Anne Pycha
Associate Professor, Dept. Chair
Johnston Hall 124
2022 recipient, UWM Office of Research/UWM Foundation Research Award
Personal website: http://people.uwm.edu/pycha/
Degrees
PhD, Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
BA, Religious Studies, Brown University
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, A., Cohn, M., & Zellou, G. (2022, May). Face-Masked Speech Intelligibility: The Influence of Speaking Style, Visual Information, and Background Noise. Frontiers in Communication.
Cohn, M., Pycha, A., & Zellou, G. (2021, May). Intelligibility of face-masked speech depends on speaking style: Comparing casual, smiled, and clear speech. Cognition, 210, 104570.
Pycha, A. (2021). Phonological and morphological roles modulate the perception of consonant variants. Linguistics Vanguard.
Pycha, A. (2020, November). Differences in perception and memory for speech fragments in complex versus simple words: Two experiments. The Mental Lexicon, 15(2), 189 – 222.
Zellou, G., & Pycha, A. (2018, August). The gradient influence of temporal extent of coarticulation on vowel and speaker perception. , 9(1), 12.
Pycha, A. (2017, September). A new test for exemplar theory: Varying versus non-varying words in Spanish. Glossa, 2(1), 82.
Pycha, A. (2017). False memory rates for morphologically simple versus complex words in English. The Mental Lexicon, 12(1), 71-106.
Pycha, A. (2016, September). Co-articulatory cues for communication: An investigation of five environments. Language and Speech, 59, 364-386.
Pycha, A., & Dahan, D. (2016, May). Differences in coda voicing trigger temporal realignment of gestures: A test case from the American English diphthong /aɪ/. Journal of Phonetics, 56, 15–37.
Pycha, A. (2016, October (4th Quarter/Autumn)). False memories for varying and non-varying words in American English. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 1-16.
Pycha, A. (2015, April (2nd Quarter/Spring)). Listeners perceive prefixes differently: Evidence from a noise-rating task. Word Structure, 8(1), 53-83.
Pycha, A. (2015, April (2nd Quarter/Spring)). Subjective perception of affixation: A test case from Spanish. Lingua, 159, 47-69.
Pycha, A. (2010). A test case for the phonetics-phonology interface: Gemination restrictions in Hungarian. Phonology, 27(1), 119-152.
Pycha, A. (2009). Lengthened affricates as a test case for the phonetics-phonology interface. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 39(1), 1-31.