Scott Reid Moisik

Dr. Scott Moisik researches the anatomy and physiology of speech production and its influence on phonetics and phonology. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Victoria (Canada). During his graduate studies he worked on the topic of the phonetics and phonology of the epilarynx (the part of the larynx immediately above the vocal folds) implicated in the production of voice quality registers (variably involving tonal, phonatory, and vowel quality) and essential to the production of glottal stop and pharyngeal consonants. Dr. Moisik worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Language and Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (The Netherlands). There he was part of the Genetic Biasing in Language and Speech project, which aims to understand the nature of human variation of the vocal tract – including its genetic bases – and the influences of this variation on speech production at the levels of the individual and of the linguistic community. He is co-author of the book Voice Quality: The Laryngeal Articulator, which was awarded the 2021 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award by the Linguistics Society of America. Currently Scott Moisik is a member of the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies at Nanyang Technological University. He is the developer of Laryngonaut, an interactive physics-based 3D larynx visualization app for Android and iOS (see: https://sites.google.com/view/laryngonaut/home). Courses Taught: HG2002 Semantics and Pragmatics HG2003 Phonetics and Phonology HG3052 Speech Synthesis and Recognition HG4070 Experimental Phonetics HG4071 The Meat of Speech: The Anatomy and Physiology of Speaking and Hearing HG8003 Technologically Speaking Detailed Education Qualifications: Ph.D., 2013 University of Victoria (BC, Canada) M.A., 2008, University of Victoria (BC, Canada) B.A. (Hons.), 2006, University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada)