Chris Matyear
Office: CMA 2.120
Email address: matyear@austin.utexas.edu
Phone: (512) 232-9425
Chris Matyear earned her doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her teaching experience includes courses in advanced writing and research and general linguistics at the University of Houston-Victoria. She currently teaching phonetics, hearing science, speech science, and research. Her research interests include speech acquisition in infants and the acoustic analysis of speech sounds. Dr. Matyear has been presented her research at professional conferences, including the Penn State Conference on Composition and Rhetoric, the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, and the Child Phonology Conference, Conference on The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Syllable Organization, University of Barcelona, and the International Conference on Phonetic Sciences. Her work has been published in Phonetica, Applied Sociolinguistics, and Speech Communication, Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole, Child Development, Psychological Science, and Speech Communication. She has worked in conjunction with IBM Corporation to improve training procedures for computer-assisted clinical techniques in speech, language, and hearing.