Patrizia Bonaventura, Ph.D., is a speech scientist and phonetician, who works on analysis and simulation of speech production mechanisms. She teaches graduate courses on speech science, instrumentation, articulatory and phonological disorders and research methods, and undergraduate courses in phonetics and phonology. In the past 10 years, Dr. Bonaventura’s research has focused on speech technology applications, especially in multilingual speech synthesis and recognition. Currently, her projects focus on disorders of speech production, in particular examining Childhood Apraxia of Speech articulatory errors from a cross-linguistic perspective, by both acoustic and EMA articulatory data.
Dr. Bonaventura holds a joint appointment in the Department of Cognitive Sciences, where she conducts research in Cognitive Phonetics and Semiotics, on automatic extraction of intonation contours, associated with different levels of semantic and emotional content, applied to automatic prosody stylization for speech synthesis. Dr. Bonaventura earned her Ph.D. from the The Ohio State University, Columbus, and comes to Case from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She directs the Case Speech Production Lab (CSPL) and co-directs the Laboratory for Applied Research in Cognitive Semiotics (LARCS).
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