Mark VanDam

** Boys Town made some changes to the webspace so some of these links might be dead. Sorry.
Boys Town National Research Hospital
Lied Learning and Technology Center
Clinical and Behavioral Studies of Human Communication
Infant Development Lab

SpeechSci.com
Developmental Reading Group

555 North 30th Street
Omaha, NE 68105

office e-mail: mark.vanDam@boystown.org
office phone: 402.452-5079
office phone: 888-556-5118
personal phone: (eight-one-two) 345-1901

Vita

PhD (2007) Indiana University, Linguistics
MA (2003) Indiana University, Linguistics
BA (1999) Calvin College, English and German

curriculum vitae (2008) [ HTML ] or [ PDF ]

Academic Work

Smith, N. A., VanDam, M., & Moeller, M. P. (2009, October). Gaze distribution patters for audiovisual speech stimuli in preschool children without hearing loss. Poster presented at the 158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Antonio, TX. [ PDF (340KB) ]. Abstract in JASA 126(4:2): 2300-2301 [ PDF (56KB)]

VanDam, M., Silbert, N. H., & Port, R. F. (2009, October). Fine-grained control of VOT production, lexical usage-frequency, and phrasal context. Poster presented at the 158th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Antonio, TX. [ PDF (162KB) ]. Abstract in JASA 126(4:2): 2182 [ PDF (43KB)]

VanDam, M. (2009, July 24). Word learning and fine phonetic detail in the linguistic development of hearing impaired children. Invited talk presented at the BTNRH/CU-KUMC-IOWA Auditory Research Conference, Omaha, NE.

Smith, N., & VanDam, M. (2009, July 24). Development of visual fixation patterns for audiovisual speech. Invited talk presented at the BTNRH/CU-KUMC-IOWA Auditory Research Conference, Omaha, NE.

VanDam, M. (2009, June 8). Vowel duration in hearing impaired children at four- and five-years old. Invited talk presented at the University of Louisville Summer Linguistics Lecture Series, Louisville, KY.

VanDam, M., & Port, R. F. (2009). Phonetic experience with specific words affects categorical perception of those words. Poster presented at the 157th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Portland, OR. [ PDF (<1MB) ]. Abstract in JASA 125(4): 2655 [ PDF ]

VanDam, M. (2009, March 6). Development of linguistic duration in hearing impaired children. Invited talk presented at the University of Iowa, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Iowa City, IA. [ PDF (1.4MB) ]

VanDam, M., Smith, N. A., Ide Helvie, D., & Moeller, M. P. (2008, November 13). Development of temporal and spectral characteristics in the speech of hearing impaired children. Poster presented at the 156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, FL. [ PDF (<1MB) ] Abstract in JASA 124(4): 2555 [ PDF (<1MB) ]

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. (2006, January 6). Acoustic measurement of temporal characterstics of American English speech. Invited talk, Department of Modern Languages, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN.

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 ] Abstract in JASA 117(4): 2623 [ PDF ].

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 ] Abstract in JASA 113(4): 2328 [ 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,or click the mug at the top.

Or go straight to Project SoO, which is updated fairly regularly, but also kind of comes in fits and spurts.