Aleah D. Combs

Email: combsa@bu.edu
Aleah Combs, a white female with long hair and glasses, speaks into a microphone in a sound booth with a velopharyngeal tracer in their nose.
Education
M.A. in Linguistic Theory and Typology, University of Kentucky (Dec. 2020)
B.A. in Linguistics, University of Kentucky (May 2019)
B.H.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Kentucky (May 2019)

Research Interests
Anatomy and physiology of speech
Psycholinguistics
Affective prosody
Social expectation and accommodation
Treatment disparity

Past Projects
Combs, Aleah. “Relevant angry affect slows response time to commands” (2020). Theses and Dissertations–Linguistics. 40. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ltt_etds/40

McGowan, K. B., Johnson, M. T., Combs, A. D., & Soleymanpour, M. (2019). Acoustic, non-invasive measurement of velopharyngeal aperture using a high frequency tone. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(3), 1931–1931. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5102028

Combs, A. D., Calvert, E. K., & McGowan, K. B. (2019). Angry prosody slows responses to simple commands. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(3), 1910–1910. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5101931