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Faculty: Christopher Dromey

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Christopher Dromey

Title

Department Chair

Department:

ComD

Contact Information

Office: 133 TLRB

Phone: 801-422-6461

Email: nope@dromey@byu.edumsn.com

BA Brigham Young University

MA State University of New York at Buffalo

PhD University of Colorado at Boulde

ComD 421 Speech Science

ComD 675 - Motor Speech Disorders

Normal and disordered voice

Speech motor control

Motor speech disorders

Divided attention task interactions

Acoustic, aerodynamic and kinematic analysis of speech production

Speech measurement technologies

Fellowship of the Association

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

2020 - Present

University Professorship

Brigham Young University

2018 - 2022

Steven M. Rose Teaching and Learning Fellowship

Brigham Young University

2015 - 2017

Nancy Peery Marriott Outstanding Scholar

McKay School of Education

2008 - 2009

Effects of Background Noise on Speech and Language in Young Adults

  • Authors: Harmon, Tyson Gordon; Dromey, Christopher David; Nelson, Brenna; Chapman, Kacy
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
  • Publisher: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
  • Volume: 64
  • Issue: 4
  • Abstract: click to view

Kinematic and acoustic changes to vowels and diphthongs in bite block speech

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Richins, Michelle; Low, Tanner
  • Publication Date: 2021
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
  • Volume: 64

Age-Related Changes in Speech and Voice: Spectral and Cepstral Measures

  • Authors: Taylor, Sammi; Dromey, Christopher David; Nissen, Shawn L; Tanner, Kristine Marie; Eggett, Dennis Lee; Corbin-Lewis, Kim
  • Publication Date: 2020
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Listeners’ ability to identify the gender of preadolescent children in different linguistic contexts.

  • Authors: Nissen, Shawn L; Blunck, Sharalee; Dromey, Anita; Dromey, Christopher David
  • Publication Date: 2019
  • Publication Type: Conference Proceedings
  • Publication Journal: Interspeech 2019

Bidirectional Interference Between Simulated Driving and Speaking

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Simmons, Kelsey
  • Publication Date: 2019
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Examining acoustic and kinematic measures of articulatory working space: Effects of speech intensity.

  • Authors: Whitfield, Jason; Dromey, Christopher David; Palmer, Panika
  • Publication Date: 2018
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Speech Adaptation to Kinematic Recording Sensors: Perceptual and Acoustic Findings

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Hunter, Elise; Nissen, Shawn L
  • Publication Date: 2018
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Effects of Laryngeal Activity on Articulation

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Black, Katherine
  • Publication Date: 2017
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Effects of voice-sparing cricotracheal resection on phonation in women

  • Authors: Tanner, Kristine Marie; Dromey, Christopher David; Berardi, Mark; Mattei, Lisa; Pierce, Jenny; Wisco, Jonathan Jayme; Hunter, Eric; Smith, Marshall
  • Publication Date: 2017

Laryngeal desiccation challenge and nebulized isotonic saline in healthy male singers and nonsingers: Effects on acoustic, aerodynamic, and perceptual measures

  • Authors: Tanner, Kristine Marie; Fujiki, Robert; Dromey, Christopher David; Merrill, Ray M; Robb, Whitney; Kendall, Katherine; Hopkin, J Arden; Channell, Ron W; Sivasankar, M
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Voice
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • City: Philadelphia, PA
  • Country: US
  • ISSN: 08921997

Exploring the clinical utility of relative fundamental frequency (RFF) as an objective measure of vocal hyperfunction

  • Authors: Roy, Nelson; Fetrow, Rebecca; Merrill, Ray M; Dromey, Christopher David
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Understanding the role of subsystems in speech and their interactions in evaluating symptomatology in motor speech disorders

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Publication Type: Book, Chapter/ Section in Scholarly Book
  • Publication Journal: Speech motor control in normal and disordered speech: Future developments in theory and methodology
  • Publisher: American Speech-Language Hearing Association
  • City: Rockville, MD

