CURRICULUM VITA
William F. Katz, Ph.D.

School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Programs in Communication Disorders and Communication Sciences,
Speech Language Pathology and Audiology
University of Texas at Dallas
wkatz@utdallas.edu

1. Education:

M.A., Ph.D. in Linguistics, 1987. Brown University, Providence, RI.
M.A. in Applied Linguistics, 1982. California State University Long Beach.
B.A. in Biology, 1977. University of California Santa Cruz.

2. Employment History:

Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, 2007 - present.
Associate Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, 1996 - 2007.
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas, 1990 - 1996.
Fulbright Fellow, University of Konstanz, Germany, 1997 - 1998.
Research Fellow, University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, 1986-1990.

3. Professional affiliations, honors:

Member, New York Academy of Sciences, 1986-1992.
Member, Academy of Aphasia. 1986 – present.
Member, Acoustical Society of America, 1987 – present.
Member, American Speech and Hearing Association, 1990 – present.
Associate, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1990 – present.
Member, International Phonetics Association, 1992 – present.
Member, Linguistics Society of America. 1986 – present.
Member, National Aphasia Association, 1990 – present.
Callier Research Scholar, 2006.

4. Publications:

a. Articles in refereed journals:
    1. Katz, W., Carter, C, & Levitt, J. (2007). Treating buccofacial apraxia using augmented kinematic feedback. Aphasiology, 12, 1230-1247.
    2. Bharadwaj, S.V., Tobey, E.A., Assmann, P.F., & Katz, W.F. (2006). Effects of auditory feedback on fricatives produced by cochlear implanted adults and children: Acoustic and perceptual evidence. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 1626-35.
    3. Katz, W., Bharadwaj, S., Rush, M., & Stettler, M. (2006). Influences of EMA receiver coils on speech production by normal and aphasic/apraxic talkers. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 645-659.
    4. Assmann, P., & Katz, W. (2005). Synthesis fidelity and time-varying spectral change in vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 886-895.
    5. Katz, W., Bharadwaj, S., Gabbert, G., Loizou, P., Tobey, E., & Poroy, O. (2003). EMA compatibility of the Clarion 1.2 cochlear implant system. Acoustic Research Letters Online, 4(3), 100-105.
    6. Katz, W. (2001). Anticipatory coarticulation and aphasia: Implications for phonetic theories. Journal of Phonetics, 28, 313-334.
    7. Katz, W., & Bharadwaj, S. (2001). Coarticulation in fricative-vowel syllables produced by children and adults: a preliminary report. Journal of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, Vol. 15(1/2), 139-144.
    8. Katz, W., & Assmann, P. (2001). Identification of children’s and adults’ vowels: Intrinsic fundamental frequency, fundamental frequency dynamics, and presence of voicing. Journal of Phonetics, 29, 23-51.
    9. Assmann, P., & Katz, W. (2000) Time-varying spectral change in the vowels of children and adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108, 1856-1866.
    10. Katz, W., Bharadwaj, S., & Carstens, B. (1999). Electromagnetic articulography treatment for an adult with Broca’s aphasia and apraxia of speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 42, 1355-1366.
    11. Baum, S., Kim, J., & Katz, W. (1997). Compensation for jaw fixation by aphasic patients. Brain and Language, 56, 354-376.
    12. Katz, W., Beach, C, Jenouri, K., & Verma, S. (1996). Duration and fundamental frequency correlates of phrase boundaries in productions by children and adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99, 3179-3191.
    13. Beach, C., Katz, W., & Skowronski, A. (1996). Children's processing of prosodic cues for phrasal interpretation. (1996). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99, 1148-1160.
    14. Fiez, J., Tallal, P., Raichle, M., Miezin, F., Katz, W., Dobmeyer, S., & Petersen, S. (1995). PET studies of auditory and phonological processing: Effects of stimulus type and task condition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 7(3), 357-375.
    15. Hagman, J., Wood, F., Buchsbaum, M., Tallal, P., Flowers, L., & Katz, W. (1992). Cerebral brain mechanism in adult dyslexics assessed with positron emission tomography during performance of an auditory task. Archives of Neurology, 49, 734-739.
    16. Katz, W., Curtiss, S., & Tallal, P. (1992). Rapid automatized naming and gesture by normal and language-impaired children. Brain and Language, 43, 623-641.
    17. Curtiss, S., Katz, W., & Tallal, P. (1992). Delay vs. deviance in the language acquisition of language-impaired children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 35, 373-383.
    18. Katz, W., Kripke, C., & Tallal, P. (1991). Anticipatory labial coarticulation in the speech of adults and young children. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 34, 1222-1232.
    19. Katz, W., Machetanz, J., Orth, U., & Schoenle, P. (1990).Anticipatory labial coarticulation in two German-speaking anterior aphasic subjects: Acoustic analyses. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 5, 295-320.
    20. Katz, W., Machetanz, J., Orth, U., & Schoenle, P. (1990). A kinematic analysis of anticipatory coarticulation in the speech of anterior aphasic subjects using electromagnetic articulography. Brain and Language, 38, 555-575.
    21. Baum, S. & Katz, W. (1988). Acoustic analysis of compensatory articulation in children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 84, 1662-1668.
    22. Katz, W. (1988). Methodological considerations reconsidered: Reply to Sussman et al. Brain and Language, 35, 367-379.
