Publications | Child Speech Research Lab | Department of Speech and Hearing Science

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Nudelman, C.J., Flaherty, M.M., Bottalico, P. (2024) Altered auditory feedback in teachers: A preliminary investigation, Journal of Voice, epub. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2024.10.015
Flaherty, M.M. (2024) The role of long-term target and masker talker familiarity in children’s speech-in-speech recognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1369195
Flaherty, M., Price, R., Murgia, S., Manukian, E. (2024) Can playing a game improve children’s speech recognition? A preliminary study of implicit talker familiarity effects. American Journal of Audiology, 33, 183-198.. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJA-23-00156
Bottalico, P., Murgia, S., Mekus, T., Flaherty, M. (2023) Classroom acoustics for enhancing students’ understanding when a teacher suffers from a dysphonic voice. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 54(4), 1195-1207. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_LSHSS-22-00158
Flaherty, M. M., Buss, E., Libert, K. (2023). Effects of target and masker F0 contour depth on school-age children’s speech recognition in a two-talker masker. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66, 400-414. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00207.
Flaherty, M. M., Arzuaga, B., & Bottalico, P. (2023). The effects of face masks on speech-in-speech recognition for children and adults. International Journal of Audiology, 62(11), 1014-1021. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2023.2168218
Flaherty, M. M., Libert, K., Monson, B.M. (2021). Extended high-frequency hearing and head orientation cues benefit children during speech-in-speech recognition. Hearing Research, 406, 108230.
Flaherty, M. M., Buss, E., Leibold, L.J. (2021). Independent and combined effects of F0 and VTL differences for school-age children’s sentence recognition in a two-talker masker. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 64, 206-217. https://doi-org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00327
Flaherty, M. M., Browning, J., Buss, E., & Leibold, L.J. (2021). Effects of hearing loss on school-age children’s ability to benefit from F0 differences between target and masker speech. Ear and Hearing, 42(4), 1084-1096.
Flaherty, M. M., Buss, E., & Leibold, L.J. (2019). Developmental effects in children’s ability to benefit from F0 differences between target and masker speech. Ear and Hearing, 40(4), 927-937.
Browning, J., Buss, E., Flaherty, M., Vallier, T., Leibold, L. J. (2019). Effects of adaptive hearing aid directionality and noise reduction on masked speech recognition for children who are hard of hearing. American Journal of Audiology, 1-13.
Rose, J., Flaherty, M., Browning, J., Leibold, L.J., Buss, E. (2018). Pure-tone frequency discrimination in preschoolers, young school-age children, and adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-6.
Buss, E., Flaherty, M. M., & Leibold, L. J. (2017). Development of frequency discrimination at 250 Hz is similar for tone and /ba/ stimuli. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(1), EL150-EL154.
Flaherty, M., Dent, M. L., Sawusch, J. R. (2017). Experience with speech sounds is not necessary for cue trading by budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus). PlosOne, (12) 5, 1-20.
Dent, M. L., Martin, A. K., Flaherty, M. M., Neilans, E. G. (2016). Cues for auditory stream segregation of birdsong in budgerigars and zebra finches: Effects of location, timing, amplitude, and frequency. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, (139) 2, 674-683.
Flaherty, M. and Sawusch, J. (2013). How robust are lexical effects on phonetic categorization? Proceedings of the 21st International Congress on Acoustics (Vol. 19, No. 1, p. 060203). Montreal, Canada
Mullennix, J.W., Stern, S.E., Grounds, B., Kalas, R., Flaherty, M., Kowalok, S., May, E., & Tessmer, B. (2010). Earwitness memory: Distortions for voice pitch and speaking rate. Applied Cognitive Psychology (24) 4, 513-526.

