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Kevin B. McGowan

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Graduate Studies

Contact Information

kbmcgowan@vowel.space

1669 Patterson Office Tower

Research Interests

Phonetics
Speech Perception
Coarticulation
Sociophonetics
Sound Change

Affiliations

Linguistics
Social Theory
Lewis Honors College

Curriculum Vitae (CV)
UK Phonetics Lab

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

McGowan, K.B. (in press) Speech Perception. In Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonetics and Phonology, ed. by Lauren Hall-Lew and Jennifer Nycz. Oxford University Press

Lippi-Green, R., Barrett, E.R., Cramer, J., and McGowan, K.B. (in press) English with an Accent, third edition, Routledge Baese-Berk, M. M., McLaughlin, D. J.*, & McGowan, K. B. (2020). Perception of non-native speech. Language and Linguistic Compass, 14(7), e12319.

Medeiros, D.J., Mains, P., & McGowan, K.B. (2020). Ceiling Effects on Weight in Heavy NP Shift. Linguistic Inquiry, 1-26.

McGowan, K.B. and Babel, A.M. (2019) Perceiving isn’t believing: listeners’ expectation and awareness of phonetically-cued social information. Language in Society, 49(1), 1-26

McGowan, K.B., Johnson, M.T., Combs, A., and Soleymanpoor, M. (2019) Acoustic, non-invasive measurement of velopharyngeal aperture using a high frequency tone, Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Beddor, P.S., Coetzee, A., Styler, W., McGowan, K.B., and Boland, J.E. (2018) The time course of individuals’ perception of coarticulatory information is linked to their production: Implications for sound change. Language, 94(4): 931-968

McGowan, K.B. (2016) Sounding Chinese and Listening Chinese: Perception, Imitation, and Authenticity. In Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistics Research, ed. by A.M. Babel. Cambridge University Press.

McGowan, K. B. (2015). Social expectation improves speech perception in noise. Language and Speech, 58(4), 502- 521. Chicago

Sumner, M., Kim, S., King, E., & McGowan, K. B. (2013). The socially-weighted encoding of spoken words: A dual- route approach to speech perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 1015.

Beddor, P.S., McGowan, K.B., Boland, J.E., Coetzee, A., and Brasher, A. (2013) The time course of perception of coarticulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(4):2350-2366.

McGowan, K.B. (2012) Gradient Lexical Reflexes of the Syllable Contact Law. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society 45, Volume I, R. Bochnak, N. Nicola, P. Klecha, J. Urban, A. Lemieux and C. Weaver (Eds.), p. 445-454. Chicago Linguistics Society: Chicago.

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