    23. Katz, W. (1988). Anticipatory coarticulation in aphasia: Acoustic and perceptual data. Brain and Language, 35, 340-368.
    24. Katz, W. (1988). An investigation of lexical ambiguity in Broca's aphasic subjects using an auditory lexical decision task. Neuropsychologia, 26, 747-752.
    25. Blumstein, S., Alexander, M., Ryalls, J., Katz, W., & Dworetzky, B. (1987). On the nature of the Foreign Accent Syndrome: A case study. Brain and Language, 31, 215-244.
    26. Katz, W. & Baum, S. (1987). Compensatory articulation in Broca's aphasia: The facts aren't in yet. Brain and Language, 30, 367-373.
    27. Lieberman, P., Katz, W., Jongman, A., Zimmerman, R., & Miller, M. (1985). Reply to Bruno H. Repp. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 78, 1116-1117.
    28. Lieberman, P., Katz, W., Jongman, A., Zimmerman, R., & Miller, M. (1985). Measurements of the sentence intonation of read and spontaneous speech in American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 77, 649-657.
b. Complete articles in edited volumes:
    1. Garst, D. & Katz, W. (2006). The Foreign Accent Syndrome. The ASHA Leader, Vol. 11, No. 10.
    2. Katz, W. (2003). Basic Research in Speech Science and Speech-Language Pathology. The ASHA Leader, 6-7, 20.
    3. Katz, W., & Bharadwaj, S. (1999). Remediation of nonfluent aphasia using magnetometer -feedback therapy. In B. Maasen & P. Groenen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Ann. Conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association. London: Whurr Publ. Ltd.
    4. Katz, W. & Santrock, J. (1997). Thinking and Language. In J. Santrock (Ed.), Psychology. Madison, WI: Brown & Benchmark.
    5. Katz, W., Curtiss, S., & Tallal, P. (1993). Naming and gesture by normal and language-impaired children: Evidence from a modified Rapid Automatized Naming Test. In P. Tallal, A. Galaburda, R. Llinas, and C. von Euler (Eds.) Temporal information processing in the nervous system. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 682, 359-362.
    6. Tallal, P., & Katz, W. (1989). Neuropsychological and neuroanatomical studies of developmental language/reading impaired disorders: Recent advances. In C. von Euler, I. Lundberg, and G. Lennerstrand (Eds.), Brain and reading. London: MacMillan.
    7. Katz, W. (1987). Anticipatory labial and lingual coarticulation in aphasia. In J. Ryalls (Ed.), Phonetic approaches to speech production in aphasia and related disorders. San Diego: College-Hill Press.
c. Refereed conference presentations or abstracts:
    1. Gabbert, G.J., Dewey, R. & Katz, W.F. (2004). Compensatory articulation in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. Brain and Language, 91, 19-20.
    2. Katz, W., Carter, G., & Levitt, J. (2003). Biofeedback treatment of buccofacial apraxia using EMA. Brain and Language, 87, 175-176.
    3. Katz, W., Bharadwaj, S., Gabbert, G., & Stettler, M. (2002). Visual augmented knowledge of performance: Treating place-of-articulation errors in apraxia of speech using EMA. Brain and Language, 83, 187-189.
    4. Katz, W., Bharadwaj, S., Gabbert, G., and Rush, M. (2001). Influences of EMA receiver coils on speech production by normal and aphasic talkers. Brain and Language, 79, 67-69.
    5. Perrin, J., & Katz, W. (2001). Compensatory articulation in subjects with cerebellar atrophy: Implications for models of speech production. Brain and Language, 74, 67-69
    6. Katz, W. (1998). Anticipatory coarticulation in fricative-vowel syllables produced by children and adults: Kinematic and perceptual evidence. 7th Annual Conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, Montreal, Canada.
    7. Katz, W. (1998). EMA and perceptual analyses of coarticulation in fricative-vowel syllables produced by women and children. Speech articulation workshop: Institut fuer Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Germany.
    8. Katz, W. (1997). Remediation of nonfluent aphasia using magnetometer-feedback therapy. 6th Annual Conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, Nijmegen, Holland.
    9. Katz, W. (1997). Remediation of nonfluent aphasic speech errors using electromagnetic articulography. 35th Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Philadelphia, Penn.
    10. Katz, W. (1994). Adaptation to articulatory perturbation by fluent and nonfluent aphasic subjects. 32nd Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Cambridge, Mass.
    11. Katz, W., & Streit-Olness, G. (1993). Idiom processing: On-line analyses. TENNET (Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology) IV, Montreal, Canada.
    12. Katz, W. (1992). Compensatory articulation in Broca's aphasia. 30th Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Toronto, Canada.
    13. Katz, W., Curtiss, S., & Tallal, P. (1991). Rapid automatized naming and gesture by normal and language impaired children. AFASIC Conference, Yorkshire, England.
    14. Katz, W. (1990). Anticipatory labial coarticulation in two German-speaking anterior aphasic subjects: Acoustic analyses. 28th Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Baltimore, Md.
    15. Katz, W. (1988). A kinematic analysis of anticipatory coarticulation in an anterior aphasic subject using electromagnetic articulography. 26th Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Montreal, Canada.
d. Invited presentations:
    1. New avenues in apraxia intervention. UT Southwestern Medical School/ Vascular disease/ Stroke Team.Feb., 2006.
    2. Treating verbal apraxia with biofeedback. Dallas Area Speech Pathology Association (DASPA). 2001.
    3. New Horizons in Apraxia Therapy. Dallas/ Ft. Worth Aphasiology Association. 2000.
    4. Kinematic analyses of speech production. UT Southwestern Medical School/ Neurology Seminar Series. 2000.
