Kenneth N. Stevens: advisors and students

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Kenneth N. Stevens

American phonetician1924 to 2013

Supervised 30 doctoral students (52 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Leo Beranek as doctoral advisor and lists 47 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Students52

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Elisabeth Hon Hunt “Acoustic characterization of the glides /j/ and /w/ in American English”
2009 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Youngsook Jung “Acoustic articulatory evidence for quantal vowel categories : the features [low] and [back]”
2009 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Yoko Saikachi “Development, perceptual evaluation, and acoustic analysis of amplitude-based F0 control in Electrolarynx speech”
2009 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sherry Yi Zhao “The stop-like modification of /ð/ : a case study in the analysis and handling of speech variation”
2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Steven Michael Lulich “The role of lower airway resonances in defining vowel feature contrasts”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Anthony O. Okobi “Acoustic correlates of word stress in American English”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Laura Christine Dilley “The phonetics and phonology of tonal systems”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Elisabeth A Hon “An acoustic analysis of labialization of coronal nasal consonants in American English”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Neira Hajro “Automated nasal feature detection for the lexical access from features project”
2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Chi-youn Park “Recognition of English vowels using top-down method”
2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
cited by a thesis record
Morgan A Sonderegger “Subtlottal coupling and vowel space : an investigation in quantal theory”
2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's
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Atiwong Suchato “Classification of stop consonant place of articulation”
2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ying Alisa Cao “Analysis of acoustic cues for identifying consonant /ð/ in continuous speech”
2002 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Harold Arthur Cheyne “Estimating glottal voicing source characteristics by measuring and modeling the acceleration of the skin on the neck”
2002 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Chi-Yu Liang “Acoustic analysis and synthesis of nasal codas in Mandarin Chinese”
2002 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
cited by a thesis record
Xiaomin Mou “Detection of stop consonant voicing : toward a speaker independent model”
2001 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
cited by a thesis record
Andrew Wilson Howitt “Automatic syllable detection for vowel landmarks”
2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Hale H. Ozsoy “An acoustic study of coarticulation patterns in Turkish and English”
2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Kelly L. Poort “Acoustic and perceptual assessment of stop consonants produced by normal and dysarthric speakers”
2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Janet Louise Khoenle Slifka “Respiratory constraints on speech production at prosodic boundaries”
2000 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Jeung-Yoon Choi “Detection of consonant voicing : a module for a hierarchical speech recognition system”
1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Dameon C. Harrell “Effects of microphone type and distance upon the spectra of speech sounds”
1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's
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Aaron Maldonado “Incorporating a feature tree geometry into a matcher for a speech recognizer”
1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Geoffrey S. Meltzner “Measuring the neck transfer function of laryngectomy patients”
1999 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Helen Chen “An acoustical study of fricatives in the speech of dysarthric speakers”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo “Voice source modeling and analysis of speakers with vocal-fold nodules”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Yong Zhang “Toward implementation of a feature-based lexical access system”
1998 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Marilyn Y. Chen “Acoustic correlates of nasality in speech”
1996 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Mark Allan Hasegawa-Johnson “Formant and burst spectral measurements with quantitative error models for speech sound classification”
1996 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Charles Robert Jankowski “Fine structure features for speaker identification”
1996 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Diana S. Dabby “Musical variations from a chaotic mapping”
1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Sharlene Anne Liu “Landmark detection for distinctive feature-based speech recognition”
1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Lorin F. Wilde “Analysis and synthesis of fricative consonants”
1995 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Noel Steven Massey “Transients at stop-consonant releases”
1994 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Mark Anthony Randolph “Syllable-based constraints on properties of English sounds”
1989 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
George R Wodicka “Acoustic transmission in the respiratory system”
1989 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Leah Marie Pfeifer Pastel “Turbulent noise sources in vocal tract models”
1988 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Abeer Abdul-Hussain Alwan “Acoustic and perceptual correlates of pharyngeal and uvular consonants”
1986 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata
Stephanie Seneff “Pitch and spectral analysis of speech based on an auditory synchrony model”
1985 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Christine Helen Shadle “The acoustics of fricative consonants”
1985 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Marcia Ann Bush “Vowel articulation and laryngeal control in the speech of the deaf”
1981 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Ursula Gisela Goldstein “An articulatory model for the vocal tracts of growing children”
1980 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Shinji Maeda “A characterization of American English intonation.”
1976 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Joseph S Perkell “A physiologically-oriented model of tongue activity in speech production.”
1974 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Michael Rodney Portnoff “A quasi-one-dimensional digital simulation for the time-varying vocal tract.”
1973 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · level not given
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Lawrence R. Rabiner “Speech synthesis by rule: an acoustic domain approach.”
1967 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Raymond Samuel Tomlinson “An improved solid state terminal analog speech synthesizer.”
1965 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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James Talbot Williams “A static model of the tongue during vowel articulation.”
1965 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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George Rosen “Dynamic analog speech synthesizer”
1960 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Robert Peel Futrelle “The synthesis of speech using a digital computer”
1959 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's
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Chester Gordon Bell “A portable analog-to-digital converter for the recording of sound surveys”
1957 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
cited by a thesis record
Jay Franklin Koogle “An investigation into the utility of second differentiation of sound frequency spectra for speech analysis”
1954 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's

