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Work Address:
Curriculum Vitae
Michael Kiefte
Professor
November 6, 2012
School of Human Communication Disorders
Dalhousie University
PO Box 15000
1256 Barrington Street, 6th Floor
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 4R2 Canada
Work Phone:
+1 902 494 5150
Electronic-mail:
mkiefte@dal.ca
PERSONAL
Citizenship: Canada/United Kingdom
Home Address:
46 Erskine Street
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
B2Y 1P9 Canada
Home Phone:
+1 902 463 9798
Facsimile:
+1 902 494 5151
Languages: English, French, Swedish (fluent); German and Russian (limited)
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Ph.D. Experimental Phonetics Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta
(Jan. 1996–Jul. 2000) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Supervisor: Terrance M. Nearey
Dissertation title: The Perception of Spectrally and Temporally Distorted Prevocalic
Stop Consonants
M.Sc. Experimental Phonetics Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta
(Sep. 1993–Dec. 1995) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
B.A. Linguistics Memorial University of Newfoundland
(Sep. 1989–May 1993) St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
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AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council Doctoral Fellowship
C$62 676 Aug. 1996–Jul. 2000
Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship C$13 592 Aug. 1996-Apr. 2000
J. Gordon Kaplan Graduate Student
Award
C$400 Nov. 1994
Province of Alberta Graduate Fellowship C$6 200 Sep. 1993–Aug. 1994
Medallion for Excellence in Linguistics May 1993
Dean’s List, Faculty of Arts, Memorial
University of Newfoundland
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Dalhousie University
May 1992–Apr. 1993
Jul. 2012–Dec. 2012 Acting Directory, School of Human Communication Disorders
Jul. 2011–present Professor, School of Human Communication Disorders
Jul. 2003–present Cross appointment, Department of Psychology
Jul. 2006–Jun. 2011 Associate professor, School of Human Communication Disorders
Aug. 2001–Jun. 2006 Assistant professor, School of Human Communication Disorders
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Jul. 2007–Jun. 2008 Honourary Fellow, Department of Psychology
Aug. 2000–Jul. 2001 Research associate, Department of Psychology
University of Alberta
Nov.–Dec. 1999 Course instructor, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology
Sep.–Dec. 1998 Course instructor, Department of Linguistics
Sep. 1993–Dec. 1996 Graduate research assistant, Department of Linguistics
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WORKLOAD DISTRIBUTION
Dalhousie University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Dalhousie University
TEACHING: 40%
RESEARCH: 40%
SERVICE: 20%
Human Communication Disorders 5020.03 Phonetics
Fall 2005, Winter 2007–2012
Human Communication Disorders 5050.03 Fundamentals of Speech Science
Fall 2001–2006, Fall 2008–2011
Human Communication Disorders 6630.03 Cochlear Implants and Other
Implantable Technologies
Fall 2011
Human Communication Disorders 6310.03 Audition I
Fall 2011
Human Communication Disorders 6620.03 Advanced Topics in Audiology
Fall 2002–2006, Fall 2008–2010
Shared teaching with Dr. Rachel Caissie
Human Communication Disorders 6980.03 Research Design
Winter 2002–2006
University of Alberta
Linguistics 312 Introduction to Experimental Phonetics and Speech Science
Fall 1998
Speech Pathology and Audiology 505 Speech Science
Fall 1999
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Research Project Supervision
Total number of students
Undergraduate Masters degree Ph.D.
Projects Projects Research
Research Supervisor 1 37 0
Member of Advisory/
Examination Committee
Master’s Project Supervision
Lyndsay Bozec (Aud.), Anita Reiss (SL-P),
and Leslie Saleh (SL-P)
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M.Sc. Sep. 2012–May 2013
Sarah Feltmate (SL-P), Dominique Gillis M.Sc. Sep. 2011–May 2012
(SL-P), and Lindsay Peter (Aud.)
