Tuuli Adams
Ph.D. Student, Department of Linguistics, New York University
Contact: t u u l i . a d a m s @ n y u . e d u
NYU Dept. of Linguistics
726 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Education: B.A. 2002 (Linguistics), Boston University
Interests: phonetics, phonology, morphology, language acquisition, speech perception
Member of the Phonetics-Phonology Lab and the Neurolinguistics Lab
Dissertation (working) title: Word Segmentation and Phonological Learning in Cross-Language Perception of Fluent Speech
Advisor: Lisa Davidson
Publications:
Adams, Tuuli. 2007. Phonetic cues identifying English compounds. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. (Saarbrucken, Germany, August 5-10, 2007). PDF
Davidson, Lisa, Jason Shaw and Tuuli Adams. 2007. The effect of word learning on the perceptual discrimination of non-native phonotactics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 122:6, 3697-3709.
Teaching Assistantships:
Language with Professor Maria Gouskova
Introduction to Linguistics with Professor Chris Barker
Sound and Language with Professor Lisa Davidson
Cognition with Professor Robert Rehder (Dept. of Psychology)
Research…(by language):
American English – stress cues, intonation, compounds
Finnish – word segmentation, colloquial truncation patterns, the phoneme [h] and vowel insertion
Japanese – allomorphy in kanji compounds (an MEG study in the Neurolinguistics Lab)
Mortlockese – stress cues, intonation
Saami – morphology, consonant gradation
Last Modified: March 4, 2009