Kaori Idemaru
Assistant Professor
Phone: (541) 346-4007
Email: idemaru@uoregon.edu
Professor Idemaru's areas of research cover speech perception, speech
production and speech learning. The speech signal is highly variable due
to a number of factors that has differential acoustic consequences, and
as a result identical acoustic speech signals may be perceived very
differently. She examines the characteristics of the speech signal and
perceptual processes that enable constant perception of potentially
variable and ambiguous speech signal. She also investigates mechanisms
involved in learning new speech sound categories. Her recent
publications include "Acoustic covariants of length contrast in Japanese
stops" in Journal of International Phonetic Association (2008),
co-authored with Susan Guion of University of Oregon, and forthcoming
"Speech Perception" in Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, co-authored
with Lori L Holt of Carnegie Mellon University.
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