Patricia Keating

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Patricia Keating
Born (1952-07-20) July 20, 1952 (age 71)
Education Brown University (PhD)
Spouse Bruce Hayes(m. 1989) [1]
Scientific career
Fields linguistics
Institutions University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis A Phonetic Study of a Voicing Contrast in Polish  (1980)
Doctoral advisor Sheila Blumstein
Doctoral students Marc Garellek
Taehong Cho

Patricia Ann Keating (born July 20, 1952) [2] is an American linguist and noted phonetician. She is distinguished research professor emeritus at UCLA.

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Life

She received her PhD in Linguistics at Brown University in 1980. [3] In 1980 she joined the faculty of the Linguistics Department at University of California, Los Angeles, where she remained until her retirement. She became a Full Professor and director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory in 1991. [4] She also held a position as Distinguished Professor and served as Chair of UCLA Linguistics Department.

Keating is best known for two areas of research in phonetics. [5] She is, with Cécile Fougeron, the discoverer of the initial strengthening effect, wherein consonants receive more fortis articulations (greater degree of articulatory contact) to the extent that they occur at the beginnings of high-ranking phonological phrases. On the theoretical side, she is the inventor of the "window model" of coarticulation, [6] a theory of phonetic realization that specifies a particular range of legal values for each segment along each phonetic parameter.

Keating is a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology [7] and was President of the International Phonetic Association from 2015 to 2019. [8] [9]

Keating is married to linguist Bruce Hayes.

Selected publications

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References

  1. "Bruce Hayes - personal page". linguistics.ucla.edu.
  2. Keating, Patricia Ann (1980). A Phonetic Study of a Voicing Contrast in Polish (PDF) (Thesis). Brown University.
  3. "People - Former | Blumstein Speech Lab". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  4. "Pat Keating's Homepage". linguistics.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
  5. "Citation index Patricia Keating". Google scholar. 23 July 2017.
  6. Farnetani & Recasens (2010). "Coarticulation and connected speech". Handbook of the Phonetic Sciences. doi:10.1002/9781444317251.ch9.
  7. "Association for Laboratory Phonology : Home". www.labphon.org. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  8. "History of the IPA | International Phonetic Association". www.internationalphoneticassociation.org. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  9. Linguistics, UCLA (2015-07-29). "Pat Keating elected next president of the International Phonetic Association". UCLA Linguistics Blog. Retrieved 2017-07-24.