Perceptual format tracking: Effects of spurious formants
Nicole Elford and Nancy Greenwood M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2009–May 2012
Exploring the effect of reduced spectral resolution on speech recognition thresholds in
normal and sensineural hearing loss populations
Tracey Crabtree and Stephanie Rogers M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2009–May 2012
The relationship between articulatory rate change and prosodic characteristics
Ashley Brown and Kira McVicar M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2009–May 2012
(co-supervisor)
Effectiveness of altered auditory feedback to decrease stuttering in adolescents
Chelsey McInnis and Marsha Lannan M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2009–May 2012
(co-supervisor)
Vowel acoustic analysis of Pictou, Nova Scotia speech-production
Mylene Melanson and Kelsey Matchett M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2009–May 2012
(co-supervisor)
Effects of delayed auditory feedback on normally fluent speakers during monologue and
reading tasks
Kevin LeClair (co-supervisor) M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2008–May 2011
Perception and Frequency-Following Response of Inharmonic Signals
Peter Benstead and Miriam Kolacevic M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2008–May 2011
(co-supervisor)
Auditory steady-state response Doppler measures of formant encoding in the human
brainstem
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Beth Longard (co-supervisor) M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2008–May 2011
The Relationship between Fluent Speech Characteristics and Stuttering Frequency for
Speech Produced using SpeechEasy
Sudipa Bhattacharyya (co-supervisor) M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2007–May 2010
Effects of Type of Instruction and Magnitude of Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) on
Speech Rate of Fluent Speakers
Carrie Vautour and Melissa Mackay
(co-supervisor)
Acceptable Noise Level (ANL)
Ozioma Ijeh and Charlotte Lundeen
(co-supervisor)
Survey of Nova Scotia Dialects of English
M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2007–May 2010
M.Sc. (SL-P) Sep. 2007–May 2010
Jennifer Parsons M.Sc. (Aud) Sep. 2006–May 2009
An Electrophysiological Study of Pitch Perception in Young Cochlear Implant Users
Tina Soucy M.Sc (S-LP) Sep. 2006–May 2009
The Relationship Between Vocal Pitch and Formant Frequency
Jane MacAdam and Katherine Marsters M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2006–present
(co-supervisor)
An Investigation of Story Complexity in the ANL Test
Stephanie Boudreau, Kamila Slawinska M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2005–May 2008
and Erin Lieberman (co-supervisor)
Long-Term Successful Use of SpeechEasy for Treating Stuttering: A Qualitative Study
Donata Graefin von Platen-Hallermund M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2005–May 2008
(co-supervisor)
The Effect of Prosodic Variation on Choral Reading Proficiency and Stuttering
Aimee Parrott and Maxine Quigley M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2005–May 2008
(co-supervisor)
A Comparison of the Acceptable Noise Level Test and Hearing In Noise Test in Different
Types of Background Noises
Stephanie Wambolt (co-supervisor) M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2005–May 2008
Use of temporal strategies and prosodic variation in choral speech and AAF
Teresa Enright and Lacey Marshall M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2004–May 2007
Investigation of the Perception of Formant Amplitude in Vowels /i/ and /u/ in Normal-
Hearing Listeners
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Doran Hayes (co-supervisor) M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2004–May 2007
Music Perception with Open Ear Hearing Aid Fittings versus Standard Hearing Aid Fittings
Melissa Moloissa (co-supervisor) M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2004–May 2007
The North Preston and North Halifax Dialects of African Nova Scotian English
Marcia Curry (co-supervisor) M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2003–May 2006
Visual Choral Speech and Stuttering Frequency
Natalie Didrachnik M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2003–May 2006
Intrinsic Variation of Fundamental Frequency ( f0) in Tracheoesophageal Speech
Lasha Hack and Charlene Lahey M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2003–May 2006
(co-supervisor)
Late Recovery of Stuttering: Exploring the Construct of Recovery
Andrew Stewart M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2003–May 2006
Investigation of the Resonance Properties of the Human Skull in vivo Using Fine-Tuned
Audiometry
Sara Macintosh M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2002–May 2005
Vowel-masked audiograms
Marie Mossman and Tiffany Steeves M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2002–May 2005
(co-supervisor)
The Effects of the SpeechEasy Device on Stuttering as Measured by Subjective Severity
Ratings
Jillian Rowsel M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2002–May 2005
Vocal pitch in tracheo-esophageal speech
Dianni DeCross and Jessica Mason M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2001–May 2004
(co-supervisor)
Effects of SpeechEasy and Fitting Protocol on Stuttering Frequency
Karyn Lively M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2001–May 2004
The relationship between vocal pitch and formant frequency
Melanie Osmond and Colette White M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2001–May 2004
Categorizaton of synthetic vowel stimuli by speakers of a Western Newfoundland Dialect
Master’s Thesis Supervision
K. Casey Kennedy M.Sc. (SL-P) Sep. 2012–May 2015
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Kathleen Chiddenton M.Sc. (SL-P) Sep. 2010–May 2013
Examining listeners ability to perceive vowel-inherent spectral changes
Courtney Cain M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2009–May 2012
Voice quality and gender identification: Exploration of male-to-female transgender individuals,
male, and female voices using acoustic and perceptual analysis
