Research interests

• Development of speech motor control in children
• Coarticulation in children and adults
• Investigation of links between production and perception in speech
• Articulatory-acoustic analysis of speech production in various languages

Objectives

• Study phonological attunement in the first years of life: production and
   perception
• Explore the emergence of spatio-temporal coordination in L1, L2 acquisition
• Adapt ultrasound imaging for tracking the development of articulatory
   controls in children (monolingual, bilingual environment)

Research responsibilities

2011  Co-organizer of International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Montreal, Quebec, June 20-23.

2010  Co-organizer of Ultrafest V, an international workshop on ultrasound in speech research, March, 19-21.

Technical experience

• Techniques for collecting/investigating labial motion:

- Optotrak System.
- Lip-Shape-Tracker (designed at Gipsa-Lab, Grenoble, France)

• Techniques for collecting/investigating lingual motion:

- Ultrasound imaging
- EMA
- X-ray Microbeam: Comparison of ultrasound data with an existing data
   basis (Westbury, 1994).
- HOCUS system: Haskins Optically Corrected Ultrasound System, designed    by Whalen and colleagues in Haskins Lab.

• Computing skills

- Programming: notions in Matlab, automatic language processing tools.
- Acoustic analyses: CoolEdit, Goldware, Praat.
- Video analyses: Adobe Première, Image J.
- Articulatory analyses: EdgeTrak (for ultrasound data), NDI interface   (Optotrak)
  interface (Optotrak); various lab-made tools for the analysis of labial and
  lingual data.
- Statistics: notions in R, Matlab.

Education

2007 Ph.D., Language Sciences

Institut de la Communication Parlée (ICP, GIPSA lab) CNRS, Stendhal University, Grenoble, France

2003 MA, Language Sciences

Institut de la Communication Parlée (ICP, GIPSA lab) CNRS, Stendhal University, Grenoble, France

2002 M.A, English and Automatic Language Processing

Stendhal University, France

2001 B.A, English, Automatic processing of written and spoken language,

Communication, Stendhal University, France.

Selected publications

Noiray A., Ménard L., & Iskarous K. (in press, out in December 2012; AIP ID: 013212JAS). The Development of Motor Synergies in Children: Ultrasound and Acoustic Measurements. Journal of Acoustical Society of America.

Noiray A., Iskarous K.., Tiede, M. & Whalen D-H. (submitted. The relation between articulatory and acoustic variability in American English front vowels.

Ménard L. & Noiray, A. (2011). The development of lingual gestures in speech: Comparing synthesized vocal tracts with natural vowels. Faits de Langue, 189-202.

Noiray A., Cathiard M.-A., Ménard, L., & Abry C. (2011) Test of the Movement Expansion Model: Anticipatory vowel lip protrusion and constriction in French and English speakers. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 129(1), 340-349.

Noiray A., Cathiard M.-A., Abry C., & Ménard L. (2010). Lip Rounding Anticipatory Control: Crosslinguistically Lawful and Ontogenetically Attuned. Speech Motor Control: New developments in basic and applied research, ed. ben Maasen & pascal HHM van Lieshout, Oxford University Press.

Kavitskaya D., Iskarous K., Noiray A., & Proctor M. (2008). Trills and palatalization: Consequences for sound change. Proceedings of the 17th Meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, Yale University, May, 9-11, 13p.

Noiray A., Cathiard M.-A., Abry C., Ménard L. & Savariaux C (2008). Emergence of a vowel gesture control: Attunement of the anticipatory rounding temporal pattern in French children. In Kern, S., Gayraud, F. and Marsico, E. (Eds), Emergence of Linguistic Abilities. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: New Castle, 100-116.

Noiray A., Iskarous K., & Whalen D.H.  (2008). Tongue-jaw synergy in vowel height production: Evidence from American English. Proceedings of 8th International Speech Production Seminar, Strasbourg, France, December 8-12, 4p.   

Noiray A., Ménard L., Cathiard MA., Abry, C., Aubin J. & Savariaux C. (2006).
Extending the Movement Expansion Model (MEM) for rounding from French to English. Proceedings of 7th International Speech Production Seminar, Ubatuba, Brazil, December 13-15. 8p.

Noiray A., Ménard L., Cathiard MA., Abry, C., & Savariaux C. (2005). Le développement de la coarticulation anticipante: une étude longitudinale.
Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs 2005, Toulouse, France, September 27-28, 4p.

Noiray A., Ménard L., Cathiard MA., Abry, C., & Savariaux C. (2004). The development of anticipatory labial coarticulation in French: A pioneering study. Proceedings of 8th INTERSPEECH, ICSLP, Jeju Island, South Corea, October 4-8 2004. 4p.

Dissertations

Noiray A. (2007). L'anticipation d'arrondissement vocalique et le Modèle d'Expansion du Mouvement. Deux extensions : du français à l'anglais et de l'adulte à l'enfant. PhD dissertation. [download pdf]
Translation: Vocalic rounding anticipation and the Movement Expansion Model.Two extensions: from French to English and from children to adults.

Noiray, A. (2003). Capturer la voix des émotions authentiques chez l'acteur: Premiers pas vers « peut-on entendre le jeu de l'acteur? » Master II, Grenoble III.
Translation: To capture emotions in actors' speech: acted versus elicited emotions.