Degrees: PHD, 1989, Pennsylvania St Univ Univ Park; MS, 1981, Pennsylvania St Univ Univ Park; BA, 1970, Witwatersrand Univ

Bio: Professor Carole Ferrand's research interests include acoustic aspects of normal and disordered speech production. She has studied differences in acoustic measures of jitter, shimmer and harmonics-to-noise ratio in people who stutter compared to fluent peers, as well as in different age groups of normally speaking women. She has also investigated fundamental frequency features in boys and girls prior to puberty. Recent research in collaboration with a colleague has focused on fundamental frequency in monolingual speakers of English and bilingual speakers of English/Russian and English/Cantonese.

Courses Taught:

SPCH 005 Phonetics
SPCH 103 Introduction to Speech Science
SPCH 135 Organic and Neurogenic Disorders of Communication
SPCH 206 Experimental Phonetics
SPCH 230 Disorders of Fluency
SPCH 249 Voice Disorders

Research Interests:

Application of acoustics to normal and disordered speech production in monolingual and bilingual speakers
The acoustics of birdsong