Alexander L. Francis
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Contact Information Email: francisa |at| purdue.edu Office: HEAV G34A Map Phone: (765) 494-3815 Fax: (765) 494-0771 Homepage: Homepage |
Associate Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences |
Education
Ph.D. University of Chicago Psychology & Linguistics 1999
Research Interests
Speech perception, attention, cognitive aging, hearing impairment, perceptual learning
Teaching Interests
Speech perception, attention, cognitive aging, acoustics, speech science
Grants
National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Publications
Francis, A.L., Ciocca, V., Ma, L., & Fenn, K. (2008). Linguistic experience and the acquisition of lexical tones. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 268-294.
Zhang, Y., Nissen, S.L., & Francis, A.L. (2008). Acoustic characteristics of English lexical stress produced by native Mandarin speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(6), 4498-4513.
Francis, A.L., Kaganovich, N., & Driscoll-Huber, C.J. (2008). Cue-specific effects of categorization training on the relative weighting of acoustic cues to consonant voicing in English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124 (2), 1234-1251.
Francis, A.L., Nusbaum, H.C., & Fenn, K. (2007). Effects of training on the acoustic phonetic representation of synthetic speech. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 50(6), 1445-1465.
Tong, Y., Gandour, J.T., & Francis, A.L. (2007). Perceptual processing dependencies between segmental and suprasegmental features of a tone language. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23(5), 689-708.