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Elizabeth
A. Strand's Homepage
I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics here at The Ohio
State University in Columbus, Ohio. It is my current mission in life
to find out more about how our socially-mediated stereotypes about
others (especially stereotypes about gender) affect the way we
perceive speech. I believe that speech perception is not so much a
modular process isolated from other cognitive processes, as has been
proposed before (a la Jerry Fodor 1983, for example), but is
rather a much more holistic process that draws from a wealth of
higher-level social knowledge in ways that we are only just beginning
to appreciate.
Research Interests
- Phonetics and speech perception in general, sociophonetics
- Audiovisual integration in speech perception -- the McGurk Effect!
(Experience the McGurk Effect for yourself -- watch demo once, then close your eyes and listen -- or just read more about it)
- The effect of gender stereotypes on low-level speech perception
- Sociolinguistics and the perception/representation of sociolinguistically indexical information
- Language & gender -- the Berkeley Women & Language Group (BWLG) maintains a nice listing of web resources for language & gender-related issues
- LGBT speech -- see Gregory Ward's great bibliography of
gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer language-related work
Click here for the Acoustics of Speech Page ....
Publications
Johnson, Keith, Elizabeth A. Strand, & Mariapaola D'imperio.
(1999). Auditory-visual integration of talker gender in vowel
perception. Journal of Phonetics, 24(4): 359-384.
Strand, Elizabeth A. (1999). Uncovering the role of gender
stereotypes in speech perception. Journal of Language and Social
Psychology, 18(1):86-99.
Strand, Elizabeth A. (1999). Gender perception influences speech
processing. In Ursula Pasero & Friederike Braun (Eds.),
Wahrnehmung und Herstellung von Geschlecht: Perceiving and
Performing Gender pp.127-136. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag
GmbH.
Strand, Elizabeth A., Bettina Migge, Steve Hartman Keiser, & Frans
Hinskens. (1998). "TR-/ae/" in the Midlands: A study of Tensing and
Raising in Radio Speech in Columbus, Ohio. In Claude Paradis, Diane
Vincent, Denise Deshaies, & Marty Laforest (Eds.), Papers in
Sociolinguistics: NWAVE-26 a l'Universite Laval pp. 115-124.
Hartman Keiser, Steve, Frans Hinskens, Bettina Migge, & Elizabeth
A. Strand. (1997). The Northern Cities Shift in the heartland? A
study of radio speech in Columbus, Ohio. In Kim Ainsworth-Darnell &
Mariapaola D'imperio (Eds.), Working Papers in Linguistics No. 50:
Papers from the Linguistics Laboratory pp. 41-68. Columbus: The
Ohio State University Dept. of Linguistics.
Strand, Elizabeth A. & Keith Johnson. (1996). Gradient and visual
speaker normalization in the perception of fricatives. In Dafydd
Gibbon (Ed.), Natural Language Processing and Speech Technology:
Results of the 3rd KONVENS Conference, Bielefeld, October 1996
pp. 14-26. Berlin: Mouton.
Advisers
Keith Johnson is my primary adviser in the Department
of Linguistics at OSU. He guides me in all matters of speech
perception.
Send e-mail to Keith
Johnson
Keith Johnson's Homepage
Norma Mendoza-Denton is in the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She is my
language & gender muse, and shares my interest in exposing the
over-generalizing claims of sociobiology which have historically been
the basis of much research in our field.
Send e-mail to Norma Mendoza-Denton
UA Anthropology Faculty Page
Mary Beckman is in the Department of Linguistics
at OSU. She advises me in phonetics and speech perception, as well as
sociophonetics.
Send e-mail to Mary Beckman
Mary Beckman's Homepage
Don Winford is also in the Department of
Linguistics at OSU. He is a member of my dissertation committee,
along with Keith and Mary, and gives me good advice in all areas of
sociolinguistics.
Send e-mail to Don Winford
Don Winford's Homepage
Personal Interests
- Bicycling, camping, running -- all things
outdoors-related (check out Brone's Bike Shop in my hometown
of Fountain City, Wisconsin,
which, by the way, is also the hometown of linguist Martin Joos, the
first researcher to use the acoustic spectrograph in the study of
laboratory acoustic phonetics -- GO MARTIN! GO FOUNTAIN CITY!!!)
- Cooking, wine -- all things food-related (a visit to Gentile's-The Wine Sellers, my
favorite wine store in Columbus, is always a celebration!)
- Digging around in the dirt, planting, and harvesting
produce -- all things gardening-related
- Piano, flute, violin, Appalachian
mountain dulcimer -- all things music-related
- Wisconsin cheese -- just can't get enough of my home
state's food of the gods! We also do a fine job with beer and
mustard, as is featured at the Monarch Tavern and
Preservation Hall, the unofficial cultural center of beautiful
Fountain City, population 985.
- I also really enjoy volunteering at the Thurber House here in Columbus,
which was the home of humorist and playwright James Thurber during his
college years at OSU and has been fabulously restored to a
circa-1910's fashion. The Thurber House is the setting for continuous
offerings of writing workshops, readings by authors and journalists,
and exhibitions of literary-related art in the Thurber Center Gallery.
The complex is a wonderful resource for readers, writers, and
humorists of all ilk, as well as a spectacular example of
architectural preservation and restoration.
Contacting Me
Contact me via e-mail at
estrand@ling.ohio-state.edu
Or do it the old-fashioned way. Write  to me at:
OSU Department of Linguistics
222 Oxley Hall
1712 Neil Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1298
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