Jessica Andrus (co-supervisor) M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2009–May 2012
The Perception and Neural Representation of Individual Harmonics in Vowel Sounds: a
Behavioral and Steady-State Response Study
Nicole Jackson M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2008–May 2011
Binaural integration by cochlear-implant users during talker discrimination tasks
Tara Collins M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2005–May 2008
Perceptual formant tracking
Amy McKinnon M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2004–May 2007
Pitch perception in cochlear implantees and normal hearing peers
Jennifer O’Donnell (co-supervisor) M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2002–May 2005
Effectiveness of an auditory feedback prosthetic device to ameliorate stuttering during
everyday life: An outcome study
Master’s Thesis Committee Membership
Meghan Tranquilla M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2006–May 2008
Clear Speech Intervention and its Effect on Speech Perception in Noise
Nadia Tymczyszyn M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2006–May 2008
The Effects of Over-Expressed X-Linked Inhibitors of Apoptosis in the Prevention of
Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
Trevor Menchenton M.Sc. (Aud.) Sep. 2006–May 2008
The Influence of Transferred ubxiap on the Progression of Age-Related Hearing Loss
Ahmed Khwaja M.A.Sc. (Biomed. Eng.) Sep. 2004–May 2006
Eustachian Tube Acoustic Characteristics and its Effects on the Middle Ear
Kimberley McIvor M.Sc. (S-LP) Sep. 2002–May 2005
Using Endogenous Event-Related Brain Potentials to Index Categorical Perception and
its Relationship to Basic Reading Skills
Lori Thorne M.Sc. (S-LP) Aug. 2001–May 2002
The effect of anxiety on stuttering frequency in adults who stutter
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Master’s Thesis External Examiner
James Glen Martin Nowell M.Sc (S-LP) Sep. 2001
Classical Singing Techniques and Vocal Health of Undergraduate Voice Majors at Canadian
Universities
PUBLICATIONS
Publications in Refereed Journals: 17 published
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters: 1 accepted/3 published
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings: 6 published
Other conference proceedings: 6 published
Published Abstracts: 1 accepted/28 published
Publications in Refereed Journals
Alian, W., Majdalawieh, O., Kiefte, M., Ejnell, H., and Bance, M. (submitted). “The
effect of increased stiffness of the incudo-stapedial joint on the transmission of air conducted
sound by the human middle ear,” Otol. Neurotol.
Stilp, C. E., Kiefte, M., Alexander, J. M., and Kluender, K. R. (2010). “Cochlea-scaled
spectral entropy predicts rate-invariant intelligibility of temporally distorted sentences,”
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 2112–2126.
Kiefte, M., Enright, T., and Marshall, L. (2010). “The role of formant amplitude in the
perception of /i/ and /u/,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 2611–2621.
Feng, Y., Yin, S., Kiefte, M., and Wang, J. (2010). “Speech perception in noise and temporal
resolution in low-frequency zones for subjects with sloping high-frequency hearing
loss,” Ear Hearing 31, 115–125.
Stilp, C. E., Alexander, J. M., Kiefte, M., and Kluender, K. R. (2010). “Auditory color
constancy: Calibration to reliable spectral properties across speech and nonspeech contexts
and targets,” Atten. Percept. Psychophys. 72, 470–480.
Armson, J. and Kiefte, M. (2008). “The effect of SpeechEasy on stuttering frequency,
speech rate, and speech naturalness in a clinical setting,” J. Fluency Disord. 33, 120–134.
O’Donnell, J., Armson, J., and Kiefte, M. (2008). “The effectiveness of SpeechEasy
during situations of daily living,” J. Fluency Disord. 33, 99–119.
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Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2008). “Absorption of reliable spectral characteristics in
auditory perception,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123, 366–376.
Kiefte, M. and Armson, J. (2008). “Dissecting choral speech: Properties of the accompanist
critical to stuttering reduction,” J. Commun. Disord. 41, 33–48.
Armson, J., Kiefte, M., Mason, J., and DeCroos, D. (2006). “The effect of SpeechEasy
on stuttering frequency in laboratory conditions,” J. Fluency Disord. 31, 137–152.
Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2005). “Pattern Playback revisited: Unvoiced stop consonant
perception,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 2599–2606.
Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2005). “The relative importance of spectral tilt in
monophthongs and diphthongs,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 1395–1404.
Bance, M., Morris, D. P., van Wijhe, R. G., Kiefte, M., and Funnell, W. R. J. (2004).
“Comparison of the mechanical performance of ossiculoplasty using a prosthetic malleusto-stapes
head with a tympanic membrane-to-stapes head assembly in a human cadavaric
middle ear model,” Otol. Neurotol. 25, 903–909.
Morris, D. P., Bance, M., van Wijhe, R. G., Kiefte, M., and Smith, R. (2004). “Optimum
tension for porp reconstruction in the human middle ear,” Laryngoscope 114, 305–308.
Kluender, K. R., Coady, J. A., and Kiefte, M. (2003). “Perceptual sensitivity to change in
perception of speech,” Speech Commun. 41, 59–69.
Kiefte, M. (2003). “Temporal information in gated stop consonants,” Speech Commun.
40, 315–333.
Recio, A., Rhode, W. S., Kiefte, M., and Kluender, K. R. (2002). “Responses to cochlear
normalized speech stimuli in the auditory nerve of cat,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 111, 2213–
2218.
Kiefte, M., Kluender, K. R., and Rhode, W. S. (2002). “Synthetic speech stimuli spectrally
normalized for nonhuman cochlear dimensions,” ARLO 3, 41–46.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Kluender, K. R., Stilp, C. E., and Kiefte, M. (in press). “Perception of vowel sounds
within a biologically realistic model of efficient coding,” in Vowel Inherent Spectral
Change, edited by G. Morrison and P. F. Assmann (Springer).
