Tara McAllister
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Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
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My research focuses on speech development in children with and without phonological delay or disorder. I am particularly interested in understanding how children's speech-motor limitations shape their early phonological development. My goal is to identify child-specific phonetic factors, especially articulatory limitations, that can account for the existence of child speech patterns that lack counterparts in adult phonological typology. I am also interested in understanding why some children's speech sound errors do not resolve in response to conventional forms of therapy. I am currently conducting clinical research investigating the efficacy of visual biofeedback intervention for persistent speech sound errors.
Specialization
Child phonology, phonetics-phonology interface, biofeedback intervention (acoustic/ultrasound).
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Documents
- A gestural account of a child-specific neutralisation in strong position. Paper to appear in Phonology 28.3
- Patterns of Gestural Overlap Account for Positional Fricative Neutralization in Child Phonology (Powerpoint presentation, LSA 2011)
- Evidence for a Bidirectional Relationship between Articulation and Perception Errors in Development (Poster, ASHA 2010)
- Language Profiles Associated with Copy Number Changes at 16p11.2 (Poster, SRCLD 2010)
- Convergence and Divergence of Perception and Production in Phonological Acquisition (Poster, 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting)
- Child-Specific Patterns of Positional Neutralization: Articulatory vs. Perceptual Influences (Handout, GLOW Workshop in Phonetics and Phonology, 2010)
- Positional Velar Fronting: An updated articulatory analysis (Powerpoint presentation, International Child Phonology Conference 2010)
- The Articulatory Basis of Positional Asymmetries in Phonological Acquisition (Dissertation defense handout, 2009)
- The Articulatory Basis of Positional Asymmetries in Phonological Acquisition (Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
- Fricative Neutralization in Strong Position in Child Phonology (Handout, UMass-MIT Meeting in Phonology, 2008)
- McAllister, T., Bachrach, A., Waters, G., Michaud, J., & Caplan, D. (2009). Production and Comprehension of Unaccusatives in Aphasia. Aphasiology Special Issue, Proceedings of the 38th Clinical Aphasiology Conference.
- The Unaccusative Construction in Aphasia: Implications for the Representation of Syntactic Movement (Poster, Clinical Aphasiology Conference, 2008)
- Optimality Theory and Implicational Relations in Phonological Development (Poster, ASHA, 2007)
Research Projects
Understanding the phonetic basis of patterns of neutralization in strong position
Investigating the relationship between perception and production in child speech errors
Ultrasound Investigation of Covert Contrast in Child Speech (with Adam Buchwald, NYU)
Comparison of Visual Biofeedback versus Traditional Methods of Intervention for /r/ Misarticulation (with Elaine Hitchcock, MSU)
Ultrasound biofeedback for persistent /r/ misarticulation
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