Ph.D., Prof.
Present Position
Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders,
Director, Institute for Advanced Study of the Communication Processes University of Florida Gainesville, Florida; U.S.A.
Education
BS Degree, Edinboro University, Pennslyvania
MA Degree, State University of New York at Buffalo
Ph.D. Degree, State University of New York at Buffalo
Experimental Phonetics
HONORS
Fellow, International Society of Phonetic Sciences
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
Fellow, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
SELECTD PUBLICATIONS
Brown, W.S. and McGlone, R., Constancy of Intraoral Air Pressure, Folia Phoniatrica, 21, 332-339. 1969.
Hollien, H., Brown, W.S. and Hollien, K., Vocal fold length characteristics associated with modal, falsetto and varying intensity phonation, Folia Phoniatrica, 23, 66-88, 1971.
Murry, T. and Brown, W.S., Regulation of vocal intensity during vocal fry phonation, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 49, 1905-1907, 1971.
Brown, W.S., McGlone, R. and Proffit, W., Relationship of lingual and intraoral air pressure during syllable production, Journal of Speech and Hearing research, 16, 141-151, 1973.
Muller, E. and Brown, W.S., Chapter, Variations in Supraglottal Air Pressure Waveform and their Articulatory Interpretation, Speech and Language: Advances in Basic Research and Practice (N. Lass. Ed.), Vol. 4, Academic Press, Inc., 1980.
McGlone, R. and Brown, W.S., Vocal register „shift“ identification in a modified breathing atmosphere, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 69, 596-600, 1981.
Morris, R. and Brown, W.S., Age-related voice measures among adult women, Journal of Voice, 1, 38-43, 1987.
Brown, W.S., Hunt, E. and Williams, W., Physiological differences between the trained and untrained speaking and singing voice, Journal of Voice, 2, 102-108, 1988.
Brown, W.S. and Goldberg, D., An acoustic study of the intelligible utterances of hearing-impaired speakers, Folia Phoniatrica, 42,230-238, 1990.
Brown, W.S., Morris, R., Hollien, H. and Howell, E., Speaking fundamental frequency characteristics as a function of age and professional singing, Journal of Voice, 5, 310-315, 1991.
Brown, W.S. and Morris, R., Comparative methods for measurement of VOT, Journal of Phonetics, 21,329-336, 1993.
Griffiths, S., Brown, W.S., Gerhardt, K., Abrams, R. and Morris, R., The perception of speech sounds recorded in the uterus of pregnant sheep, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96, 2055-2063, 1994.
Brown, W.S., Morris, R. and Murry, T., Comfortable effort level revisited, Journal of Voice, 10, 299-305, 1996.
Brown, W.S., Morris, R., Degroot, T. and Murry, T., Reliability of single sample experimental designs: comfortable effort level, Journal of Voice, 12,453-459, 1998.