Victoria B. Anderson
Associate Professor of Linguistics
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
569 Moore Hall, 1890 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822
808-956-5830; fax: 808-956-9166; vanderso
at hawaii dot edu
Principal Research Interests
Phonetics-phonology interface, phonetic and phonological universals, prosody,
intonational typology, Austronesian and Australian languages, endangered languages,
and speech technology.
Field experience
I lived for four years in the Philippines and two years in Malaysia while growing up.
My mother is a native speaker of Pangasinan and Tagalog. Though my first language was Pangasinan,
I lost that heritage language when my family returned to the United States.
I lived in Alice Springs, Australia for two years doing phonetic fieldwork on Western Arrernte.
I have also done research on languages of Oceania (Standard and Ni`ihau Hawaiian, Hawaiian Creole English,
Iaai, Tongan); North Asia (Japanese, Korean); Southeast Asia (Palauan, Pangasinan, Tagalog);
and another language of Australia (Tiwi).
I have supervised research on Austronesian languages (Amis, Bahasa Indonesia, Cham, Chamorro, Ema, Kadazan-Dusun,
Lamaholot, Pingelapese, Pohnpeian, Saipan Carolinian, Satawalese), languages of Mongolia (Kalmyk-Oirat),
languages of New Guinea (Makasae, Sentani), and Fukui Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Serbian, and Tibetan.
Professional History
Faculty, UH Department of Linguistics: 2000 - present.
PhD, UCLA: 2000
Senior Scientist, Fonix Corporation: 1998–2000
Consultant, Armando Plata Productions: 1997–1998
Consultant, Intuit: 1996
Consultant, Apple Computer: 1993, 1996
(The Victoria and Vicki voices that ship with Macs are based on my voice.)
Research and teaching
laboratories
Language
Analysis and Experimentation
Labs (LAE Labs)
Founder and Director: UH Phonetics Lab
Founder, Developer, Past Coordinator: LAE Labs
Teaching at UH
Linguistics 102: Introduction to the Study of Language
Linguistics 410: Articulatory Phonetics
Linguistics 611: Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics
Linguistics 640F: Intonation
Linguistics 730: Advanced Laboratory Research
Linguistics 750F: Seminar in Phonetics/Phonology (topic varies, including):
Effects of Perception on Phonologies
Phonetic Fieldwork on Endangered Languages
Research in Sociophonetics
Intonational Typology
Students
PhD, Chair:
Diana Stojanovic
Kaori Ueki
PhD, Committee member:
Sang Yee Cheon
Yumiko Enyo
Hunter Hatfield
Hyekyung Hwang
Elena Indjieva
Mi Hyun Kim
Tomoko Kozasa
R. Keao NeSmith, Dept of Applied Linguistics, University of Waikato, N.Z.
In Kyu Park
Fabiana Piccolo
Kenji Rutter
Junko Saito
Joan Wylie
Akiko Yokoyama
MA theses, language documentation portfolios, and undergraduate honors theses:
Frans Albarillo
Maria Faehndrich
Daniel Miller
Fabiana Piccolo
Kevin Roddy
Yohei Sakata
Diana Stojanovic
Joan Wylie
Some Current Projects
Lexical stress without postlexical head-marking in Tagalog
Intonational corpora for Hawaiian, Hawaiian Creole English, Palauan, and Tagalog
Intonational contour discrimination, comprehension, and production in English
Rhythmic alignment in chanted speech
Phonetics of Western Arrernte
Publications
Cheon, Sang-Yee and Victoria B. Anderson (in press). Phonetic
similarities between English & Korean sibilants: implications for
second language acquisition. Journal of Korean Linguistics. [pdf]
Butcher, Andrew, and Victoria B. Anderson. (2008). The Vowels of
Australian Aboriginal English. Proceedings of Interspeech 2008,
Brisbane, Australia.[pdf]
Anderson, Victoria B. (2008). Static palatography for language fieldwork. Language Documentation & Conservation, 2 (1). [pdf]
Anderson, Victoria B. and James N. Anderson (2007).
Pangasinan––An Endangered Language? Retrospect and
Prospect. Philippine Studies, 55 (1), 116-144. [pdf]
Hwang, Hyekyung, Amy Schafer, and Victoria Anderson (2007).
Discrimination of English intonation contours by native speakers and
second language learners. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International
Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken,
Germany, 713-716. [pdf]
Anderson, Victoria, Mie Hiramoto and Andrew
Wong (2007). Prosodic Analysis of the Interactional Particle Ne in
Japanese Gendered Speech. In N.H. McGloin and J. Mori (Eds.).
Japanese/Korean Linguistics: Vol. 15. Center for the Study of Language
and Information, Stanford, 43-54. [pdf]
Anderson, Victoria, and Yuko Otsuka (2006). The Phonetics and Phonology of “Definitive Accent” in Tongan. Oceanic Linguistics, 45, 33-53. [pdf]
Anderson, Victoria, Insung Ko, William O’Grady and Miho Choo
(2004). A Palatographic Investigation of Place of Articulation in
Korean Coronal Obstruents. Journal of Korean Linguistics, 12, 1-24.
[pdf (part1)] [pdf (part2)]
Anderson, Victoria and Yuko Otsuka (2003). Phonetic Correlates of
Length, Stress and Definitive Accent in Tongan. Proceedings of the
Fifteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona: 2047-2050.
Bellegarda, J.R., Silverman, K.E.A., Lenzo, K., and Anderson, V. (2001).
Statistical prosodic modeling: from corpus design to parameterestimation.
IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 9(1), 52-66 [pdf]
Anderson, Victoria B. (2000). Giving Weight to Phonetic Principles: The
Case of Place of Articulation in Western Arrernte. Doctoral
dissertation, UCLA. [pdf]
Silverman, Kim, Victoria Anderson, Jerome Bellegarda, Kevin Lenzo, and Devang
Naik (1999). Design and collection of a corpus of polyphones and prosodic
contexts for speech synthesis research and development.
Proceedings of the Sixth
European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. Budapest, Hungary:
2707-2708.
Anderson, Victoria (1998). Testing opposing phonetic structural
principles: Polarization and Gestural Economy. Proceedings of the
Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society,
Parasession on Phonetics and Phonological Universals. Berkeley
Linguistics Society, Berkeley: 309-319. [pdf]
Anderson, Victoria (1997). The perception of coronals in Western
Arrernte. Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech
Communication and Technology. University of Patras, Greece: 1: 389-392.
[pdf]
Maddieson, Ian and Victoria Anderson. (1995). Some phonetic
characteristics of Iaai. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International
Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm: 4: 540-543.
Maddieson, Ian and Victoria Anderson. (1994). Phonetic Structures of Iaai. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 87:163-182. [pdf]
Anderson, Victoria B. and I. Maddieson (1994). Acoustic Characteristics
of Tiwi Coronal Stops. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 87:131-162. [pdf]