Melinda Fricke
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B [email protected]
Í http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~mfricke
Current Position
2013–present Postdoctoral Research Associate
Center for Language Science
Psychology Department
The Pennsylvania State University
Sponsors: Judith Kroll and Paola (Giuli) Dussias
Education
2013 Ph.D. in Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley
Committee: Susanne Gahl (co-chair), Keith Johnson (co-chair),
Fei Xu (Psychology Department)
Dissertation Title:
‘Phonological encoding and phonetic duration’
2010 M.A. in Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley
2009 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute
Berkeley, CA
2007 B.A. in Linguistics and French
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
summa cum laude, with high distinction in French
Honors Thesis: ‘The Acquisition of L2 Phonological Categories
in a Study Abroad Context’
Research Funding
2014–2016 The Behavioral and neural basis of codeswitching:
Bilingual speech, executive control, and language processing.
Role: Principal Investigator (co-PI’s Judith Kroll and Paola Dussias)
NSF SBE Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellowship #SMA-1409636.
Total award: $196,294
Publications
submitted Fricke, M., Baese-Berk, M., and Goldrick, M. Dimensions of similarity in the mental
lexicon. Submitted to Cognition.
submitted Jacobs, A., Fricke, M., and Kroll, J. F. Cross-language activation begins during
speech planning and extends into second language speech. Submitted to Language
Learning.
submitted Fricke, M., Kroll, J. F., and Dussias, P. E. Phonetic variation in bilingual speech: A
lens for studying the production–comprehension link. Submitted to the Journal of
Memory and Language, special issue on “Relationships between language production
and comprehension.”
2014 Kroll, J. F. and Fricke, M. What bilinguals do with language that changes their minds
and their brains. Commentary on S. Baum & D. Titone, “Moving towards a neuroplasticity view of bilingualism, executive control, and aging.” Applied Psycholinguistics,
35(5), 921–925.
2012 Fricke, M. Development of coarticulatory patterns in spontaneous speech. UC
Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, 306–320.
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Fricke, M. Word and sound processing in bilingual preschoolers. In A. Biller, E. Chung
and A. Kimball (Eds.), BUCLD 36: Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University
Conference on Language Development, 177–189. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
2010 Woodley (Fricke), M. For preschoolers, lexical access is purely lexical: Neighborhood
density effects in child speech perception and the emergent phoneme hypothesis. UC
Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report, pp. 395–405.
Woodley (Fricke), M. Phonological neighborhood density in the Trevor Corpus:
Perception and production factors in lexical acquisition. UC Berkeley Phonology Lab
Annual Report, pp. 406–422.
Conference Presentations
accepted Fricke, M., Arad-Neeman, O., Kroll, J. F., and Dussias, P. E. Is codeswitching costly?
Evidence from disfluencies and speech rate in spontaneous bilingual conversation. Talk
to be presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, Rutgers University.
2015 Fricke, M., Arad-Neeman, O., Kroll, J. F., and Dussias, P. E. Switch costs in
spontaneous bilingual codeswitching: Evidence from disfluencies and speech rate.
Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland,
OR.
Katz, J., and Fricke, M. Lenition/fortition patterns aid prosodic segmentation. Talk
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR.
2014 Fricke, M., Scharf, S., Martin-Garcia, M. C., Rossi, E., and Kroll, J. F. Second
language immersion and the time course of bilingual inhibitory processing: Evidence
from word durations. Poster presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society, Long Beach, CA.
Fricke, M., Scharf, S., Martin-Garcia, M. C., Rossi, E., and Kroll, J. F. Language
processing down the stream: Articulatory duration as a measure of bilingual language
inhibition. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production,
Geneva, Switzerland, July 17th.
2013 Fricke, M. Phonological encoding and phonetic duration in spontaneous speech.
Poster presented at the 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San
Francisco, CA, December 5th.
Fricke, M., and Johnson, K. Development of coarticulatory patterns in spontaneous
speech. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America,
Boston, MA, January 4th.
2012 Tice, M., and Woodley (Fricke), M. Paguettes and bastries: Novice French learners
show shifts in native phoneme boundaries. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR, January 7th.
2011 Woodley (Fricke), M., Tice, M., and Sumner, M. Does second language phonological
acquisition affect first language word recognition? Poster presented at the 162nd
Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, CA, November 2nd.
Woodley (Fricke), M. Lexical competition, bilingual language acquisition, and
developing sensitivity to phonotactic probability. Talk presented at the International
Child Phonology Conference, York, England, June 16th.
Woodley (Fricke), M. Phonological neighborhood density in the Trevor Corpus:
Perception and production factors in lexical acquisition. Poster presented at the
International Child Phonology Conference, York, England, June 16th.
