Come chat with Dr. Tara Mcallister, linguist and speech/language pathologist alongside Amy Graham, speech/language pathologist as they discuss motor in phonology.

References:

Articulation and Phonology: Inextricable Concepts in Speech Pathology

Positional Neutralization: A Case Study from Child Language

Language-Specific and Language-Universal Aspects of Lingual Obstruent Productions in Japanese-Acquiring Children

Tara McAllister is a linguist and speech-language pathologist who studies speech learning in various populations, notably children with speech sound disorder. Her research aims to understand how articulatory and perceptual factors shape speech learning outcomes, and why developmental speech patterns resolve in some individuals but persist in others. As director of the Biofeedback Intervention Technology for Speech (BITS) Lab at NYU, she has conducted multiple studies measuring the efficacy of acoustic and ultrasound biofeedback in the treatment of persistent speech sound deviations.  She earned an A.B./A.M. in linguistics from Harvard University, an M.S. in communication disorders from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from MIT.

Amy is a speech language pathologist and owner of Graham Speech Therapy. She is an international speaker, frequent podcast guest, and creator of speech therapy resources for SLPs who treat speech sound disorders.