Assistant Professor, Communication Disorders
Dept. of Communication Disorders
Boston University
635 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Phone:(617) 353-1983
Fax: (617) 353-5074
E-mail: Matthies@bu.edu
Speech Perception Laboratory
B.A., Communicative Disorders and Sciences, State University of New York at
Buffalo
M.S., Audiology, Purdue University
Ph.D., Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Dr. Matthies' research centers around the perception of speech by persons with normal hearing and persons with hearing loss. She is also interested in the relation between speech perception and speech production in subjects with Neurofibromatosis II and subjects using cochlear implants.
Graduate Student: Jane Wozniak
Perkell, J.S., Matthies, M.L., Svirsky, M.A. and Jordan, M.I. (1995) "Goal-based speech motor control: a theoretical framework and some preliminary data". Journal of Phonetics 23, 23-35.
Matthies, M.L., Svirsky, M.A., Lane, H.L. and Perkell, J.S. (1994) "A preliminary study of the effects of cochlear implants on the production of sibilants".Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 96, 1367-1373.
Perkell, J.S. and Matthies, M.L. (1992) Temporal measures of anticipatory labial coarticulation for the vowel /u/: Within- and cross-subject variability. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 91, 2911-2925.
Bilger,R.C., Matthies, M.L., Hammel, D.R. and Demorest, W.R., (1990) "Genetic implications of gender differences in the prevalence of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions". Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 33, 418-432.
Matthies, M.L. and Carney, A.E. (1988) "A modified speech tracking procedure as a communicative performance measure". Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 31, 394-403.