Maria Kondaurova, PhD
Contact Information 301 Life Sciences Building tel: (502) 852-6129 maria.kondaurova@louisville.edu Dr. Maria Kondaurova joined the Department of Psychology & Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville and the Heuser Hearing Institute and Language Academy in 2015. Her research examines (a) how the nature of spoken language input to normal-hearing and hearing-impaired infants and children affects first language acquisition and (b) how linguistic experience determines non-native listener's ability to extract phonetic information from acoustic input and form phonological categories based on it. Parent-Child Interaction and Language Learning Lab |
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Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Purdue University, 2008
M.A. in Linguistics, Purdue University, 2004
B.A. in Linguistics, English, and French, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia, 1995
Research Interests
Experimental Phonetics/Phonology
Acoustic-phonetic characteristics of infant-directed speech and language development of infants/children with hearing loss
Mechanisms of perceptual learning/auditory categorization of speech sounds in second language acquisition
Representative Publications
Kondaurova, M.V., Smith, N.A., Zheng, Q., Reed, J., & Fagan, M. (in press, 2019). Temporal coordination between mothers and their children with hearing loss. Ear and Hearing.
Abu-Zhaya, R., Kondaurova, M.V., Houston, D., & Seidl, A.(in press, 2019). Vocal and tactile input to children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.
Kondaurova, M.V., Fagan, M.K., Dilley, L.C., & Bergeson-Dana, T.R. (2017). Vocal matching in interactions between mothers and their normal-hearing and hearing-impaired twins. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 139 (4), 1-15.
Kondaurova, M.V., Bergeson, T.R., Xu, H, & Kitamura, C. (2015). Affective properties of mothers’ speech to infants with hearing impairment and cochlear implants. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 58(3), 590-600.
Wieland, E.A., Burnham, E.B., Kondaurova, M.V., Bergeson, T.R., & Dilley, L.C., (2015). Vowel space characteristics of speech directed to children with and without hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 58(2), 254-267.
Burnham, E. B., Wieland, E. A., Kondaurova, M. V., McAuley, J. D., Bergeson, T. R., & Dilley, L. C. (2015). Phonetic modification of vowel space in storybook speech to infants up to 2 years of age. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(2), 241-253.
Kondaurova, M.V., Bergeson, T.R., & Xu, H. (2013). Age-related changes in prosodic features of maternal speech to prelingually deaf infants with cochlear implants. Infancy, 18(5), 825-848.
Courses Often Taught
Undergraduate:
PSYC 301: Quantitative Methods in Psychology
PSYC 571: Speech Science
PSYC 524: Psycholinguistics
Graduate:
PSYC 611: Advanced Statistics II
PSYC 609: Speech Science