ABOUT ME
I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. My research investigates the control of prosody for speech intelligibility and naturalness. The focus of my current project is pitch control for phrasal prominence in speech in ataxia. The overall goal in my research is to improve our understanding of motor speech control processes for prosody in order to inform effective speech therapy treatments for improved speech naturalness and intelligibility.
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CURRENT PROJECTS
PUBLICATIONS
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Hilger, A., Levant, S., Kim, J., Lester-Smith, R., Larson, C. (In Preparation) Acoustic correlates of prosody work as integrated channels with weightings varying by linguistic intent.
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Hilger, A., Levant, S., Kim, J., Lester-Smith, R., Larson, C. (In Preparation) Auditory feedback control of vocal intensity during speech and sustained-vowel production.
PRESENTATIONS
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Kreidler, K. & Hilger, A. (2018) Putting Research into Practice: Performing Research as a Clinician. American Speech Language Hearing Association Meeting. Technical Clinical Talk. Boston, MA.
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Hilger, A., Cole, J., Larson, C. (2018). The timecourse of F0 planning for intonational tones. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Hilger, A., Cole, J., Larson, C. (2018) Manipulating prosody: speech-acoustic responses to vocal feedback perturbations prior to phrasal prominence. Motor Speech Conference. Oral Presentation. Savannah, Georgia.
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Hilger, A. & Kreidler, K. (2017) Navigating the Clinical Fellowship. American Speech Language Hearing Association Meeting. Poster. Los Angeles, CA.
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Hilger, A., Cole, J., Roberts., A. (2017) A proposed method for analyzing phrase-level prosodic analysis of hypokinetic dysarthria: an auto-segmental metrical approach. American Speech Language Hearing Association Meeting. Poster. Los Angeles, CA.
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Hilger, A., Zelaznik, H., Smith, A. (2014) Examining a bimanual motor deficit in preschool children who stutter. Technical Research Talk. American Speech Language Hearing Association Meeting, Orlando, Florida.
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Hilger, A., Loucks, T., Quinto-Pozos, D., Dye, M.W. (2013) Characterizing American Sign Language fluency using the Spatiotemporal Index. Poster presented at the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference, London, England.
NEWSFEED
What's new?
Poster presentation at the Ataxia Investigators Meeting (AIM)
My abstract, “Impaired auditory feedback control for pitch production in ataxic dysarthria” was accepted for a poster presentation at the Ataxia Investigators Meeting in Denver, Colorado […]
Oral presentation at the Conference for Motor Speech in Santa Barbara, CA 2/22/20
My abstract, titled “Impaired sensorimotor integration for the adjustment of phrasal prominence in ataxic dysarthria” was accepted for an oral presentation at the Conference for Motor […]
Poster presentation at the Acoustical Society of America in San Diego, CA 12/4/19
I presented a poster titled, “Auditory feedback control of vocal intensity during speech and sustained-vowel production” at the Acoustical Society of America in December, 2019 in […]
Oral presentation at ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) in Orlando, FL 11/22/19
At the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) conference in Orlando, Florida, I presented on the control of acoustic features of prosody for speech production. My talk, titled, […]
Best Student Presentation Award received at the Voice Foundation Symposium 5/30/19
My poster, titled “Increased Auditory Feedback Sensitivity Early in Phrasal Production,” was awarded the Best Student Presentation Award at the Voice Foundation Symposium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania […]