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Michael Kiefte

Rank

Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D., Experimental Phonetics, 2000 University of Alberta
B.A., Linguistics, 1993 Memorial University of Newfoundland

Professional Associations/Affiliations

Member of the Acoustical Society of America
Member of the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Cross-Appointed to the Department of Psychology

Teaching Areas

Speech sciences
Research design

Research Interests

Speech production and perception
Psychoacoustics
Signal processing in speech research
Hearing aid and cochlear implant processing strategies
Auditory physiology
Stuttering
Auditory feedback in speech production

Selected Publications

Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2008). "Absorption of reliable spectral characteristics in auditory perception." J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123, 366-376. [Download PDF]

Kiefte, M. and Armson, J. (2008). "Dissecting choral speech:  Properties of the accompanist critical to stuttering reduction," J. Comm. Disord. 41, 33-48. [Download PDF]

Kiefte, M. and Armson, J. (2007). "What can choral speech teach us about stuttering reduction?" in Research, Treatment and Self-Help in Fluency Disorders:  New Horizons, edited by J. Au-Yeung and M. M. Leahy (The International Fluency Association), pp 446-452.

Kluender, K. R. and Kiefte, M. (2006). "Speech perception within a biologically realistic information-theoretic framework," in Handbook of Psycholinguistics, edited by M.A. Geernsbacher and M. Traxler (Elsevier, London), 2nd ed., pp. 153-199.

Armson, J., Kiefte, M., Mason, J., and De Croos, Dayani (2006). "The effects of SpeechEasy on stuttering frequency in laboratory conditions," J. Fluency Disord. 31, 137-152.[Download PDF]


Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2005). "Pattern Playback revisited: Unvoiced stop consonant perception". J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 2599-2606. [Download PDF)

Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2005). The relative importance of spectral tilt in monophthongs and diphthongs. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 1395-1404.

Bance, M., Morris, D.P., van Wijhe, R.G., Kiefte, M., and Funnell, W.R.J. (2004).  Comparison of the mechanical performance of ossiculoplasty using a prosthetic malleus-to-stapes head with a tympanic membrane-to-stapes head assembly in a human cadaveric middle ear model.  Otology & Neurotology, 25, 903-909.

Morris, D.P., Bance, M., van Wijhe, R.G., Kiefte, M., and Smith, R. (2004).  Optimum tension for partial ossicular replacement prosthesis reconstruction in the human middle ear.  Laryngoscope, 114, 305-308.

Nearey, T.M., and Kiefte, M. (2003).  A neural-network approach to the question of the dimensionality of the perceptual vowel space.  Canadian Acoustics, 31, 16-17.

Kiefte, M. and Kleunder, K.R. (2003).  Pattern Playback revisited:  Unvoiced stop consonant perception. In Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 1417-1420.

Nearey, T.M., and Kiefte, M. (2003).  Comparison of several proposed perceptual representations of vowel spectra. In Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 1005-1008.


Contact

E-mail:  mkiefte@dal.ca
Phone:  (902) 494-5150