Benjamin Tucker, University of Alberta

Research

speech production speech perception aging speech reduction cognition linguistics phonetics psycholinguistics

Latest funding

Wazaat? aging and spontaneous speech
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$10,550
Wazaat? aging and spontaneous speech
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$2,422
The spoken English lexicon: massive auditory lexical decision
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$411,741

All 5 grants and awards

Wazaat? aging and spontaneous speech

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Tucker, Benjamin V.

Keywords: speech production; speech perception; aging; speech reduction; cognition

$10,550

Wazaat? aging and spontaneous speech

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Tucker, Benjamin V.

Keywords: speech production; speech perception; aging; speech reduction; cognition

$2,422

The spoken English lexicon: massive auditory lexical decision

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Tucker, Benjamin V.

Keywords: linguistics; phonetics; psycholinguistics; speech recognition

$411,741

Fine acoustic detail of stem vowels in English regular and irregular verbs

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Tucker, Benjamin V.

Keywords: spontaneous speech; irregular verbs; fine phonetic detail; phonetics; morphology

$34,206

The role of phonetic reduction on spoken word recognition

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Tucker, Benjamin V.

Keywords: language comprehension; speech reduction; phonetics; American English flap

$62,924

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: speech production Dear Professor Tucker, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on speech production connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Wazaat? aging and spontaneous speech" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]