Marios Fourakis, Ph.D.

Education

B.A.,  Classical Greek Literature, Wabash College
M.A., Classical Studies, Indiana University
M.A.,  Linguistics, Indiana University
Ph.D., Linguistics, Indiana University

Teaching

CD 201  Speech Science
CD 303  Speech Acoustics and Perception
CD 900  Proseminar

Interests

Marios’s research has two main objectives.  One is to optimize the transfer of the information carried by the acoustic signal of speech through the processors of cochlear implants.  This is done by applying our knowledge of how this information is processed in normally functioning ears to changing parameters in the cochlear implant processors.  These parameters include the assignment of frequency bands to filters and the mapping of the dynamic range of speech to the dynamic range of the electrical current that is sent to the implanted electrodes.  The other objective is to investigate the acoustic characteristics of speech in different languages to determine features that are shared by all languages versus those that seem to be language specific.

Highlighted Activities

Iliadou, V., Fourakis, M., Vakalos, A., Hawks, J., Metaxas, S., Kekes, G., Kaprinis, G., & Iliadis,     T. (In press). Word recognition test for Modern Greek. International Journal of Audiology.


Skinner, M., Holden, L., Fourakis, M., Hawks, J., Holden, T., Arcaroli, J., & Hyde, M. (2006).      Evaluation of equivalency in two recordings of monosyllabic words.  Journal of the American

    Academy of Audiology, 17:350-366.


Holden, L., Vandali, A., Skinner, M., Fourakis, M., & Holden, T. (2005).  Speech recognition with      the ACE and Transient Emphasis Spectral Maxima (TESM) strategies in Nucleus 24 recipients. 

     Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 48, 681-701.


Fourakis, M., Hawks, J.W., Holden, L., Skinner, M., Holden, T, & Demorest, M. (2004). Effect

     of frequency boundary assignment on vowel recognition with the Nucleus 24 ACE Speech

     Coding Strategy.  Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 15, 281-299.


Botinis, A., Fourakis, M., Panagiotopoulou, N., & Pouli, K. (2001). Greek vowel durations and     prosodic interactions. Glossologia, 13, 101-123.

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