Kiefte, M., Nearey, T. M., and Assmann, P. F. (2012). “Vowel perception in normal speakers,”
in Handbook of Vowels and Vowel Disorders, edited by M. J. Ball and F. Gibbon
(Psychology Press), p. 160.
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Kiefte, M. and Kay-Raining Bird, E. (2010). “The Americas and the Caribbean: Canadian
Maritimes,” in The Lesser-Known Varieties of English, edited by D. Schreier,
P. Trudgill, E. Schneider, and J. Williams (Cambridge University Press), pp. 59–71.
Kluender, K. R. and Kiefte, M. (2006). “Speech perception within a biologically realistic
information-theoretic framework,” in Handbook of Psycholinguistics, edited by M. A.
Gernsbacher and M. Traxler (Elsevier, London), 2nd ed., pp. 153–199.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
Kiefte, M. and Armson, J. (2007). “What can choral speech teach us about stuttering
reduction?” in Research, Treatment, and Self-Help in Fluency Disorders: New Horizons,
edited by J. Au-Yeung and M. M. Leahy (The International Fluency Association), pp.
446–452.
Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2003). “Pattern Playback revisited: Unvoiced stop consonant
perception,” in Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences,
pp. 1417–1420.
Nearey, T. M. and Kiefte, M. (2003). “Comparison of several proposed perceptual representations
of vowel spectra,” in Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetic
Sciences, pp. 1005–1008.
Kiefte, M. (1999). “The perception of spectrally reduced prevocalic stop consonants,” in
Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 1, pp. 223–
226.
Kiefte, M. and Nearey, T. M. (1998). “Dynamic vs. static spectral detail in the perception
of gated stop consonants,” in Proceedings of the International Conference of Spoken
Language Processing, vol. 5, pp. 2175–2178.
Nearey, T. M. and Kiefte, M. (1995). “A multi-stage procedure for identification of acoustic
micro-segments in stop+vowel+stop syllables,” in Proceedings of The XIII th International
Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 4, pp. 304–306.
Other Conference Proceedings
Marshall, L., Enright, T., and Kiefte, M. (2006). “The role of formant amplitude in the
perception of /i/ and /u/ in normal hearing listeners,” Can. Acoust. 34, 108–109.
Nearey, T. M. and Kiefte, M. (2003). “A neural-network approach to the question of the
dimensionality of the perceptual vowel space,” Can. Acoust. 31, 16–17.
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Published Abstracts
Kiefte, M. and Nearey, T. M. (2011). “Effects of consonant context on vowel formant
contours in spontaneous and read speech,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130, 2511.
Aiken, S. J. and Kiefte, M. (2011). “Pitch perception and frequency-following response
in inharmonic signals,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 129, 2591.
Bhattacharyya, S., Armson, J., and Kiefte, M. (2011). “Delay detectability and speech
rate as a function of delay duration in auditory feedback,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, 2287.
Assmann, P. F., Nearey, T. M., and Kiefte, M. (2010). “Vowel-inherent spectral change
in isolated vowels and CVCs,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 2019.
Stilp, C. E., Kiefte, M., and Kluender, K. R. (2010). “Signal detection as a function of
relative acoustic entropy,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 1899.
Kiefte, M., Collins, T., Stilp, C., and Kluender, K. R. (2009). “Formant-frequency trajectories
as acoustic correlates to speech perception,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 2694.
Kluender, K. R., Stilp, C. E., Rogers, T. T., and Kiefte, M. (2009). “Vowel-inherent
spectral change enhances adaptive dispersion,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125, 2695.
Kiefte, M., Stilp, C. E., and Kluender, K. R. (2008). “Channel segregation improves
perception of speech with temporally desynchronized bands,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124,
2457.
Stilp, C. E., Kluender, K. R., Alexander, J. M., and Kiefte, M. (2007). “Intelligibility
of information in temporally desynchronized bands of speech,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122,
2971.
Kiefte, M. (2007). “Effects of several consonant environments on vowel formants,” J.
Acoust. Soc. Am. 122, 3030.
Kiefte, M., Enright, T., and Marshall, L. (2007). “Formant amplitude in the perception of
/i/ and /u/,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121, 3189.
McKinnon, A. and Kiefte, M. (2006). “Pitch discrimination in children using cochlear
implants,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 3130.
Kluender, K. R. and Kiefte, M. (2006). “Effects of reliable spectral-temporal characteristics
of listening context on perception of monopthongs and diphthongs,” J. Acoust. Soc.
Am. 119, 3241.
Kiefte, M., Didrachnik, N., and Rowsell, J. (2006). “Intrinsic vowel pitch in tracheoesophageal
speech,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 3303.
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Kiefte, M. (2005). “Production and perception of whispered vowels,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
118, 1933.
