Katherine S. Harrishttp://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/harris.html is a noted psychologist

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 and speech scientist. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita in Speech and Hearing at the CUNY Graduate Center

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 http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Speechandhearing/faculty/index.htm and a member of the Board of Directors http://www.haskins.yale.edu/board.html of Haskins Laboratories

Haskins Laboratories

Haskins Laboratories is an independent, international, multidisciplinary community of researchers conducting basic research on spoken and written language. Founded in 1935 and located in New Haven, Connecticut since 1970, Haskins Laboratories is a private, non-profit research institute with a...

. She is also the former President of the Acoustical Society of America

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 and Vice President of Haskins Laboratories

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Haskins Laboratories is an independent, international, multidisciplinary community of researchers conducting basic research on spoken and written language. Founded in 1935 and located in New Haven, Connecticut since 1970, Haskins Laboratories is a private, non-profit research institute with a...

.

Career

Working with Alvin Liberman

Alvin Liberman

Alvin Meyer Liberman was an American psychologist whose ideas set the agenda for fifty years of research in the psychology of speech perception and laid the groundwork for modern computer speech synthesis and the understanding of critical issues in cognitive science...

, Franklin S. Cooper

Franklin S. Cooper

Franklin Seaney Cooper was an American physicist and inventor who was a pioneer in speech research.-Biography:...

 and colleagues at Haskins Laboratories

Haskins Laboratories

Haskins Laboratories is an independent, international, multidisciplinary community of researchers conducting basic research on spoken and written language. Founded in 1935 and located in New Haven, Connecticut since 1970, Haskins Laboratories is a private, non-profit research institute with a...

 in the 1950s http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~malcolm/interval/1994-036/, the Pattern playback

Pattern playback

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, a mechanical speech synthesis

Speech synthesis

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware...

 device, was used to help uncover the acoustic cues for the perception of phonetic segments (consonants and vowels). Liberman, Harris and colleagues proposed a motor theory of speech perception

Motor theory of speech perception

thumb|250px|right|When we hear [[speech|spoken words]] we sense that they are made of auditory [[sound]]s. The motor theory of speech perception argues that behind the sounds we hear are the intended movements of the [[vocal tract]] that [[pronunciation|pronounces]] them.The motor theory of speech...

http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/motorthy.htm. Harris went on to lead the speech production http://www.haskins.yale.edu/speaking.html program at Haskins Laboratories

Haskins Laboratories

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. In the 1960s Harris and colleague Peter MacNeilage http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/FACULTY/MacNeilage/MacNeilage.html were the first researchers in the U.S. to use electromyographic techniques

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, pioneered at the University of Tokyo

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, to study the neuromuscular organization of speech.
In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s Katherine Harris continued her pioneering work on speech production with colleagues Gloria Borden, Frederica Bell-Berti http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/graduate/liberalarts/departments/speech and many others. Of particular note is work on coarticulation

Coarticulation

Coarticulation in its general sense refers to a situation in which a conceptually isolated speech sound is influenced by, and becomes more like, a preceding or following speech sound...

 that examined the phasing and cohesion of articulatory speech gestures.

Awards

• In 1988 she won Honors of the Association from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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  , recognizing "contributions to the field of speech, language, and hearing," and the highest honor that the Association gives. http://www.asha.org/about/leadership-projects/awards/Honors.htm
• In 2005 she won the Silver Medal in Speech Communication from the Acoustical Society of America
  Acoustical Society of America
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  "for research and leadership in speech production." http://asa.aip.org/awards.html

Selected publications

• Bell-Berti, F., & Harris, K. S. (1979). Anticipatory coarticulation: Some implications from a study of lip rounding. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 65, 1268-1270.
• Bell-Berti, F., & Harris, K. S. (1981). A temporal model of speech production. Phonetica, 38, 9-20.
• Borden, G. J., Harris, K. S., & Oliver, W. (1973). Oral feedback I. Variability of the effect of nerve-block anesthesia upon speech. Journal of Phonetics, 1, 289-295.
• Borden, G. J., Harris, K. S., & Catena, L. (1973). Oral feedback II. An electromyographic study of speech under nerve-block anesthesia. Journal of Phonetics, 1, 297-308.
• Casper, M.A., Rapheal,L.J., Harris, K.S., & Geibel, J.M. (2007). Speech prosody in cerebellar ataxia. "International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders", 1-20.
• Harris, K. S. (1958). Cues for the discrimination of American English fricatives in spoken syllables. Language and Speech, 1, 1-7.
• Harris, K. S., Hoffman, H. S., Liberman, A. M., Delattre, P. C., & Cooper, F. S. (1958). Effect of third-formant transitions on the perception of the voiced stop consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 30, 122-126.
• Harris, K. S., Rosov, R., Cooper, F. S., & Lysaught, G. F. (1964). A multiple suction electrode system. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 17, 698-700.
• Harris, K. S., Lysaught, G. S., & Schvey, M. M. (1965). Some aspects of the production of oral and nasal stops. Language and Speech, 8, 135-147.
• Harris, K. S. (1970). Physiological measures of speech movements: EMG and fiberoptic studies. ASHA Reports, 5, 271-282.
• Harris, K. S. (1971). Children's language development and articulatory breakdown. In D. L. Horton & J. J. Jenkins (Eds.), Perception of Language (pp. 207–215).
• Harris, K. S. (1972). Silent articulation. Science, 176, 1114-1115.
• Harris, K. S. (1977). The study of articulatory organization: Some negative progress. In M. Sawashima & F. S. Cooper (Eds.), Dynamic aspects of speech production. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 71-82.
• Harris, K. S. (1978). Vowel duration change and its underlying physiological mechanisms. Language and Speech, 21, 354-361.
• Harris, K. S. (1982). Electromyography as a technique for laryngeal investigation. Conference on the assessment of vocal pathology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, April 1979. ASHA Reports, 11, 70-86.
• Harris, K. S., & Bell-Berti, F. (1984). On consonants and syllable boundaries. In L. Raphael, C. R. Raphael, & M. R. Valdovinos (Eds.), Language and Cognition (pp. 89–95). New York: Plenum.
• Liberman, A. M., Cooper, F. S., Harris, K. S., & MacNeilage, P. F. (1962). A motor theory of speech perception. Proceedings of the Speech Communication Seminar, Stockholm.
• Liberman, A. M., Cooper, F. S., Harris, K. S., MacNeilage, P. F., & Studdert-Kennedy, M. (1967). Some observations on a model for speech perception. In W. Wathen-Dunn (Ed.), Models for the perception of speech and visual form (pp. 68–87). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.