Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2015). Asymmetries in vowel perception: Effects of formant convergence and category goodness.

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1 MATTHEW MASAPOLLO Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music Communication Sciences and Disorders 2001 McGill College, 8 th Floor Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 1G1 (514) (Lab) matthew.masapollo@mail.mcgill.ca EDUCATION School of Communication Sciences and Disorders Ph.D., Anticipated in Winter 2016 Graduate Advisor: Dr. Linda Polka Dissertation: Initial biases and experiential influences on vowel perception University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Department of Linguistics Received BA, May 2010 Undergraduate Advisors: Drs. Patrice Speetor Beddor, Andries Coetzee University of Notre Dame Summer Session, 2007 PUBLICATIONS Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (In preparation). Visual influences on asymmetries in vowel perception. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (In preparation). Asymmetries in vowel perception: The roles of formant convergence and language experience. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2015). When infants talk, infants listen: Pre-babbling infants prefer infant speech. Developmental Science, doi: /desc Polka, L., Masapollo, M. & Ménard, L. (2014). Who s talking now? Infants perception of vowels with infant vocal properties. Psychological Science, 25(7), Demuth, K., Patrolia, M., Song, J.Y., & Masapollo, M. (2011). The development of articles in children s early Spanish: Prosodic interactions between lexical and grammatical form. Linguistic interfaces and language acquisition in childhood, J. Rotham & Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes (eds.), First Language, 32, (1-2), CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2015). Asymmetries in vowel perception: Effects of formant convergence and category goodness. Proceedings Last Updated: October 25,

2 of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., Ménard, L., & Vouloumanos, A. (2013). Infant recognition of infant vocal signals. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. Polka, L., Masapollo, M., & Ménard, L. (2013). Infants categorization of vowels with infant vocal properties. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/ABSTRACTS Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (Submitted). Seeing focalization: The role of visual information from lip movements in the focal vowel bias. Laboratory Phonology, July 2016, Ithaca, NY. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2015). Infants preference for infant speech over adult speech suggests an experience-based articulatory filter. Boston University Child Language Development Conference, November 2015 [poster], Boston, MA. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2015). Auditory and visual contributions to the peripheral vowel bias. 10 th Anniversary Symposium of the International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound Research, October 2015, Montreal, Canada. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2015). Asymmetries in vowel perception: Effects of formant convergence and category goodness. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, August 2015 [lecture], Glasgow, Scotland. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2015). Asymmetries in vowel perception: Effects of formant convergence and category goodness, Acoustical Society of America, May 2015 [poster session], Pittsburgh, PA. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., Rvachew, S. & Ménard, L. (2014). Insights into the development of perceptual-motor linkages for speech a new view from data on pre-babbling infants processing of infant speech, Laboratory Phonology, Satellite Workshop, entitled, Gestural coordination within and between speakers in first language phonological acquisition, July 2014 [poster session], Tokyo, Japan. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2014). Pre-babbling infants prefer infant speech: A launch pad for the perception-production loop? Laboratory Phonology, July 2014 meeting [lecture], Tokyo, Japan. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., Vouloumanos, A., & Ménard, L. (2014). Look who s talking now: Intermodal matching of infant faces and voices by infants, International Society for Infant Studies [poster session], July 2014 meeting, Berlin, Germany Last Updated: October 25,

3 Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2014). When infants talk, infants listen: Pre-babbling infants prefer infant speech. International Society for Infant Studies, July 2014 meeting [poster session], Berlin, Germany. Masapollo, M., & Polka, L. (2014). Asymmetries in vowel perception: Do they arise from focalization, perceptual magnets, or both? Acoustical Society of America [poster session], May 2014 meeting, Providence, R.I. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., Vouloumanos, A., & Ménard, L. (2014). Infants perception of source size in vowels, Acoustical Society of America [poster session], May 2014 meeting, Providence, R.I. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2014). Pre-babbling infants prefer listening to infant speech: Implications for vocal learning in humans, Acoustical Society of America [lecture], May 2014 meeting, Providence, R.I. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., Ménard, L., & Vouloumanos, A. (2013). Infant recognition of infant vocal signals, Acoustical Society of America [poster session], June 2013 meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Polka, L., Masapollo, M., & Ménard, L. (2013). Infants categorization of vowels with infant vocal properties, Acoustical Society of America [poster session], June 2013 meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. (2013). Who s talking now? Infants perception of vowels with infant vocal tract parameters, 18 th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Workshop [lecture], March 2013, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Masapollo, M., Polka, L. & Ménard, L. (2012). Infants perception of infant vowels [poster session], International Society on Infant Studies, June 2012 meeting, Minneapolis, MN. INVITED TALKS & COLLOQUIA Masapollo, M. The nature of vowel perception biases, University of Washington, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, September 2015, Seattle, WA. Masapollo, M. Who s talking now? Infants perception of vowels with infant vocal properties, McGill Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates [keynote address], March 2014, Montreal, QC. Masapollo, M., Polka, L., & Ménard, L. Setting the stage for speech production: Infants perception of infant vowels, Haskins Laboratories, May 2013, New Haven, CT. MEDIA COVERAGE News releases on infant speech research reported in Developmental Science in 2015: 05/12/2015 The Newsroom Last Updated: October 25,

