Melissa Baese-Berk is an academic expert in bilingualism, speech perception, second language acquisition and non-native speech. She studies speech perception and production, with special attention to nonnative speakers and listeners. She looks closely at variation in speech production and how tha...
Melissa Baese-Berk is an academic expert in bilingualism, speech perception, second language acquisition and non-native speech. She studies speech perception and production, with special attention to nonnative speakers and listeners. She looks closely at variation in speech production and how that variation influences listeners in perception. She has also worked extensively on how various aspects of perception and productions systems interact. Listening to speech in adverse conditions, for example, is often a challenge. Baese-Berk also serves as director of the UO's Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Certificate Program and as an undergraduate advisor. Before joining the UO, she served as a postdoctoral researcher at both the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language in Spain and at Michigan State University.