Kiefte, M. (2004). “Acoustic characteristics of whispered vowels,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
116, 2546.
Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2004). “Perceptual cancellation of reliable spectral characteristics,”
in Abstracts of the 27 th Annual Midwinter Research Meeting (Association for
Research in Otolaryngology), p. 273.
Kluender, K. R. and Kiefte, M. (2003). “Auditory color constancy,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
114, 2335.
Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2002). “Context effects on the perception of vowel spectral
properties,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112, 2248.
Recio, A., Rhode, W. S., Kiefte, M., and Kluender, K. R. (2002). “Responses to cochlear
normalized speech stimuli in the auditory nerve of cat,” in Abstracts of the Twenty-Fifth
Annual Midwinter Research Meeting (Association for Research in Otolaryngology), p. 87.
Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2001). “Spectral tilt versus formant frequency in static
and dynamic vowels,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 2294.
Kiefte, M., Kluender, K. R., and Rhode, W. S. (2001). “Speech normalized to human
cochlear dimensions,” in Abstracts of the 24 th Annual Midwinter Research Meeting (Association
for Research in Otolaryngology), p. 176.
Kiefte, M. (2000). “Gross versus detailed spectral cues in spectrally distorted speech,” J.
Acoust. Soc. Am. 108, 2602.
Kiefte, M. (1999). “The perception of noise vocoded prevocalic stop bursts and formant
transitions,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, 2273.
Nearey, T. M., Kiefte, M., and Hillenbrand, J. M. (1999). “Comparing alternate representations
of acoustic properties in vowel perception,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 1353.
Nearey, T. M. and Kiefte, M. (1997). “Cross-validation study of vowel perception in
Finnish and English,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102, 3095.
Nearey, T. M., Kiefte, M., and Hillenbrand, J. M. (1996). “Logistic regression analysis
of the perception of natural and synthesized /hVd/ syllables,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 100,
2688.
Nearey, T. M. and Kiefte, M. (1996). “Modeling listeners’ categorization of a large F1–
F2–F3 continuum by Finnish listeners,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99, 2630.
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Nearey, T. M., Kiefte, M., Guilbault, C., Kabata, K., and Zhang, X. (1995). “Effects of
compound priming on listeners’ identification of a /kVC/ continuum,” J. Acoust. Soc.
Am. 98, 2985.
Kiefte, M. and Nearey, T. M. (1995). “Categorization of stop consonants in /sCs/ context,”
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98, 2891.
Nearey, T. M. and Kiefte, M. (1994). “Modeling listeners’ categorization of a large F1–
F2–F3 continuum,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 3284.
Lay Papers
Kiefte, M. (2004). “Whispering songs,” Acoustical Society of America 148th Meeting
Lay Language Papers [http://www.aip.org/148th/kiefte.html].
Kluender, K. and Kiefte, M. (2003). “Auditory color constancy,” Acoustical Society of
America 146th Meeting Lay Language Papers
[http://www.acoustics.org/press/146th/Kluender.htm].
Distributed Software
Kiefte, M. (2002). “MATLAB speech synthesizer,” available at:
http://www.dal.ca/ mkiefte/klatt/klatt.zip.
Kiefte, M. (1999). “Discriminant analysis toolbox 0.3,” discrim.zip available at:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/
under the category “Statistics”.
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Presentations
Kiefte, M., Collins, T., Stilp, C., and Kluender, K. R. (2009). “Formant-frequency transitions
as acoustic correlates to speech perception,” Invited paper presented at the 157th
Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. [May 21, 2009].
Kluender, K. R., Stilp, C. E., Rogers, T. T., and Kiefte, M. (2009). “Vowel-inherent spectral
change enhances adaptive dispersion,” Invited paper presented at the 157th Meeting
of the Acoustical Society of America. [May 21, 2009].
Kiefte, M. (2009). “Pulling apart spectral channels in speech perception,” Invited paper
presented at the 40 th Anniversary Conference, Department of Linguistics, University of
Alberta. [May 16, 2009].
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Kiefte, M. and Collins, T. (2008). “Spectral peaks as acoustic correlates to speech perception,”
Invited paper presented at the Acoustics Week in Canada Conference, Vancouver,
BC. [Oct. 7, 2008].
Kiefte, M. (2006). “Speech production and perception research in Nova Scotia,” Plenary
session presented at Acoustics Week in Canada Conference, Halifax, NS. [Oct. 12, 2006].
Kiefte, M. (2005). “Vowel perception,” Invited lecture presented at Memorial University
of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL. [Dec. 6, 2005].
Conference Presentations
Kiefte, M. (2012). “The Nova Scotia dialect project: Large-scale analaysis of vowelformant
patterns in spontaneous and elicited speech,” Paper presented at the 36 th Annual
Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association, Halifax NS. [Nov. 3, 2012].
