B.A., Rice University (cum laude), 1976
(Majors: Linguistics, English, Anthropology, German)
(B.A. Thesis: Die Sprache als Finger in der Philosophie Wittgensteins)
M.A., Yale University, 1978 (Linguistics)
M.Phil., Yale University, 1979 (Linguistics)
Ph.D., Yale University, 1982 (Linguistics)
Dissertation Title: Perceptual Effects of Phonetic Mismatches

Research Experience

1996-     Principal Investigator, "Links between production and perception of speech," National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

1991-1994, Principal Investigator, "Effects of word frequency and the common/proper dimension in speech," National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

1982-present, Research Scientist at Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut.

1983-1986, Co-Principal Investigator, "Perceptual bases of stress-timing," National Science Foundation, Carol Fowler, Principal Investigator.

1982-1990, Supervision of the research efforts of visiting scholars using the Laboratories' equipment under an NIH contract.

Selected Publications

Magen, H. S., Kang, A. M., Tiede, M. K., & Whalen, D. H. (2003). Posterior

pharyngeal wall position in the production of speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46, 241-251.

Gick, B., Kang, A. M., & Whalen, D. H. (2002). MRI evidence for commonality

in the post-oral articulations of English vowels and liquids. Journal of Phonetics, 30, 357-371.

Peterson, B. S., Vohr, B., Kane, M. J., Whalen, D. H., Schneider, K. C., Katz, K.

H., et al. (2002). A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of language processing and its cognitive correlates in prematurely born children. Pediatrics, 110, 1153-1162.

Benson, R., Whalen, D. H., Richardson, M., Swainson, B., Clark, V., Lai, S.,

et al. (2001). Parametrically dissociating speech and nonspeech perception in the brain using fMRI. Brain and Language, 78, 364-396.

Whalen, D. H. (2001). How can we ethically put language material on the web?

The Endangered Language Fund Newsletter, 5(1), 1-4.

Whalen, D. H., Gick, B., & LeSourd, P. S. (1999). Intrinsic F0 in

Passamaquoddy vowels. In D. H. Pentland (Ed.), Papers from the 30th Algonquian conference (pp. 417-428). Winnipeg: University of Manitoba.

Liberman, Alvin M., and D. H. Whalen (2000). On the relation of speech to

language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4,187-196.

Whalen, D. H., A. Min Kang, Harriet Magen, Robert K. Fulbright, & John C. Gore

(1999). Predicting pharynx shape from tongue position during vowel production. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 42, 592-603.

Whalen, D. H., Gick, B., Kumada, M., & Honda, K. (1998). Cricothyroid activity

in high and low vowels: Exploring the automaticity of intrinsic F0. Journal of Phonetics, 27, 125-142.

Whalen, D. H. (1997). What duplex perception tells us about speech

perception. In Papers from the panels, CLS 33, edited by Kora Singer, Randall Eggert and Gregory Anderson, pp. 435-446. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.

Whalen, D. H., Catherine T. Best, and Julia Irwin (1997). Lexical effects in the

perception and production of American English /p/ allophones. Journal of Phonetics 25, 501-528.

Whalen, D. H., and J. M. Kinsella-Shaw (1997). Exploring the relationship of

breath intake to utterance duration. Phonetica, 54, 138-152.

Whalen, D. H., and Sonya Sheffert. 1997). Normalization of vowels by breath

sounds. In Talker variability in speech processing, edited by Keith Johnson and John W. Mullenix, pp. 133-144. New York: Academic Press.

Xu, Yi, Alvin M. Liberman, and D. H. Whalen (1997). On the immediacy of

phonetic perception. Psychological Science, 8, 358-362.

Whalen, D. H. and Alvin M. Liberman (1996). Limits on phonetic integration in

duplex perception. Perception and Psychophysics, 58, 857-870.

Whalen, D. H., Andrea G. Levitt, Pai-Ling Hsiao, and Iris Smorodinsky (1995).

Intrinsic F0 of vowels in the babbling of 6-, 9- and 12-month-old French- and English-learning infants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97, 2533-2539.

Whalen, D. H., Charles E. Hoequist, and Sonya Sheffert (1995). The effects of

breath sounds on the perception of synthetic speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 97, 3147-3153.

Whalen, D. H., and Andrea G. Levitt (1995). The universality of intrinsic F0 of

vowels. Journal of Phonetics, 23, 349-366.

Whalen, D. H., and Elizabeth C. Zsiga (1994). Subjective familiarity of English

word/name homophones. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 26, 402-408.

Whalen D. H., Arthur S. Abramson, Leigh Lisker, and Maria Mody (1993). F0

gives voicing information even with unambiguous voice onset times. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 47, 36-49.

Whalen D. H., Yi Xu (1992). Information for Mandarin tones in the amplitude

contour and in brief segments. Phonetica, 49, 25-47.

Whalen D. H., Andrea G. Levitt, and Qi Wang (1991). Intonational differences

between the reduplicative babbling of French- and English-learning infants. Journal of Child Language, 18, 501-516.

Whalen, D. H. (1991). Subcategorical phonetic mismatches and lexical access.

Perception and Psychophysics, 50, 351-360.

Whalen, D. H. (1991). Perception of the English [s] [S] distinction relies on

fricative noises and transitions, not on brief spectral slices. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 90, 1776-1785.

Whalen D. H., E. R. Wiley, Philip E. Rubin, and Franklin S. Cooper (1990). The

Haskins Laboratories pulse code modulation (PCM) system. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 22, 550-559.

Whalen, D. H. (1990). Coarticulation is largely planned. Journal of Phonetics,

18, 3-35. Whalen, D. H., and Patrice S. Beddor (1989). Connections between n asality and vowel duration and height: Elucidation of the Eastern Algonquian intrusive nasal. Language, 65, 457-486.

Whalen, D. H., and Alvin M. Liberman (1987). Speech perception takes

precedence over nonspeech perception. Science, 237, 169-171.

Whalen, D. H. (1984). Subcategorical phonetic mismatches slow phonetic

judgments. Perception and Psychophysics, 35, 49-64.

Whalen, D. H. (1981). Effects of vocalic formant transitions and vowel quality

on the English [s] [s#] boundary. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 69, 275-282. 275-282.