The effects of noise on speech movements in young, middle-aged, and older adults

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Scott, Sarah
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Speech, Language and Hearing
  • Publisher: Maney
  • Volume: 19

Bidirectional interference between speech and non-speech tasks in younger, middle-aged and older adults

  • Authors: Bailey, Dallin; Dromey, Christopher David
  • Publication Date: 2015
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
  • Volume: 58

The effects of emotional expression on vibrato

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Holmes, Sharee; Hopkin, J Arden; Tanner, Kristine Marie
  • Publication Date: 2015
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Voice
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • Volume: 29
  • ISSN: 08921997

Effects of age and syntactic complexity on speech motor performance

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Boyce, Kelsey; Channell, Ron W
  • Publication Date: 2014
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
  • Volume: 57
  • Issue: 6

Assessing correlations between lingual movements and formants

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Jang, Gwi-Ok; Hollis, Kristi
  • Publication Date: 2013
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Speech Communication
  • Volume: 55

The effects of practice on the concurrent performance of a speech and postural task in persons with Parkinson disease and healthy controls

  • Authors: Foreman, K; Sondrup, Stuart; Dromey, Christopher David; Jarvis, Eon; Nissen, Shawn L; Dibble, Leland
  • Publication Date: 2013
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Parkinson's Disease
  • Publisher: Hindawi
  • Volume: 2013

Electropalatographic measures of stop consonants in speakers with and without apraxia of speech on repeated sampling occasions

  • Authors: Mauszycki, Shannon; Wambaugh, Julie; Dromey, Christopher David
  • Publication Date: 2012
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue: 4

Frequency response of synthetic vocal fold models with linear and nonlinear material properties

  • Authors: Shaw, Stephanie; Thomson, Scott L; Dromey, Christopher David; Smith, Simeon
  • Publication Date: 2012
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
  • Volume: 55

A preliminary report on disordered speech with deep brain stimulation in individuals with Parkinson’s disease

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Bjarnason, Suzy
  • Publication Date: 2011
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Parkinson's Disease

Traditional treatment and altered auditory feedback lead to intelligibility benefits in a subset of speakers with Parkinson disease

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David
  • Publication Date: 2011
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Evidence-based Communication Assessment and Intervention
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 1

Bidirectional interference between speech and postural stability in individuals with Parkinson?s disease

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David; Jarvis, Eon; Sondrup, Stuart; Nissen, Shawn L; Foreman, K.; Dibble, Leland
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology
  • Volume: 12

Laryngeal articulatory coupling in three speech disorders

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • Publication Type: Book, Chapter/ Section in Scholarly Book
  • Publication Journal: Speech motor control: New developments in basic and applied research
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • City: Oxford

Loud speech leads to greater intelligibility improvements than amplification of habitual speech in Parkinson disease

  • Authors: Dromey, Christopher David
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Evidence-Based Communication Assessment and Intervention
  • Volume: 4

Vocal fold bowing in elderly male monozygotic twins: A case study

  • Authors: Tanner, Kristine; Sauder, Cara; Thibeault, Susan; Dromey, Christopher David; Smith, Marshall
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Voice
  • Volume: 24

Volitional Control of Vibrato in Singers

  • Authors: Carter, Neisha; Hopkin, J Arden; Dromey, Christopher David
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Singing
  • Publisher: National Association of Teachers of Singing
  • City: Jacksonville, FL
  • Country: USA
  • Volume: 67
  • Issue: 1
  • Abstract: click to view

Articulatory changes in muscle tension dysphonia: Evidence of vowel space expansion following manual circumlaryngeal therapy.

  • Authors: Roy, Nelson; Nissen, Shawn L; Dromey, Christopher David; Sapir, Shimon
  • Publication Date: 2009
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Communication Disorders
  • Volume: 42

The association between articulator movement and formant trajectories in diphthongs

  • Authors: McKell, Katherine; Dromey, Christopher David; Merrill, Ray M
  • Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Publication Journal: Journal of Phonetics