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Jessica Maye

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Jessica Maye’s research focuses on speech sound processing. In particular, she studies how humans identify speech sounds when listening to spoken language, despite enormous variation in pronunciation. Much of her research investigates how infants learn to categorize speech sounds in a manner that is appropriate for their native language.

Lab Affiliation

Principal Investigator: Infant Studies Center

Principal Investigator: Speech Perception Lab

Education

PhD	Linguistics, University of Arizona
MA	Linguistics, University of Arizona
BA	Linguistics, Seattle Pacific University

Publications

Maye, J., Weiss, D., & Aslin, R.N. (In Press). Statistical phonetic learning in infants: Facilitation and feature generalization. Developmental Science.

Maye, J., Aslin, R.N., Tanenhaus, M.T. (In Press). The Weckud Wetch of the Wast: Lexical adaptation to a novel accent. Cognitive Science.

Rebecca Gómez & Jessica Maye (2005). The developmental trajectory of non-adjacent dependency learning. Infancy, 7 (2): 183-206.

Recent Awards and Honors

2000	Distinguished Junior Scholar, Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia

Recent Grants and Funding

2006-2008	The Development of Native Language Speech Perception. NIH (NICHD). $148,500. Principal Investigator
2005-2008	Collaborative Research: A Comparative Investigation of Statistical Learning. NSF. $350,000. Co-PI (with Daniel Weiss)
2004-2005	The Development of Speech Perception in Infants from Under-Represented Language Groups. University Research Grants Committee. $5000. Principal Investigator

Courses

CSD 402	Speech Perception
CSD 392	Language Development and Usage
CSD 307	Acoustic Phonetics
CSD 112	The Scientific Exploration of Communication

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]