Aleah Combs
Lab Manager, Aphasia Research Laboratory at Boston University
Former CLS Lab Manager
Education:
MA in Linguistic Theory and Typology, University of Kentucky, 2020
BA in Linguistics, University of Kentucky, 2019
BHS in Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Kentucky, 2019
Biography:
My research interests are: affect perception, coarticulation, acoustic phonetics, speech anatomy, dialect and identity, and emotional prosody.
Publications:
Forthcoming Masters Thesis: Relevant angry affect slows response times to commands . 2020. University of Kentucky.
McGowan, K. B., Johnson, M. T., Combs, A. D., & Soleymanpour, M. (2019). Acoustic, non-invasive measurement of velopharyngeal aperture using a high frequency tone. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(3), 1931-1931.
Combs, A. D., Calvert, E. K., & McGowan, K. B. (2019). Angry prosody slows responses to simple commands. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(3), 1910-1910.