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Thea will be presenting a poster at the 2021 International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association Conference (ICPLA) on Friday, June 25. This conference was originally scheduled for summer 2020 and had to be postponed due to the pandemic.

Thea will be presenting a poster at the 2021 Boston Speech Motor Control Symposium (BSMCS) on Friday, June 18. This poster, titled “Stop voicing contrasts in Parkinson’s: Effect of modified speaking rate in connected speech.

We have a new article out in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: “Variation in speech intelligibility ratings as a function of speech rate modification in Parkinson’s disease.

We have a new article out in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: “Variation in speech intelligibility ratings as a function of speech rate modification in Parkinson’s disease.

We’ve updated our website! Changes are still underway (let us know if you see something that needs fixing!). We built this site with blogdown using the Wowchemy Research Group Theme.

The following was disseminated to students in the CDS and Linguistics departments at UB this week, with workshops to begin at the end of the month. You are invited to join our upcoming Praat Scripting Workshop series (schedule of dates & topics below).

Thea will be presenting a poster entitled “VOT voicing contrast is robust along a speech rate continuum in dysarthria.” LabPhon17 - hosted virtually by the University of British Columbia July 6 - 8.

Dr. Thea Knowles will be presenting a poster entitled “Acoustic changes along a modified speech rate continuum” at the Motor Speech Conference in Santa Barbara, CA this Thursday (February 20, 2020).

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