Courses Taught
LING 1000, Introduction to Linguistics
LING 1578, Phonetics and Phonemics
LING 1820, Linguistics in the Lab
LING 1878/2578, Accelerated Undergraduate and Graduate Phonetics
LING 1879/2579, Accelerated Undergraduate and Graduate Phonology
LING 1903, Directed Undergraduate Research
LING 1810/2010, Statistics for Research in Linguistics
Education & Training
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- MA, University of California, Berkeley
- BA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Representative Publications
Fricke, M. (2022). Modulation of Cross-Language Activation During Bilingual Auditory Word Recognition: Effects of Language Experience but Not Competing Background Noise. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 674157.
Fricke, M., & Zirnstein, M. (2022). Predictive Processing and Inhibitory Control Drive Semantic Enhancements for Non-Dominant Language Word Recognition in Noise. Languages, 7(3), 239.
Katz, J., & Fricke, M. (2018). Auditory disruption improves word segmentation: A functional basis for lenition phenomena. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1), 38.
Fricke, M., Kroll, J. F., & Dussias, P. E. (2016). Phonetic variation in bilingual speech: A lens for studying the production–comprehension link. Journal of Memory and Language, 89, 110-137.
Fricke, M., & Kootstra, G. J. (2016). Primed codeswitching in spontaneous bilingual dialogue. Journal of Memory and Language, 91, 181-201.
Fricke, M., Kroll, J. F., & Dussias, P. E. (2016). Phonetic variation in bilingual speech: A lens for studying the production–comprehension link. Journal of Memory and Language, 89, 110-137.
Fricke, M., Baese-Berk, M. M., & Goldrick, M. (2016). Dimensions of similarity in the mental lexicon. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31(5), 639-645.
Jacobs, A., Fricke, M., & Kroll, J. F. (2016). Cross‐Language Activation Begins During Speech Planning and Extends Into Second Language Speech. Language Learning, 66(2), 324-353.
Research Interest Summary
Research Interests
Melinda’s research uses experimental and corpus linguistic methods to study the psycholinguistic processes involved in speech production and speech perception, with a particular focus on bilingual speakers. She is broadly interested in the interplay between lexical access and phonetic variation. Her current work examines the production and perception of phonetic variation during codeswitching.