Melanie L. Matthies, Ph.D., CCC-A

Recent Publications

Matthies, M.L., Guenther, F.H., Denny, M., Perkell, J.S., Burton, E., Vick, J., Lane, H., Tiede, M., and Zandipour, M. (2008). Perception and production of /r/ allophones improve with hearing from a cochlear implant. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124, 3191-3202.

Lane, H., Matthies, M.L., Guenther, F.H., Denny, M., Perkell, J.S., Stockmann, E., Tiede, M., Vick, J., and Zandipour, M.(2007). Effects of short- and long-term changes in auditory feedback on vowel and sibilant contrasts. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 50, 913-927.

Lane, H., Denny, M., Guenther, F., Hanson, H., Marrone, N., Matthies, M., Perkell, J. Stockmann, E., Tiede, M., Vick, J., and Zandipour, M. (2007). On the Structure of Phoneme Categories in Listeners With Cochlear Implants. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 50, 2-14.

Ménard, L., Polak, M., Denny, M., Burton, E., Lane, H., Matthies, M., Marrone, N., Perkell, J., Tiede, M., and Vick, J. (2007). Interactions of speaking condition and auditory feedback on vowel production in postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 3790-3801

Perkell, J., Denny, M., Lane, H., Guenther, F., Matthies, M., Tiede, M., Vick, J., Zandipour, M., and Burton, E. (2007). Effects of masking noise on vowel and sibilant contrasts in normal-hearing speakers and postlingually deafened cochlear implant users. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 505-518.

Perkell, J., Lane, H., Denny, M., Matthies, M., Tiede, M., Zandipour, M., Vick, J., and Burton, E. (2007). Time course of speech changes in response to unanticipated short-term changes in hearing state. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 2296-2311.

Perkell, J.S., Guenther, J.H., Lane, H., Matthies, M.L., Stockmann, E., Tiede, M., Vick, J., and Zandipour, M. (2006). Production and perception of phoneme contrasts covary across speakers in Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques eds. J. Harrington and M. Tabain Psychology Press 69-84, (2006).

Lane, H., Denny, M., Guenther, F.H., Matthies, M.L., Menard, L., Perkell, J.S., Stockmann, E., Tiede, M., Vick, J., & Zandipour, M. (2005). Effects of bite blocks and hearing status on vowel production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118 1636-1646.

Perkell, J.S., Matthies, M.L., Tiede, M., Lane, H., Zandipour, M., Marrone, N., Stockmann, E., and Guenther, F. (2004). The distinctness of speakers’ /s/ and /sh/ contrast is related to their auditory discrimination and use of an articulatory saturation effect. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 47, 1259-1269.

Perkell, J.S., Guenther, F.H., Lane, H., Matthies, M.L., Stockmann, E., Tiede, M., and Zandipour, M. (2004). The distinctness of speakers’ productions of vowel contrasts is related to their discrimination of the contrasts. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 116, 2338-2344.

Perkell, J.S., Matthies, M.L., Guenther, F.H., Tiede, M., Zandipour, M., Stockmann, E. and Marrone, N. (2003). Sensory goals for speech movements: Cross-subject relations among production, perception and the use of an articulatory saturation effect, Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Speech Production, 219-224.

Yampolsky, S., Waters, G., Caplan, D., Matthies, M., & Chiu, P. (2002). Effects of acoustic degradation on syntactic processing: Implications for the nature of the resource system used in language processing. Brain and Cognition, 48, 617-625.

Perkell, J.S., Zandipour, M., Matthies, M.L., and Lane, H. (2002). Economy of effort in different speaking conditions. I. A preliminary study of intersubject differences and modeling issues. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112, 1627-1641.

Matthies, M.L., Perrier, P., Perkell, J.S. and Zandipour, M. (2001). Variation in speech movement kinematics and temporal patterns of coarticulation with changes in clarity and rate. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 44, 340-353.

Lane, H., Matthies, M.L., Perkell, J.S., Vick, J., and Zandipour, M., (2001). The effects of changes in hearing status in cochlear implant users on the acoustic vowel space and coarticulation. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 44, 552-563.

