Curriculum Vitae

Danny R. Moates, Ph.D

Associate Professor, Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Porter Hall 200
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio 45701-2979
Tel: 740-593-1075
Fax: 740-593-0579
Email: moates@ohio.edu
Other Web site: http://www.ohioupsychology.com/Faculty.php?p=78

Education

A. B., Social Relations, Harvard University, 1959

M. A., Experimental Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 1966

Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 1968

Professional Appointments:

Instructor, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, 1967-68

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, 1968-72

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, 1972-99

Associate Professor, Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Ohio University, 1999-

Director, Institute for the Empirical Study of Language, Ohio University, 1996-

Research Interests:

Spoken word recognition, vowel mutability, distinctive features in spoken word recognition.

Current Research:

1. Vowel mutability with print materials in English and Spanish.

2. The feature [sonorant] in spoken word recognition.

3. The feature [continuant] in spoken word recognition.

4. Phoneme frequency in spoken word recognition.

5. The features [continuant] and [voice] in spoken word recognition.

6. Probabilistic phonotactics in vowel mutability.

7. Nonvowel resonants in vowel mutability.

Recent Publications:

Stockmal, V., Bond, Z. S., & Moates, D. R. (2004). Judging voice similarity in unknown languages. Proceedings of the 17th Congress of Linguists. Prague. (CD-ROM)

Bond, Z. S., Stockmal, V., & Moates, D. R. (2003). Searching for foreign accent. Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 0, 13-24.

Marks, E. A., Moates, D. R., & Bond, Z. S. (2003). Determining phoneme variability in lexical selection: The case of Spanish consonants. In C. M. Avila, M. L. B. Gomez, J, M, Arrese, A. L. R. Redondo & M. R. Mozo (Eds.,) Cognitive linguistics in Spain at the turn of the century. Madrid: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco.

Marks, E. A., Moates, D. R., Bond, Z. S., & Vazquez, L. (2002). Vowel mutability: The case of monolingual Spanish listeners and bilingual Spanish-English listeners. Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 21(2), 73-99.

Moates, D. R., Bond, Z. S., & Stockmal, V. (2002). Phoneme frequency in spokenword reconstruction. In C. Gussenhoven and N. Warner (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 7 (pp. 141-169). New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Recent Presentations:

DiGiovanni, J. J., Prewitt, J. M., & Moates, D. R. (November, 2010). The relative contribution to speech intelligibility from consonants and vowels using synthesized and naturally spoken sentences. Paper presented at the 160th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, Mexico.

Moates, D. R., & Marks, E. A. (September, 2010). Vowel mutability in print in English and Spanish. Paper presented at the Fifth Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Romance Phonology, Provo, Utah.

Moates, D. R., Lee, C.-Y., & Bond, Z. S. (July, 2010). Feature distance effects in spoken word recognition. Paper presented at Mental Lexicon 7, Windsor, Canada.

Moates, D. R., Marks, E. A., & Barrera-Pardo, D. (July, 2008). The feature [sonorant] in Spanish lexical access. Paper presented at the 155th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Paris.

Moates, D. R., & Zehe, J. (October, 2007). The features [continuant] and [voice] in spoken word recognition. Paper presented at the conference on Where do Features Come From: Phonological Primitives in the Brain, the Mouth, and the Ear, Paris. [See PDF]

Moates, D. R., Watkins, N. E., Bond, Z. S., & Stockmal, V. (November, 2006). Frequency effects in phoneme processing. Paper presented at the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI.

Odekar, A., Hallowell, B., Roe, R., Kruse, H., Moates, D, & Lee, C. (November, 2006). Using eye movement indices to capture semantic priming effects. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association. Miami, Florida.

Moates, D. R., Lee, C.-Y., Fox, R, & Kellgren, S. (June, 2006). The feature [sonorant] in auditory word identification. Paper presented at the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, Rhode Island.

Moates, D. R., Bond, Z. S., Fox, Russell, & Stockmal, V. (September, 2005). The feature [sonorant] in lexical access. Paper presented at Interspeech2005, Lisbon, Portugal.

Moates, D. R. (April, 2004). Vowel mutability in Spanish and English. Paper presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky.

Moates, D. R., and Marks, E. A. (August, 2003). Vowel mutability with print materials in Spanish and English. 15th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona.

Stockmal, V., Bond, Z. S., & Moates, D. R. (2003, July). Judging voice similarity in unknown languages. Paper presented at the 17th International Congress of Linguists, Prague, Czech Republic.

Moates, D. R., Sutherland, Matthew, Bond, Z. S., & Stockmal, V. (October, 2002). The feature [continuant] in word reconstruction. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Marks, E. A., & Moates, D. R. (2002, April). Printed word reconstruction in Spanish. Paper presented at the 55th annual meeting of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky.

Marks, E. A., Moates, D. R., & Bond, Z. S. (May, 2000). Determining phoneme variability in lexical selection: The case of Spanish consonants. Paper presented at the Second Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO), Madrid.

Organizations:

American Association of University Professors

American Psychological Association

American Psychological Society

International Phonetic Association

International Society of Phonetic Sciences

Linguistic Society of America

Midwestern Psychological Association