© 2005

Keith Johnson
Professor

phonetics, pyscholinguistics

Groups: Language & Cognition, Phonetics, Phonology, & Morphology

Contact information

Email: keithjohnson@berkeley.edu
Office phone: (510) 643-7617

Office hours: TuTh 1:30-2:30, and by appointment

Web site: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~kjohnson

Personal statement

My main research is on processes of speech perception and production as they relate to phonetic and phonological theory. I am interested in the socio-phonetics of personal identity as this relates to vowel normalization in speech perception, and in the effects of linguistic experience on speech perception. I have also done descriptive phonetic research on American Indian languages. 

Selected publications

Johnson, K. (2008) Quantitative Methods in Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.

Johnson, K. (2006) Resonance in an exemplar-based lexicon: The emergence of social identity and phonology. Journal of Phonetics 34, 485-499.

Pitt, M.A., Johnson, K., Hume, E., Kiesling, S., Raymond, W. (2005) The Buckeye corpus of conversational speech: labeling conventions and a test of transcriber reliability. Speech Communication 45 (1), 89-95.

Johnson, K. (2005) Speaker Normalization in speech perception. In Pisoni, D.B. & Remez, R. (eds) The Handbook of Speech Perception. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. pp. 363-389.

Johnson, K. (2002) Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics. 2nd Edition (1st edition, 1997). Oxford: Blackwell.

Martin, J. & Johnson, K. (2002) An acoustic study of "tonal accent" in Creek. International Journal of American Linguistics. 68, 28-50.

Johnson, K. & Martin, J. (2001) Acoustic vowel reduction in Creek: Effects of distinctive length and position in the word. Phonetica. 58, 81-102.

Hume, E. & Johnson, K. eds. (2001) The Role of Speech Perception in Phonology. New York: Academic Press.

Johnson, K. (2000) Adaptive dispersion in vowel perception. Phonetica. 57, 181-188.

Johnson, K., Strand, E.A. & D'Imperio, M. (1999) Auditory-visual integration of talker gender in vowel perception. Journal of Phonetics. 27, 359-384.

McDonough, J. & Johnson, K. (1998) Tamil liquids. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 27, 1-26.

Johnson, K. & Mullennix, J.W. eds. (1997) Talker Variability in Speech Processing. San Diego: Academic Press.

Johnson, K. (1997) The auditory/perceptual basis for speech segmentation. Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics. 50, 101-113.