Contact Information
Dept. of Linguistics, MC-168
707 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
Office: 4040 Foreign Languages Bldg.
Biography
Prof. Shosted studied Czech language and literature at the College of Wooster and Beloit College before transferring to Brigham Young University and graduating in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in Linguistics. He was a Student Fulbright Fellow at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, where he studied Changana. He then began his post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Shosted was supported by a four-year Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and worked in John Ohala's laboratory. He was a lecturer at the University of California, San Diego and joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013 and was a Visiting Professor at the State University of Campinas, Brazil in 2015. He was promoted to Professor in 2020.
Research Interests
Phonetics
Phonology
Q'anjob'al (Maya)
Hittite and cuneiform
Research Description
Prof. Ryan Shosted is an experimental phonetician and phonologist. His research focuses on how phonetic principles shape phonological, typological, and diachronic outcomes in language. He specializes in the production of speech, whether through the lens of acoustics, kinematics, or aerodynamics. He currently uses ultrafast dynamic magnetic resonance imaging to study the map between the physiology of the vocal tract and the acoustic signal that emanates from it. He works toward models of speech production built on data from typologically and geographically diverse languages, including understudied and endangered languages.
Education
Ph.D., California, 2006
M.A., California, 2003
B.A., Brigham Young, 2000
Courses Taught
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Linguistics
Professor, American Indian Studies Program
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
External Links
Recent Publications
Johnson, S. E., Barlaz, M., Shosted, R. K., & Sutton, B. P. (2019). Spontaneous nasalization after glottal consonants in Thai. Journal of Phonetics, 75, 57-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2019.05.001
Barlaz, M., Shosted, R., Fu, M., & Sutton, B. (2018). Oropharygneal articulation of phonemic and phonetic nasalization in Brazilian Portuguese. Journal of Phonetics, 71, 81-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.07.009
Fu, M., Barlaz, M. S., Holtrop, J. L., Perry, J. L., Kuehn, D. P., Shosted, R. K., Liang, Z. P., & Sutton, B. P. (2017). High-frame-rate full-vocal-tract 3D dynamic speech imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 77(4), 1619-1629. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26248
Hermes, Z., Barlaz, M., Shosted, R., Liang, Z. P., & Sutton, B. (2017). Phonetic correlates of pharyngeal and pharyngealized consonants in Saudi, Lebanese, and Jordanian Arabic: An rt-mri study. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2017-August, 201-205. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1601
Shosted, R. K., Fu, M., & Hermes, Z. (2017). Arabic pharyngeal and emphatic consonants. In E. Benmamoun, & R. Bassiouney (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics (pp. 48-61). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315147062-4