Fernando Llanos

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I’m currently an Assistant Professor of Psycholinguistics in the Department of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin and essay writer. Prior to my time in the Department of Linguistics at UT Austin, I was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the same university (2016-2018) and the University of Pittsburgh (2018-2020). My research area is neurolinguistics. I’m primarily interested in the neural processing of speech categories by monolinguals, bilinguals, and second-language learners. I investigate these topics using behavioral methods, neuroimaging, brain stimulation, and machine learning. My work aims to develop computational and neurobiologically-informed models to test theoretical predictions on speech processing, improve the acquisition of new languages, and inform clinical treatments.

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Recent Publications

publications by Fernando Llanos
  1. Llanos, F., Gnanateja, G. N., & Chandrasekaran, B. (in preparation). Sensory representation of speech covariation patterns in frequency following responses to lexical tones.
  2. Gnanateja, G. N., Rupp, K., Llanos, F., Pernia, M., Sadapogan, S., Abel, T., & Chandrasekaran, B. (submitted). Deconstructing the cortical sources of frequency following responses to speech: A cross-species approach.
  3. Llanos, F., German, J. S., Gnanateja, G. N., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2021). The neural processing of pitch accents in continuous speech. Neuropsychologia, 158, 107883.
  4. Feng, G., Gan, Z., Llanos, F., Meng, D., Wang, S., Wong, P., & Chandrasekaran, B.(2020). A distributed dynamic brain network underlies speech perceptual constancy and categorization decision. Neuroimage, 224, 117410.
  5. Paulon, G., Llanos, F., Chandrasekaran, B., & Sarkar, A. (2020). Bayesian Semiparametric Longitudinal Drift-Diffusion Mixed Models for Tone Learning in Adults. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1-14.
  6. Llanos, F., McHaney, J. R., Schuerman, W. L., Yi, H. G., Leonard, M. K., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2020). Non-invasive peripheral nerve stimulation enhances speech category learning in adults. Nature Partner Journal – Science of Learning. 5, 12.
  7. Llanos, F., Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2019). Biometric identification of listener identity from frequency following responses to speech. Journal of Neural Engineering, 16(5).
  8. Kluender, K. R., Stilp, C. E., & Llanos, F. (2019). Long-standing problems in speech perception dissolve within an information-theoretic perspective. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(4), 861-883.
  9. Reetzke, R., Xie, Z., Llanos, F., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2018). Tracing the trajectory of auditory plasticity from novice to native-like speech categorization in adulthood. Current Biology, 28, 1419-1427.
  10. Llanos, F., Xie, Z., & Chandrasekaran, B. (2017). Hidden Markov modeling of frequency following responses to Mandarin lexical tones. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 291, 101-112.
  11. Wang, Y., Llanos, F., & Seidl, A. (2017). Infants adapt to speaking rate differences in word segmentation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(4), 2569-2578.
  12. Llanos, F., Alexander, J. M., Stilp, C. E., & Kluender, K. R. (2017). Power spectral entropy as an information-theoretic correlate of manner of articulation in American English. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(2), EL127-EL133.
  13. Llanos, F., & Francis, A. L. (2016) The effects of language experience and speech context on the phonetic accommodation of English-accented Spanish voicing. Language and Speech, 60(1), 3-26.
  14. Dmitrieva, O., Llanos, F., Shultz, A. A., & Francis, A. L. (2015). Phonological status, not voice onset time, determines the acoustic realization of onset f0 as a secondary voicing cue in Spanish and English. Journal of Phonetics, 49, 77-95.

Contact Me

The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Linguistics
305 E. 23 Street STOP B5100
Robert L. Patton Hall (RLP) 4.730
Austin, TX 78712
fllanos at utexas dot edu