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Ruth Huntley Bahr, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: (813) 974-3182
  • Office: PCD 4024
  • Email: rbahr@usf.edu

Ruth Huntley Bahr is a Professor and Graduate Program Director for Speech-Language Pathology program. She graduated from the University of Florida in 1987 with a doctoral degree in experimental phonetics. Her primary research interests include between and within speaker variability in forensic situations, the nature of phonological representations in dialect speakers and second language learners, and voice production in individuals with vocal disorders. She has published numerous articles and book chapters in these areas. In addition, she has been working in the field of Forensic Phonetics for the last 27 years, where she has specialized in speaker identification, tape authentication, and gunshot analysis, as well as testifying in numerous trials. She is a Fellow in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the International Society of Phonetic Sciences. She received the Svend Smith Award for her work in applied phonetics and is currently serving as the President and Treasurer of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences.

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Education
B.S. with Honors University of Virginia 1979
M.A. Auburn University 1981
Ph.D. University of Florida 1987

Teaching
  • SPA 5204    Advanced Clinical Phonology
  • SPA 6211    Advanced Vocal Disorders
  • SPA 6805    Research Methods in Communication Sciences and Disorders
  • SPA 6930    Advanced Clinical Applications in Phonology
  • Undergraduate Honors Program
Selected Publications

Books and Chapters:

  • Bahr, R. H., & Matias, F. (in press). Translation to practice: Metalinguistic considerations for Cuban Spanish-English bilingual children. In S. McLeod & B. Goldstein (Eds.), Multilingual aspects of speech sound disorder in children. Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing.
  • Bahr, R. H., Silliman, E. R., & Berninger, V. W. (2009). What spelling errors have to tell. In C. Woods & V. Connolly (Eds.), Contemporary perspectives on reading and writing (pp. 109-129). New York: Routlege.
  • Bahr, R. H. (2009). Speech Sound Disorders. In: Shweder, R. A., T. R. Bidell, A. C. Dailey, S. D. Dixon, P. J. Miller, and J. Modell (eds.). The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 939-942.
  • Bahr, R. H., (2007). Age as a Disguise in a Voice Identification Task. In A. Esposito, M. Bratani?, E. Keller, & M. Marinaro. Fundamentals of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and the Biometrical Issue. Amsterdam: IOS Press, p. 129-139.

Articles:

  • Bahr, R. H., Silliman, E. R., Danzak, R., & Wilkinson, L. R. (In prep.) An Analysis of Spelling Errors in Spanish and English in Compositions Written by Bilingual Adolescents.
  • Bahr, R. H., Silliman, E. R., & Berninger, V. (submitted). Linguistic Pattern Analysis of Misspellings in Grades 1 to 9.
  • Betancourt, K. S., & Bahr, R. H. (2010). The Influence of Signal Complexity on Speaker Identification. International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 17, 179-200.
  • Berlin, C., Morlet, T., Hood, L., Fernandez, C., Ford, C., Bahr, R. H., Russell, B., Arnold, M., Betancourt, M., Carr, P., Muscato, N., & Blake-Rahter, P. (2009). Managing AN/AD: Can We Produce a “Literate Taxpayer” Despite the Uncertain Auditory Impact and Trajectory of an Absent ABR and Normal Emissions? Proceedings of NAS. Como Lake, Italy.
  • Kile, S. & Bahr, R. H. (2008). The Influence of Dialect on the Perception of Final Consonant Voicing. AAPS Newsletter, www.phoneticsciences.org.
  • Turner, C. R., Bahr, R. H., Silliman, E. R., Bryant, J. B., Apel, K., & Wilkinson, L. C. (2007). Child AAVE Speakers’ Performance on Spelling and Phonological Processing Tasks. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology,16, 157-168.
  • Bahr, R. H., Biedess, K., & Ridley, M. B. (2007). Speech Breathing in Patients with Adductor Spasmodic Dysphonia. Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences., Saarbrucken, Germany, p. 4018-4021.
  • Silliman, E. R., Bahr, R. H., & Peters, M. L. (2006). Spelling Patterns in Preadolescents with Atypical Language Skills: Phonological, Morphological, and Orthographic Factors. Developmental Neuropsychology, 29, 93-123.
  • Fuste-Hermann, B., Silliman, E. R., Bahr, R. H, Fasnacht, K., Federico, J. (2006). Mental State Verb Production in the Oral Narratives of English- and Spanish-Speaking Preadolescents: An Exploratory Study of Lexical Diversity and Depth. Learning Disabilities: Research and Practice, 21, 44-60.
  • Bahr, R. H. (2006). What Determines the Quality of Evidence. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Special Interest Division 1 Newsletter,p.6-9.
  • Bahr, R. H. (2005). Differential Diagnosis of Severe Speech Disorders Using Speech Gestures. Topics in Language Disorders. 25:254-265.