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Dr. O’Brien has a keen interest in pronunciation, and her early research focused on the perception and production of German speech sounds and prosody, especially lexical stress in language learners of German. In 2016, she co-authored "German Phonetics and Phonology: Theory and Practice" with Sarah M. B. Fagan from the University of Iowa. Her recent work has focused on listener reactions to accented speech, collaborating with colleague Pavel Trofimovich from Concordia University, along with a team of graduate students to investigate how listeners evaluate accented speech in a variety of settings. This work has received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Department of Philosophy