Laura L. Koenig | Faculty Profiles

Diplomas/Degrees

Ph.D., City University of New York (1998)

A. M., The University of Pennsylvania (1991)

A.B., The University of Chicago (1987)

Professional Experience

I am trained as a linguist and speech scientist, and teach courses in Phonetics, Linguistics, Anatomy and Physiology, Speech Science, and Research methods. My research has focused on speech aerodynamics, respiratory control, and laryngeal function in adults and children; typical and atypical development of speech coordination and articulation; and aging effects in speech production. Along with colleagues in Berlin and Dresden, Germany, I have developed novel experimental and measurement protocols for studying speech production. With colleagues in Thessaloniki, Greece and at Montclair State University I have, respectively, contributed to work on consonant and vowel production in children with cochlear implants, and explorations of speech production and perception in children with speech sound disorders and childhood apraxia of speech.

Recent Courses

Anatomy And Physiology Of The Speech Mechanism

Continuous Matriculation

Phonetics

Speech And Hearing Science

Courses Previously Taught

Historical and Comparative Linguistics

Research Design in SLP

Articles

Żygis, M., Jaskula, M., Pape, D., & Koenig, L. L. (2023). Do children better understand adults or themselves? An acoustic and perceptual study of the complex sibilant system of Polish. Journal of Phonetics, 100.

Shadle, C. H., Chen, W.-R., Koenig, L. L., & Preston, J. L. (2023). Refining and extending measures for fricative spectra, with special attention to the high-frequency range. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(3), 1932–1944.

Fuchs, S., Koenig, L. L., & Gerstenberg, A. (2021). A longitudinal study of speech acoustics in older French women: Analysis of the filler particle euh across utterance positions. Languages [Special Issue on Aging- and Disease-reated Changes in Speech Production, MS ID 1396935.

Hitchcock, E. R., & Koenig, L. L. (2021). Adult perception of stop consonant voicing in American-English-learning toddlers: Voice onset time and secondary cues. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150, 460–477.

Koenig, L. L., & Fuchs, S. (2021). Assessing vowel effects on voice quality, and voice quality effects on the respiratory system. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America — Expess Letters [JASA–EL], EL66–EL71

Randazzo, M., Koenig, L. L. & Priefer, R. (2020). The effect of face masks on the intelligibility of unpredictable sentences. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 42, 032001.

Koenig, L. L., Okalidou, A., & Psillas, G. (2019). Velopharyngeal control for speech in children with cochlear implants: Nasalance data in Greek VCV disyllables. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 35(1)

Koenig, L. L., & Fuchs, S. (2019). Vowel formants in normal and loud speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62, 1278–1295

Fuchs, S., Koenig, L. L., & Petrone, C. (2019). Exploring the source of short-term variations in respiratory data. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America – Express Letters [JASA–EL], 145, EL66–EL71.

Petrone, C., Fuchs, S., & Koenig, L. L. (2017). Relations among subglottal pressure, breathing and acoustic parameters of sentence-level prominence in German. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141, 1715–1725.

Żygis, M., Pape, D., Jaskulac, M., Koenig, L. L., & Jesus, L. M. T. (2017). Segmental cues to intonation of statements and polar questions in whispered, semi-whispered and normal speech modes: Data from vowels and obstruents in Polish. Journal of Phonetics, 63, 53–74.

Shi, L.-F., & Koenig, L. L. (2016), Relative weighting of semantic and syntactic cues in native and non-native listeners’ recognition of English sentences. Ear and Hearing, 37, 424–433.

Shi, L.-F., & Koenig, L. L. (2016), Acoustic–phonetic versus lexical processing in nonnative listeners differing in their dominant language. American Journal of Audiology, 25, 167–176.

Hitchcock, E. R., & Koenig, L. L. (2015), Longitudinal observations of typical English voicing acquisition in a 2-year-old child: Stability of the contrast and considerations for clinical assessment. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 29, 955–976.

Fuchs, S., Petrone, C., Rochet-Capellan, A., Reichel, U. D., & Koenig, L. L. (2015), Assessing respiratory contributions to f0 declination in German across varying speech tasks and respiratory demands. Journal of Phonetics, 52, 35–45.

Shadle, C. H., Koenig, L. L., & Preston, J. L. (2014). Acoustic characterization of /s/ spectra of adolescents: Moving beyond moments. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 12(1), 060006.

Hitchcock, E. R., & Koenig, L. L. (2013), The effects of data reduction in determining the schedule of voicing acquisition in young children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56, 441–457..

Koenig, L. L., Shadle, C. H., Preston, J., & Mooshammer, C. (2013), Towards improved spectral measures of /s/: Results from adolescents. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56, 1–16.

Zygis, M., Fuchs, S., & Koenig, L. L. (2012), Phonetic explanations for the infrequency of voiced sibilant affricates across languages. Journal of Laboratory Phonology, 3, 305–342.

