Meghan Clayards
Regular member
Institutions: McGill University, School of Communication Sciences & Disorders
Research interests: Speech perception; Speech production; Learning; Phonetics; Word recognition
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Meghan Clayards’ research interests are in speech perception, online auditory word recognition, acoustic phonetics and learning. She uses acoustic analysis of speech to look at patterns of variability in acoustic-phonetic cues and perception and training studies to see how that variability affects speech processing. Eye-tracking and the visual world paradigm are used to investigate how acoustic phonetic cues are integrated in real time during on-line word recognition. Current projects are also investigating the effects of variability on word learning in toddlers and adult second language learners.