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My research is concerned with various aspects of speech and language communication. At various times in my career I have worked on acquisition of phonology, hemispheric specialization of language function, physiology of the auditory system, comparative neuroanatomy, effects of brain injury on speech perception, reading, speech perception, and cross-linguistic studies of speech perception and production in monolingual and bilingual speakers.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (2004). Aghtamar, an Interactive Presentation of a Medieval Armenian Church, Holy Cross, on the Island of Aghtamar, Lake Van, Turkey.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Robbins, M. & Flege, J. E. (2001). Effects of word class differences in second language pronunciation accuracy. Applied Psycholinguistics, 22 (3), 283-299.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Flege, J. E. & Liu, S. (2000). Pronunciation proficiency in the first and second languages of Korean-English bilinguals. Bilingualism, Language and Cognition, 3, 131-149.

Guion, S. G., Flege, J. E., Liu, S. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (2000). Age of learning effects on the duration of utterances produced in a second language. Applied Psycholinguistics, 21, 205-228.

Phillips, S., Gordon-Salant, S., Fitzgibbons, P. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (2000). Frequency and temporal resolution in elderly listeners with good and poor word recognition. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 34, 217-228.

Johnson, A. T., Scott, W. H., Lausted, C. G., Coyne, K. M., Sahota, M. S., Johnson, M. M., Yeni-Komshian, G. & Caretti, D. M. (2000). Communication using a telephone while wearing a respirator. American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, 60, 264-267.

Schmid, P. M. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1999). The effects of speaker accent and target predictability on perception of mispronunciations. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42, 56-64.

Flege, J. E., Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Liu, S. (1999). Age constraints on second-language acquisition. Journal of Memory and Language, 41, 78-104.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Bunnell, H. T. (1998). Perceptual evaluations of spectral and temporal modifications of deaf speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104, 637-647.

Coyne, K. M., Johnson, A. T., Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Dooly, C. R. (1998). Respirator performance ratings for speech intelligibility. American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, 59, 257-260.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1998). Speech perception. In J.B. Gleason & N.B. Ratner (Eds.), Psycholinguistics, Second Edition (pp. 107-156). Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers. [First edition, 1993]

Troia, G. A., Roth, F. P. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1996). Word frequency and age effects in normally developing children's phonological processing. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 39, 1099-1108.

Jenkins, J. J. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1995). Cross-language speech perception: Perspective and promise. In W. Strange (Ed.), Speech Perception and Linguistic Experience: Issues in Cross-Language Speech Research (pp. 463-479). Baltimore: York Press.

Phillips, S. L., Gordon-Salant, S., Fitzgibbons, P. J. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1994). Auditory duration discrimination in young and elderly listeners with normal hearing. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 5, 210-215.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Bunnell, H. T. (1991). Perceptual evaluations of spectral and temporal modifications of deaf speech. Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aix-En-Provence, France, 3, 350-353.

Shipley-Brown, F., Dingwall, W. O., Berlin, C. I., Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Gordon-Salant, S. (1988). Hemispheric processing of affective and linguistic intonation contours in normal subjects. Brain and Language, 33, 16-26.

Paul-Brown, D. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1988). Temporal changes in word revisions by children and adults. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 31, 630-639.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Ludlow, C. L., Rosenberg, J., Fair, C. & Salazar, A. (1986). Lesion locations associated with speech perception deficits following penetrating head injury. Neuropsychologia, 24, 631-647.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Lafontaine, L. (1983). Discrimination and identification of voicing and place contrasts in aphasic patients. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 37,107-131.

Spiegler, B. J. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1983). Incidence of left-handed writing in a college population with reference of family patterns of hand preference. Neuropsychologia, 21, 651-659.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Paul-Brown, D. (1982). Perception of temporally competing speech stimuli in preschool children. Brain and Language, 17, 166-179.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Soli, S. D. (1981). Recognition of vowels from information in fricatives: Perceptual evidence of fricative-vowel coarticulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 70, 966-975.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Kavanaugh, J. F. & Ferguson, C. A. (Eds.). (1980). Child Phonology, Vol 1, Production, New York: Academic Press.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Kavanaugh, J. F. & Ferguson, C. A. (Eds.). (1980). Child Phonology, Vol 2, Perception, New York: Academic Press.

Ferguson, C. A. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1980). An introduction to speech production in the child. In G.H. Yeni-Komshian, et al. (Eds.), Child Phonology, Vol 1 Production (pp. 1-7). New York: Academic Press.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Ferguson, C. A. (1980). An introduction to speech perception in the child. In G.H. Yeni-Komshian, et al. (Eds.), Child Phonology, Vol 2, Perception (pp. 1-8). New York: Academic Press.

