Mike Vitevitch

- Ph.D.
- Professor
Contact Info
1000 Sunnyside Ave
Lawrence, KS 66045
Biography —
Prof. Vitevitch has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, and studies the processes and representations used in language-related processes (including word learning, second language acquisition, speech perception, and speech production). He uses the computational tools from network science to measure how words are organized in the mental lexicon (that part of memory that stores the words you know), and how the structure of the lexicon influences how easily words are retrieved from memory. Another line of research uses auditory illusions (such as the speech-to-song illusion) and speech errors of various kinds (including tip of the tongue states) to understand how the language system works.
Research —
Director of the Spoken Language Lab (https://sll.ku.edu/)
Phonotactic Probability & Neighborhood Density Calculators (https://sll.ku.edu/phonotactic-probability-neighborhood-density-calculators)
Speech Error Diary (https://sll.ku.edu/general-overview-spedi)
Teaching —
SPLH 660 Research Methods in Speech-Language-Hearing
AUD 816/SPLH 516 & 716 Speech Perception
Selected Publications —
Vitevitch, M.S. (2022). What can network science tell us about phonology and language processing? topiCS in Cognitive Science, 14, 127-142. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12532
Vitevitch, M.S. (2023). Speech, language, and hearing in the 21st Century: A bibliometric review of JSLHR from 2001-2021. Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research, 66, 3428-3451. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00203
Vitevitch, M.S. & Lachs, L. (2024). Using network science to examine audio-visual speech perception with a multi-layer graph. PLoS ONE 19(3): e0300926. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300926