Perkell, J.S., Guenther, F.H., Lane, H., Matthies, M.L., Perrier, P., Vick, J., Wilhelms-Tricarico, R., and Zandipour, M. (2000). A theory of speech motor control and supporting data from speakers with normal hearing and with profound hearing loss. Journal of Phonetics 28, 233-272.

Guenther, F.H., Espy-Wilson, C.Y., Boyce, S.E., Matthies, M.L., Zandipour, M., and Perkell, J.S. (1999). Articulatory tradeoffs reduce acoustic variability during American English /r/ Production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 105, 2854-2865.

Lane, H., Perkell, J., Wozniak, J., Manzella, J., Guiod, P., Matthies, M., MacCollin, M., and Vick, J., The effect of changes in hearing status on speech sound level and speech breathing: A study conducted with cochlear implant users and NF-2 patients. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 104, 3059-3069 (1999).

Bilger, R.C., Matthies, M.L., Meyer, T.A., and Griffiths, S.K., Psychometric equivalence of recorded spondaic words as test items. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 41, 516-526 (1998).

Lane, H., Wozniak, J., Matthies, M.L., Svirsky, M.A., Perkell, J.S., O'Connell, M. and Manzella, J., Regularity of fundamental frequency and amplitude contours with and without auditory feedback. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101, 2244-2252 (1997).

Svirsky, M.A., Stevens, K.N., Matthies, M.L., and Perkell, J.S., Tongue surface deformation during obstruent stop consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 102, 562-571 (1997).

Perkell, J.S., Matthies, M.L., Lane, H., Wilhelms-Tricarico, R., Wozniak, J. and Guiod, P., Speech motor control: Segmental goals and the use of feedback. Speech Communication 22, 227-250 (1997).

Perkell, J.S., Matthies, M.L., Svirsky, M.A. and Jordan, M.I., Goal-based speech motor control: A theoretical framework and some preliminary data. Journal of Phonetics 23, 23-35 (1995). Also in Disorders of motor speech: assessment, treatment, and clinical characterization. Robin, D.A., Yorkston, K.M., and Beukelman, D.R. (eds.) Paul H. Brookes , Baltimore, (1996).

Matthies, M.L., Svirsky, M.A., Perkell, J.S., and Lane, H., Acoustic and articulatory measures of speech production with and without auditory feedback from a cochlear implant. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 39, 936-946 (1996).

Lane, H., Wozniak, J., Matthies, M., Svirsky, M., and Perkell, J., Phonemic resetting vs. postural adjustments in the speech of cochlear implant users: an exploration of voice-onset time. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 98, 3096-3106 (1995).

Recent conference presentations

Perkell, J.S., Matthies, M.L., Tiede, M. (2009). Evidence of an articulatory saturation effect in the production of /s/ in American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125 page 2569.

Tiede, M., Mooshammer, C., Goldstein, L., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., Perkell, J., and Matthies, M. (2009). Optimization of articulator trajectories in producing learned nonsense words. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125, page 2499.

Perkell, J.S., Ghosh, S.S., Guenther, F.H., Lane, H., Matthies, M.L., Ménard, L., and Tiede, M. (2008). Mechanisms of vowel production: Auditory goals and speaker acuity. International Seminar on Speech Production (Strasbourg).

Perkell, J.S., Matthies, M.L., Ghosh, S.S., Maas, E., Hanson, A., Guenther, F.H., Lane, H., Menard, L., and Tiede, M. (2008). Auditory and somatosensory goals for sibilants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123, page 3459.

Hoover, E., Ellis, T., Matthies, M., and Tickle-Degnen, L. (2007) An Evidence-Based Interdisciplinary Approach for Self-Management of Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease.
Presented at the ASHA Convention, Boston MA.

Tiede, M., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., Johnson, B., Ghosh, S., Matthies, M., Zandipour, M., & Perkell, J. (2007) Gestural phasing in /kt/ sequences contrasting within and cross word contexts, Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrucken, Germany, Aug. 6-10, 521-524.

Matthies, M.L., Guenther, F., Denny, M., Perkell, J., Stockmann, E., Vick, J., Tiede, M., & Lane, H. (2005). Perception and Production of /r/ allophones improve with hearing from cochlear implants.Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118, Minneapolis MN, October 17-21, Session 3aSC11.

