Research interests

Dissertation research: The effect of task difficulty on phonetic convergence Phonetic convergence in spontaneous conversational contexts Methodologies for collecting spontaneous conversational material Forensic linguistics and phonetics Additional Research Interests: Phonetic pedagogy: in particular, what skills can different kinds of phonetic training (linguistics, speech pathology/audiology, forensic phonetics, music/theatre/voice) develop in students Linguistics education pedagogy: can linguistics education be incorporated into the elementary and/or secondary curriculum, and how might this help foster cross-cultural understanding

Publications

2016

• Abel, J., and Babel, M. (2016). Cognitive Load Reduces Perceived Linguistic Convergence Between Dyads.  Language and Speech .