People
Dr. Olga Dmitrieva
Lab Director
Dr. Olga Dmitrieva is an Associate Professor in the School of Languages and Cultures and the Department of Linguistics and the director of the Phonetics and Phonology lab at Purdue University. Her research interests are Acoustic Phonetics, Speech Perception, Laboratory Phonology, Phonetics of Bilingualism, and Second Language Acquisition.
Email: odmitrie@purdue.edu
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Zeyu Feng
Current Students
Hello, I'm the lab manager. As a passionate phonetician, I'm interested in exploring how adults acquire speech sounds in their second language or additional languages. When I'm not studying, I'm an amateur gardener, cyclist, baker, and musician.
Ning Zheng
Current Students
Ning is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at Purdue University. She is a member of the Phonetics and Phonology Lab. Her research interests include acoustic phonetics, bilingualism, speech production and perception.
Yiying Jiang
Current Students
Yiying is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics. Her general research interests lie in phonetics. Specifically, she focuses on cross-linguistic influence in the speech of bilingual speakers, tones, speech perception, and acoustic phonetics.
Joan Downey
Current Students
Hannah Marie Marlowe
Undergraduate RA
Ye-Jee Jung
Graduate Alumni
Ye-Jee is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at Purdue University. Her research interests are foreign-accented speech in general and clear speech. She did studies on Korean-accented English clear speech and is now working on the L1-L2 transfer in clear speech produced by bilingual speakers.
Email: jung292@purdue.edu
Alexis Zhou
Graduate Alumni
Alexis Zhou is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the linguistics department at Purdue. Her main research interests include phonetics & phonology, second language acquisition, Chinese linguistics, and Japanese linguistics.
Email: atews@purdue.edu
Yuhyeon Seo
Graduate Alumni
Yuhyeon is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at Purdue University. He specializes in experimental phonetics and phonology, with his research primarily focused on how being bilingual affects speech production and perception in the long and short term. In the long term, he investigates how a second language can influence the phonetics and phonology of one's first language over a lifetime. In the short term, he examines the phonetic interactions that occur during code-switching.
Email: seo86@purdue.edu
Chien-Min Kuo
Graduate Alumni
Chien-Min Kuo is a second-year Ph.D. student in Linguistics at Purdue University. His research interest is in the phonetics of second language acquisition. He is especially interested in how Mandarin speakers’ production of English vowels correlates with the comprehensibility of their speech in English.
Email: kuo79@purdue.edu
Amy Hutchinson (Ph.D.)
Graduate Alumni
Dissertation: Hutchinson, A. (2022). The effect of foreign film on the production and perception of non-native speech, Purdue University.
Jenna Conklin (Ph.D.)
Graduate Alumni
Dissertation: Conklin, J. T. (2019). The roles of vowel harmony and stress in predicting vowel-to-vowel coarticulation, Purdue University.