Barbara L. Davis, PhD, Is the Houston Harte Centennial Professor of Communication In the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Davis has published over 90 peer reviewed articles and book chapters. She is also the author of one book, Davis and Zajdo (eds.), The Syllable In Speech Production, and has another book In progress, Davis and Bedore, Knowing and Doing: An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition is due out In Spring 2011. Dr. Davis has been the winner of a variety of research and teaching awards during her tenure at The University of Texas at Austin. She is presently nominated for a Lifetime Achievement Award from her university in acknowledgement of her research and teaching profile within The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Davis has been the recipient of a variety of research funding from the US National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation to support her research over the past 20 years. In addition, she has been a consultant on varied grant projects funded by the EU with partners in France.
Her current research and scholarly interests are in the area of speech acquisition and relationships of phonetic patterns in acquisition to phonological patterns observed in mature speakers.
