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Robert Felty	Résumé
	August 26, 2009

Work Experience

2009 Lecturer at University of Colorado - Boulder
Teaching Introduction to Computational Corpus Linguistics
2008 Adjunct professor of Linguistics at Indiana University
Teaching a programming course for computational linguists (see below)
2007–2009 — Post-doctoral fellow at Indiana University
Researching spoken word recognition through behavioral experimentation and cognitive modeling in normal-hearing listeners and cochlear-implant users
2007 — Web developer for ExpOT conference
Designed and updated conference website
2006–2007 — Linguistic Consultant for Marathon Global Technology
Helping to develop software to increase German vocabulary, including assisting in training and implementing a speech recognition component of the software
2005 — Organizing committee member and webmaster for the 11th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology
Designed and updated conference website
2004–2005 — Research Assistant for Dr. José Benkí on the project “Measuring context effects in spoken word recognition”. Responsible for managing undergraduate research assistants, maintaining lab computers, and preparing materials for psychological experiments
2004–2007 - Web developer for the University of Michigan Linguistics Department
Developed a custom content management and scheduling system

Competent in Macintosh, UNIX/Linux, and Windows operating systems
Proficient in web development technologies, including (x)html, css, javascript, AJAX, apache, mysql, PHP, XML, and various CMS/Wiki/blogging systems
Experience writing custom Wordpress themes and plugins
Fluent in Perl, Python, Matlab, and UNIX shell scripting
3+ years experience maintaining LAMP server hosting several different websites
Comfortable with source content management (Subversion, git)
Adept with acoustic analysis of speech signals with Praat
Experience with a variety of statistical analysis methods, including ANOVA, multiple regression, monte-carlo, MDS, PCA, and bootstrapping, using SPSS, Matlab, and R

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Ph.D. in Linguistics and Germanic Languages & Literatures, May, 2007
Dissertation title: Context Effects in Spoken Word Recognition of English and German by Native and Non-native Listeners
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
M.A. in Linguistics, January, 2005
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
B.A. in German with honors, December, 2000
Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany
Semester Abroad, Spring, 1999

Fluent in English and German
Linguistic knowledge of Spanish (particular phonetic and phonological), as well as rudimentary speaking skills

2009 — Robert Albert Felty, Adam Buchwald, and David B. Pisoni. Adaptation to frozen babble in spoken word recognition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125 (3), EL93–EL97.
2008 — Effects of lexical status and morphology in spoken word recognition of English and German words and nonwords. (under review)
2007 — Confusion patterns and response bias in spoken word recognition of German disyllabic words and nonwords, in Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, 1957–1960. .pdf

2008 — Robert Felty, Adam Buchwald, and David B. Pisoni. Lexical analysis of spoken word recognition errors. Poster to be presented at Acoustics ’08, Paris, France, June 29th–July 4th
2007 — Robert Felty. Confusion patterns and response bias in spoken word recognition of German disyllabic words and nonwords. Poster presented at the 16th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany, August 6–10. .pdf
2006 — José Benkí and Robert Felty. Relative contributions of initial and final similarity to neighborhood density effects on English spoken word recognition. Poster presented at the 5th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Montreal, Quebec, Oct. 10 - 12. handout
2005 — Robert Felty and José Benkí. Asymmetries in patterns of confusion of American English vowels. 11th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology. University of Michigan Abstract handout
2004 — Phonetics in the German Classroom: Teaching Umlaut. 10th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference. University of Michigan. Abstract
2003 — Perception and Production of front rounded vowels by English-speaking learners of German. 25th Second Language Research Forum. University of Arizona.

2009 Fall term — Linguistics 5200. Introduction of Computational Corpus Linguistics

2008 Fall term — Linguistics 555. Programming for computational Linguists (using python)