Dr. Susannah Levi

Biography

Susannah V. Levi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University. She is the director of the Acoustic Phonetics Perception Lab (APPL), where her research focuses on the intersection of linguistics and acoustic phonetics. Dr. Levi has been instrumental in exploring how speech perception is influenced by phonetic variability and how listeners adapt to changes in speech. Her academic background includes a BA in Mathematics and French from Washington University in St. Louis, followed by an MA and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Washington, Seattle. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Indiana University in Psychological Brain Sciences. Her lab has received funding from the National Science Foundation, reflecting her active engagement in research that pushes the boundaries of understanding speech perception in diverse contexts. As an affiliate faculty member in the Departments of Linguistics and Psychology, she collaborates across disciplines to investigate complex communicative processes.

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