Kiefte, M., Bird, E. K.-R., and Nearey, T. M. (2012). “Dialect variation in vowel-inherent
spectral change in spontaneous and elicited speech,” Poster presented at the 41 st Annual
Conference of New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Bloomington IN. [Oct. 26, 2012].
Kiefte, M. and Nearey, T. M. (2012). “Vowel-inherent spectral change in the spontaneous
speech of nova Scotians,” Paper presented at the Acoustics Week in Canada 2012, Banff
AB. [Oct. 11, 2012].
Nearey, T. M. and Kiefte, M. (2012). “Modeling the effects of vowel context in assessing
vowel-inherent spectral change,” Paper presented at the Acoustics Week in Canada 2012,
Banff AB. [Oct. 11, 2012].
Kiefte, M. and Nearey, T. M. (2011). “Effects of consonant context on vowel formant
contours in spontaneous and read speech,” Poster presented at the 162nd Meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America, San Diego CA. [Nov. 3, 2011].
Aiken, S. J., LeClair, K., and Kiefte, M. (2011). “Pitch perception and frequencyfollowing
response in inharmonic signals,” Poster presented at the 161st Meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America, Seatle WA. [ 26, 2011].
Kiefte, M. and Nearey, T. (2011). “Vowel formant contours in spontaneous and read
speech,” Poster presented at New Tools and Methods for Very-Large-Scale Phonetics Research.
[Jan. 29, 2011].
Bhattacharyya, S., Armson, J., and Kiefte, M. (2010). “Delay detectability and speech
rate as a function of delay duration in auditory feedback,” Poster presented at the Second
Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics, Cancun, Mexico. [Nov. 15, 2010].
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Assmann, P. F., Nearey, T. M., and Kiefte, M. (2010). “Vowel-inherent spectral change
in isolated vowels and CVCs,” Poster presented at the 159th Meeting of the Acoustical
Society of America, Baltimore MD. [Apr. 23, 2010].
Stilp, C. E., Kiefte, M., and Kluender, K. R. (2010). “Signal detection as a function of
relative acoustic entropy,” Poster presented at the 159th Meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America, Baltimore MD. [Apr. 21, 2010].
Kiefte, M. (2009). “Management of phonetic data in a large corpus of spontaneous speech
from speakers of Nova Scotia English,” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of
the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. [Nov. 7, 2009].
Kiefte, M. and Armson, J. (2008). “Prosodic variability & voicing prolongation in choral
reading & altered auditory feedback,” Poster presented at the ASHA Convention, Chicago,
IL. [Nov. 21, 2008].
Kiefte, M., Stilp, C. E., and Kluender, K. R. (2008). “Channel segregation improves
perception of speech with temporally synchronized bands,” Poster presented at the 156th
Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, FL. [Nov. 10, 2008].
Quigley, M., Parrott, A., Caissie, R., and Kiefte, M. (2008). “A comparison of acceptible
noise level and hearing in noise test in different types of background noise,” Poster presented
at the 11th Annual Conference of tha Canadian Academy of Audiologists, Halifax,
NS. [Oct. 16, 2008].
Kiefte, M. (2007). “Effects of several consonantal environments on vowel formants,”
Poster presented at the 154th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans,
LA. [Nov. 29, 2007].
Stilp, C. E., Kluender, K. R., Alexander, J. M., and Kiefte, M. (2007). “Intelligibility of
information in temporally desynchronized bands of speech,” Poster presented at the 154th
Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, LA. [Nov. 28, 2007].
Kiefte, M., Enright, T., and Marshall, L. (2007). “Formant amplitude in the perception of
/i/ and /u/,” Poster presented at the 153rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,
Salt Lake City, UT. [Jun. 7, 2007].
McKinnon, A. and Kiefte, M. (2006). “Pitch discrimination in children using cochlear
implants,” Poster presented at the Fourth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America
and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI. [Nov. 29, 2006].
Moloissa, M., Kiefte, M., and Kay-Raining Bird, E. (2006). “An acoustic study of the
African-Nova-Scotian English vowel systems in North Preston and North Halifax,” Paper
presented at the 2006 Canadian Acoustical Association Annual Conference, Halifax NS.
[Oct. 13, 2006].
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McKinnon, A. and Kiefte, M. (2006). “Pitch perception of young cochlear implant users
and normal hearing peers,” Paper presented at the 2006 Canadian Acoustical Association
Annual Conference, Halifax NS. [Oct. 13, 2006].
Marshall, L., Enright, T., and Kiefte, M. (2006). “The role of formant amplitude in the
perception of /i/ and /u/ in normal-hearing listeners,” Paper presented at the 2006 Canadian
Acoustical Association Annual Conference, Halifax NS. [Oct. 13, 2006].
Kiefte, M. and Armson, J. (2006). “What can choral speech teach us about stuttering
reduction?” Paper presented at the 5th World Congress of the International Fluency Association,
Dublin, Ireland. [Jul. 26, 2006].