Perkell, J.S., Denny, M., Lane, H., Matthies, M.L., Stockmann, E., Tiede, M., and Zandipour, M. (2005). Effects of masking noise on vowel and sibilant contrasts in normal-hearing speakers and postlingually deafened cochlear implant users. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118, 3aSC9, page 1963.

Perkell, J., Matthies, M., Guenther, F., Lane, H., Stockmann, E., Tiede, M., & Zandipour, M. (2004). Relationship between perceptual ability and the effects of perturbations on produced vowel contrasts, Conference on Motor Speech, Albuquerque, NM.

Ménard, L., Denny, M., Lane, H., Matthies, M.L., Perkell, J.S., Stockmann, E., Vick, J., Zandipour, M., Balkany, T., Polack, M., and Tiede, M.K. (2005). Effects of speaking condition and hearing status on vowel production in postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118, 3aSC10, page 1964.

Perkell, J., Guenther, F., Lane, H., Matthies, M., Stockmann, E., Tiede, M., & Zandipour, M. (2003). Cross-subject relations between measures of vowel production and perception, Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Barcelona, 439-442.

Tiede, M., Perkell, J., Zandipour, M., Matthies, M. & Stockmann, E. (2003). A new approach to pressure-sensitive palatography using a capacitive sensing device, Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Barcelona, 3149-3152.

Tiede, M., Perkell, J., Zandipour, M., Matthies, M., & Stockmann, E. (2003) A /t/ or not a /t/: apical tongue gestures in the 'perfect memory' sequence, 6th International Seminar on Speech Production, Sydney, Australia.

Vick, J.C., Perkell, J.S., Hanson, H., Lane, H., Matthies, M., Marrone, N., and Guenther, F. (2003). Changes in the categorical perception of speech sounds following experience with a cochlear implant. 2003 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Pacific Grove, CA.

Matthies, M. with Vick, J., Lane, H., Perkell, J., Zandipour, M. (2002). Biomechanical saturation and hearing status effects in determining goals for vowels: preliminary results from a bite block study. Conference on Speech Motor Control in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Vick, J.C., Lane, H., Matthies, M., Zandipour, M., Stockmann, E., Guenther, F., and Tiede, M. (2002). Effects of hearing status and perturbation with a bite block on vowel production.Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 112 pg 2251.

Vick, J. C., Lane, H., Perkell, J. S., Zandipour, M., and Matthies, M. L. Sentence intelligibility in adults who receive cochlear implants. ASHA Leader 6, pg. 75 (2001).

Matthies, M. L., Perkell, J. S., Vick, J. and Zandipour, M. Effects of cochlear-implants on sibilant production and perception.Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 108, pg. 2601 (2000).

Vick, J., Lane, H., Perkell, J., and Matthies, M. Speech perception, production, and intelligibility improvements in vowel-pair contrasts in adults who receive cochlear implants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 108, pg.2601 (2000).

Matthies, M.L., Context effects with limited spectral information. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 106, pg. 2177 (1999).

Mandel, A., Davis, L.J., Espy-Wilson, C., and Matthies, M.L. The use of spectral versus temporal cues to recognize speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 106, pg. 2182 (1999).

Stevens, K.N., Manuel, S.Y., and Matthies, M.L., Place of articulation for consonants: Comparing nasals and stops, and syllable position. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 106, pg. 2244 (1999).

Lane, H., Perkell, J., Wozniak, J., Manzella, J., Guiod, P., Matthies, M., Mac Collin, M., Vick, J.,Speech sound level and speech breathing in cochlear implant users. ASHA Leader 13, pg. 99. (1999).

Perkell, J., Jackson, L., Zandipour, M., Vick, J., Lane, H., and Matthies, M., Rapid changes in Speech parameters with a change in auditory stimulation from a cochlear implant. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 105, pg. 1248 (1999).

Perrier, P., Payan, Y., Perkell, J., Zandipour, M., and Matthies, M., VCV synthesis from muscle commands. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 105, pg. 1091 (1999).

Stevens, K.S., Manuel, S., and Matthies, M., Revisiting place of articulation measures for stop consonants: Implications for models of consonant production. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (1999).

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