    5. Recent studies of speech motor control at the University of Texas at Dallas: Analysis of children and apraxic adults. University of Tuebingen Department of Neurology Lecture, Tuebingen, Germany. 1998.
    6. Coarticulation in child language. University of Zurich/ Department of Phonetics Invited Lecture Series, Zurich, Switzerland. 1998.
    7. Neurolinguistic research at the University of Texas at Dallas. Fulbright Foundation Lectureship Program. University Groningen, Dept. of Linguistics. Groningen, Holland.1998.
    8. Can studies of clinical populations inform theoretical models of speech production? 134th Mtg. of the Acoustical Society of America. Workshop on basic science at the intersection of speech science and communication disorders. San Diego, CA. 1997.
    9. Development of skilled speech production in children. 128th Mtg. of the Acoustical Society of America, Austin, Tx. 1994.
    10. Brain, mind, and language: Evidence from aphasia. 160th National Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, CA. 1994.
    11. Williams Syndrome: Current research perspectives. William's Syndrome Association/ Southwestern Regional Conference, 1992.
    12. Longitudinal Outcomes of Developmental Language Disorders. Orton Dyslexia Society, New York, 1990.
e. Other writings:
    1. Katz, W. (1989). Anticipatory coarticulation and aphasia: Implications for connectionist models of speech production. Center for Research in Language Newsletter, 4 (1), University of California San Diego.
    2. Katz, W., Chapin, C., & Lieberman, P. (1985). Evaluation of normalization procedures for the vowels of young children. Brown University Working Papers in Linguistics, 5, 79-96.
    3. Katz, W. (1985). Stress assignment in English and Spanish: Arboreal vs. non-arboreal metrical theories. Brown University Working Papers in Linguistics, 5, 97-121.
f. Contributed (un-refereed) abstracts:
    1. Yoshida, M., & Katz, W. (2006). Children’s production of prosody: Disambiguating sets of compound nouns. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 3421.
    2. Katz, W. & Yoshida, M. (2004). Children’s use of prosody to identify ambiguous sets of compound nouns. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 2645.
    3. Katz, W., Bharadwaj, S., Gabbert, G., & Stettler, M. (2002). Fricative spectral moments and the perception of anticipatory coarticulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 112, 2355.
    4. Bharadwaj, S., Tobey, E., Assmann, P., & Katz, W. (2001). Role of auditory feedback in speech produced by cochlear-implanted adults and children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111, 2428.
    5. Assmann, P. & Katz, W. (2001). Effects of synthesis fidelity on vowel identification: Role of spectral change and voicing source. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 110, 2658.
    6. Bharadwaj, S., & Katz, W. (2000). Anticipatory coarticulation in the speech of adults and children: A perceptual study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 107, 2655.
    7. Assmann, P, Katz, W., Jenouri, K.,, & Hamilton, P. (1995). Identification of natural and synthesized vowels produced by children and adults: Effects of fundamental frequency variation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98, 2964.
    8. Katz, W., Assmann, P., & Jenouri, K. (1995). Identification of natural and synthesized vowels produced by children and adults: Effects of formant frequency variation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98, 2964.
    9. Verma, S., Mannering, A., Kornell, B., Katz, W., & Beach, C. (1994). Prosodic cues for phrasal boundaries in productions by children and adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96, 3308.
    10. Baum, S., & Katz, W. (1994). Development of skilled speech production in children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96, 3307.
    11. Beach, C., Ganguilay, A., Guber, K., McBride, A., Park, K., & Katz, W. (1991). Children's use of prosody to identify phrasal units in sentences Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 90, 2297.
    12. Tallal, P., Wood, F., Buchsbaum, M., Flowers, L., Brown, I., & Katz, W. (1990). Decoupling of PET measured left caudate and cortical metabolism in adult dyslexia. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.
    13. Katz, W. (1987). Anticipatory coarticulation in aphasia: Acoustic and perceptual evidence. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 81, S56.
    14. Lieberman, P,. Katz, W. Zimmerman, R., Jongman, A., & Miller, M. (1983). A perceptually based approach to F0 characterization Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 74, S89.
g. Manuscripts in preparation:
    1. Katz, W.F., & Gabbert, G. Changes in the stop/glide distinction by speakers with Parkinson’s Disease: Acoustic and perceptual data.
    2. Katz, W.F., Allen, G., Garst, D., Briggs, R., Cheskov, S., Ringe, W., & Gopinath, K.S. Neural bases of the foreign accent syndrome: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study.
    3. Katz, W.F., Garst, D., Kaplan, K., & Frisch, E. Principled intervention for the foreign accent syndrome: A multiple-baseline study.
    4. Katz, W.F., Joglar, J., Garst, D., & Nguyen, C. Electromagnetic articulograph system (EMA) compatibility of pacemaker and implantable defibrillators.
h. Submitted manuscripts:
    1. Bharadwaj, S., Katz, W., & Tobey, E. Effects of auditory feedback on foreign and native vowels spoken by cochlear implanted children and adults. Under revision for Ear and Hearing.
    2. Katz, W. Garst, D., & Levitt, J. Relation between prosodic and segmental deficits in the speech of an individual with foreign accent syndrome (FAS). Submitted to Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics.
5. External funding for original investigations:

