Khia Johnson

Lab Alumnus


I study bilingual speech through the lens of phonetic variation. Specifically, my research explores crosslinguistic influence, and focuses on how variation in the context of multiple languages can provide insight about the nature of phonetic knowledge. For example, what aspects of speech are shared across languages? And how does this impact mono- and multilingual listeners in perception? Related to this, I also have a keen interest in perceptual learning. I approach these questions using a combination of corpus and experimental methods. I also spearheaded the development of SpiCE - a corpus of conversational bilingual speech in Cantonese and English - which is widely used in the lab.