Michael Kiefte
| Rank |
| 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 |
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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. |
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