Ann Bradlow

 

Department of Linguistics

2016 Sheridan Road

Evanston, Illinois 60208

Northwestern University

Tel.: (847) 491-8054

email: HUabradlow@northwestern.eduU

 

Education

1991-1993           Ph.D., Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

1988-1991           M. A., Linguistics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

1985-1986           Auditrice Libre (Visiting Scholar), Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, Paris, France

1983-1987           A. B. (with honors), Linguistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

 

Professional Experience

2004-present        Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University

1998-2004           Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University

1996-1998           Postdoctoral Fellow, Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Program in Audiology, Northwestern University

1993-1996           NIH Postdoctoral Trainee, Speech Research Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Indiana University

October 1995       Invited Researcher, Advanced Telecommunications Research - Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan

August 1995        Participant, Sensimetrics/MIT Special Summer Course, Speech Synthesis Based on Source-Filter Models, Mariefred, Sweden

July 1994             Invited Researcher, Advanced Telecommunications Research - Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan

1988- 1993          Teaching Assistant, Department of Modern Languages & Linguistics, Cornell University

 

Grants

External Funding Agencies (PI and Co-PI):

Bradlow, A. R. (Principal Investigator).  Production and perception of clear speech.  National Institute for Deafness & Other Communication Disorders  Grant # DC05794.  Direct costs:$500,000.  Grant period: 7/1/04-6/30/08.  Competitive renewal pending.

Bradlow, A. R. (Principal Investigator).  Auditory training in learning-disabled children.  National Institute for Deafness & other Communication Disorders Grant # DC03176.  Direct costs: $105,000.  Grant period: 5/1/98 – 4/30/01 (no-cost extensions to 4/30/03).

Kraus, N. (Principal Investigator), Bradlow, A. R., Zecker, S., and Nicol, T. (Co-Investigators):  Neural representation of acoustic elements of speech.  National Institute for Deafness & Other Communication Disorders Grant # DC001510.  Direct costs: $2,054,086.  Grant period: 9/1/02-8/31/07.  Competitive renewal pending.

Van Engen, K. (Principal Investigator), Bradlow, A. R. (Sponsor).  Linguistic factors in speech-in-speech perception.  Individual National Research Service Award (Pre-doctoral level).  Pending. 

Clopper, C. G. (Principal Investigator), Janet Pierrehumbert (Co-Sponsor), Bradlow, A. R. (Co-Sponsor).  Perception and Representation of Dialect Variation.  Individual National Research Service Award (Post-doctoral level).  Award # F32 DC007237. Grant period: 7/1/05-6/30/08.

Bent, T. (Principal Investigator), Bradlow, A. R. (Sponsor).  Perception and production of non-native supra-segmental categories.  Individual National Research Service Award (Pre-doctoral level).  Award # F31 CD006515.  Grant period: 9/1/03-8/31/05.

 

External Funding Agencies (Consultant/Project partner):

Boyce, S. (Principal Investigator), Speech production and sleep deprivation.  National Institute for Deafness & Other Communication Disorders Grant.  Direct costs: $275,000.  Grant period: 4/1/06-3/31/08. 

Hazan, V. (Principal Investigator).  Speaker-controlled variability in connected discourse: acoustic-phonetic characteristics and impact on speech perception.  Economic and Social Research Council, UK.  Grant period: 9/1/07-8/31/10.  Pending. 

 

Internally funded:

Bradlow, A. R. (Principal Investigator).  Northwestern University Research Grants Committee Individual Research Grant. Production and Perception of Foreign-Accented English.  Amount: $7,500.  Grant period: 05/17/02 – 05/17/03.

Bradlow, A. R. (Principal Investigator), Bruce Smith (Co-Principal Investigator): Northwestern University Seed Grant for Research on Culture, Language, and Cognition: Adult non-native language sound structure acquisition.  Amount: $3,000.  Grant period: Summer 2001 – Spring 2002.

Bradlow, A. R. (Principal Investigator).  Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Course Enhancement Grant for purchase of Speech Production and Perception CD-ROM (from Sensimetrics Corporation) and microphones for Linguistics 207 (Sound Patterns in Human Language.)  Amount: $700.  Spring 2000. 

 

Publications

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