My research addresses three primary questions: How do children learn
to speak? How do various kinds of neurologic damage affect speech production?
What do answers to the first two questions tell us about the neural representation
of speech and its motor control? In trying to answer these questions, I
study the normative processes of speech production, vocal behaviors in
typically and atypically developing infants, and the speech of individuals
with neurogenic communicative disorders.
Kent, R.D., & Vorperian, H.K. (1995). Anatomic development of the
craniofacial-oral-laryngeal systems: A review. Journal of Medical Speech-Language
Pathology, 3, 145-190.
Kent, R.D., & Miolo, G. (1994). Phonetic abilities in the first
year of life. In P. Fletcher & B. MacWhinney (Eds.), Handbook of
Child Language, (pp. 303-334). London: Blackwell.
Kent, R.D., & Read, W.C. (1992). The Acoustic Analysis of Speech. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group.