Weiss, M. S., Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Heinz, J. M. (1979). Acoustical and perceptual characteristics of speech production with an electronic artificial larynx. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 65, 1298-1308.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Soli, S. D. (1979). Extraction of vowel information from fricative spectra. In J.J. Wolf & D.H. Klatt (Eds.), Speech Communication Papers (pp. 37-40). Acoustical Society of America.

Kavanaugh, J. F. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1978). Developmental dyslexia and related reading disorders. DHEW Publication No. (NIH) 78-92 (pp. 1-58). [Reprinted, 1985]

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Goldstein, M. H. Jr. (1977). Identification of speech sounds displayed on a vibrotactile vocoder. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 62, 194-198.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1977). A long term study of dichotic speech perception and receptive language skills in a child with acquired aphasia. In S. Segalowitz & F. Gruber (Eds.), Language Development and Neurological Theory (pp. 145-154). New York: Academic Press.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Caramazza, A. & Preston, M. S. (1977). A study of voicing in Lebanese Arabic. Journal of Phonetics, 5, 35-48.

Saffran, E. M., Marin, O. S. M. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1976). An analysis of speech perception in word deafness. Brain and Language, 3, 209-228.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Benson, D. A. (1976). Anatomical study of cerebral asymmetry in humans, chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys. Science, 192, 387-389.

Goldstein, M. H. Jr., Stark, R. E., Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Grant, D. G. (1976). Tactile stimulation as an aid for the deaf in production and perception of speech: Preliminary studies. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (pp. 598-601). Philadelphia.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Isenberg, D. & Goldberg, H. K. (1975). Cerebral dominance and reading disability: Left visual field deficit in poor readers. Neuropsychologia, 13, 83-94.

Caramazza, A. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1974). Voice onset time in two French dialects. Journal of Phonetics, 2, 239-245.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Gordon, J. F. (1974). The effect of memory load on the right ear advantage in dichotic listening. Brain and Language, 1, 375-381.

Caramazza, A., Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Zurif, E. B. (1974). Bilingual switching: The phonological level. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 28 , 310-318.

Caramazza, A., Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Zurif, E. B. & Carbone, E. (1973). The acquisition of a new phonological contrast: The case of stop consonants in French-English bilinguals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 54, 421-428.

de Ribaupierre, F., Goldstein, M. H. Jr. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1973). Lack of response in primary auditory neurons to visual stimulation. Brain Research, 52, 370-373.

de Ribaupierre, F., Goldstein, M. H. Jr. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1972). Intracellular study of the cat's primary auditory cortex. Brain Research, 48, 185-204.

de Ribaupierre, F., Goldstein, M. H. Jr. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1972). Cortical coding of repetitive acoustic pulses. Brain Research, 48, 205-225.

Goldstein, M. H. Jr., de Ribaupierre, F. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1971). Cortical coding of periodicity pitch. In M.B. Sachs (Ed.), Physiology of the Auditory System (pp. 299-305). Baltimore, Maryland: National Educational Consultants.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Lambert, W. E. (1969). Concurrent and consecutive modes of learning two vocabularies. Journal of Educational Psychology, 60, 204-215.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Chase, R. A. & Mobley, R. L. (1968). The development of auditory feedback monitoring II: Auditory feedback studies on the speech of children between two and three years of age. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 11, 308-315.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Zubin, D. A. & Afendras, E. (1968). A pilot study of the ability of young children and adults to identify and reproduce novel speech sounds (Annual Report No. 2, Neurocommunications Laboratory, pp. 291-305). Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Port, D. K. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1968). Perception of synthetic stop consonants: A scaling experiment (Annual Report No.2, Neurocommunications Laboratory, pp. 35-55). Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Preston, M. S., Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Stark, R. E. (1967). A study of voicing in initial stops found in the pre-linguistic vocalizations of infants from different language environments. In Status Report on Speech Research, SR-10 (pp. 109-120). New York: Haskins Laboratories.

Preston, M. S., Yeni-Komshian, G. H. & Stark, R. E. (1967). Voicing in initial stop-consonants produced by children in the pre-linguistic period from different language communities (Annual Report No. 1 Neurocommunications Laboratory, pp. 307-323). Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Preston, M. S. & Cullen, J. K. (1967). A brief report on a study of imitation of synthetic speech stimuli by children. In Status Report on Speech Research, SR-11 (pp. 47-48). New York: Haskins Laboratories.

Preston, M. S. & Yeni-Komshian, G. H. (1967). Studies on the development of stop consonants in children. In Status Report on Speech Research, SR-11 (pp. 49-54). New York: Haskins Laboratories.

Lambert, W. E., Anisfeld, M. & Yeni-Komshian, G. (1965). Evaluational reactions of Jewish and Arab adolescents to dialect and language variations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2, 84-90.