Dr. Fox is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at The Ohio State University.  He has been a faculty member at Ohio State since 1979 and in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science since 1983.  He is a Courtesy Faculty member in the Department of Linguistics.  He is best known for his contributions to speech perception, especially for his work on the perceptual structure of vowels and diphthong. He has also studied behavioral aspects of speech perception such as changes in listener response as a function of human aging and second language learning, dialectal variation in both the acoustic and perceptual structure of vowels in American English, temporal aspects of speech and cognitive processes associated with speech-language disorders. He has worked with private companies developing standardizations for speech-language assessment tests and with law enforcement as a forensic phonetician. He was Chair of the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at Ohio State from 1995 to 2023. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

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