Other Academic Activities
Invited Speaker
2007, Invited Keynote Address, Davis, B.L. Emergence of Language Complexity: The Perspective from Studies of Acquisition, Workshop on Early Child Phonology, Hong Kong.
2007, Invited Speaker, Davis B.L., Acquisition Research: Data and Methods, Research Methodology Seminar on Early Child Phonology, Hong Kong.
2007, Invited Speaker: Davis, B.L. (2007, May) Early Speech Acquisition: Data and Underlying Processes, VOCOID Conference VOcalisation, COmmunication, Imitation and Deixis in infant and adult human and non-human primatesSponsored by the European Science Foundation Eurocores Program for European Collaborative Research, OMLL, Origin of Man, Language, and Languages Program, , Grenoble, France.
2005, Invited Speaker: Davis, B.L. Early lexical accuracy patterns: Consideration on emergence of diversification for message transmission, European Language Association, Lyon, France.
2004, Invited Speaker, Davis, B.L. Speech Production: A Perspective from Acquisition, Rice University 2004 Research Colloquium.
2003, Invited Keynote Address: Davis, B.L. Speech Production: A Perspective from Acquisition, Speech Production Satellite Conference, 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
2003, Invited Symposium Speaker: Davis, B.L. Intersyllabic and Word-Level Regularities in Early Acquisition, Symposium on Universals in Language Typology, 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain.
2003, Invited Lecture, Davis B.L. Speech Production: A Perspective from Acquisition, Purdue University, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
2003, Invited Short Course, Davis B.L Contemporary Issues in Management of Developmental Apraxia of Speech, Texas Speech, Language, and Hearing Association Convention, Dallas, TX.
2003, Invited Speaker, Davis, B.L. Vowel Height Relations between Consonants and Vowels in Babbling: The Vowel Height Dimension, Texas Linguistics Society Conference, Austin, TX.
2003, Invited Speaker, Davis, B.L. Interactions of Perceptual Input with Production Constraints in Early Vocalizations of Hearing Impaired Infants: Implications for Frame Dominance, Vocalize to Localize: A missing piece in the route towards language, Grenoble, France.
2002, Invited Short Course, Davis B.L Contemporary Issues in Management of Developmental Apraxia of Speech, American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association Convention, Atlanta, GA.
2002, Invited Speaker, Davis, B.L. Developmental Apraxia of Speech, supported by the Bruce and Patricia Hendrix Foundation, Scottsdale, AZ.
2001, Plenary Speaker, Davis, B.L., Early lexicon acquisition: normal and pathological development, European Language Association, Lyon, France.
2000, Invited Speaker, Davis, B.L. The Evolution of the Human Vocal Capacity, Symposium in Honor of Rachel Stark, American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association , New Orleans, LA..
2001, Invited speaker, Davis, B.L. The Internal Structure of the Syllable: An Ontogenetic Perspective on Origins The Rise of Language out of Pre-language: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene OR.
2000, Invited Speaker: Davis, B.L. Acquisition of Serial Ordering in Speech Production: Normal Development, Department of Psychology and Linguistics, Universite Lumiere de Lyon 2, Lyon , France.
2000, Invited Speaker: Davis, B.L. An embodiment perspective on the acquisition of speech perception, Department of Psychology and Linguistics, Universite Lumiere de Lyon 2, Lyon , France.
2000, Invited Speaker: Davis, B.L. Acquisition of speech production skill: an embodiment perspective, Insitut de la Communication Parlee, Grenoble, France.
1999, Invited speaker: Davis, B. Integrating perceptual and motor information in speech acquisition. Speech Communication and Language Development Symposium, Special symposium in honor of the retirement of Bjorn Lindblom, Stockholm, University.
1998, Invited Session: Davis, B.L., Strand, E. & Velleman, S. Management of developmental apraxia of speech: Linguistic and motor perspectives, American Speech, Language & Hearing Association Convention, San Antonio, TX.
1998, Invited Speaker: Davis, B.L., Language and Speech Acquisition: New Research Trends, La Catholica Universitia, Department of Linguistics, Quito, Equador.
1998, Invited Symposium: MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L., An Epigenetic Approach to Early Speech Acquisition: The Frame/Content Hypothesis, 150th, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Philadelphia, Pa..
1997, Invited Symposium: MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L., Early Speech Development: Physiologic Considerations, American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association Convention.
1996, Invited Mini-Symposium: Davis, B.L. Frame-content: A perspective on developmental continuity in speech acquisition, Symposium on Perspectives on Speech Development, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
1996, Invited Presentation: MacNeilage, P.F. & Davis, B.L., Normal vs. functional approaches to the acquisition of speech production, Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, Wisconsin.
1995, Invited Short Course: Jakielski, K.J. & Davis, B.L. Differentiating developmental apraxia of speech from other disorders of speech and language, Texas Speech, Language, and Hearing Association, Houston, Texas.
