Publications


  • Selected peer-reviewed articles

Kondaurova, M.V., Smith, A., Zheng, Q., Kondaurova, I. (2026). The impact of remote communication on voice characteristics in children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, 6 (4):048501, 1-8. doi.org: 10.1121/10.0043371.

Kondaurova, M.V., Smith, A., Mishra, R., Zheng, Q., Kondaurova, I., Francis, A.L., Smith, A., Salee, E. (2024). Empatica E4 assessment of child physiological measures of listening effort during remote and in-person communication. American Journal of Audiology, 1-10.

Kondaurova, M.V., VanDam, M., Qi Zheng, Welikson, B. (2023). Fathers’ unmodulated prosody in child-directed speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154 (6), 3556-3567.

Pennington, R., Welch, K., Kondaurova, M., Kuravackel, G, Zheng, Q., & Shah, A. (2023). The effects of a social robot prompter on the vocal interactions of peers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A pilot investigation. Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 58(4), 480-492.

Kondaurova, M.V., Zheng Q., Donaldson C.W., Smith, A.F. (2023). Effect of telepractice on pediatric cochlear implant users and provider vowel space: A preliminary report. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153 (1), 467-479.

Kondaurova,, M.V., Zheng Q., Donaldson C.W., Betts, A., Smith, A.F. (2023). The effect of telepractice on vocal turn-taking between a provider, children with cochlear implants and caregivers: A preliminary report. Cochlear Implants International, 4 (23), 155-166, doi: 10.1080/14670100.2022.2159131.

Kondaurova, M.V., Zheng, Q., VanDam, M., Kinney, K. (2021) Vocal turn-taking in families with children with and without hearing loss. Ear & Hearing, 43 (3), 883-898.

Kondaurova, M.V., Fagan, M., & Zheng, Q. (2020). Vocal imitation between mothers and their children with cochlear implants. Infancy, 25 (6), 827-850.

Dilley, L.C., Lehet, M., Wieland, E.A., Arjmandi, M.K., Kondaurova, M., Wang, Y., Reed, J., Svirsky, M., Bergeson, T., Houston, D. (2020). Quality and quantity of maternal speech predicts speech-language outcomes in deaf infants receiving cochlear implants. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 63 (7), 2453-2467.

Kondaurova, M.V., Smith, N.A., Zheng, Q., Reed, J., & Fagan, M.  (2020). Vocal turn-taking between mothers and their children with cochlear implants. Ear and Hearing. 41(2), 362-373.

Abu-Zhaya, R., Kondaurova, M.V., Houston, D. Seidl, A. (2019). Vocal and tactile input to children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 62 (7), 2372-2385.

Kondaurova, M.V., Bergeson, T.R., Xu, H, & Kitamura, C.  (2015). Affective properties of mothers’ speech to hearing-impaired infants with cochlear implants. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 58, 590-600.

Burnham, E.B., Wieland, E.A., Kondaurova, M.V., McAuley, J.D., Bergeson, T.R., & Dilley, L.C., (2015). Phonetic modification of vowel space in storybook speech to infants up to two years of age. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 58, 241-253.

Wieland, E.A., Burnham, E.B., Kondaurova, M.V., Bergeson, T.R., & Dilley, L.C., (2015). Vowel space characteristics of speech directed to children with and without hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 58, 254-267.

Kondaurova M.V., Bergeson, T. R. & Xu, H. (2013). Age-related changes in prosodic features of maternal speech to prelingually deaf infants with cochlear implants. Infancy, 18 (5), 825-848.

Kondaurova M.V., Bergeson, T. R, & Dilley, L. (2012). Effects of deafness on acoustic characteristics of American English tense/lax vowels in maternal speech to infants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132 (2), 1039-1049.

Kondaurova M.V., & Bergeson, T. R. (2011). The effects of age and infant hearing status on the use of prosodic cues for clause boundaries in speech. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 54, 740-754.

Kondaurova M.V., & Francis A.L. (2010). The role of selective attention in the acquisition of English tense and lax vowels by native Spanish listeners: Comparison of three training methods. Journal of Phonetics, 38, 569-587.

Morrison, G.S., & Kondaurova, M.V. (2009). Analysis of categorical response data:  Use logistic regression rather than endpoint-difference scores or discriminant analysis (L). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126 (5), 2159-2162.

Kondaurova M.V., &  Francis A.L. (2008). The relationship between native allophonic experience with vowel duration and perception of the English tense/lax vowel contrast by Spanish and  Russian listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124 (6), 3959-3971.

  • Selected proceedings (editor-reviewed) (* indicates student author)

*Chang, L., Kondaurova, M.V., Smith, A. Kondaurova I., Zheng, Q. (2025). Telepractice and effort during interactive conversations: Using EmbracePlus health monitor to study typically-developing children. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics , 56, 1-11. doi.org/10.1121/2.0002159.

*Welikson, B., Kondaurova, M.V., Flowers, R., Haynes, L. (2023). Characteristics of infant-directed speech in caregivers with traumatic experiences. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 50 (06007), 1-10, doi.org/10.1121/2.0001761

*Shah A., Kondaurova M. , Mishra, R., Pennington R., Welch K.C. (2023). The effect of a social robot mediator on speech characteristics of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 50 (06006), 1-12, doi.org/10.1121/2.0001747.

*Kinney, K., Kondaurova, M.V., Welch, K.C., Kuravackel, G.M.,  Pennington, R.C., Barnes, G., Popa, D.  (2021). Speech characteristics of children with ASD to a humanoid robot and peers. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 45, 1-6.

Kondaurova,, M.V., Betts, A., Donaldson C.W., Zheng Q., Smith, A F. (2021) Telepractice in pediatric speech therapy: prosodic and lexical characteristics of patient, provider and caregiver speech. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 42, 1-13.

Kondaurova, M.V., Kinney, K., Betts, A., Nolan, L., & VanDam, M. Infant-directed speech register in children with and without hearing loss. (2019). Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 36 (1), 1-14.

Kondaurova, M.V., Fagan, M.K., Dilley, L.C., & Bergeson, T.R. (2017). Vocal matching in interactions between mothers and their normal-hearing and hearing-impaired twins. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 26, 1-15.