Preston, J. L., & Koenig, L. L. (2011), Phonetic variability in residual speech sound disorders: Exploration of subtypes. Topics in Language Disorders, 31, 168–184.

Lucero, J. C., Koenig, L. L., Lourenco, K. G., Ruty, N., & Pelorson, X. (2011), A lumped mucosal wave model of the vocal folds revisited: Recent extensions and oscillation hysteresis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129, 1568–1579..

Koenig, L. L., Fuchs, S., & Lucero, J. C. (2011), Effects of consonant manner and vowel height on intraoral pressure and articulatory contact at voicing offset and onset for voiceless obstruents. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129, 3233–3244.

Fuchs, S., & Koenig, L. L. (2009), Simultaneous measures of electropalatography and intraoral pressure in selected voiceless lingual consonants and consonant sequences of German. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126, 1988–2001.

Koenig, L. L., & Lucero, J. C. (2008), Stop consonant voicing and intraoral pressure contours in women and children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, 1077–1088.

Koenig, L. L., Lucero, J. C., & Perlman, E. (2008), Speech production variability in fricatives of children and adults: Results of functional data analysis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124(5), 3158–3170.

Koenig, L. L., Lucero, J. C., & Mencl, W. E. (2008), Laryngeal and aerodynamic adjustments for voicing vs. devoicing of /h/: A within-speaker study. Journal of Voice, 22, 709–720.

Lucero, J. C., & Koenig, L. L. (2007), On the relation between the phonation threshold lung pressure and the oscillation frequency of the vocal folds [Letter]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 3280–3283.

Lucero, J. C., & Koenig, L. L. (2005), Simulations of temporal patterns of oral airflow in men and women using a two-mass model of the vocal folds under dynamic control. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 1362–1372.

Lucero, J. C., & Koenig, L. L. (2005), Phonation thresholds as a function of laryngeal size in a two-mass model of the vocal folds [Letter]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 2798–2801.

Koenig, L. L., Mencl, W. E., & Lucero, J. C. (2005), Multidimensional analyses of voicing offsets and onsets in female speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 2535–2550.

Koenig, L. L. (2004). Towards a physical definition of the vowel systems of languages. In V. H. Yngve & Z. Wasik (Eds.), Hard-Science Linguistics (pp. 49–66). New York: Continuum.

Koenig, L. L. (2001), Distributional characteristics of VOT in children's voiceless aspirated stops and interpretation of developmental trends. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44, 1058–1068.

Lucero, J., & Koenig, L. L. (2000), Time normalization of voice signals using Functional Data Analysis. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108, 1408–1420.

Koenig, L. L. (2000), Laryngeal factors in voiceless consonant production in men, women, and 5-year-olds. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 43, 1211–1228.

Löfqvist, A., Koenig, L. L., & McGowan, R. S. (1995). Voice source variations in running speech: A study of Mandarin Chinese tones. In O. Fujimura & M. Hirano (Eds.), Vocal fold physiology: Voice quality control (pp. 3–22). San Diego: Singular Publishing Group, Inc.

McGowan, R. S., Koenig, L. L., & Löfqvist, A. (1995), Vocal tract aerodynamics in /aCa/ utterances: Simulations. Speech Communication, 16, 67–88.

Löfqvist, A., Koenig, L. L., & McGowan, R. S. (1995), Vocal tract aerodynamics in /aCa/ utterances: Measurements. Speech Communication, 16, 49–66.

Conference Presentations

Koenig, L. L., and Fuchs, S. (2023, May). Exploring speaker-specific behaviors and effects of electro-optical stomatography palates during speech breathing. Poster presented at the 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL.

Shadle, C. H., Chen, W.-R., Koenig, L., & Preston, J. L. (2020, Dec.). Fricative variability in normal adult speakers. Paper presented at the 179th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America “Acoustics Virtually Everywhere,” special session on Reintroducing the high-frequency region to speech perception research.

Randazzo, M., Priefer, R., & Koenig, L. L. (2020, Dec.). Assessing how face masks affect speech intelligibility. Paper presented at the Poster presented at the 179th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America “Acoustics Virtually Everywhere”.

Koenig, L., Fuchs, S., Gerstenberg, A., & Rastegar, M. (2020, Dec.). Formant and voice quality changes as a function of age in women. Poster presented at the 179th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America “Acoustics Virtually Everywhere”.

Zygis, M., Jaskula, M., Pape, D., & Koenig, L. L. (2020, July). Do children understand adults better or themselves? Perception and production study of /s, ʂ, ɕ/ contrast in Polish. Poster presented at LabPhon 17 [the conference on Laboratory Phonology]. Virtual conference, 6–8 July 2020.

Gerstenberg, A., Fuchs, S., & Koenig, L. L. (2020, March). Changes in phonetic detail as a matter of discourse and aging: Evidence from a longitudinal study on French. Paper presented at the 2nd Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan, London [conference held virtually due to Coronavirus outbreak].