Anne Pycha
- Associate Professor, Linguistics
Education
- PhD, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
- BA, Religious Studies, Brown University
Courses Taught
- LINGUIS 100 - Diversity of Human Language
- LINGUIS 440 - Psycholinguistics
- LINGUIS 461 - Introductory Phonology
- LINGUIS 561 - Advanced Phonology
- LINGUIS 590 - Morphology
- LINGUIS 802 - Laboratory Phonology
Research Interests
Perception and production of human speech
Recent Awards
- 2022 recipient, UWM Office of Research/UWM Foundation Research Award
Biographical Sketch
Research Interests Phonology and its interfaces with phonetics and morphology Courses Offered Linguis 440 - Psycholinguistics Linguis 460 - Introductory Phonology Linguis 560 - Advanced Phonology Linguis 590 - Morphology Linguis 802 - Laboratory Phonology Other Activities Director, UWM Phonology Lab, Johnston Hall G32
Selected Publications
Pycha, Anne, Cohn, Michelle, and Zellou, Georgia. “Face-Masked Speech Intelligibility: The Influence of Speaking Style, Visual Information, and Background Noise” Frontiers in Communication(2022).
Pycha, Anne. “Phonological and morphological roles modulate the perception of consonant variants” Linguistics Vanguard(2021).
Cohn, Michelle, Pycha, Anne, and Zellou, Georgia. “Intelligibility of face-masked speech depends on speaking style: Comparing casual, smiled, and clear speech” Cognition210 . (2021): 104570.
Pycha, Anne. “Differences in perception and memory for speech fragments in complex versus simple words: Two experiments” The Mental Lexicon15.2 (2020): 189 - 222.
Zellou, Georgia, and Pycha, Anne. The gradient influence of temporal extent of coarticulation on vowel and speaker perception9.1 Journal of Laboratory Phonology. 2018: 12
Pycha, Anne. “False memory rates for morphologically simple versus complex words in English” The Mental Lexicon12.1 (2017): 71-106.
Pycha, Anne. “A new test for exemplar theory: Varying versus non-varying words in Spanish” Glossa2.1 (2017): 82.
Pycha, Anne. “False memories for varying and non-varying words in American English” Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience(2016): 1-16.
Pycha, Anne. “Co-articulatory cues for communication: An investigation of five environments” Language and Speech59. (2016): 364-386.
Pycha, Anne, and Dahan, Delphine. “Differences in coda voicing trigger temporal realignment of gestures: A test case from the American English diphthong /aɪ/” Journal of Phonetics56. (2016): 15–37.
Pycha, Anne. “Listeners perceive prefixes differently: Evidence from a noise-rating task” Word Structure8.1 (2015): 53-83.
Pycha, Anne. “Subjective perception of affixation: A test case from Spanish” Lingua159. (2015): 47-69.
Pycha, Anne. “A test case for the phonetics-phonology interface: Gemination restrictions in Hungarian” Phonology27.1 (2010): 119-152.