Wendy Herd,
Assistant Professor

Contact:

214 Howell Hall
Department of English
P.O. Box E
Mississippi State, MS   39762
wjh159@msstate.edu

Wendy Herd

 

 

 

Professional Bio

Wendy Herd is a linguist who specializes in phonetics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and second language acquisition. She uses experimental methods in order to investigate the perception and production of sounds in speakers’ first and second languages.  Her current research focuses on category formation, a fundamental cognitive process, in adult second language learners and on phonetic drift, changes in speakers’ first language sound categories due to exposure to a second language. Dr. Herd is currently writing up her research on cross modal priming and mismatch negativity differences between L1 and L2 Spanish speakers. She also runs the Linguistics Research Laboratory, which houses five computers used for the collection of perception and psycholinguistic data and a sound-attenuated booth for the collection of production data. Students currently working in the lab are investigating the topics above as well as documenting the Southern Vowel Shift in Mississippi.

Education

Ph.D.   2011    University of Kansas
M.A.    2007    University of Kansas
M.A.    2004    Missouri State University
B.A.    1995    University of Missouri

Teaching interests:

Linguistics, phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, research methods in linguistics

Courses taught:

Refereed Publications:

Herd, W., Jongman, A., & Sereno, J. (2013). Perceptual and production training of intervocalic /d, ɾ, r/ in American English learners of Spanish. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133 (6), 4274 – 4255. [pdf]
Copyright (2013) Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. ASA’s official online abstract: http://link.aip.org/link/?JAS/133/4247.

Jongman, A., Herd, W., Al-Masri, M., Sereno, J., & Combest, S. (2011). Acoustics and perception of emphasis in Urban Jordanian Arabic. Journal of Phonetics, 39 (1), 85 – 95. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095447010000938]

Herd, W., Jongman, A., & Sereno, J. (2010). An acoustic and perceptual analysis of /t/ and /d/ flaps in American English. Journal of Phonetics, 38 (4), 504 – 16. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095447010000458]