Jeremy Steffman

The University of Edinburgh, Linguistics and English Language

Dugald Stewart Building
Edinburgh, EH8 9AD
United Kingdom

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Hello and welcome to my website.

I am a Lecturer in Phonetics ( = Assistant Prof.) at The University of Edinburgh.
I'm also an affiliated researcher at the Hanyang Instiute for Phonetics and Cognitive Science of Language. I was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in the Prosody and Speech Dynamics Lab. I received my PhD in Linguistics from UCLA. [dissertation here]

My research deals with representations and processes in speech perception, prosody, intonation, and (primarily acoustic) phonetics. A lot of my research examines how prosody influences spoken language processing, especially in the uptake of segmental information. Check out the vita tab for a full list of publications and presentations.

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD with me as a supervisor, see here for more details. Prospective students are encouraged to get in touch in September to discuss their proposals.

Recent happenings

Out now in JIPA:
Weller, J., Steffman, J., Cortés, F. & Mantenuto, I. (2025). Interactions Between Tone and Voice Quality in San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec Modal & Rearticulated Vowels. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. [link]
Out now in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.:
Zhang, W. & Steffman, J.(2025). Attentional influences on cue weighting in vowel perception: Examining prosodic prominence and informational masking. [link]
This paper out now in JASA-EL:
Steffman, J., He, M. & Segger-Staveley, S. (2025). Examining variability and generalization in dimension based statistical learning for speech: The case of place of articulation. [link]
I'm very excited to be a Prominence Fellow at CRC 1252 at the Univerisity of Cologne visiting in the summer and autumn of 2025.
I was thrilled to receive British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant: Specificity and generalisation in biphone-based learning in speech perception (SRG2425\250068).
This project examines how perceptual learning for biphone phonotactics, as shown in Steffman & Sundara 2023, may generalise in different ways.
This paper out now in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition:
Mayr, R., Montanari, S., Steffman, J., & Baghomian, M. (2025). Community language exposure affects voice onset time patterns in Spanish-English bilingual children and functional English monolingual children. [link]