“Visual biofeedback treatment for speech errors after stroke”
Co-investigators: William Katz, Ph.D., Patrick Doyle, Ph.D., Gregory Carter, M.D.
Department of Veterans Affairs
VHA Merit Review, 4/1/05-12/31/08
$590,800 (UTD share approximately $300,000)

“Combined biofeedback approaches for the treatment of apraxia of speech following stroke”
Principal investigator: William F. Katz, Ph.D.
Excellence in Education Grant (#19-02), 9/1/04- 8/31/05
$1,500.

"Speech production in Parkinson’s Disease."
Excellence in Education Grant (#19-02).$1,500 . 9/1/03 to 8/31/04.

"Coarticulation in speech development.
"Excellence in Education Grant (#19-02) $11,500. 9/1/01 to 8/31/02.

"Lecturing in neurolinguistics and research in cross-linguistic aspects of children's speech production."
American Fulbright Foundation. $ 23,000. 9/97 to 7/98.

"Development of an artificial nervous system."
(Dr. Larry Cauller, PI). In consortium with other UTD faculty. $ 420,146. 7/97 to 7/00.

"Development of a language-based computer interface for preschoolers."
Texas Instruments.(with Dr. Pamela Rollins, Co-PI). $50,000. 11/1/96 to 11/1/97.

"Natural Language as an approach to software generation."
Texas Instruments.(with Dr. Alice O'Toole, Co-PI). $24,000. 9/1/95 to 5/31/96.

"Acoustic, kinematic, and perceptual studies of children's speech."
State of Texas Advanced Research Program (TARP). $125,408. (with Dr. Peter Assmann, Co-PI). 1994-1996.

"Shared instrumentation for hearing, speech, and language research."
State of Texas Permanent University Funds. (with Drs. Gerken, Crandell, Assmann, and Watkins). Total award: $156,000.

  • NIH Post-doctorate Fellowship, 1988-1990.

  • MacArthur Research Fellowship, 1986-1988.

  • Post-doctorate Fellowship, Center for Human Information Processing, University of California at San Diego, 1986-1988.

6. Teaching:

a. Doctoral advisment/direction:

Michiko Yoshida, Ph.D., 2007
Children's use of prosodic information to understand and produce phrasal distinctions in American English

Gretchen J. Gabbert, Ph.D., 2005
Speech production in Parkinson's Disease
(*Co-advisor with Aage Moller)

Sneha V. Bharadwaj, Ph.D., 2002
Role of auditory feedback in speech production by cochlear implant users: Acoustic and perceptual analyses