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. Prior to this, I was 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

Out now in Journal of Phonetics:
Iskarous, K., Cole, J. & Steffman, J. (2024). A Minimal Dynamical Model of Intonation: Tone contrast, alignment, and scaling of American English pitch accents as emergent properties. [link]
Out now in Journal of Phonetics:
Steffman, J., Cole, J. & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. (2024). Intonational categories and continua in American English rising nuclear tunes. [link]
Out now in JASA EL:
Steffman, J. & Sundara, M. (2023). Short-term exposure alters adult listeners’ perception of segmental phonotactics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Express Letters. [link]
Out now in JIPA:
Faytak, M., & Steffman, J. (2023). Voiced aspirates with mixed voicing in Yemba, a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. [link]
Out now in JASA:
Steffman, J. & Zhang, W. (2023). Vowel perception under prominence: Examining the roles of F0, duration and distributional information. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(4), 2594-2608. [link]
Out now in Journal of Phonetics:
Montanari, S., Steffman, J. & Mayr, R. (2023). Stop Voicing Perception in the Societal and Heritage Language of Spanish-English Bilingual Preschoolers: The Role of Age, Input Quantity and Input Diversity. [link]