Patricia Keating
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Patricia Keating is a professor in the Linguistics
Department at UCLA. She received her PhD in Linguistics at Brown University
in 1980. She is a noted phonetician, and is the director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory. She is also a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology
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Keating is best known for two areas of research in phonetics
. She is, with Cécile Fougeron, the discoverer of the initial strengthening effect, wherein consonants receive more fortis articulations (greater degree of articulatory contact) to the extent that they occur at the beginnings of high-ranking phonological phrase
s. On the theoretical side, she is the inventor of the "window model" of coarticulation
, a theory of phonetic realization that specifies a particular range of legal values for each segment along each phonetic parameter.
Keating is married to linguist Bruce Hayes.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
Department at UCLA. She received her PhD in Linguistics at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
in 1980. She is a noted phonetician, and is the director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory. She is also a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology
Association for Laboratory Phonology
The Association for Laboratory Phonology is a non-profit professional society for researchers interested in the sound structure of language. It was founded to promote the scientific study of all aspects of phonetics and phonology of spoken and signed languages through scholarly exchange across...
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Keating is best known for two areas of research in phonetics
Phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs : their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory...
. She is, with Cécile Fougeron, the discoverer of the initial strengthening effect, wherein consonants receive more fortis articulations (greater degree of articulatory contact) to the extent that they occur at the beginnings of high-ranking phonological phrase
Prosodic unit
In linguistics, a prosodic unit, often called an intonation unit or intonational phrase, is a segment of speech that occurs with a single prosodic contour...
s. On the theoretical side, she is the inventor of the "window model" of 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...
, a theory of phonetic realization that specifies a particular range of legal values for each segment along each phonetic parameter.
Keating is married to linguist Bruce Hayes.