address
    • Proctor, M., Iskarous, K. R., Shadle, C. (2010). Pharyngeal articulation differences in voiced and voiceless fricatives. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Vol. 127, pp. 1507-1518. PubMed Web Address

    Proceedings

    • Durante, Z., Mathur, L., Ye, E., Zhao, S., Ramdas, T., Iskarous, K. (2021). Speech Representations and Phoneme Classification for Preserving the Endangered Language of Ladin. Brno, Czech Republic. International Speech Communication Association’s Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (MLSLP 2021) (held with Interspeech 2021). ArXiv
    • Distinguished Fulbright Visiting Chair at The Center for Research on Language Mind, and Brain, McGill University, 2010-2011

  • Editorships and Editorial Boards

    • Associate Editor, Language”, 01/01/2018 – 01/01/2021