4 RESEARCH SUPPORT Baby talk: babies prefer listening to their own kind 05/12/2015 The Daily Mail UK Shhh, mummy! Babies prefer each other s voices because it helps them learn to talk, researchers claim 05/13/2015 Huffington Post UK Babies prefer listening to each other than to adults as it helps them learn to speak 05/15/2015 CBC Toronto Goo goo gaa gaa : Infants prefer baby talk, research shows 05/23/2015 CBC Radio: Quirks & Quarks Babies prefer the sound of other babies 05/28/2015 Smithsonian.com The many ways baby talk gives infant brains a boost 07/2015 The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Leader Babies want to listen to other babies 2014 Graduate Scholar Stipend, Centre for Research on Brain, Language, & Music, [Collaborative Research: Does Access to Infant Speech Signals Influence Infant Vocal Behavior? An Investigation Using Acoustic, Visual, and Ultrasound Measures, with Drs. Linda Polka, Susan Rvachew, and Lucie Ménard] HONORS & AWARDS 2014 Student Travel Award, Association for Laboratory Phonology 2013 Community Leader Award, Centre for Research on Brain, Language, & Music, 2012, 2014 Student Travel Award, Centre for Research on Brain, Language & Music, McGill International Doctoral Award, 2010 Speaker, Undergraduate Linguistics Commencement Ceremony, University of Michigan RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2010-pres. Graduate Research Assistant, Speech Perception Laboratory, School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, under Dr. Linda Polka, investigating cross-language and developmental vowel perception using speech synthesis, acoustic and articulatory analysis, and a wide array of behavioral paradigms and tasks Undergraduate Research Assistant, Auditory Prosthesis Psychophysics Laboratory, Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan School of Medicine under Dr. Bryan Pfingst, investigating auditory Last Updated: October 25,

5 processing in guinea pigs with cochlear implants using methods in animal psychoacoustics and electrophysiology Undergraduate Research Assistant, Psycholinguistics Laboratory, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan under Dr. Patrice- Speeter Beddor, investigating the perception of co-articulatory cues to speech using eye-tracking technology. 2008, 2009 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Child Language Laboratory, (Summers) Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University under Dr. Katherine Demuth, investigating morpho-phonological development in English and Spanish-learning children using acoustic analysis and auditory-based measurements (i.e., perceptual judgments) Undergraduate Research Assistant, Phonetics Laboratory, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan under Dr. Andries Coetzee, examining the acoustics of Tswana plosives. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Speech Science (graduate-level), Course Lecturer, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders,, 2015 [Faculty liaison: Dr. Shari Baum] Introduction to the Study of Language, Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics,, 2012, 2013, 2014 Introduction to Linguistics, Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics,, 2011, 2012 TA roles and responsibilities: Grade assignments and exams, hold office hours, lead weekly discussion sections, and guest lecture once a semester. MEMBERSHIPS Acoustical Society of America Association for Laboratory Phonology PROFESSIONAL & VOLUNTEER SERVICE School of Communication Sciences and Disorders Research Committee, , Paper Screening Committee, 2013, International Congress of Acoustics Coordinator of CRBLM study club, an interdisciplinary group, including faculty and students from linguistics, psychology, and communication sciences, discussing journal articles on cross-language speech perception, language acquisition, and child-directed speech, , Department of Linguistics Undergraduate Committee, , University of Michigan Volunteer, Third World Center (under Dr. Karen McLaurin-Chesson), Summer 2009, Brown University Last Updated: October 25,