Matthew Winn B.A. (2005, University of Delaware, Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics) Au.D./Ph.D. Student, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences Email:   mwinn@hesp.umd.edu Room: 0119F LeFrak

Research/Clinical Interests

Acoustic phonetics

Speech perception under constraints (hearing loss, spectral degradation, cochlear implantation)

Second language acquisition and rephonologization

Phonetic cue-trading

I am particularly interested in using acoustic analysis and corresponding signal manipulation to reveal what features are recovered by listeners in adverse listening situations. For example, my current research looks at the use of non-spectral acoustic cues to compensate for the limitations experienced by cochlear implant users, who are known to experience spectral degradation.

Courses Taught

HESP 403: Introduction to Phonetic Science (Fall 2005- present)

Clinical Practicum

University of Maryland audiology clinic

ENTAA Care (Glen Burnie, MD, Annapolis, MD)

Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center (Baltimore, MD)

Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center (Washington, DC) (present)

Publications/Presentations

Winn, M.B., Blodgett, A., & Twist, A. (in prep) Vietnamese simple vowels – An acoustic analysis of native speaker and adult learner productions.

Winn, M.B., Blodgett, A., Bauman, J., Bowles, A., Charters, L., Rytting, C.A., & Shamoo, J. (2008). Vietnamese monophthong vowel production by native speakers and American adult learners. Paper accepted to “Acoustics ‘08” the joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, the European Acoustics Association, and the Société Française D’Acoustique, Paris, France, June 2008.

Winn, M.B. & Idsardi, W.J. (2008). Musical evidence regarding trochaic inversion. Language and Literature, 17 (4), 335-349.

Blodgett, A., Bowles, A., Bauman, J., Shamoo, J., & Winn, M.B. (2007). Same or different: A preliminary acoustic analysis comparing native and non-native speaker production of Vietnamese lexical tones. Presentation at the 17th Annual Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS XVII), College Park, MD, September 2007.

Winn, M.B., Idsardi. W. (2005). Musical evaluation of trochaic reversals. Third Annual National McNair Scholars Research Conference. September, 2005.

Winn, M.B. & Golinkoff, R. (2004). Language acts as a zoom lens in guiding infants' attention to target words. Poster presented at the University of Delaware Undergraduate Research Scholars Poster Session, Newark, DE, April 2004.

Winn, M.B. & Pence, K. (2003). More verbs to come: The developing focus on verbs in parents' speech to infants. Conference talk at Delaware Speech, Language & Hearing Association conference, Wilmington, DE, November 2003.

Pence, K., Golinkoff, R.M., Winn, M.B., et. al. (2003). Coming into focus: emergence of parents' conversational focus on verbs. Paper presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Chicago, IL, April 2003.

Invited Lectures

Using Praat for acoustic analysis of speech. University of Maryland, October 2009

Biographical Information

I was born and raised in New Jersey and still have most of my family in the Philadelphia area. 

In addition to my work in academia, I am also an amateur musician, having independently released an album of original compositions for solo guitar and piano in the summer of 2005.  The website dedicated to my music is located at www.mattwinn.com . 

When free from the school and the studio, I play ice hockey in Laurel, MD at the Gardens ice house.