LeBel Professor of Electrical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Consultant, Sensimetrics Corporation
Education
S.B., Electrical Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO,
Toronto, Canada, 1945
S.M., Electrical Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Toronto, Canada,
1945
Sc.D., Electrical
Engineering,
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, MA, 1952
Professional
Experience
1945-1946 Fellow,
Ontario Research Foundation
1946-1948 Instructor,
University of Toronto
1951-1952 Instructor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1952-1954 Research
Staff Member, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1952-1988 Consultant,
Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.
1954-1957 Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1957-1963
Associate Professor, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
1962-1963 Researcher,
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
1963-1977 Professor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1968-1972 Member,
Communicative Sciences Study Section, NIH Division of Research Grants
1969-1970
Visiting Professor, University College,
London, Department of Phonetics
1972 Chairman,
Communicative Sciences Study Section, NIH Division of Research Grants
1977-present C. J. LeBel Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1983-1986 Member,
National Advisory Council on Neurological and Communicative Disorders and
Stroke, NIH
1988-present Consultant, Sensimetrics Corporation
1991-present Adjunct Professor, MGH Institute of Health Professions
Honors
Guggenheim Fellow, 1962-63; Fellow,
Acoustical Society of America; Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers; Fellow, United States Public Health Service, 1969-70; President,
Acoustical Society of America, 1976-77; Silver Medal in Speech Communication,
Acoustical Society of America, 1983; Jacob Javits Award, 1986; Member, National
Academy of Engineering, 1986; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
1989; Quintana Voice Research Award, 1992; Gold Medal, Acoustical Society of
America, 1995; Medal, European Speech Communication Association (ESCA), 1995;
Frank E. Perkins Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997; Member,
National Academy of Sciences, 1999; National Medal of Science, 1999.
Selected Publications
Stevens, K.N. (1971)
Airflow and turbulence noise for fricative and stop consonants: Static considerations, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 50:
1180-1192
Stevens,
K.N. (1972) The Quantal nature of
speech; Evidence from articulatory-acoustic data. In P.B. Denes and E.E. David Jr. (Eds.) Human Communication: A
Unified View, New York: McGraw-Hill, pp
51-66.
Stevens,
K.N. and D.H. Klatt (1974) The role of
formant transitions in the voiced-voiceless distinction for stops, J. Acoust.
Soc. Am. 55: 653-659
Stevens,
K.N. (1977) Physics of laryngeal
behavior and larynx modes, Phonetica 34:
264-279
Blumstein,
S.E. and K.N. Stevens (1979) Acoustic
invariance in speech production:
Evidence from measurements of the spectral characteristics of stop
consonants, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 66:
1001-1017.
Stevens,
K.N. (1980) Acoustic correlates of some
phonetic categories, J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
68: 836-842.
Stevens
K.N. and M. Hirano (Eds.) (1981) Vocal-Fold Physiology, Tokyo: University of
Tokyo Press.
Stevens,
K.N., R.S. Nickerson and A.M. Rollins (1983)
Suprasegmental and postural
aspects of speech production and their effect on articulatory skills and intelligibility. In I. Hochberg, H. Levitt and M.J. Osberger (Eds.) Speech of the Hearing Impaired,
Baltimore: University Park Press, Ch.
2, pp 35-51.
Hawkins,
S. and K.N. Stevens (1985) Acoustic and perceptual correlates of the
nasal-nonnasal distinction for vowels, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 77:1560-1575.
Stevens,
K.N., S.J. Keyser and H. Kawasaki (1986)
Toward a phonetic and phonological investigation of redundant
features. In J. Perkell and D.H.Klatt
(Eds.) Symposium on Invariance and
Variability of Speech Processes, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, Ch. 20, pp 426-463.
Stevens
K.N. (1989) On the quantal nature of speech, J. of Phonetics 17, 3-46.
Stevens,
K.N. and C.A.Bickley (1991) Constraints
among parameters simplify control of Klatt formant synthesizer, J. of Phonetics
19, 161-174.
Stevens,
K.N. (1991) Vocal-fold vibration for
obstruent consonants. In J. Gauffin and
B. Hammarberg (Eds.) Vocal Fold
Physiology, San Diego: Singular, 29-36.
Halle,
M. and K.N. Stevens (1991) Knowledge of language and the sounds of speech. In J. Sundberg, L. Nord, and R. Carlson
(Eds.), Music, Language, Speech and
Brain, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press, 1-19.
Stevens,
K.N. (1993) Models for the production and acoustics of stop consonants. In Speech Communication, 13, 367-375.
Stevens, K.N.
(1994) Scientific substrates of speech
production. In F.D. Minife (Ed.) Introduction to Communication Sciences and
Disorders, San Diego: Singular, 399-437.
Keyser, S.J. and K.N.
Stevens (1994) Feature geometry and the vocal tract. Phonology 11, No 2, 207-236.
Bickley,
C.A., K.N. Stevens, D.R. Williams (1997) A framework for synthesis of segments
based on pseudoarticulatory parameters.
In J.P.H. Van Santen, R.W. Sproat, J.P. Olive and J. Hirschberg (eds.),
Progress in Speech Synthesis, Springer-Verlag: New York, 211-220.
Stevens,
K.N. (1997) Articulatory-acoustic-auditory relationships. In W.J. Hardcastle and J. Laver (eds.), The
Handbook of Phonetic Sciences , Blackwell: Oxford, 462-506.
Stevens,
K.N. (1997) Models of speech production.
In M. Crocker (ed.) Encyclopedia of Acoustics, Vol. 4, Chapter 125, New
York: Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1565-1578.
Halle,
M. and K.N. Stevens (1997) The postalveolar fricatives of Polish. In S. Kiritani, H. Hirose and H. Fujisaki
(eds.), Speech Production and Language: In Honor of Osamu Fujimura, Mouton de
Gruyter: Berlin, 177-193.
Stevens, K.N. (2000). Diverse acoustic cues at consonantal landmarks. In a Special Issue of Phonetica 57, 139-151.
Chen, M.Y., K.N. Stevens, H.-K. Kuo and H. Chen (2000). Contributions of the study of disordered
speech to speech production models. J.
Phonetics 28, 303-312.
Keyser,
S.J. and K.N. Stevens (2001) Enhancement revisited. In M. Kenstowic (ed.), Ken Hale: A Life in Language. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 271-291.
Stevens,
K.N. (2001) The properties of the vocal-tract walls help to shape several
phonetic distinctions in language. In
Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague,Vol. XXXI, 285-297.
Chen,
H. and K.N. Stevens (2001) An acoustical study of the fricative /s/ in the
speech of individuals with dysarthria.
J. Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 44, 1300-1314.
Hanson,
H.M., K.N. Stevens, H.-K. Kuo, M.Y. Chen and J. Slifka (2001) Towards models of phonation. J. Phonetics 29, 451-480.
Stevens,
K.N. (2002) Toward a model for lexical access based on acoustic landmarks and
distinctive features. J. Acoust. Soc.
Am. 111, 1872-1891.
Hanson,
H.M. and K.N. Stevens (2002) A quasiarticulatory approach to controlling
acoustic source parameters in a Klatt-type formant synthesizer using
Hlsyn. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112,
1158-1182.