Advisors on Wikidata1

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stated by Wikidata
Leo Beranek

Students on Wikidata47

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James L. Flanagan
born 1925
stated by Wikidata
Lawrence Rabiner
born 1943
stated by Wikidata
Victor Zue
born 1944
stated by Wikidata
Marvin R. Sambur
born 1946
stated by Wikidata
Ursula Gisela Goldstein
born 1950
stated by Wikidata
Carol Espy-Wilson
born 1957
stated by Wikidata
Andrew Wilson Howitt
born 1960
stated by Wikidata
Janet Louise Khoenle Slifka
born 1964
stated by Wikidata
Kelly Lynn Poort
born 1968
stated by Wikidata
Anthony Obiesie Okobi
born 1976
stated by Wikidata
Annika Karin Karlsson Imbrie
born 1977
stated by Wikidata
Abeer Abdul-Hussain Alwan
stated by Wikidata
Atiwong Suchato
stated by Wikidata
Bertrand Delgutte
stated by Wikidata
Caroline Bing-yen Huang
stated by Wikidata
Charles Robert Jankowski
stated by Wikidata
Chiyoun Park
stated by Wikidata
Corine Anna Bickley
stated by Wikidata
Diana S. Dabby
stated by Wikidata
Elisabeth Hon Hunt
stated by Wikidata
Geoffrey Seth Meltzner
stated by Wikidata
George R. Wodicka
stated by Wikidata
George Rosen
stated by Wikidata
Harold Arthur Cheyne
stated by Wikidata
Hong-Kwang Jeff Kuo
stated by Wikidata
Jared John Wolf
stated by Wikidata
Jeung-Yoon Choi
stated by Wikidata
John Michael Heinz
stated by Wikidata
Joseph S. Perkell
stated by Wikidata
Laura Christine Dilley
stated by Wikidata
Lorin F. Wilde
stated by Wikidata
Marcia Ann Bush
stated by Wikidata
Marilyn Yun-Fei Chen
stated by Wikidata
Mark Allan Hasegawa-Johnson
stated by Wikidata
Mark Anthony Randolph
stated by Wikidata
Mark Frederick Medress
stated by Wikidata
Richard Scott Goldhor
stated by Wikidata
Sharlene Anne Liu
stated by Wikidata
Sherry Yi Zhao
stated by Wikidata
Shinji Maeda
stated by Wikidata
Stephen Kent Holford
stated by Wikidata
Steven Michael Lulich
stated by Wikidata
Thomas Herne Crystal
stated by Wikidata
William L. Henke
stated by Wikidata
Xuemin Chi
stated by Wikidata
Yoko Saikachi
stated by Wikidata
Youngsook L Jung

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataLeo Beranek
2 steps up
stated by WikidataFrederick Vinton Hunt
3 steps up
stated by WikidataEmory Leon Chaffeestated by WikidataG. W. Pierce
4 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Trowbridge

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 126 people: 39 cited by thesis records, 88 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
worked

At a glance

known as: linguist, computer scientist, engineer, acoustical engineer
fields: electrical engineering
awards: National Medal of Science, 1999, ASA Silver Medal, 1983, Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE Fellow, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guggenheim Fellowship
member of: National Academy of Sciences, from 1998, National Academy of Engineering, from 1986, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, from 1989
Wikipedia: in 8 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaKenneth N. Stevens
stated by WikidataWikidataQ1888794
stated by WikidataVIAF109790576
stated by WikidataGND138801738
stated by WikidataIdRef050538195
stated by WikidataISNI0000000081753151

papers

OpenAlexA5112787629a checked match
stated by WikidataScopus7202441041

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project82978

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Read on 31 October 2026. A citation names the day the record was read, not a version.

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@misc{academicancestry_Q1888794,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Kenneth N. Stevens: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1888794},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Kenneth N. Stevens: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1888794