Boys Town National Research Hospital Lied Learning and Technology Center Clinical and Behavioral Studies of Human Communication Infant Development Lab

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office e-mail: vandamm@boystown.org office phone: 402.452-5079 personal e-mail: VanDam@SpeechSci.com personal phone: 812.345-1901

Vita PhD (2007) Indiana University, Linguistics MA (2003) Indiana University, Linguistics BA (1999) Calvin College, English and German complete cirriculum vitae [ HTML ] or [ PDF ]

Academic Work VanDam, M., Ide Helvie, D., Smith, N. A., & Moeller, M. P. (2008, June 3). Early identification of hearing loss improves temporal properties of children's speech. Poster presented at the 2008 Child Phonology Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. [ PDF (9MB) ] VanDam, M. (2008, May 10). Economy and invariance are unjustified assumptions in formal phonology. Talk presented at the Fifth North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC5), Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [ PDF ] VanDam, Mark. (2007). Plasticity of Phonological Categories. unpublished Indiana University doctoral dissertation. [ PDF ] [ ABSTRACT ] from The LINGUIST List VanDam, Mark and Robert Port. 2005. VOT is shorter in high frequency words poster presented at the 149th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, BC, Canada. [ PDF ] [ PPT ] VanDam, Mark. 2004. Word final coda typology. Journal of Universal Language 5(1): 119-148. [ preprint PDF, photocopied PDF ] VanDam, Mark. 2003. Voice onset time of American English stops with prosodic correlates. poster presented at the 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, TN. [ PDF ] VanDam, Mark. 2003. On the phonological structure of /i/-suffixed English nicknames. in Stephen Grimes and Ken deJong (eds.) IULC Working Papers Online, Vol 3 (2003), article 03-01: 1-30. [ PDF ]

Research Interests phonetics, psycholinguistics, speech perception, phonology, linguistic theory, language development, childhood deafness, history of science, memory, quantitative methods, experimental design, experimental psychology, cognition, spoken language recognition, speech production

Courses Taught (as assistant at Indiana and as primary at Wisconsin) Indiana University: Language and Religion [HTML], Introduction to the Study of Language [link], Freedom of Speech in the US [PDF] University of Wisconsin - Madison: English Phonology [ PDF ], English Language Variation in the US [ PDF ]

Miscellaneous other things Here is an unordered list of courses I've learned from as a student. Some are from Indiana University, the Lingsuistic Society of America's Summer Institute (at Michigan State University), and University of Wisconsin-Madison. See some Pics