Kluender, K. R. and Kiefte, M. (2006). “Effects of reliable spectral-temporal characteristics
of listening context on perception of monopthongs and diphthongs,” Poster presented
at the 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI. [Jun. 5, 2006].
Kiefte, M., Didrachnik, N., and Rowsell, J. (2006). “Intrinsic vowel pitch in tracheoesophageal
speech,” Poster presented at the 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America, Providence, RI. [Jun. 6, 2006].
Kiefte, M. and Armson, J. (2005). “Properties of choral speech critical to stuttering reduction,”
Poster presented at the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association
Convention, San Diego, CA. [Nov. 19, 2005].
O’Donnell, J., Armson, J., and Kiefte, M. (2005). “Effectiveness of SpeechEasy to
ameliorate stuttering during everyday life,” Poster presented at the American Speech-
Language and Hearing Association Convention, San Diego, CA. [Nov. 19, 2005].
Kiefte, M. (2005). “Production and perception of whispered vowels,” Poster presented
at the 150th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis, MN. [Oct. 18,
2005].
O’Donnell, J., Armson, J., and Kiefte, M. (2005). “Effectiveness of SpeechEasy to
ameliorate stuttering during everyday life,” Poster presented at Canadian Association of
Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists Conference, Regina, SK. [May 6, 2005].
Kiefte, M. (2004). “Acoustic characteristics of whispered vowels,” Poster presented at
the 148th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA. [Nov. 16, 2004].
Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2004). “Perceptual cancellation of reliable spectral characteristics,”
Paper presented at the 27th Annual Midwinter Research Meeting of the Association
for Research in Otolaryngology, Daytona Beach, FL. [Feb. 25, 2004].
Kluender, K. R. and Kiefte, M. (2003). “Auditory color constancy,” Poster presented at
the 146th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Austin, TX. [Nov. 11, 2003].
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Kiefte, M. and Macintosh, S. (2003). “Vowel masked audiograms: Audibility of individual
harmonics in synthetic monophthongs,” Paper presented at the Canadian Acoustical
Association Annual Conference, Edmonton, AB. [Oct. 15, 2003].
Nearey, T. M. and Kiefte, M. (2003). “A neural network approach to the question of dimensionality
of the perceptual vowel space,” Paper presented at the Canadian Acoustical
Association Annual Conference, Edmonton, AB. [Oct. 15, 2003].
Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2003). “Pattern Playback revisited: Unvoiced stop consonant
perception,” Poster presented at the XVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences,
Barcelona, Spain. [Aug. 5, 2003].
Nearey, T. M. and Kiefte, M. (2003). “Comparison of several proposed perceptual representations
of vowel spectra,” Paper presented at the XVth International Congress of
Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain. [Aug. 5, 2003].
Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2002). “Context effects on the perception of vowel spectral
properties,” Poster presented at the First Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics,
Cancun, Mexico. [Dec. 3, 2002].
Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2002). “Context effects on the perception of monophthongs,”
Paper presented at the Canadian Acoustical Association Annual Meeting, Charlottetown,
PE. [Oct. 10, 2002].
Recio, A., Rhode, W. S., Kiefte, M., and Kluender, K. R. (2002). “Responses to cochlear
normalized speech stimuli in the auditory nerve of cat,” Poster presented at the 25th Annual
Midwinter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology,
St. Petersburg Beach, FL. [Jan. 28, 2002].
Kiefte, M. and Kluender, K. R. (2001). “Spectral tilt versus formant frequency in static
and dynamic vowels,” Poster presented at the 141st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America, Chicago, IL. [Jun. 4, 2001].
Kluender, K. R. and Kiefte, M. (2001). “An empiricist view of language acquisition the
first and second time,” Paper presented at the Workshop on Bilingualism and Brain Plasticity,
Trieste, Italy. [Mar. 24, 2001].
Kiefte, M., Kluender, K. R., and Rhode, W. S. (2001). “Speech normalized to human
cochlear dimensions,” Poster presented at the 24th Annual Midwinter Research Meeting
of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg Beach, FL. [Feb. 6,
2001].
Kiefte, M. (1999). “The perception of noise vocoded prevocalic stop bursts and formant
transitions,” Poster presented at the 138th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,
Columbus, OH. [Nov. 4, 1999].
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Nearey, T. M., Kiefte, M., and Hillenbrand, J. H. (1999). “Comparing alternate representations
of acoustic properties in vowel perception,” Paper presented at the 137th Meeting
of the Acoustical Society of America, Berlin, Germany. [Mar. 19, 1999].
Kiefte, M. (1999). “The perception of spectrally reduced prevocalic stop consonants,”
Poster presented at the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco,
CA. [Aug. 2, 1999].
Kiefte, M. and Nearey, T. M. (1998). “Dynamic versus static spectral detail in the perception
of gated stop consonants,” Poster presented at the 5th International Conference
on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Australia. [Dec. 3, 1998].
