Dr Benjamin Munson

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2000.
• B.A.: Linguistics, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 1992.
• M.A.: Speech-Language Pathology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1997.

Specialties

• Speech-sound development in children
• Childhood speech-sound disorders
• Speech production
• Speech perception

Courses Taught

• SLHS 3305W - Speech Science
• SLHS 3304 - Phonetics

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Member, Speech Communication Technical Committee, Acoustical Society of America: 2002 - 2009
• Associate Editor, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: 2004 - 2006
• Faculty Education Advisory Committee: I am the sole CLA member on the FEAC, which advises the OVPR on content and implementation of RCR training programs , 8/31/2006 - Good question!
• Senate Committee on Equity, Access, and Diversity: Chair, 2008-2009 , 8/31/2007 - 5/31/2010

Publications

• The effect of phonological neighborhood density on vowel production: Munson, Benjamin, Solomon, N., Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004.
• Variability in /s/ production in children and adults: evidence from dynamic measures of spectral mean: Munson, Benjamin, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004.
• Phonological pattern frequency and speech production in children and adults: Munson, Benjamin, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44 778-792, 2001.
• Acoustic and perceptual correlates of stress in nonwords produced by children with suspected developmental apraxia of speech and children with phonological impairments: Munson, Benjamin, Bjorum, E. & Windsor, J., Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 46 189-202, 2003.
• The interaction between vocabulary size and phonotactic probability effects on children’s production accuracy and fluency in nonword repetition: Munson, Benjamin, Edwards, J. & Beckman, M., Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004.
• The influence of sexual orientation on vowel production: Munson, Benjamin, Pierrehumbert, J. & Bent, T. & Bradlow, A. & Bailey, J., Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2004.
• The acoustic correlates of perceived sexual orientation, perceived masculinity, and perceived femininity: Munson, Benjamin, Language and Speech, 2007 . Download
• Lexical access, lexical representation, and vowel articulation: Munson, Benjamin, Papers in Laboratory Phonology 10, 2007.
• Acoustic and perceptual bases of judgments of women and men's sexual orientation from read speech.: Munson, Benjamin, Elizabeth McDonald, Nancy DeBoe, Aubrey White, Journal of Phonetics, 34 202-240, 2006.
• The influence of perceived sexual orientation on fricative identification: Munson, Benjamin, Sarah Jefferson, Elizabeth McDonald, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119 2427-2437, 2006.
• The Influence of Vocabulary Size, Phonotactic Probability, and Wordlikeness on Nonword Repetitions of Children with and without Language Impairments: Munson, Benjamin, Jennifer Windsor, Beth Kurtz, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005.

Awards

• CLA Student Board Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, 2002 - 2003
• Editor's Award, Outstanding Research Article in Hearing (awarded to Elizabeth Collison, Benjamin Munson, and Arlene Carney), 2004
• Award for Early Career Achievements in Research, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• Arthur "Red" Motley Teaching Award, 2006
• McKnight Presidential Fellowship, September, 2006 - August, 2009