Professor Pat Keating with herson atDisneyland

Prof. Pat Keating 

UCLA Linguistics Dept. 
3125 Campbell Hall 
Los Angeles CA 90095-1543 

keating@humnet.ucla.edu 

310-794-6316                                                    Office: 2101J Campbell.  Current quarter's office hours.


(above: Pat Keating with son at Disneyland, years ago)       (If you think that isn't the sort of picture that should be here, try these.)



I am a professor of linguistics, specializing in phonetics, the science of the speech sounds used in languages.  I have been at UCLA since 1981, and since 1991
I have been the director of the UCLA Phonetics Lab.  On this page you can find out about my current research projects, and also about Mss in Preparation, Publications in Books and Journals, Conference and Working Papers, Talks and Conference Presentations, my CV (including courses taught and former Ph.D. students), and some Personal information.

Research Interests

I have four current interests:

  1. Linguistic uses of phonation across languages: a new project with Christina Esposito, Jody Kreiman, and Abeer Alwan, with funding from NSF.  (This project now has a collaborative website at UCLA, but currently access is restricted to the group. Eventually all recordings and software tools will be made public.)
  2. Phonological and speech perception deficits of dyslexic children, a long-term project with Frank Manis at USC, and others. We have shown that it's the children with more general language difficulties who perceive speech less categorically; in the future we intend to focus more on those children who lack phonemic segmentations of speech, yet who have no apparent speech perception difficulty.   An off-shoot of this project is an interest in how children might come to segment speech into phone-sized segments.  Some of the materials (scripts, files) for experiments conducted in this project are posted here. The UCLA part of this project is now basically over.
  3. Optical phonetics (visual speech perception), with Lynne Bernstein at the House Ear Institue, and others. How is highly-intelligible visual speech different from not-so-intelligible visual speech -- in what way(s) are the more intelligible talkers articulating differently? Also, how much of interior (inside the vocal tract, and largely invisible) articulation can be recovered from the face? In this project I am especially concerned with the visual perception of optical prosody. Although the grant for this project is long over, there are still papers coming out of it. Information about the project facilities and some demos are posted at the House Ear Institute website.
  4. How the Prosodic Hierarchy affects consonant articulation (hypothesis: consonants show fortition initially in every domain; this effect is cumulative up the hierarchy).  This was shown to be at least partly so for four languages: English, French, Korean, Taiwanese (see below for mss and papers, see also volume 97 of Working Papers in Phonetics, from July 1999) . Although the grant for this project is long over, there are still papers coming out of it. Sample data from French and Korean are given on the Phonetics Lab's webpage.

·  For more information, see not only the papers listed below, but also the research projects page of the Phonetics Lab.

Recent Presentations and Mss in Preparation

Publications in Books and Journals

Conference and Working Papers  


Talks and conference presentations (in chronological, not reverse, order)



CV

Education

                [scanned into 4 files: pdf  file1; pdf file2; pdf file3; pdf file4]

Professional Experience

Honors, Awards, Grants [the Phonetics Lab site has additional information about grants in the lab]


Selected Professional Service

1986,1987:        Membership Committee, Linguistic Society of America
1988-1994:        Co-editor, Phonetics and Phonology series, Academic Press
1989,1990:        Associate Editor, Language
1990-1992:        National Science Foundation Linguistics Advisory Panel
1990-1991:        Organizer, Third Conference on Laboratory Phonology
1991-2000:        Standing committee to organize Conferences in Lab. Phonology (chair, 1998-2000)
1991-1995:        Editorial board, Phonology
May 1998:         Represented (with Peter Ladefoged) the Linguistic Society of America at 4th annual Coalition for National Science Funding Exhibition and                                         Reception for Members of Congress (in Washington DC)
August 1999:      External review committee for NSF programs in Cognitive, Psychological, and Language Sciences (Div. of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences)
1999-2002:        Technical Committee, Speech Communication, Acoustical Society of America; founding chair of Stetson Award sub-committee
2000-2005:        Editorial board, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Selected University Service

     1987-1992:    Interdepartmental Committee for Applied Linguistics
     1987-1988:    Provost's 5-year review of Dean of Humanities
     1987-1988:    Faculty Career Development Awards Committee
     1987-1989:    Academic Senate Committee on Academic Freedom
     1992:              Search Committee for Director of Humanities Computing
     1995-1999:    Chair, (Humanities) Dean's Advisory Committee on Technology; ex officio member of several related committees
     1996-98:        Academic Senate Committee on Teaching
     1996- current: Interdepartmental Program in Biomedical Engineering
     2004-current:  Faculty Committee on Educational Technology (chair, 2005-08)

Courses Taught

·  Answer to question: Do I have teaching materials on the web?  There are three answers.  First, all undergraduate courses I teach (and some grad courses) have a course website (on CCLE Moodle), and some but not all of the materials I post there are publicly listed and available (some require login with a password).  Second, all materials I prepare on the use of the facilities of the phonetics lab eventually make their way onto that part of the lab's website, which I also maintain: click here. Third, I maintain the lab's Teaching page, which is full of, basically, my ideas.

Ph.D. Recipients Supervised (all at UCLA)


Personal stuff

I am married to Bruce Hayes, also of the UCLA Linguistics Department. For fun, I used to play viola da gamba; I haven't done that for some years now, but I still keep my membership in the Viola da Gamba Society of America.  Now instead I sing Sacred Harp shape-note music with the Westside branch of FaSoLa-L.A., and have my personal Sacred Harp page.   I also am learning English country dancing with the California Dance Coop Los Angeles.


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