PUBLICATIONS

Girolamo, T.M., Politzer-Ahles, S., Ghali, S. & Williams, B. T. (2021). Preliminary evaluation of applicants to master’s programs in Speech Language Pathology using vignettes and criteria from a holistic review process. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1-26. Link to Article. PDF.

Williams, B. T., Viswanathan, N. (2020). The effects of target-masker sex mismatch on linguistic release from masking. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 148(4), 2006-2014. Link to Article. PDF.

Viswanathan, N., Kokkinakis, K. & Williams, B. T. (2018). Listeners experience linguistic masking release in noise- vocoded speech- in-speech recognition. The Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61(2), 428-435. Link to Article. PDF.

Viswanathan, N., Kokkinakis, K. & Williams, B. T. (2016). Spatially separating language masker from target results in spatial and linguistic masking release. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(6), EL465-EL470. Link to Article. PDF.

DISSERTATION

Williams, B. T. (2022). The effect of visual speech information on linguistic release from masking. (Ph. D. Dissertation).

THESES

Williams, B. T. (2015). The effect of foreign accented masker type on speech-on-speech recognition.

(Master's Thesis). Link to Article Request.

Williams, B. T. (2012). The effect of emotions on cross cultural speech perception. (Undergraduate Honor's

Thesis).

PRESENTATIONS

Williams, B.T., Viswanathan, N. & Brouwer, S. (2022). The role of audiovisual information during linguistic release from masking:

comparing bilingual and monolingual perceivers. Poster presented at the International Symposium on Monolingual and

Bilingual Speech in Lafayette, LA, USA. April 6.

Williams, B.T., Obrzut, A., Waller, C., Dussias, G., Brouwer, S., Viswanathan, N. (2021). Linguistic release from masking as a measure for language proficiency. Poster presented at the 62^nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society: A Virtual Conference, November 4.

Williams, B.T. & Viswanathan, N. (2017) Target-masker sex mismatch affects linguistic release from masking.

Poster at the 58^th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,

November 9.

Williams, B. T., Viswanathan, N. (2015). Effects of Foreign-Accented Speech Maskers on Speech-in-Speech

Recognition. Poster presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Chicago, IL,

November 21.

Olmstead, A., Viswanthan, N., Williams, B. T. & Attanasio, C. (2014). Training American English Speakers to

Discriminate Hindi Dental and Retroflex Stops in Lexical Contexts. Poster presented at Psychonomics

Society Conference, Long Beach, CA, November 21.

Williams, B. T., Shelley-Tremblay, J. & Gordon, M. S. (2010). The Effect of Emotions on Cross Cultural

Speech Perception. Poster presented at the UniversityConference for Undergraduate Research

(UCUR), Mobile, AL, October 20.

Williams, B. T., Kolbusz, M. & Gordon, M. S. (2008). Audiovisual Speech Detection with Affective Displays.

Poster presented at the University Conference for Undergraduate Research (UCUR), Mobile, AL,

October 25