Research in Phonetics and Phonology
Drs. Jeffrey C. Good, Tsan Huang, Jeri Jaeger, Karin Michelson
In addition to a having a general interest morphophonological typology and the phonology-syntax interface, Prof. Good works on the typology of Bantoid tone systems and the phonetics and phonology of tone and accent in Saramaccan, a creole of Suriname.
Prof. Huang is a phonetician by training. She has worked on tone production (looking at the realization of lexical tones in connected speech) as well as lexical tone perception (especially how tone perception can be influenced by the tonology of a listener's native language). Recently, she has been working on Oneida (Iroquoian) plosive voicing with Dr. Michelson. Prof. Huang is also interested in the segmental and tonal systems of modern Chinese dialects and how they may have developed from the Middle Chinese systems due to articulatory and perceptual constraints.
In the larger context of her research on speech errors, Prof. Jaeger's work in phonology has centered on the representation and processing of phonological units and patterns primarily in Asian languages (Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin); her phonetic work has focussed on properties of the segmental and prosodic systems of these languages.
Prof. Michelson's focus has been in the Northern Iroquoian languages, especially Oneida and Mohawk and particularly in the accent systems, intonational phonology, and boundary phenomena. More recently she has collaborated with Prof. Huang on a phonetic study of Oneida plosives /t/ and /k/.