Patricia Ann Keating (born July 20, 1952) is an American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

and noted

phonetician Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...

. She is distinguished research professor emeritus at

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Life

She received her PhD in Linguistics at

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in 1980. In 1980 she joined the faculty of the Linguistics Department at

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

, where she remained until her retirement. She became a Full Professor and director of the UCLA Phonetics Laboratory in 1991. 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 in

phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...

. 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-ranking

phonological phrase Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

s. On the theoretical side, she is the inventor of the "window model" of

coarticulation Coarticulation in its general sense refers to a situation in which a conceptually isolated speech sound is influenced by, and becomes more like, a preceding or following speech sound. There are two types of coarticulation: ''anticipatory coarticulat ...

, 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 the

Association for Laboratory Phonology The Association for Laboratory Phonology is a non-profit professional society for researchers interested in the sound structure of language. It was founded to promote the scientific study of all aspects of phonetics and phonology of oral and sign l ...

and was President of the

International Phonetic Association The International Phonetic Association (IPA; French: ', ''API'') is an organization that promotes the scientific study of phonetics and the various practical applications of that science. The IPA's major contribution to phonetics is the Interna ...

from 2015 to 2019. Keating is married to linguist Bruce Hayes.

Selected publications

*Fougeron, Cécile and Keating, Patricia A. (1997) Articulatory strengthening at edges of prosodic domains. ''Journal of the Acoustical Society of America'' 101: 3728–3740. *Keating, Patricia A. (1990) The window model of coarticulation : articulatory evidence . In ''Papers in laboratory phonology I'' (John Kingston & Mary E. Beckman, eds.). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 451–470.

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External links

Homepage at UCLA
{{DEFAULTSORT:Keating, Patricia Living people 1952 births Brown University alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Women linguists American phonologists Phoneticians Distinguished professors in the United States Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America