1994, Invited Short Course: Velleman, S., Davis, B.L., & Vihman, M. "Why do babies need speech therapy?", American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1993, Invited Lectureship: Davis, B.L. University of Chicago, Language Origins Society, Sponsored by Departments of Linguistics and Psychology, Lecture: Phonetics of early maternal input.
1992, Invited Speakers: Davis, B.L. & MacNeilage, P.F. Mini-seminar: Organization of babbling and early speech: The frame content hypothesis, American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association, San Antonio, Texas..
1988, Invited speaker, Wisconsin Child Language Forum, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Invited Faculty
2000, Lectureship, The University of Lyon, Lumiere 2, Lyon, France.
1998, Invited Faculty, Faculty Fellows Program.
1997, Freshman Seminars Program, The University of Texas at Austin..
1994, Southeastern Louisiana University, Summer Language Institute, Transitions to language: Normal and disordered developmental paths in infants and toddlers.
Invited Reviewer:
International
External Grant reviewer
2007, Agency Nationale de Recherche (ANR) de France Program Evaluator for the “Blanc” Research Program for Young Investigators
2006, Chief Scientific Office, Scottish National Research Council, Executive Biomedical and Therapeutic Research Counsel, Edinburg, Scotland.
2005, University of Antwerp Research Council, Antwerp, Belgium.
2005 European Language Association, Lyon, France
2003 & 2005 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Reviewer of Research grant applications.
European Science Foundation reviewer for the OHLL (Language, Languages, and Human Origins) program.
National:
2007, Scientific Review Panelist, National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Program Panelist/Evaluator.
External Thesis Examiner
2006, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Linguistics Department, MPHIL student Lei Ka Yan, Margaret
2005, External Examiner, Ph.D. thesis for Serkane, Jihene, , Department of Linguistics de l’Université Grenoble III, Ph.D. thesis.
2003, External Rapporteur, Ph.D. thesis for Roussett, Isabelle, Department of Linguistics de l’Université Grenoble III, Structures syllabiques et lexicales des langues du monde
Données, typologies, tendances universelles et contraintes substantielles,
Scientific Advisory committee
2005, European Language Association, Lyon, France, December, 2005
2006 Laboratory Phonology 10, Paris, France
Conference organizer
2003 Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Syllable Organization, Satellite Conference of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
Research Consultant:
International
Laboratoire Dynamic du Langage, Institute des Sciences de l’Homme, Universite Lumiere of Lyon 2, Lyon, France 2006-2009, Complexite, Langage et Langues, International Partner on Agence Nationale de France Programme non thematique grant on acquisition of phonogical complexity in speech production across languages.
Laboratoire Dynamic du Langage, Institute des Sciences de l’Homme, Universite Lumiere of Lyon 2, Lyon, France 2000-2002, Origines de l’Homme, du Langage et des Langues,, Consultant on aspects of instrumentation, data collection, tabulation, and analysis for acquisition of speech production acquisition in the Arabic, Berber, Romanian, and Turkish languages to study the relation between the acquisition and the evolution of language.
Institut de la Communication Parlee, Grenoble, France, University of Texas at Austin Partner on OHLL (Language, Languages, and Human Origins) grant, 2000-2004. Title: Controle orofacial dans la communication chez les primates at non humains: Neaderthal, le singe et l’homme. Providing and consulting on speech acquisition data for comparison in development of vocal tract modeling using Maeda’s model.
National
Office of Education Grant, Temple University, 1997-2005, Development and Validation of a Language Test for Children Speaking Non-Standard English: A Study of Bilingual Hispanic Children, Consulting on text construction and norming of phonological development in three sites in the U.S. for Mexican and Puerto Rican Spanish speakers
MacArthur Foundation Grant, University of California at San Diego, Norming of the Communication Development Inventory in Low SES Populations. 1993. Supervised 2 graduate students in norming a pilot short form of the Communication Development Inventory in Texas Public Health clinic populations.
Invited participant:
2007, ESF Annual Meeting for the OHLL Language, Languages, and Human Origins Conference, Rome, Italy.
2004, ESF Annual Meeting for the First OHLL Language, Languages, and Human Origins Conference, Leipzig, Germany.
1992, NATO advanced research workshop on changes in speech and face processing in infancy: A glimpse at developmental mechanisms of cognition, Carre le Rouet, France.
1989, NATO conference on speech production and speech modeling, Toulouse, France.
Program Committee Membership:
American Speech and Hearing Association, Speech and Phonological Disorders, National Convention, 1998, 2000, 2003. 2007
American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, Speech Sciences Committee, National Convention, 1997
American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, Language Sciences Committee, National Convention, 1994.
Ph.D. Training Grant Consultant:
Preparation of Leadership Personnel in Multicultural Communication Sciences and Disorders, Program in Communication Sciences and Disorders, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995-1999.
Editorial Service
Assistant Editor for Language
Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research,
Editorial Consultant:
Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research,
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
Reviewer:
Ear & Hearing,
American Speech and Hearing Association
Journal of Child Language
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics
Child Development
Invited Commentator:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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