Publications & Professional Lectures

Phonetics & Phonology: articulation, acoustics, transcription, and sound
patterns of language.


Naming & Branding:
product and service naming
and global linguistic
analysis of names.

Natural Language Processing:
corpus analysis and grammar building for NLP systems.

Speech Recognition:
multi-language phonetics informing creation and enhancement of automatic
speech recognition technology.

 

Publications

2010 – Lambert, B. L., Dickey, L. W., Fisher, W. M., Gibbons, R. D., Lin, S.-J., Luce, P. A., McClennan, C. T., Senders, J. W., Yu, C. T. "Listen Carefully: The Risk of Error in Spoken Medication Orders." Social Science and Medicine.

2005 – B. Lambert, S. Lin, S. Toh, , P. Luce, C. McClennan, R. Levigne, W. Fisher, L. Walsh Dickey, J. Senders. "Frequency and Neighborhood Effects on Auditory Perception of Drug Names in Noise." Papers from the 21st Meeting of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering.

1999 – N. Macmillan, J. Kingston, L. Walsh Dickey, R. Thorburn, and C. Bartels. "Integrality of Nasalization and  F1. II. Basic Sensitivity and Phonetic Labeling Measure Distinct Sensory and Decision-Rule Interactions." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 106.5: 2913-2932.

1998 – L. Walsh Dickey. "Syllable Count and Tzeltal Segmental Allomorphy," in Phonologica 1996: Syllables.   J. Rennison & K. Kühnhammer (eds.). Holland Academic Graphics.

1997 – J. Kingston, N. Macmillan, R. Thorburn, L. Walsh Dickey, and C. Bartels "Integrality in the Perception of  Tongue Root Position and Voice Quality in Vowels." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101.3: 1696-1709.

1997 – L. Walsh Dickey. "The Phonology of Liquids." Doctoral Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst: GLSA.

1996 – L. Walsh Dickey. "Limiting-Domains in Lexical Access: Processing of Lexical Prosody," in University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 19: Linguistics in the Laboratory, M. Dickey and S. Tunstall
(eds.) pp. 133-155. Amherst: GLSA.

1995 – L. Walsh [Dickey] "Representing Laterals." in Papers from the 25th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. J. Beckman (ed.) pp. 535-550. Amherst: GLSA.

1993 – L. Walsh [Dickey]. "Reduplication as Evidence for the Geometry of Tone," in University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 16: Phonological Representations, Tim Sherer (ed.) pp. 359-381. Amherst: GLSA.

1992 – L. Walsh [Dickey]. "Tone in Reduplication," in Papers from the 28th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: Main Session, C. P. Canakis, G. P. Chan, & J. M. Denton (eds.) pp. 543-553. Chicago: CLS.

Invited Talks and Conferences

2010 – "Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Factors in Drug Name Confusability." Invited colloquium talk at the University of Potsdam (Department of Linguistics), Germany.

2008 – "Nurses' auditory perception of drug names." With B. Lambert, W. Fisher, R. Gibbons, S. Lin, P. Luce, C. McClennan, J. Senders, C. Yu. Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses, October 3, 2008. Nashville, TN.

2008 – "Family physicians' auditory perception of drug names: Effect of noise, familiarity andsimilarity." With B. Lambert, W. Fisher, R. Gibbons, S. Lin, P. Luce, C. McClennan, J. Senders, C. Yu. American Association of Family Physicians Scientific Assembly, September 17, 2008. San Diego, CA.

2006  – "Auditory perception of drug names."  With B. Lambert, S. Lin, S. Toh, P. Luce, C. McLennan, R. La Vigne, W. Fisher, & J. Senders. Poster presented at Translational Research at UIC Conference, Chicago, IL, September 22, 2006.

2006 – "Auditory Perception of Drug Names." With B. Lambert, S. Lin, C. McClennan, P. Luce, W. Fisher, C. Yu , J. Senders.  Invited poster presented at the Patient Safety Information Technology Meeting of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Washington D. C.).

2005  – "Frequency and Neighborhood Effects on Auditory Perception of Drug Names in Noise." With B. Lambert, P. Luce, S. Lin, S. Toh, W. Fisher, C. McClennan, R. Levigne. Invited talk presented at the 21st Meeting of the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (at the Acoustical Society of America conference, Minneapolis).

1999 – "The One/Many Distinction in Phonology."  With A. Gnanadesikan.  30 minute talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Los Angeles).

1998  – "Yélî dnye Labial & Nasal Articulations." Invited colloquium talk at the University of Utrecht (Department of Linguistics), Netherlands.

1998 – "The Processing of Tone and Pitch Accent in Igbo and Japanese." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (New York).

1998 – "The Phonetics of Rossel Multiple Articulations."  With Stephen Levinson. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (New York).

1997 – "Liquid Dissimilation: Latin and Yidin." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Chicago).

1997 – "Palatalization and the Phonological Structure of Rhotics." Presented at the Third Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics Phonology Conference (HILP3), Amsterdam.

1997  – "Tone and Pitch Accent in Lexical Access: Studies on Igbo and Japanese." Invited colloquium talk at the University of Utrecht (Department of Phonetics), Netherlands.

1996 – "Liquids and Dissimilation." Invited colloquium talk at the University of Tilburg, Netherlands.

1996 – "Segmental-Prosodic Interactions in Allomorphy." Presented at the Eighth International Phonology Meeting, Vienna.

1995  –  "Integrating Voice Quality and Tongue Root Position in Perceiving Vowels." with C. Bartels, J. Kingston, R. Thorburn, and N. Macmillan. Presented at the Thirteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Stockholm).

1995 – "Laxness of Voice Quality Integrates with F1 (Usually, but Not Always, Negatively)." with C. Bartels, J. Kingston, and N. Macmillan. Presented at the 129th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Washington, DC).

1995  –  "Assessing the Evidence for a Class of Rhotics." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (New Orleans).

Contact Laura Walsh Dickey: laura@soundexpertise.com


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