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Eadie, T. L., Sauder, C. L., Marks, K. L., Knutson, M., Wilson, E., Chiang, E., Jacobson, B., & Stepp, C. E. (In Press). Minimal detectable changes of experienced and novice listeners’ ratings of overall severity of voice quality in speakers with adductor laryngeal dystonia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Pan, A., Y., Grail, G. P., Albert, G., Groll, M. D., Stepp, C. E., Arnocky, S. A., & Hodges-Simeon, C. R. (In Press). What Contributes to Masculine Perception of Voice Among Transmasculine People on Testosterone Therapy? Journal of Voice.
Buckley, D.P., Dahl, K.L., Norotsky, R.L., Sauder, C, Tracy, L.F., Stepp, C.E. (In Press) Are auditory-perceptual evaluations of dysphonia by experienced voice clinicians affected by knowledge of speaker race? American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
Sauder, C., Marks, K., Meyer, TK., Giliberto, JP, Knutson, M., Wilson, E., Stepp, C. Eadie, T. (In Press) Patient Perceived Vocal Effort Immediately Following Voice Tasks in Adductor Laryngeal Dystonia (ADLD). Journal of Voice.
Marks, K. L., Frankford, S. A., Cocroft, S. J., Lonergan, S., Díaz Cádiz, M. E., & Stepp, C. E. (In press). The prevalence of creak across breath groups in adductor laryngeal dystonia. Journal of Voice.
Howerton, C., Buckley, D., Dahl, K., & Stepp, C. (In Press). The Effects of Speaker Head Posture on Auditory Perception of Vocal Masculinity. Journal of Voice.
Norotsky, R. L., Dahl, K. L., Cocroft, S., Sauder, C., Tracy, L. F., & Stepp, C. E. (In Press). Does Implicit Racial Bias Affect Auditory-Perceptual Evaluations of Dysphonic Voices? Journal of Voice.
Abur, D., Hillman, R., & Stepp, C. E. (In Press). Auditory-motor function pre- and post-therapy in hyperfunctional voice disorders: A case series. Journal of Voice.
Smith, K. M., Demers-Peel, M., Manxhari, C., & Stepp, C. E. (In Press). Voice acoustic instability during spontaneous speech in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Voice.
Aaron, A. S., Abur, D., Volk, K. P., Noordzij, J. P., Tracy, L. F., & Stepp, C. E. (In Press). The relationship between pitch discrimination and fundamental frequency variation: effects of singing status and vocal hyperfunction. Journal of Voice.
Frankford, S. A., Marks, K. L., Feaster, T. F., Doyle, P. C., & Stepp, C. E. (In Press). Symptom Expression Across Voiced Speech Sounds in Adductor Laryngeal Dystonia. Journal of Voice.
Groll, M. D., Peterson, S. D., Zañartu, M., Vojtech, J. M., & Stepp, C. E. (In Press). Empirical evaluation of the role of vocal fold collision on relative fundamental frequency in voicing offset. Journal of Voice.

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Lien, Y. A. S., Calabrese, C. R., Michener, C. M., Heller Murray, E., Van Stan, J. H., Mehta, D. D., Hillman, R.E., Noordzij, J.P., & Stepp, C. E. (2015). Voice relative fundamental frequency via neck-skin acceleration in individuals with voice disorders. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(5), 1482-1487.
Anand, S., & Stepp, C. E. (2015). Listener perception of monopitch, naturalness, and intelligibility for speakers with Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(4), 1134-1144.
Lien, Y. A. S., Michener, C. M., Eadie, T. L., & Stepp, C. E. (2015). Individual monitoring of vocal effort with relative fundamental frequency: Relationships with aerodynamics and listener perception. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58(3), 566-575.
Cler, G. J., & Stepp, C. E. (2015). Discrete versus continuous mapping of facial electromyography for human–machine interface control: Performance and training effects. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 23(4), 572-580.
Cler, G. J., Voysey, G. E., & Stepp, C. E. (2015, April 22-24). Video game speech rehabilitation for velopharyngeal dysfunction: Feasibility and pilot testing. In 2015 7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER) (pp. 812-815). IEEE.

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Cler, G. J., Nieto-Castanon, A., Guenther, F. H., & Stepp, C. E. (2014, August 27-30). Surface electromyographic control of speech synthesis. In 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (pp. 5848-5851). IEEE.
Smith, D. J., Varghese, L. A., Stepp, C. E., & Guenther, F. H. (2014, August 27-30). Comparison of steady-state visual and somatosensory evoked potentials for brain-computer interface control. In 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (pp. 1234-1237). IEEE.
Cler, G. J., Michener, C. M., & Stepp, C. E. (2014, August 27-30). Discrete vs. continuous surface electromyographic interface control. In 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (pp. 4374-4377). IEEE.
Britton, D., Benditt, J. O., Merati, A. L., Miller, R. M., Stepp, C. E., Boitano, L., Hu, A., Ciol, M., & Yorkston, K. M. (2014). Associations between laryngeal and cough dysfunction in motor neuron disease with bulbar involvement. Dysphagia, 29(6), 637-646.
Malloy, J. R., Valentin, J. C., Hands, G. L., Stevens, C. A., Langmore, S. E., Noordzij, J. P., & Stepp, C. E. (2014). Visuomotor control of neck surface electromyography in Parkinson’s disease. NeuroRehabilitation, 35(4), 795-803.
Perrachione, T. K., Stepp, C. E., Hillman, R. E., & Wong, P. C. (2014). Talker identification across source mechanisms: Experiments with laryngeal and electrolarynx speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 57(5), 1651-1665.
Varghese, L. A., Mendoza, J. O., Braden, M. N., & Stepp, C. E. (2014). Effects of spectral content on Horii Oral-Nasal Coupling scores in children. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(3), 1295-1306.
Lien, Y. A. S., Gattuccio, C. I., & Stepp, C. E. (2014). Effects of phonetic context on relative fundamental frequency. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 57(4), 1259-1267.
Hands, G. L., Larson, E., & Stepp, C. E. (2014). Effects of augmentative visual training on audio-motor mapping. Human Movement Science, 35, 145-155.
Lien, Y. A. S., & Stepp, C. E. (2014). Comparison of voice relative fundamental frequency estimates derived from an accelerometer signal and low-pass filtered and unprocessed microphone signals. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135(5), 2977-2985.
Favrot, S., Michener, C. M., & Stepp, C. E. (2014, May). Discrete and continuous auditory feedback based on pitch and spatial lateralization for human-machine-interface control. In Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 167ASA (Vol. 21, No. 1, p. 050001). Acoustical Society of America.

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