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Diana Sidtis (formerly Van Lancker) received an MA in English Language from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Linguistics from Brown University, followed by an National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow- ship at Northwestern University and clin- ical certification in Speech Pathology from California State University at Los Angeles. She is the former chair and cur- rently Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University. She performs research in neu- rolinguistics, motor speech disorders and voice at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. Jody Kreiman received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago. She is currently Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and is also affiliated with UCLA’s Departments of Communication Studies and Biomedical Engineering. Her research focuses on perception of voice quality, on the relationships between voice production and acoustics, and on the uses of voice quality in natural lan- guages. She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and is the Editor for Speech of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Michael Burrill, INCE Director / Senior Acoustical Scientist, ARCADIS U.S., Inc Voices and Listeners 15