Professor and current Department Head, joined the Linguistics faculty at the University of Oregon in 2002. Before this, she received a broad education in the cognitive sciences at the University of Texas in Austin with an MA in Linguistics, a PhD in Psychology, and postdoctoral training in Computer Sciences that was funded by a National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorder (NIDCD) Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA). Professor Redford adopts a developmental perspective in her research on spoken language production, which focuses especially on how language and nonlanguage subsystems interact to support the emergence, over developmental time, of our ability to produce the hierarchically-organized sound patterns of spoken language. Her current work on speech rhythm acquisition aims to elucidate production processes and the structure of speech plan representations in child and adult speakers via measurement of speech acoustics and kinematics. Of specific interest is the development of long-distance coarticulation in the context of prosodic word acquisition and the coordination of conceptual and motor processes during speaking. The research, supported in part by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), informs Professor Redford’s theoretical work on a developmentally-sensitive model of spoken language production. |