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 PubMed Listing Google Scholar Listing View Vita
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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
Cristia, A., Seidl, A., and Francis, A. (in press). Phonological features in infancy. In G. N. Clements and R. Ridouane (Eds.), Where do features come from? The nature and sources of phonological primitives. Elsevier.
Kondaurova, M.V. & Francis, A.L. (2010). The role of selective attention in the acquisition of English tense and lax vowels by native Spanish listeners: comparison of three training methods. Journal of Phonetics, 38(4), 569-587.
Zhang, Y. & Francis, A.L. (2010). The weighting of vowel quality in native and non-native listeners' perception of English lexical stress. Journal of Phonetics, 38(2), 260-271.
Francis, A.L. (2010). Improved segregation of simultaneous talkers differentially affects perceptual and cognitive capacity demands for recognizing speech in competing speech. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 72(2), 501-516.
Francis, A.L., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2009). Effects of intelligibility on working memory demand for speech perception. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics,71(6), 1360-1374.
Finneran, D., Francis, A.L., & Leonard, L. (2009). Sustained attention in preschool-age children with specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 52, 915-929.