Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier

Heike Lehnert-LeHouillier

Contact Information

    Lattimore 514
    Linguistics Department
    University of Rochester
    Rochester, NY 14627-0268
    (585) 275-4258 (office)

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Education

2007 PhD, Linguistics, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Dissertation: The perception of vowel quantity: A cross-linguistic investigation.

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Research Interests

My research falls broadly into the areas of experimental phonetics, laboratory phonology, and psycholinguistics. My current research interests are:

  • Prosodic and lexical effects on the realization of articulatory gestures
  • Within and cross-language variability in the production and perception of coarticulation
  • Use of ultrasound for speech production research

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Selected Publications

Presentations

  • McDonough, J., Lehnert-LeHouillier, H., & Bardhan, N. (2009). The perception of nasalized vowels in American English: An investigation of on-line use of vowel nasalization in lexical access. Poster presented at Nasal 2009 on June 5th, in Montpellier, France.
  • Lehnert-LeHouillier, H. & J. McDonough(2009). What is the domain of domain-initial strengthening in American English? Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America; San Fransisco, CA.
  • Jacob, M., Lehnert-LeHouillier, H., Bora, S., McAleavey, S., Dalecki, D., McDonough, J. (2008). Speckle tracking for the recovery of displacement and velocity information from sequences of ultrasound images of the tongue. Paper presented at ISSP in December 2008, Strasbourg, France.
  • Lehnert-LeHouillier, H. (2007). My cue is not your cue: A cross-linguistic study of perceptual cues to vowel quantity. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America; Anaheim, CA.
  • Lehnert-LeHouillier, H. & D. H. Whalen (2006). Enhancement of the vowel quantity contrast in German and Japanese by F0 and vowel quality. Poster presented at the 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Providence, RI.
  • Lehnert-LeHouillier, H. (2005). An acoustic analysis of the separation of stress and pitch in Onondaga. Paper presented at the 31 meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, February 2005. Paper presented at the 31st Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA.
  • Lehnert-LeHouillier, H., Iskarous, K. & D. H. Whalen. (2004). Modeling the acoustics of American English /r/ using configurable articulatory synthesis (CASY). Poster presented at the 147th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in New York, NY.
  • Lehnert, H. (2003). Pennsylvania German intonation: A case of contact induced language change? Paper presented at the 9th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference. Buffalo, NY.
  • Lehnert, H. (2003). Phonetic and phonological aspects of liquid devoicing in Thai, Hungarian, and American English. Invited talk: Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT.
  • Lehnert, H. (2003). Discrete & gradient aspects of devoicing in Hungarian, Thai, and English stop-liquid sequences. Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America; Atlanta, GA.

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