Woodley (Fricke), M. Lexical and sublexical processing in multilingual preschoolers.
Poster presented at the CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, Stanford, CA,
March 24th.
Colloquia and Workshop Presentations
2014 Fricke, M. Phonetics as a window on psycholinguistics: When and how do competing
representations affect articulation? Phonetics Seminar, University of California at Los
Angeles, April 21st.
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Kroll, J. F., and Fricke, M. How the mind, the brain, and the mouth negotiate
competition for selection in bilingual speech. Colloquium Presentation, University of
Southern California, April 18th.
2013 Fricke, M. Phonetic reduction and the lexicon: Effects of positional neighborhood
density on articulatory duration. Stanford Phonetics and Phonology Workshop,
December 6th.
Fricke, M. A Retrieval-based account of word and segment durations in speech
production. UC Berkeley Phonetics and Phonology Forum, December 2nd.
Fricke, M. Language in time: Phonetic duration and the sequential nature of
phonological encoding. Distinguished Language Science Colloquium, Center for
Language Science at Penn State, September 6th.
2011 Tice, M. and Fricke, M. Second language phonology affects first language speech
perception. Stanford Phonetics and Phonology Workshop, December 2nd.
Fricke, M., and Tice, M. L2 Immersion effects on L1 speech perception. UC Berkeley
Phonetics and Phonology Forum, November 28th.
Fricke, M. Effects of bilingual language acquisition on processing English sounds.
UC Berkeley Phonetics and Phonology Forum, March 14th.
2009 Woodley (Fricke), M., Sylak, J., and Chang, W. Quichua phonology so far: a
presentation of ongoing fieldwork by students in Ling 240A (Field Methods). UC
Berkeley Phonetics and Phonology Forum, October 5th.
Fellowships and Awards
2009–2013 Jacob K. Javits Fellow
2011 Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship (declined)
2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Student Research Fellowship
Honorable Mention
2008–2009 William T. and Helen S. Halstead Grant
Linguistics Departmental Fellowship
2007 Outstanding Undergraduate in Linguistics
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Teaching
Summer 2013 Instructor
Linguistics c146/Psychology c143 (Language Acquisition)
Spring 2013 Instructor
Introduction to R for Absolute Beginners
(bi-weekly workshop at UC Berkeley Data Lab)
Spring 2012 Graduate Student Instructor
Linguistics 120 (Introduction to Syntax and Semantics)
Instructor: Prof. Peter Jenks
Fall 2011 Graduate Student Instructor
Linguistics 110 (Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology)
Instructor: Prof. Anne Vilain
Spring 2010 Reader
Linguistics 160 (Quantitative Methods in Linguistics)
Instructor: Prof. Susanne Gahl
Fall 2008 Reader
Linguistics c147 (Language Disorders)
Instructor: Prof. Susanne Gahl
Guest Lectures
Spring 2015 The vocal tract in action. Invited lecture for Ling 100, Prof. Eleonora Rossi, January
27th.
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Spring 2014 Articulatory phonetics for French language learners. Invited lecture for French 401
and French 001, Instructor Sandra Rousseau, April 28th and June 20th.
Fall 2013 Lexical factors in phonetic variation. Invited lecture for Spanish 597, Prof. Marianna
Nadeu, October 15th.
Additional Research Experience
2008 Research assistant for Prof. Ryan Shosted (Linguistics, UIUC)
Performed acoustic analysis of ejective fricative production in Tigrinya (Ethio-Semitic).
2004 Research assistant, Language Acquisition Lab
PI: Prof. Cynthia Fisher (Psychology, UIUC)
Tested participants and helped analyze data on first language acquisition.
Professional Activities and Memberships
ad hoc Reviewer for Applied Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Language, Memory, and Cognition, Language and
Speech, Lingua, Probus, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
2013–2014 Founder and Organizer of PHON
(phonetics and phonology working group at Penn State)
2012–2013 Start-Up Team, UC Berkeley Data Lab
(campus-wide initiative to build support for social sciences research)
2009–2010 Treasurer and Funding Chair, Berkeley Linguistics Society
Coordinator for Phorum (weekly phonetics and phonology forum)
member Acoustical Society of America
Linguistic Society of America
Psychonomic Society
Languages
English native
French fluent
Spanish intermediate
Portuguese, beginner
Russian, ASL
Computing Skills
programming R, Python
languages
software Praat, Wavesurfer, E Prime, Open Sesame, EyeLink Experiment Builder
other HTML, XML, LATEX
Last updated April 1, 2015.
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