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Acoustics of Regionally Accented Speech Biosketches
Ewa Jacewicz is a Research Associate Professor of Speech and Hearing Sci- ence at The Ohio State University in Columbus. She obtained a PhD in Ger- manic linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999 and has pursued a research career in speech sci-
ence since her first appointment as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2000. Her interests are in speech acoustics and re- gional variation in American English with applications to speech development and disorders. She has been a member of the Acoustical Society of America since 2001. She served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.
Robert A. Fox is a Professor of Speech and Hearing Science at The Ohio State University in Columbus and, since 1995, Chair of that Department. He received a PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago in 1978. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the
American Speech, Language and Hearing Association and served as an Associate Editor of The Journal of the Acousti- cal Society of America. His research interests span a range of areas in speech perception and acoustics, including regional and nonnative variations, and speech changes across the hu- man life span. He is also an expert witness in forensic acoustics.
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