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Bruce L. Smith, PhD

Languages spoken: German, Spanish

Academic Information

Departments Primary - Communication Sciences & Disorders , Adjunct - Communication Sciences & Disorders

Dr. Smith earned his B.A. (German) and M.A. (Linguistics) degrees at Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. (Linguistics/Experimental Phonetics) at the University of Texas at Austin. He subsequently worked at the University of Washington, Johns Hopkins University, and Northwestern University, prior to joining the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Utah in 2002. He served as Department Chair from 2002 - 2009. From February to June, 2010 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.

Research Statement

Over the course of my career, my research has been concerned with understanding the nature of the speech production, in particular the organization and motor control of speech sound production and patterns. I have examined acoustic, kinematic, and phonologic patterns of speech by studying speech production in typically-developing children and normal adults, as well as children with speech disorders and individuals who are learning English as a second language. These converging sources of information lead to a more complete understanding of the complex process of speech production than any of them in isolation can provide.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Bent, T., Bradlow, A., and Smith, B. L (2008). Production and perception of temporal contrasts in foreign-accented English. Phonetica, 65, 131-147.
  2. Smith, B. L., Hayes-Harb, R., Bruss, M., and Harker, A. A (2009). Production and perception of voicing and devoicing in similar German and English word pairs by native speakers of German. Journal of phonetics, 37, 257-275.
  3. Hayes-Harb, R., Smith, B. L., Bent, T., and Bradlow, A. R (2008). The Interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for native speakers of Mandarin: Production and perception of English word-final voicing contrasts. Journal of phonetics, 36, 664-679.
  4. Smith, B. L (2006).
  5. Bruce L. Smit (2016).
  6. McGregor, K. K (2005).
  7. Rachel Hayes-Har (2008).
  8. Tessa Ben (2008).
  9. Jane Hackin (2016).
  10. Bent, T (2008).
  11. Bruce Smit (2012).
  12. Bruce Smit (2009).
  13. Hacking, J (2017).

Book Chapter

  1. Bent, T., Bradlow, A. R., and Smith, B. L (2007). Phonemic errors in different word positions and their effects on intelligibility of non-native speech: All's well that begins well. 331-347.
  2. Thompson, H. L (2013).

Commentary

  1. Smith, B. L (2006). Precautions regarding nonword repetition tasks (Invited commentary on Gathercole’s keynote article). Applied psycholinguistics, 27, 584-587.

Letter

  1. Bruce Smit (2011).