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Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2038
gandour@purdue.edu
Jack Gandour is a linguist. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand (1964-66), taught at Niigata University in Japan as a Visiting Fulbright Lecturer (1968-69), and conducted postdoctoral research at Bell Laboratories (1976-77). As a Purdue faculty member, he has conducted research in Hong Kong (1980), Bangkok (1980, 1989), and Indiana University School of Medicine (1997-2005). He teaches courses in phonetics, linguistics, and neurolinguistics. His current research focuses on behavioral and electrophysiological studies of pitch processing in tone languages. He is a faculty member of the Purdue University Life Sciences (PULSe) program. He served as Interim Head of the department for two years (1993-1994), and Head for three years (1995-1998).
EDUCATION
| Ph.D., University of California,
Los Angeles |
1976 |
Linguistics |
| M.A., University of Pittsburgh |
1968 |
Linguistics |
| B.A., Wheeling Jesuit University
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1963 |
Political Science |
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
| 1988-present |
Professor, Purdue
University |
| 1988-1989 |
Senior Fulbright
Research Scholar, Mahidol University, Bangkok,
Thailand |
| 1968-1969 |
Visiting Fulbright
Lecturer, Niigata University, Japan |
| 1964-1966 |
Peace Corps Volunteer,
Phangnga High School, Thailand |
RESEARCH
TEACHING
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