Suzanne E. Boyce, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

French Building East,
202 Goodman Ave.
University of Cincinnati
Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders
Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0394
Ph 558-1159

Education

Harvard University/Radcliffe College, Cambridge M.A. A. B. 1978 Linguistics/Anthropology
Yale University, New Haven, CT M. A.. 1981 Linguistics
Yale University, New Haven, CT Ph. D. 1988; Linguistics
Boston University, Boston, MA C.A.G.S. 1997 Speech Pathology

Professional Experience

1976-1977   Research Assistant, NSF project to study Turkish Linguistics
1978-1979  Research Assistant, Speech Communication Group, RLE, MIT
1978-1979  Research Consultant, Bolt Beranek & Newman, Cambridge, MA
1978-1979 ESL Instructor, Harvard University Extension School
1979 Research Assistant to Dr. W. Cooper, Harvard University
1980-1986   Research Assistant, Haskins Laboratories
1981,1984   Teaching Assistant, Yale University
1987-1991  NIH Postdoctoral Trainee, Speech Communication Group, Research Lab of Electronics, M.I.T.
1990-1992 Research Associate, Dept. of Comm. Disorders,Emerson College
1990-1991 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Emerson College
1992-1993 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Boston University
1992-present  Consulting Scientist, Sensimetrics Corp.
1993 Staff Scientist, Audiofile, Inc.
1993-present  Research Associate, Boston University
1993-present Research Associate, Speech Communication Group, Research Lab of Electronics, M.I.T.
1995-present  Consultant, Speech Technology and Research (S.T.A.R.) Corporation
1995-1996 Clinical Internships at Sargent Clinic, The Children's Hospital, Burlington Public Schools, KLK Associates
1997-present    Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1997-2000  Clinical Fellow, Hearing, Speech & Language Services, Cincinnati, OH

Certification/Licensure 

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence (C.C.C.)
Ohio Licence to practice Speech-Language Pathology

External Funding and Honors

NIH R03 Grant, 1995.  Articulatory/Acoustic Modeling of American English /r/.
NIH SBIR Phase II Award, 1994.  Computer-Based Course in Acoustic Phonetics
Franklin S. Cooper Award, 1982

Courses Taught in Last Year

Topics in Language, Speech and Hearing.  Fall, Winter, Spring quarters, University of Cincinnati
2nd year Doctoral Seminar; Grant Writing, Winter 2001. University of Cincinnati
Advanced Speech & Hearing Science, Summer 2001.  University of Cincinnati
Undergraduate Speech Science, Winter, 2001.  University of Cincinnati

Current Manuscripts

Espy-Wilson, C.Y. & Boyce, S. E.  F5:  (2000).  An Acoustic Index of the Vocal Tract Configuration for American English /r/.  Manuscript in preparation.

Boyce, S. & Espy-Wilson, C. Y.  (2000).  Reading Tongue Configuration for /r/ from Acoustic Data.  American Speech-Language-Hearing Convention, Washington, D.C., November 16-19.

Boyce, S. E. & Espy-Wilson, C. Y.  (2000).  Articulation Therapy for /r/:  Use of Acoustic Indices.  Manuscript in preparation.

Principal Publications

Jackson, M.T.T., Espy-Wilson, C.Y., & Boyce, S.E.  (2001).  Verifying a Vocal Tract Model with a Closed Side-Branch. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109 (6),  2983-2987.

Espy-Wilson, C. Y., Boyce, S. E., Jackson, M. T. T., Alwan, A. & Narayanan, S.  (1999).  Acoustic Modelling of American English /r/.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108 (1), 343-356.

Espy-Wilson, C.Y. & Boyce, S. E.  (1999).   A Simple Tube Model for American English /r/.  In Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, CA, August, 1999.

Guenther, F. H., C. Y. Espy-Wilson, S. E. Boyce, M. L. Matthies, M. Zandipour, & J. S. Perkell.  (1999).  Articulatory Tradeoffs Reduce Acoustic Variability during Speech.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,, 105, (5), 2854-2865.

Espy-Wilson C. Y., Narayanan, S., Boyce, S. E., & Alwan, A.  (1997).  Acoustical Modelling of American English /r/.  Proceedings of Eurospeech '97, September 1997, Patras, Greece.

Guenther, F. H., C. Y. Espy-Wilson, S. E. Boyce, M. L. Matthies, M. Zandipour, & J. S. Perkell.  Intraspeaker Comparisons of Acoustic and Articulatory Variability in American English /r/ Productions.  Boston University Technical Report CAS/CNS-97-010.

Boyce, S. E.  & Espy-Wilson, C. Y. (1997).  Coarticulatory Stability in American English /r/.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101 (6), 3741-3753.

Bell-Berti, F., R. A. Krakow, C. E. Gelfer, & S. E. Boyce.  (1995).  Anticipatory and Carryover Effects: Implication for Models of Speech Production.  In Bell-Berti, F. & L. Raphael (eds), Producing Speech: A Festschriftin honor of Katherine Saffran Harris, 77-97.  Woodbury, NY: American Institute of Physics Press.

