Maria Kondaurova, PhD

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., Zheng, Q., Soderstrom, M. & Smith, A. (in prep.). Vocal matching in interactions between mothers and their hearing-impaired infants with cochlear implants. 

Kondaurova, M.V., Smith, N.A., Zheng, Q., Reed, J., & Fagan, M.  (submitted). Vocal turn-taking between mothers and their infants with cochlear implants. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.

Abu-Zhaya, R., Kondaurova, M.V., Houston, D. Seidl, A. (submitted). 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. (2016). 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