Education

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison

Interests

• The Application of the Acoustic Analysis of Speech to Language Education and Speech Recognition
• The Structure of English
• Teaching English as a Second Language

Selected Publications

Garry Molholt, Maria Jose Cabrera, Krishna Kumar, and Phil Thompsen. "Quantitative, Notional, and Comprehensive Evaluations of Spontaneous Engaged Speech." CALICO Journal 29.1 (September 2011): 1-23.

Garry Molhholt and Fenfang Hwu. "Visualization of Speech Patterns for Language Learning." In The Path of Speech Technologies in CALL: Foundations, Prototypes, and Evaluation, eds. V. Melissa Holland and F. Pete Fisher. Routledge, 2008.

Stephen Lambacher, William L. Martens, Kazuhiko Kakehi, Chandrajith Marasinghe, and Garry Molholt. "The Effects of Identification Training on the Perception and Production of American English Vowels by Native Speakers of Japanese." Applied Psycholinguistics 26.2 (2005): 227-247.

Chandrajith Marasinghe, Stephen Lambacher, William L. Martens, Charith N.W. Giragama, Susantha Herath, and Garry Molholt. "Structural Representation of Perceptual Similarity and Multilingual Verbal Attributes; Deriving a Common Perceptual Space for Perception of American English Vowels by English and Japanese Native Speakers." In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress on Acoustics. Kyoto, Japan, 2004.

J. Morgan, M. Gallagher, G. Molholt, M. Holland, and S. LaRocca. "Towards the Automatic Evaluation of Fluency." In The 12th Annual Army Research Laboratory/United States Military Academy Technical Symposium. West Point, NY: 2004.

Chandrajith Marasinghe, Stephen Lambacher, William L. Martens, M. Cohen, Charith Giragama, and Susantha Herath, and Garry Molholt. "Universal Perceptual Attributes for Perception of American English Vowels by English and Japanese Native Speakers and Implications for Language Typology." Journal of Universal Language (November 2003): 1-28.

Stephen Lambacher, William Martens, and Garry Molholt. "A Comparison of Identification of American English Vowels by Native Speakers of Japanese and English." In Proceedings of the Phonetic Society of Japan (October 2000). Chiba, Japan.

Accent Reduction Via Acoustic Analysis: ESL Applications of the Visi-Pitch II 3300. Lincoln Park, NJ: Kay Elemetrics Corporation, 1998. (Includes CD-ROM with 1300 speech files.)

"Visual Displays Develop Awareness of Intelligible Pronunciation Patterns." In Approaches to Pronunciation Teaching, ed. Adam Brown. Macmillan. 1992.

"Spectrographic Analysis and Patterns in Pronunciation." Computers and the Humanities 24:1-2 (February-April 1990): 81-92.

"Computer Assisted Instruction in Pronunciation for Chinese Speakers of American English." TESOL Quarterly 22:1 (March 1988): 91-111.

"Computer Graphics in the Language Lab." T-H-E Journal: Technological Horizons in Education 15.6 (February 1988). Co-authored with Linda Lane, Joyce Tanner, and Laurie Fischer.

"Correlation Between Human and Machine Ratings of Test of Spoken English Reading Passages." In Technology and Language Testing, ed. Charles Stansfield. Washington, DC: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 1986. Co-authored with Ari Pressler.

"Computer Assisted Evaluation of Pronunciation." In Proceedings of the Harris Users' Exchange, ed. Terry Ward. Fort Lauderdale: Harris Corporation, 1985. Co-authored with Ari Pressler.