Boyce, S. E., R. A. Krakow, and F. Bell-Berti.  (1992). Phonological Underspecification and Speech Motor Organization.  Phonology 8.2, 210-236..

Boyce, S. E.  (1990).  Coarticulatory Organization for Lip Rounding in Turkish and English.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 88 (6), 2584-2595.

Boyce, S. E., R. A. Krakow, F. Bell-Berti, and C. Gelfer. (1990).  Converging sources of evidence for dissecting articulation into core gestures.  Journal of Phonetics 18, 173-188.

Boyce, S. E.  (1988).  The influence of phonological structure on articulatory organization in Turkish and in English: Vowel harmony and coarticulation.  Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Katz, L., S. E. Boyce, L. Goldstein and G. Lukatela.  (1987).  Grammatical information effects in auditory word recognition.  Cognition 25, 235-263.

Baer, T., J. C. Gore, S. E. Boyce and P. W. Nye.  (1986).  Application of magnetic resonance imaging to the analysis of speech production.  Magnetic Resonance Imaging 5, 1-7.

Kutik, E., W. E. Cooper, and S. E. Boyce.  (1983).  Declination of fundamental frequency in speakers' production of parenthetical and main clauses.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 73(5), 731-1738.

Menn, L. and S. E. Boyce.  (1982).  Fundamental frequency and discourse structure.  Language and Speech 25,341-383.

Perkell, J. S., S. E. Boyce, and K. N. Stevens.  (1979).  Articulatory and acoustical correlates of the [s-§] distinction.  In Wolfe, J. J. and D. H. Klatt (eds.), Speech Communication Papers, 97th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

Boyce, S. E. and L. Menn.  (1979).  Peaks vary, endpoints don't: Implications for intonation theory.  Proceedings of the 5th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society.

Boyce, S. E.  (1978).  Accent or accident?: The acoustical correlates of word-level prominence in Turkish.  Magna cum laude A.B. thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Recent Invited Talks

Acoustical Modeling of the Human Vocal Tract from Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data: The case of American English /r/.  Invited Talk, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Ohio State University, February 12, 1999.   Conducted talk with visiting colleague Carol Espy-Wilson.

Panel Discussant, New Investigator Roundtable, American Speech Language Hearing Association Convention, November, 1998.   Invited in role of “seasoned” researcher.

Recent Presentations

Espy-Wilson, C.Y. & Boyce, S. E.  (1999).   A Simple Tube Model for American English /r/.  Presented to the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, CA, August, 1999.

Espy-Wilson, C.Y. & Boyce, S. E.  (1999).  The Relevance of F4 in distinguishing between different articulatory configurations of American English /r/.  Presented to the Joint Meeting, 137th Regular Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America; 2nd Convention of the European Acoustics Association;  Forum Acusticum 99, 25th German Acoustics DAGA Conference, Berlin, Germany, March, 1999.

Espy-Wilson, C.Y, Boyce, S. B., Jackson, M.T.T., Narayanan, S., & Alwan, A.  (1998).  Modeling the subglottal space for American English /r/.   Presented to the 136th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, October, 1998.

Guenther, F. H., Espy-Wilson, C. Y., Boyce, S. E., Matthies, M. L., Zandipour, M. &  Perkell, J.S.  (1997).  Articulatory trade-offs reduce acoustic variability in American English /r/ productions.  Presented at the 134th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, December 1997.

Espy-Wilson, C. Y. & S. E. Boyce.  (1997).  Acoustical Modeling of American English /r/.  Paper presented to the 133rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, June 15-20, 1997.  Abstract 4pSCa8, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101 (5:2),p. 3176.

Boyce, S. & C. Y. Espy-Wilson.  (1996).  Coarticulatory stability in American English /r/.  Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.  Philadelphia, PA, 1996.

Boyce, S. E. (1994).  Speech movement timing in four-to-six year old children.  Paper presented at the 19th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 1994.

Jackson, M. T. T., A. Kaprow, J. Berkovitz, V. Hazan, S. E. Boyce, & J. M. Pickett.  An interactive multimedia course in acoustic phonetics and speech science.  127th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, June 6-10, 1994.

Boyce, S. & R. Goldhor.  A database of environmental sounds. 127th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, June 6-10, 1994.

Boyce, S. E. & C. Y. Espy-Wilson.  Acoustic differences between "bunched" and "retroflex" variants of American English /r/.  127th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, June 6-10, 1994.

Espy-Wilson, C. and S. Boyce.  Coarticulatory stability in American English /r/.  Paper presented at the 126th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, May 17-21, 1993.

Ebersole, A. , M. Lahey, J. Edwards, and S. Boyce.  (1992).  Rapid automatized naming and reaction time in language-impaired children.  Paper (SU10-PS10d) presented at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, November 20-23, 1992.

Berkovitz, R. A., S. Boyce, and J. M. Pickett.  (1992).  Developments toward a computer-based course in acoustic phonetics.  Paper presented at the 124th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, October 31-November 4, 1992.