Principal Investigator & Lab Director
Dr. Suzanne V.H. van der Feest is an Associate Research Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, in the Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and Linguistics programs.
Originally from the Netherlands, she received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Nijmegen, where she did research at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. She came to the United States in 2007 to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Penn Infant Language Center in Philadelphia. In 2009 she started as a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin in 2009, where she taught and conducted research in the Communication Sciences and Disorders and (since 2014) the Linguistics department. Her research at the Graduate Center focuses on the development of speech perception, production and word recognition (a full CV can be found here).
Graduate Students (Advising / Committee member)
Ingrid Davidovich, PhD Program, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center. Ingrid is a third-year PhD student. Her research interests involve phonological development, as well as speech perception and production in bilingual speakers. Ingrid has over 19 years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate students at several New York City colleges.
Evgeniya Maryutina, PhD Program, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center. Evgeniya recently finished her MA in the Linguistics Program working with Dr. Van der Feest and Dr. Valerie Shafer. She is studying Russian vowel perception and production in young English-Russian bilingual heritage speakers. Evgeniya also works as a teacher of Russian for infants, toddlers and children in New York City, and is interested in developmental neurolinguistics, bilingualism and phonology.
Alahna Cogburn, PhD Program, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center.
Kyung-Eun Lee, PhD Program, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center.
Genevieve Medina, PhD Program, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center.
Matthew Stuck, PhD Program, Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center.
Lab Members
Marcy Gordon, PhD Program, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center.
Nishtha Trivedi, MA Program, Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center.
Megan Valentin, PhD Program, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center.
Miya Wilson, MA Program in Speech-Language Pathology, Lehman College
Lab Alumni
Danielle Ronkos graduated from the CUNY Linguistics PhD Program in the Fall of 2020! Danielle’s research draws on original fieldwork to describe the phonetics and phonology of a dialect of Gurung, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal. She went on to work at the University of Maryland National Foreign Language Center, and is currently working as a Product Operations Manager at Scale AI .
Priyanka Algu studied Linguistics at CUNY Brooklyn College. Priyanka set up a project looking at the perception of Korean & English voicing contrasts by English & Korean bilingual and monolingual listeners. She is currently pursuing her medical degree!
(Former) Graduate Student Collaborators
- Dr. Maya Rose – PhD in Educational Psychology, CUNY, 2022
- Dr. Cynthia P. Blanco – now a Senior Learning Scientist at Duolingo
- Dr. Hoyoung Yi – now an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University
- Frances Cooley – now a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of South Florida
Undergraduate & Graduate Alumni Fall 2014 – Spring 2018 (working with Dr. Van der Feest at UT Austin)
- Rui Akaike, Honors student, 2017 – Project: word learning in monolinguals and bilinguals. Rui is currently working for the Peace Corps in Panama.
- Kacy Jacobs, M.A. student, 2014 – Project: Effects of Auditory Processing on Lexical Development in Children with Hearing Impairment
- Allison Thomas – continued as a graduate student at UT Dallas
- Amanda Clark – continued as a graduate student at the University of Houston
- AnnaLissa Garcia – continued as a graduate student at UT Dallas
- Carly Miller – continued as a graduate student at TCU
- Emily Ford – continued as a graduate student at UT El Paso
- Laura Nagy – continued as an exchange student and intern in Brussels, Belgium.
- Suzanne Stiles – continued as a graduate student at Vanderbilt University
- Samantha Moses, M.A. – continued as a graduate student at UT Austin and now works as a licensed Speech Language Pathologist in Austin, Texas.
- Aaron Quach
- Alison Van Alen
- Arielle Tamez
- Audrey Snow
- Brianna Cooley
- Chloe Gomez
- Daniela Carrion
- Danielle Parsons
- Grace Lundstrom
- Lindsay Palmer
- Lauren Wagner
- Nicole Parsons