Abstracts/Presentations

Redden, E. E., Ángel, M., Flaherty, M.M. (2024) Assessing children’s classroom comprehension: Development of a closed-set listening comprehension test. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 October 2024; 156 (4_Supplement): A54. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035088
Chavez, A., Aguilar, T., Flaherty, M.M. (2024) The influence of firefighting experience on speech-in-noise recognition with two-way radios. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 October 2024; 156 (4_Supplement): A55. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0035091
Flaherty, M. M. (2024) Long- and short-term implicit talker familiarity: Effects on children’s word and sentence recognition. Invited talk presented at 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Ottawa, Canada. May 2024
Murgia, S., Flaherty, M. M., Federmeier, K., & Bottalico, P. (2024). Impact of background noise and dysphonia on elementary students’ listening comprehension and listening effort. Paper presented at the 186th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America/Acoustics Week in Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Nudelman, C., Flaherty, M., Salas, N., Alsawaie, A.O., Harty, K., Giddens-White, T., Bottalico, P. (2024) Bone Conduction Feedback in professors: case studies on voice production with Fortbrain. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, PA
Flaherty, M.M., Aguilar, T. (2024) Firefighter’s speech recognition: effects of noise, experience, and two-way radios. Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, February 2024.
Murgia, S., Choudhry, B., Bottalico, P., Flaherty, M.M. (2024) Effect of noise, dysphonia and cognitive functions on speech perception. Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, February 2024.
Murgia, S., Choudhry, B.N., Flaherty, M.M., Bottalico, P. (2023) Relationship between speech intelligibility and comprehension in the presence of poor acoustics and poor voice quality. Poster presented at 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL May 2023.
Flaherty, M.M. (2023) Comparing the effects of target and masker voice familiarity on children’s speech-in-speech recognition. Poster presented at 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL May 2023.
Flaherty, M.M., Price, R. (2023) Effects of short-term implicit voice familiarization on children’s speech-in-noise recognition. Invited talk presented at Forum Acusticum, Torino, Italy. September 2023.
Flaherty, M.M. (2023) Comparing the effects of target and masker voice familiarity on children’s speech-in-speech recognition. Poster presented at 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL May 2023.
Murgia, S., Choudhry, B.N., Flaherty, M.M., Bottalico, P. (2023) Relationship between speech intelligibility and comprehension in the presence of poor acoustics and poor voice quality. Poster presented at 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL May 2023.
Tran, L., Pilchen, A., Lau, I., Flaherty, M.M. (2023) Effects of background music familiarity on children’s word recognition. Poster presented at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Undergraduate Research Symposium, Urbana, IL, April 2023.
Flaherty, M. M., Bishop, D. (2023) Masking susceptibility in children with autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, March 2023.
Flaherty, M.M., Monson, B. (2023) Extended high frequency effects on children’s open-set sentence recognition in a two-talker masker. Invited talk presented at Forum Acusticum, Torino, Italy. September 2023.
Murgia, S., Choudhry, B.N., Flaherty, M.M., Bottalico, P. (2023) Effect of noise, dysphonic voice and individual differences on speech intelligibility and comprehension. Invited talk presented at Forum Acusticum, Torino, Italy. September 2023.
Flaherty, M. M., Nudelman, C., Bottalico, P. (2022) The effect of the number of items on the reliability of speech intelligibility results for WIPI test. Poster presented at 183st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Nashville, TN, December 2022.
Price, R., & Flaherty, M.M. (2022) Does short-term implicit voice familiarization improve children’s speech-in-noise recognition? Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, February 2022.
Flaherty, M.M. (2022) Children’s use of target/masker F0 contour differences during speech-in-speech recognition. Poster presented at International Speech-in-Noise (SpiN) Workshop 2022.
Lau, I., Dorn, A., Yusuff-Akinbo, Flaherty, M.M. (2022) Short- and long-term voice familiarization improves children’s speech-in-noise recognition. Poster presented at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Undergraduate Research Symposium, Urbana, IL, May 2022.
Flaherty, M., Arzuaga, B., Bottalico, P. (2021). The effects of face masks on speech-in-speech recognition for children and adults. Poster presented at 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, November 2021.
Lemajeur, L., Libert, K., Flaherty, M.M. (2021). Effects of different types of face masks on speech-in-speech recognition in school-aged children. Poster presented at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Undergraduate Research Symposium, Urbana, IL, May 2021.
Bishop, D., Flaherty, M. M. (2021). Word recognition in school-age children with autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Virtual Event, March 2021.
Flaherty, M.M., Libert, K. Monson, B.M. (2020). The role of extended high frequencies in children’s speech-in-speech recognition. Presented as talk at the Acoustical Society of America “Acoustics Virtually Everywhere” Conference. November 2020.
Dorn, A., Libert, K., Flaherty, M., & Monson, B. (2020). Effects of extended high frequency cues on speech recognition in school-age children. Poster presented at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Undergraduate Research Symposium, Urbana, IL, May 2020.
Flaherty, M. (2020) The effect of talker familiarity on children’s speech-in-speech recognition. Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, March 2020.
Flaherty, M., Calandruccio, L., Buss, E., Leibold, L. (2019) Children’s ability to benefit from target/masker differences in F0-contour. Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, February 2019.
Libert, K., Mendoza, K., Flaherty, M. (2019) Children’s ability to benefit from a mismatch in voice intonation patterns. Poster presented at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Undergraduate Researchers Initiative Symposium, Urbana, IL, April 2019.
Flaherty, M., Leibold, L. J., Buss, E. (2018) Children’s ability to benefit from fundamental frequency and vocal tract length differences during speech-in-speech recognition. Poster presented at 175th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Minneapolis Minnesota, May 2018.
Flaherty, M., Browning, J., Buss, E., Leibold, L. J. (2018) Target/masker differences in F0: Effects of age and hearing loss. Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, March 2018.
Rose, J., Flaherty, M., Browning, J., Leibold, L.J., Buss, E. (2018) Pure-tone frequency discrimination in preschoolers, school-age children, and adults. Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, March 2018.
Browning, J., Flaherty, M., Leibold, L. J., Buss, E. (2017) Integrated directionality and noise reduction: Effects on children’s masked thresholds. Poster presented at American Auditory Society Scientific and Technology Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, March 2017.
Flaherty, M., Dent, M. L., Sawusch, J.R. (2017) Experience with speech sounds does not influence cue trading by budgerigars. Podium presentation at the 4th Annual International Symposium on Acoustic Communication by Animals, Omaha, NE, July 2017.
Flaherty, M., Leibold, L. J., Buss, E. (2016) Effect of temporal asynchrony on children’s detection performance in a random-frequency, multi-tonal masking task. Poster presented at the International Congress on Acoustics Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Honolulu, HI, November 2016.