Rory A. DePaolis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Office: HHS 1124
Phone: 568-3869
Email: depaolra@jmu.edu

Research and Teaching Areas

Infant Speech Perception and Production
Speech Science
Instrumentation
Research Methods
Statistics

Research Laboratory

Speech Research Laboratory

Current and Ongoing Research Projects

Infant speech segmentation
Influence of early speech production patterns on speech perception
Acquisition of prosody
Phonological Templates

Publications (last five years)

DePaolis, R.A., Vihman, M. M., & Keren-Portnoy, T. (submitted). The segmentation of familiar words by 10-, 11-, and 12-month old infants.

DePaolis, R. A. & Vihman, M. M. what infants can say shapes what they hear. (submitted).

Keren-Portnoy, T., Vihman, M.M., Armstrong, N., DePaolis, R.A., & Whitaker, C. (submitted). The role of practice in constructing phonological memory.

Vihman, M. M., DePaolis, R. A. & Keren-Portnoy, T. (in press). Babbling and words: A Dynamic Systems perspective on phonological development. In Bavin, E. L. (ed). The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language.

DePaolis, R. A., Vihman, M. M., & Kunnari, S. (2008). Prosody in production at the onset of word use: A cross-linguistic study. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 406-422.

Vihman, M. M., Nakai, S., & DePaolis, R. A. (2006). Getting the rhythm right: A cross-linguistic study of segmental duration in babbling and first words. in L. Goldstein, D. Whalen & C. Best (eds.), Laboratory Phonology 8: Phonology and Phonetics, 341-366, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

DePaolis, R. A. (2006). The influence of production on the perception of speech. In Bamman, D., Magnitskaia, T. & Zaller, C. (eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press (pp. 142-153).

Vihman, M. M., Nakai, S., DePaolis, R. A. & Hallé, P. (2004). The role of accentual pattern in early word representation. Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 336-353.

National and International Conference Presentations (last five years)

DePaolis, R.A., Keren-Portnoy, T., & Vihman, M.M. (2008). The relationship between babble, word recognition, word segmentation, and first words in individual infants. 11th meeting of the International Congress for the Study of Child Language, July 26, Edinburgh, Scotland.

DePaolis, R.A. (2008). Production, perception, and the beginnings of systematicity. Structures Formelles de Langage, workshop on templates, May 27, Paris, France.

Ingram, S., Hilton, J. & DePaolis, R. A. (2007). Infant vocal production. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Boston, November 16.

DePaolis, R. A., Vihman, M. M. & Keren-Portnoy, T (2007). Exploiting variability in infant speech perception experiments. The Child Phonology Conference, Seattle, June.

Cid, J. A., Sundre, D. L., DePaolis, R. A., Reed, V. A. (2007). Academic Motivation: Achievement goal orientation differences between sophomore and senior undergraduates, APS 19th Annual Convention, May 24 - May 27, 2007

DePaolis, R. A. (2007). A Dynamic Systems approach to early language development: Symposium at the SRCD (Society for Research in Child Development) conference in Boston. Three Talks one by DePaolis, one by Vihman and one by Keren-Portnoy. Discussant: Lisa Menn. March 30.

DePaolis, R. A., Vihman, M.M. & Keren-Portnoy, T. (2007). Exploiting variability in infant speech perception, Child Language Meeting, Nant Gwrtheyrn, Wales, March 8-10.

Ingram, S., Hilton, J., & DePaolis, R.A. (2007). Diversity of Consonantal Production in Infants’ Vocal Motor Schemes, SHAV, March.

DePaolis, R. A. & Vihman, M. M. (2006). The segmentation of familiar words. The XVth International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto, Japan, June 20-22.

DePaolis, R. A. Dynamic interactions between perception, production and onset of phonology, 7th Annual Conference: Innovations in Clinical Communication Sciences 2006, October 13, Harrisonburg, VA.

DePaolis, R. A. (2006). Dynamic interactions between perception, production and the onset of phonology, 7th Annual Conference: Innovations in Clinical Communication Sciences, October 13, Harrisonburg, VA.

DePaolis, R. A., Vihman, M. M. & Keren-Portnoy, T. (2006). Dynamic Interactions between production and perception. Child Language Seminar, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, July 19-21.

DePaolis, R. A. & Vihman, M. M. (2006). A cross-sectional study of the segmentation of familiar words by 11- and 12-month old infants. International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto, Japan, June 19-23.

DePaolis, R. A., Hilton, J., & Keren-Portnoy, T. (2006). The integration of speech production and perception in early intervention strategies, The 30th annual conference of SHAV, March 11, Williamsburg.

Keren-Portnoy, T., DePaolis, R. A., & Vihman, M. M. ( 2005). The articulatory filter and the creation of sound-meaning links: A developmental study with implications for evolution. The Emergence of Linguistic Abilities, Lyon, France, December 8.

DePaolis, R. A. (2005). The influence of speech production on speech perception. 30th Meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, November 5.

DePaolis, R. A. (2005). Symposium titled “Ouput as Input: The relationship of production and perception in early word learning” with Vihman, M. M., Keren-Portnoy, T., Westermann, G., & Davis, B., 10th meeting of the International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, July 26.

DePaolis, R. A., Keren-Portnoy, T, & Vihman, M. M. (2005). Output as Input: A study combining experimental and observational methods, 27th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society, Cologne, February 23.

DePaolis, R. A. & Vihman, M. M. (2005) The effect of “personal knowledge” on infant segmentation, invited talk at a European Science Foundation workshop titled “Early word segmentation: A crosslinguistic approach taking advantage of Europe’s linguistic diversity, Paris, Februrary 26.