Nearey, T. M. and Kiefte, M. (1997). “Cross-validation study of vowel perception in
Finnish and English,” Poster presented at the 134rd Meeting of the Acoustical Societ of
America, San Diego, CA. [Dec. 2, 1997].
Nearey, T. M., Kiefte, M., and Hillenbrand, J. (1996). “Logistic regression analysis of
the perception of natural and synthesized /hVd/ syllables,” Paper presented to the 132nd
Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI. [Dec. 4, 1996].
Nearey, T. M. and Kiefte, M. (1996). “Modeling listeners’ categorization of a large F1–
F2–F3 by Finnish listerns,” Poster presented at the 131th Meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America, Indianapolis, IN. [May 17, 1996].
Kiefte, M. and Nearey, T. M. (1995). “Categorization of stop consonants in /sCs/ context,”
Poster presented at the 130th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, St. Louis,
MO. [Nov. 28, 1995].
Nearey, T. M., Kiefte, M., Guilbault, C., Kabata, K., and Zhang, X. (1995). “Logistic
regression analysis of the perception of natural and synthesized /hVd/ syllables,” Poster
presented at the 130th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, St. Louis, MO.
[Dec. 1, 1995].
Nearey, T. M. and Kiefte, M. (1994). “Modeling listerns’ categorization of a large F1–
F2–F3 continuum,” Poster presented at the 128th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America, Austin, TX. [Nov. 30, 1994].
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
National Science Foundation US$283 023 2011–2015
Acoustic Variability and Perception of Children’s Speech
Peter F. Assmann (principal investigator)
Sneha Bharadwaj (collaborator)
Michael Kiefte (collaborator)
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Terrance M. Nearey (collaborator)
Social Sciences and Humanities Reseach C$132 655 2009–2012
Council Grant No. 410-2009-2368
Phonetic Survey of Nova Scotia Dialects of English
Michael Kiefte (principal investigator)
Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird (co-investigator)
Terrance M. Nearey (co-investigator)
Sandra Clarke (collaborator)
Karren Pollock (collaborator)
Faculty of Graduate Studies Research
Development Grant, Dalhousie University
Dialects of Nova Scotia: Phonetics and Phonology
C$4 000 2006–2008
Principal investigator (co-applicant: Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird)
Contract from Island Hearing Services C$4 800 2005
Effects of SpeechEasy on Stuttering in 30 Adults: An Efficacy Study
Co-principal investigator with Joy Armson
Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council Grant No. 410-2003-1819
C$95 515 2003–2007
The Relationship Between Vocal Pitch and Formant Frequencies in Speech Production
and Perception
Principal (sole) investigator.
Faculty of Health Professions Research
Development Grant, Dalhousie University
C$5 000 2003–2004
Vowel-Masked Audiograms in Normal and Sensorineural Hearing-Impaired Listeners
Principal (sole) investigator
Faculty of Graduate Studies Research
Development Grant, Dalhousie University
C$3 500 2002–2003
The Relationship Between Vocal Pitch and Formant Frequencies in Auditory Feedback
Principal (sole) investigator
PEER-REVIEW AND EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Associate Editor Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 2012–2015
Reviewer Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 2009
Reviewer Canadian Institutes of Health Research 2008
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Referee Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1995–2012
Referee Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 2007–2009,2012
Referee Journal of Phonetics 1998,2011,2012
Referee Language and Speech 1998; 2009; 2012
Referee Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 2009–2011
Referee Neuropsychologia 2011
Referee Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology 2006–2010
Referee Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 2009–2010
Referee Jounral of Neurolinguistics 2009
Referee Journal of Fluency Disorders 2008
Referee International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 2008
Referee Phonetica 2000
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Commitee Member—Institute of Aging Pilot Projects 2010, 2011
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Doctoral Fellowships Preselection
Committee—Social Science
Chair Dec. 2005–Mar. 2006
Dalhousie University
Dec. 2003–Mar. 2006
Admissions Committee Sep. 2001–Aug. 2006;
Sep. 2008–present
Chair: Sep. 2002–Aug. 2006; Sep. 2010–present
Tenure, Appointment, and Promotion Sep. 2001–Aug. 2004;
Sep. 2009–Aug. 2010;
Sep. 2011–Aug. 2012
Diversity Committee Sep. 2011–present
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Faculty of Health Professions Associate
Dean—Research Selection Committee
Jan. 2010–Sep. 2010
Health Professions Faculty Council Sep. 2008–Aug. 2010
Committee on Studies Sep. 2006–Aug. 2007
Faculty of Health Professions Dean Selection
Committee
Sep. 2004–Aug. 2005
Kellogg Library representative Sep. 2001–Aug. 2006
Dalhousie Faculty Association Sep. 2001–Aug. 2006
Faculty of Health Professions Research Council Sep. 2001–Aug. 2002
University of Alberta
Faculty Council graduate representative Sep. 1993–Aug. 1994
Council for Accreditation of Canadian University Programs in
Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology
Site review team—École d’orthophonie et
d’audiologie, Université de Montréal
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