Permanent members
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| Emilia Alonso-Marks Modern Languages, A&S markse@ohio.edu Website |
Emilia Alonso-Marks is Full Professor of Spanish at Ohio University, USA, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish linguistics. Her main research interests include speech perception and lexical access, phonetics, language understanding, second language acquisition, and foreign language methodology. She received her PhD in applied linguistics from the University of Seville, Spain, after doing graduate work in linguistics and applied linguistics at Harvard University and the University of Oregon. Dr. Alonso-Marks has given talks at both national and international professional meetings. She is the author of numerous publications and serves as a reviewer for the US journal Hispania.
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| Mary Beaton Modern Languages, A&S beatonm@denison.edu |
Mary Beaton is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Modern Languages at OU. She completed her PhD at Ohio State University in Hispanic Linguistics in 2015. Her work examines language variation through both quantitative and qualitative sociolinguistic methods. Specifically, she is interested in how society, grammar, and lexical frequency condition the use of socially-stigmatized vs. 'standard' language features. Her most recent projects include a sociopragmatic approach to variation between the Brazilian Portuguese terms 'favelado' and 'morador de favela' (both mean 'slum dweller') and an analysis of the production and perception of Puerto Rican syllable-final liquids.
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| Zinny S. Bond Linguistics, A&S bond@ohio.edu |
Zinny Bond is Professor Emerita at Ohio University and Adjunct Professor at Ohio State University. Ph.D. from Ohio State University in linguistics, with psychology and speech and hearing science as concentrations. Research in phonetics, psychology of language, speech perception, and language contact. Currently examining changes in pronunciation changes influenced by language contact. Member of Acoustical Society of America, Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, Linguistic Society of America.
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| Chao-Yang Lee Communication Sciences & Disorders, HS&P leecl@ohio.edu Website |
Chao-Yang Lee is an Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Ohio University. He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Brown University, M.A. in Linguistics from Brown University, and B.S. in Psychology from National Chengchi University. He also received postdoctoral training from the Speech Communication Group at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. His research explores the contribution of phonetic and cognitive knowledge to speech perception and spoken word recognition, particularly pertaining to the processing of lexical tones. He teaches phonetics, speech science, and experimental phonetics at Ohio University.
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| Sally Marinellie Communication Sciences & Disorders, HS&P marinels@ohio.edu |
Sally Marinellie is an Associate Professor at Ohio University in the Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in language development, school-age language development/disorders, and administration for school speech-language pathologists. She received her PhD in speech-language pathology from the University, after working as a practicing speech-language pathologist in the public schools for several years. Dr. Marinellie’s research interests include school-age children’s syntactic and lexical development. She is the is the author of numerous publications and serves as a reviewer for the journal Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools.
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| Danny R. Moates Psychology, A&S moates@ohio.edu Website |
Danny R. Moates, Associate Professor Emeritus, Ohio University. Before retiring, Dr. Moates taught psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and history and systems of psychology in the Department of Psychology. His research interests lie in psycholinguistics, especially the recognition of spoken words. His current research projects focus on vowel mutability, feature distance in spoken word recognition, and the processing of derivationally suffixed words. He earned his AB from Harvard University and his MS and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in experimental psychology.
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| Liang-Tao Linguistics, A&S tao@ohio.edu |
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| Li Xu Communication Sciences & Disorders, HS&P xul@ohio.edu Website |
Dr. Li Xu was trained as an Otolaryngologist in China and then completed an ENT research fellowship at University of Basel, Switzerland. He obtained a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at University of Florida, USA in 1999 and then completed a 2.5-year postdoctoral fellowship at University of Michigan. He is now an Associate Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Ohio University, USA. His current research focuses on speech, lexical-tone, and music perception with cochlear implants. His research has been funded by the NIH.
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| Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández English Applied Linguistics, Universidad Jaume I ariadna.sanchez@uji.es |
Ariadna Sánchez is a Post-doctoral student in English Applied Linguistics at Jaume I University, where she teaches courses in Applied Linguistics and mentors study abroad students. She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Jaume I University, a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from Shawnee State University, and completed graduate work in Spanish Linguistics, Pedagogy and Literature at Ohio University. Ariadna’s research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, pragmatic routines, individual differences, intercultural competence and the study abroad context. In particular, she is conducting research on how university students develop their pragmatic and intercultural competences while participating in study abroad programs, and how they acculturate to the new environment during the sojourn.
Student members
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| Alexa Patton Communication Sciences and Disorders ap966511@ohio.edu |
Alexa Patton is a fourth year doctorate of audiology student in the department of Communication, Sciences, and Disorders at Ohio University. Alexa has been working in the Auditory Prosthesis Lab at Ohio University for the last 5 years under the direction of Dr. Li Xu. Alexa's research interests include speech perception, lexical-tones, and cross-linguistic comparisons of cochlear implant users.
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| Heber Da Silva-Viana Latin American Studies cv961415@ohio.edu |
Heber Da Silva-Viana is a master student
in Latin America Studies at Ohio University, where he teaches Portuguese. He is
also completing a post-graduate program in English to Brazilian Portuguese
translation. He obtained his B.A. in Language and Literature at Ceara State
University in Brazil. Heber is interested in working with languages in contact,
bilingualism, translation and second
language acquisition. He is currently working on a research project supervised
by Dr. Alonso. The project focuses on the identity and self-presentation of the
Uruguayan Portuguese speaker on the border of Brazil and Uruguay.
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