Matthew B Winn

PhD Student, Adjunct Faculty

Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
0100 Lefrak Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7505

(301) 405-4214
(301) 314-2023 (fax)

mwinn (AT) hesp (dot) umd (dot) edu
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/facultyStaff/winn.htm

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Research Interests
Languages of Interest
Research Appointments
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Other Activities
Publications/Presentations
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Education back to top

Doctor of Philosophy / Clinical Audiology
Expected May 2011 University of Maryland College Park, MD

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology and Philosophy, Minor in Linguistics
August 2005 University of Delaware Newark, DE

Research Interests back to top

· The hearing loss-speech production interface

· Speech perception under constraints
(noise, whispering, hearing loss, cochlear implantation)

· Second language acquisition and rephonologization

· Acoustic phonetics

· Tonal language perception

· Outcome measures of SLA and language intervention

· The use of duration-based phonetic features

Languages of Interest back to top

· English

· Vietnamese

· Finnish

· Mandarin

Research Appointments back to top

Center for Advanced Study of Language (August 2006 – present)
Supervisor: Allison Blodgett, Ph.D.

Hearing science laboratory (August 2006 – present)
Supervisor: Sandra Gordon-Salant, Ph.D.

Teaching Experience back to top

University of Maryland

· HESP403: Introduction to Phonetic Science (Fall 2005 – present)

Course learning outcomes log

Clinical Experience back to top

Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center    Baltimore, MD
            May 2008 to September 2009
Supervisor: Glen Baquet, Au.D.
            Clientele: primarily males between 20 and 90 years

ENTAA Care Audiology               Glen Burnie, MD and    Annapolis, MD
            January 2008 to May 2008
Supervisor: Monica Davis, Au.D.
            Clientele: all ages

Univ. of Maryland Speech and Hearing Clinic                College Park, MD
            September 2006 to December 2007
Supervisor: Margaret McCabe, Au.D.
            Clientele: primarily adult

Clinical Responsibilities

Diagnostic Audiology

●   Behavioral and physiological tests of hearing
            ●   Documentation of clinical proceedings
            ●   Selection, validation and verification of hearing aids
            ●   Electroacoustic analysis and probe-microphone measurement of
                 hearing aids

Aural Rehabilitation

            ●   Counseling on the use of, and expected benefits from hearing aids
            ●   Discussion of effective communication strategies
            ●   Demonstration of assistive listening devices

Vestibular Testing
            ●   Videonystagmography
            ●   Electronystagmography
            ●   Behavioral balance testing

Evoked Potentials

            ●   Auditory brainstem response (otoneurologic, threshold)
            ●   Otoacoustic emissions
            ●   Vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP)

Other Activities back to top

· Graduate Student Technology Fee Advisory Committee (Univ. of Maryland);

· Doctoral program in audiology student representative to HESP faculty meetings

Publications & Presentations back to top

Winn, M., 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. Presentation given at/Proceedings from “Acoustics ‘08” The joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, the European Acoustics Association, and the Société Française D’Acoustique. Paris, France.

Blodgett, A., Bauman, J., Bowles, A., Charters, L., Rytting, A., Shamoo, J., Winn, M (2008). A comparison of native speaker and American adult learner Vietnamese lexical tones. Presentation given at/Proceedings from “Acoustics ‘08” The joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, the European Acoustics Association, and the Société Française D’Acoustique. Paris, France.

Winn, M.B & Idsardi, W.J. (2008, in press) Musical evaluation of trochaic inversion. Language and Literature.

Winn, M.B & Idsardi, W.J. (2007, May) Musical evaluation of trochaic inversion. Presentation at Language & Music as Cognitive Systems, Cambridge, UK.

Blodgett, A., Bowles, A., Bauman, J., Shamoo, J., & Winn, M.B. (2007, September). 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.

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

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.

Winn, M.B., & Pence, K. (2003, November). More verbs to come: The developing focus on verbs in parents’ speech to infants. Presentation given at the Delaware Speech-Language & Hearing Association.

Avocation back to top

Music theory and composition; classical and new-age guitar, ice hockey
Music can be found at www.mattwinn.com

Links:

UMD Hearing & Speech Sciences

UMD Cognitive Neuroscience of Linguistics (CNL)

UMD Linguistics

UMD Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS)

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