Patricia Keating | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1952-07-20)July 20, 1952 (age 73) |
| Education | Brown University (PhD) |
| Spouse | Bruce Hayes(m. 1989)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | linguistics |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Thesis | A Phonetic Study of a Voicing Contrast in Polish (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Sheila Blumstein |
| Doctoral students | Marc Garellek Taehong Cho |
Patricia Ann Keating (born July 20, 1952)[2] is an Americanlinguist and notedphonetician. She is distinguished research professor emeritus atUCLA.[1]
She received her PhD in Linguistics atBrown University in 1980.[3] In 1980 she joined the faculty of the Linguistics Department atUniversity of California, Los Angeles, where she remained until her retirement. She became a Full Professor and director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory in 1991.[4] She also held a position as Distinguished Professor and served as Chair of UCLA Linguistics Department.
Keating is best known for two areas of research inphonetics.[5] She is, with Cécile Fougeron, the discoverer of the initial strengthening effect, wherein consonants receive more fortis articulations (greater degree of articulatory contact) to the extent that they occur at the beginnings of high-rankingphonological phrases. On the theoretical side, she is the inventor of the "window model" ofcoarticulation,[6] a theory of phonetic realization that specifies a particular range of legal values for each segment along each phonetic parameter.
Keating is a founding member of theAssociation for Laboratory Phonology[7] and was President of theInternational Phonetic Association from 2015 to 2019.[8][9]
She was elected as a Fellow of theAcoustical Society of America in 2004, "for contributions to the integration of the phonetic and linguistic aspects of speech production".[10]
Keating is married to linguistBruce Hayes.
